Jonathan Reed Winkler
Associate Professor
Department of History, 370 Millett Hall
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH
45435-0001
Office Hours: Mondays 1:00 to 2:00 PM, Tuesdays 1:00 to
2:00 PM
Email: jonathan.winkler@wright.edu
Office Phone:
(937) 775-3839
Main Department number: (937) 775-3110
BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Reed Winkler is an associate
professor in the Department
of History. He is the
author of Nexus:
Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I (Harvard
University Press, 2008), winner of the 2008 Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin
D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History and the 2009 Distinguished Publication Award
from the Ohio Academy of History.
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 and his B.A. in 1997 from the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude). He is the winner
of the John Addison Porter Prize from Yale University (2004) and the Betty
M. Unterberger Prize of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations (2005).
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
His current book project is an
analysis of how the U.S. government coordinated changing strategic
interests with evolving commercial and military communications networks
across the entire 20th century.
Forthcoming is the entry on “military
communications” for the Blackwell
Companion to American Military History, edited by James Bradford. Recent publications include “Information
Warfare in World War I,” Journal of
Military History (July 2009) and “Bridging the Gap: The Cable and Its
Challengers, 1918-1988,” in Bernard Finn and Daqing
Yang, eds., Communications
Under the Sea: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications (MIT
Press, 2009). His reviews and
commentaries have appeared in International Journal, the Naval War
College Review, the Journal of Military History, the International Journal of Naval History,
and on H-War and H-Diplo.
TEACHING
Academic Year 2009-2010: American
Civilization, 1877-Present; U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914; U.S. Foreign
Relations from 1914; American Warfare in the 20th Century; Research Seminar
in Foreign Relations; The Cold War
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). Among other responsibilities, he is
a member of the SHAFR Predoctoral Dissertation
Fellowship Committee (2008-2012), serves on the OAH Executive Council,
(2008-2011), chairs of the OAH Dissertation Prize Committee (2008-2010),
and sits on the Board of Scholars for International Security
Studies at Yale University.
