Background
Winter, Jay Murray was born on May 28, 1945 in Hempstead, New York, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Bertha Winter.
Winter, Jay Murray was born on May 28, 1945 in Hempstead, New York, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Bertha Winter.
Bachelor, Columbia University, New York, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1970. Doctor of Letters, University Cambridge, England, 1970.
He is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, where he focuses his research on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His other interests include remembrance of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institutions of war, British popular culture in the era of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. He is completing a biography of René Cassin.
Winter is also affiliated with the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Peronne, France, a research center and museum of the First World War in European cultural history.
Winter is an influential scholar in the study of the First World War and its place in twentieth-century European history and culture. His earlier work was largely that of social history, including focuses on the war"s demographic impact on the British population.
In more recent works he has taken the approach of a cultural historian, most notably in Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1995) where he advocates a more transnational focus for studying the war and European culture. In this book, he analyzes the various ways the people of Germany, France and Great Britain mourned their losses during and after the war.
He has also co-authored and co-edited books on the First World War, including a survey of the war"s historiography, The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (with Antoine Prost, 2006) and The Great War and the Twentieth Century (with Geoffrey Parker and Mary Habeck, 2000).
He is co-director of the project on Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, which has produced two volumes. At Yale, he teaches a lecture course entitled "Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945," in which he argues that World War I, World World War II, and the inter-war period, are better understood as one "European Civil War." He also teaches a seminar entitled "The First World War." He also worked with American demographer Michael South. Teitelbaum on high levels of migration toward countries experiencing fairly low fertility rates (The Fear of Population Decline, 1985 and A Question of Numbers, 1998).
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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Royal Historical Society]
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Children: Anna, Jonathan.