Professor Jay Winter is an historian of the First World War, trained at Columbia and Cambridge. His first job was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalemand he later taught at Warwick, Cambridge, Columbia and Yale. Professor Winter retired in 2015 as Charles J. Still Professor of History at Yale. His work has focused on many facets of the history of the Great War, including labour history, demographic history, and most recently, cultural history. Among his 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).
Professor Winter has been active in public history as well as academic history. He was a founder of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, and member of the board of directors of its research centre for 30 years. Professor Winter 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’. He has also served on the French President’s Commission on the Centenary of the Great War. Professor Winter holds honorary degrees from the University of Graz, the Katholic University of Leuven and the University of Paris. In 2016 he received the Victor Adler Prize of the Austrian state for a lifetime’s work in history.