Jay Winter

I am an historian of the First World War, trained at Columbia and Cambridge.  My first job was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  I then taught at Warwick, Cambridge, Columbia and Yale.  I retired in 2015 as Charles J. Still Professor of History at Yale.  My work has focused on many facets of the history of the Great War, including labor history, demographic history, and most recently, cultural history.  Among my publications are: Sites of memory, sites of mourning: The Great War in European cultural history (Cambridge, 1995) and The Day the Great War ended: 24 July 1923 (Oxford, 2022).  I have been active in public history as well as academic history.  I was a founder of the museum, the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, and member of the board of directors of its research centre for 30 years.  I won an Emmy award as co-producer and chief historian of the BBC/PBS eight-hour television series ‘The Great War and the shaping of the twentieth century’.  I also served on the French President’s Commission on the Centenary of the Great War.  I hold honorary degrees from the University of Graz, the Katholic University of Leuven and the University of Paris.  In 2016 I received the Victor Adler Prize of the Austrian state for a lifetime’s work in history.