Jonathan Reed Winkler (born 1975) is a historian and an associate professor of history at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. 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 in 2004, where he studied with John Lewis Gaddis and Paul M. Kennedy and won the John Addison Porter Prize. He took his undergraduate degree from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College, where he was selected for Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Certificate in Contemporary History from the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University as well.
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 M. Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association,[1] the 2008 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History[2] and the 2009 Distinguished Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of History.