Justin Winokur

Justin Winokur is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (UVA). His dissertation, "Relentless Struggle: The American National Security State, 1945–1963," analyzes how American state-builders after World War II worked to create a political, institutional, economic, ideological, and cultural system that could sustain a powerful global military indefinitely.

At UVA, he has been the Norman Graebner Fellow in Diplomatic History, a National Security Fellow at the National Security Policy Center, a Governing America in a Global Era fellow, and an Albert Gallatin Graduate Research fellow. He has also been a fellow of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College and a Research Affiliate of the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School. 

From 2018–2020, Justin was a research assistant to Professor Graham Allison and the Applied History Project coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Connecticut College. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs.