Jamie Winders
Assistant Professor of Geography

jwinders@maxwell.syr.edu

Ph.D. Geography, University of Kentucky, 2004
M.A. Geography, University of British Columbia, 2000
B.A. Geography, University of Kentucky, 1998

Research and Teaching Interest
Urban geography, race/ethnicity, gender, migration, social theory, US South, Mexico, travel writing, qualitative research methods, urban politics

Current Research
My research focuses on conceptualizations of race, the production of racial categories, and the material consequences of these formations.  My work is broadly qualitative and utilizes a variety of methods including oral histories, archival work, discourse analysis, group and individual interviews, and life and work histories.  Most recently, I have examined Latino migration to the US South and the reworkings of race, ethnicity, and belonging it has brought about in southern cities.  Through an extended study of Nashville, Tennessee, I analyze the impacts of Latino migration on racial and immigrant urban politics, as well as the changing social dynamics of low-wage workplaces that are transitioning toward Latino labor.  I also have interests in the historical geographies of the US South, particularly the lines of connection between the Reconstruction South and broader discourses and practices of nineteenth-century imperialism.  I have examined these connections through an analysis of postbellum travel accounts of the US South and their textual strategies for describing the region, its landscapes, and its residents immediately after the US Civil War.  Building on my interests in Latino migration and the transnational lines that sustain it, I have an on-going interest in the ways that race and ethnicity operate in Mexico and are being reconfigured through processes such as globalization and transnational migrations.

Teaching
GEO 815:  Seminar in Urban Geography (Fall 2004)