Jay Winter

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He received his PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1979 to 2001. He won an Emmy award as co-producer of the BBC/PBS eight-hour television series The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (1996), and is a founder of the Historial de la grande guerre, an international museum of the Great War inaugurated in 1992. He is the author of Sites of memory, sites of mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), editor of America and the Armenian Genocide (2008), and editor-in-chief of the three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War (2014, English and French; 2015, Chinese). Among his other books are War and Remembrance in the 20th century (2006), edited with Emmanuel Sivan, and Remembering War (2007). He has just completed War Beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present (to be published by Cambridge in 2017). Jay Winter has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Graz (Austria), the University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Paris 8.