Department of History

Jonathan Reed Winkler Assistant Professor Department of History, 370 Millett Hall 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, OH 45435-0001 Office Hours: Presently on Leave, Spring Quarter 2008 Email: jonathan.winkler@wright.edu Office Phone: (937) 775-3839 Facsimile: (937) 775-2892 BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Reed Winkler is an assistant professor in the Department of History. The author of Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I (Harvard University Press, 2008), he researches and teaches on United States foreign relations, strategic thought, modern military and naval history, and international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. A native of Ohio, he received his PhD with distinction in 2004 from Yale University, where he won the John Addison Porter Prize, and his B.A. in 1997 from the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude). ACADEMIC RESEARCH His current book project is an analysis of how the U.S. government coordinated changing strategic interests with growing commercial and military communications networks across the entire 20th century. His most recent article, “Information Warfare in World War I,” is forthcoming with the Journal of Military History. His reviews have appeared in the Journal of Military History, International Journal, and on H-War and H-Diplo. TEACHING FALL QUARTER 2008: American Civilization, 1877-Present; U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914 WINTER QUARTER 2009: American Civilization, 1877-Present; U.S. Foreign Relations from 1914 SPRING QUARTER 2009: American Civilization, 1877-Present; American Warfare in the 20^th Century; Comparative Strategic Thought PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Winkler is currently an article review editor for H-Diplo, the online listserv for diplomatic and international history. He is a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the Society for Military History (SMH), and the Ohio Academy of History (OAH). The inaugural winner of SHAFR's Unterberger Dissertation Prize, he is a member of the SHAFR Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee (2008-2010). He is serving on the OAH Executive Council, (2008-2011), is chair of the OAH Dissertation Prize Committee (2008-2010), and serves on the Board of Scholars for International Security Studies at Yale University.