| Joseph Logsdon | |
| Birth Date: | March 12, 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Death Place: | Jefferson, Louisiana |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | History of the Southern United States |
| Workplaces: | University of New Orleans |
| Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago |
Joseph Logsdon (March 12, 1938 – June 2, 1999) was an American historian. He was a professor at the University of New Orleans. Logsdon is known for his collaboration with Sue Eakin on a 1968 scholarly edition of Twelve Years a Slave.[1]
A Chicago native, Logsdon got his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1960s.
Logsdon died on June 2, 1999, at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, Louisiana.[2]