Professor

B.A. UNC Chapel Hill; 

M.A., Ph.D. Princeton  

Email:  ralevering@davidson.edu

Office:  2015 Chambers
Phone:  704-894-2442

Mail:  P.O. Box 6981, Davidson College, Davidson, NC  28035-6981

Professor Levering is the Vail Professor of History and, in May 2006, received the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award.  His research focuses on the Cold War and on the role of public opinion and the news media in the making of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History (second edition, 2005), Debating the Origins of the Cold War:  American and Russian Perspectives (2002); Citizen Action for Global Change:  The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea (1999);  The Kennedy Crises: The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy (1983); and The Public and American Foreign Policy, 1918-1978 (1978). He served a three-year term on the governing Council of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations in the late 1990s.