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 10:00 to
11:00 AM
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 "Technology and the Environment in United States Foreign Relations," in Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, eds., America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations Since 1941 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Recent
publications include “Information Warfare in World War I,” Journal of
Military History (July 2009); “Military
communications” in the Blackwell Companion to American Military History (Blackwell, 2009), edited by
James Bradford; 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 Diplomatic History, 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
Academic Year 2010-2011: On Research Leave (Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship)
Academic Year 2011-2012: American Civilization, 1877-Present; U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914; U.S. Foreign Relations from 1914; American Warfare in the 20th Century; Readings Seminar in U.S. Foreign Relations (Graduate)
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 has served on the SHAFR Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee (2008-2012), the American Historical Association Paul Birdsall Book Prize Committee (2012-2015), the Ohio Academy of History's Executive Committee, and sits on the Board of
Scholars for International
Security Studies at Yale University.
