Biography

Justin Winokur is a third year PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, where he researches America’s Cold War warfare state under Professor William Hitchcock. Justin is the 2022-23 Fellow for UVA's Governing America in a Global Era, a 2022-23 Fellow at UVA’s National Security Policy Center, and an Associate of the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2018-2020, Justin was a Research Assistant to Professor Graham Allison at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, where he was also the Center's Applied History Project Coordinator. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Justin was a Research Assistant at Harvard’s American Secretaries of State Project and at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin, Germany. He holds an MA in History from the University of Virginia and a BA in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Connecticut College.