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Opportunities and Challenges
UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
March 31 - April 1, 2006
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Speakers: Jamie Winders
Jamie Winders is an assistant professor of urban geography in The Maxwell
School at Syracuse University.
She obtained her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Kentucky and her M.A. from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include critical race theory, feminist geography, urban transformation and politics, transnational migrations, qualitative and historical methods, and social and postcolonial theory. She has conducted historical and contemporary research in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. and has on-going research interests in these areas. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in urban geography, critical race theory, contemporary North American, and human geography. Her current work centers on Latino migration and the changing racial and immigrant politics of southern U.S. cities. In May 2006, she will begin a new project on Latino migration's effects on race relations and politics in public schools and residential neighborhoods in southern cities. Send questions, comments to: Conference Questions Last updated March 11, 2006 |
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