Jonathan Reed Winkler joined the department in 2005. He is the author of Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), and a forthcoming article in the Journal of Military History. Dr. Winkler received his Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University (May 2004). A native of Ohio and a graduate of Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College, he has also studied at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Salamanca, Spain. He has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the United States Naval Academy. His research has earned him the 2005 Unterberger dissertation prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and the John Addison Porter Prize of Yale University for best work of scholarship by a graduate (2004). His current book project is an analysis of how the United States government coordinated commercial and military communications networks to meet transforming global strategic interests across the entire 20th century. Active in the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Society for Military History, Winkler is a member of the Executive Council of the Ohio Academy of History, and serves as special projects editor for H-diplo.