Jonathan Reed Winkler is a historian and an associate professor of history at Wright State University

Wright State University

Wright State University is a comprehensive public university with strong doctoral, research, and undergraduate programs, rated among the 260 Best National Universities listed in the annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Wright State is located in Fairborn, Ohio,...

 in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

. He teaches and researches on U.S. foreign relations, U.S. military and naval history, international history, security studies and strategic thought. He previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and the United States Naval Academy.

Winkler received his doctorate from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 2004, where he studied with John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th...

 and Paul M. Kennedy and won the John Addison Porter

John Addison Porter

John Addison Porter was an American Professor of Chemistry. He was born in Catskill, New York and died in New Haven, Connecticut...

 Prize. He took his undergraduate degree from Ohio University

Ohio University

Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...

's Honors Tutorial College

Honors Tutorial College

The Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio is the only degree-granting tutorial program in the United States. The tutorial program is modeled after Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, and is centered on the tutorial, in which students meet individually with a professor...

, where he was selected for Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Certificate in Contemporary History from the Contemporary History Institute

Contemporary history institute

The Contemporary History Institute is an interdisciplinary academic research institute at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It was founded in 1987 by the dean of Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis, who has since moved to Yale University...

 at Ohio University as well.

Publications

He is the author of Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I (Harvard University Press, 2008). The work is a diplomatic, military and technological history of the early 20th century, and explores how the effects of World War I on international communications networks (including both congestion and active disruption akin to information warfare) led the U.S. to take diplomatic, strategic and technological steps to try to correct the problems and put it at the center of global communications. The book won the 2010 Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...

, the 2008 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History

Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History

The Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History is an annual prize established in 1986 and given by The New York Council of the Navy League of the United States, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It is given for the best book on...

 and the 2009 Distinguished Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of History

Ohio Academy of History

The Ohio Academy of History is the professional society for historians who work or reside in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1932. As its constitution specifies, its object is "to promote the study and teaching of history, historical research, and the publication of historical works; to...

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• "Why the Stockpiles?" A World Free of Nuclear Weapons E-Journal USA [U.S. Department of State], 15.2 (February 2010): 25-27.
• "Military Communications," in James Bradford, ed., A Companion to American Military History, 2 vols. (Waltham, MA: Blackwell, 2009): 733-745.
• "Bridging the Gap" in Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang, eds., Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009): 25-44.
• "Information Warfare in World War I," Journal of Military History 73.3 (2009): 845-867.