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Jamie Winders

Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor of Geography

jwinders@maxwell.syr.edu

144 Eggers Hall

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY 13244-1020

(315) 443-9554

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

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Founding Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI), Syracuse

University, 2019-present

o ASPI is the only academic institute of its kind to work across domains of autonomy

and to offer interdisciplinary teaching and research on the design, governance, and

societal impacts of autonomous systems

? Involves 140+ faculty and students spread across all schools and colleges at

Syracuse University.

o Outreach to and engagement with 400 domestic and international stakeholders from

industry, government, and advocacy groups with interests in autonomous systems.

o Regularly consult industry, advocacy, and government leaders about the policy and

societal impacts of autonomous systems.

o Led successful cluster hire initiative to secure a total of 16 new tenure-track faculty

hires in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.

o Leading creation of undergraduate major in interdisciplinary study of autonomous

systems and graduate certificate of advanced studies in autonomous systems.

o Launched multiple interdisciplinary research teams (e.g., autonomous systems and

sustainability, emerging technologies and smart cities, emerging technologies and

rural health, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), K-12 education, and underrepresented students)

o Created a policy-oriented Research Series.

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Chair, Department of Geography and the Environment, Maxwell School of

Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2014-2019

o Led diverse, top-ranked department with expertise in human geography, physical

geography, and geospatial techniques

? 18 faculty, 3 staff, ~40 graduate students, and ~150 geography and

environment and society majors and minors

o Established new interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Environment,

Sustainability, and Policy in 2018, which drew 100 majors in 18 months

o Created Associate Professor mentoring program.

o Oversaw successful promotion and tenure cases, as well as faculty and staff hires

o Restructured Geography¡¯s contribution to university core requirements

o Made departmental budgeting decisions transparent

o Trained and mentored new departmental leaders in graduate and undergraduate

programs

o Led strategic planning and assessment exercises

o Created interdisciplinary links to physics and cross-disciplinary collaborations

around climate science, landscape studies, and GIS and big data

o Helped lead successful cluster hire initiative in Environmental Change in the

Anthropocene

o Facilitated collaborative research with geography faculty through external and

internal grants

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Editor in Chief, International Migration Review, 2017-present

o Flagship journal in migration studies, published by Sage

o Supervise team of 4-5 associate editors and 1 editorial assistant

o Oversee 600+ manuscript submissions each year, working with authors and

reviewers to generate high-quality, high-impact publications

o Created new sections in IMR to publish a more diverse group of scholars

(Country/Region reports, teaching and methods reports, dispatches from the field)

o Work with scholars across the social sciences, including policy and legal studies

o Advise the Center for Migration Studies on matters related to migration scholarship

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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Geography, Maxwell School,

Syracuse University, 2009-2013

o Oversaw all recruitment and advising of geography majors and minors

o Created new minor, Environment and Society, the first environmentally focused

minor at Syracuse University

o Instituted teaching rotations among Geography faculty to ensure teaching equity

o Worked with faculty to increase course enrollment/offerings to meet changing

student needs

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Elected or appointed university and professional leadership roles

o Faculty Representative, Board of Trustees, Syracuse University (2019-present)

? Nominated by peers, selected by Provost/Chancellor.

? Regularly report to Trustees on issues and concerns among faculty.

? Serve on the Academic Affairs Committee, as well as additional ad-hoc

committees related to the university¡¯s academic mission.

o Chair, Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, (2016-2017) and Chair, Maxwell Faculty

Council (2019-20)

? Selected to lead faculty governance bodies in both the College of Arts and

Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

? Led the creation of promotion policies for both Teaching and Research

Professors for the College of Arts and Sciences and of the decanal review

process for the Maxwell School

o Faculty Oversight Committee, Athletics Department, Syracuse University, 2016present

? Appointed by Chancellor

? Monitor student-athlete academic performance and course/major selections

? Address academics-related issues that arise among student-athletes

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o Chair, Research Committee, University Senate, Syracuse University, 2015-2018

? Elected by peers

? Conducted university-wide survey of opportunities/challenges associated

with undergraduate research, which led to the creation of a center for

undergraduate research (2014)

? Created census of research centers and institutes at SU (2016-17)

? Led committee tasked with creating policy to govern corporate and

foundation funding for and involvement with research (2018)

o University Travel Policy, 2015-2016

? Appointed by Provost

? Worked with university leadership, comptroller, purchasing, risk

management, and other parts of campus to revise ineffective travel policy

o Co-Chair, Task Force on Travel Safety, 2017-2018

? Appointed by Provost

? Tasked to work with Director of International and Domestic Travel Safety

and Support to create university-wide policy related to travel safety for

students, faculty, and staff

o National Councilor, Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2017-2020)

? One of two national councilors elected by AAG members

? Worked closely with AAG president on initiatives related to geographic

scholarship and the direction of our discipline

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Jamie Winders

jwinders@maxwell.syr.edu

Department of Geography

144 Eggers Hall

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY 13244-1020

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Director, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI), The Maxwell School, Syracuse University

(SU), (2019-present)

Chair, Geography Department, The Maxwell School, SU, (2014-2019)

Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, SU (2016-present)

O¡¯Hanley Faculty Scholar, The Maxwell School, SU, (2014-2017)

Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, SU (2010-2016)

Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, SU (2004-2010)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geography, University of Kentucky, 2004

Dissertation: (Re)working the US South: Latino Migration and the Politics of Race and Work in

Nashville, Tennessee

Masters of Arts, Geography, University of British Columbia, 2000

Thesis: Imperfectly Imperial: Northern Travel Writers in a Postbellum American South, 18651880

Bachelor of Arts, Geography, Summa cum Laude, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, 1998

Thesis: Where We¡¯ve Walked: African-American Communities in Lexington, Kentucky, 1910-1950

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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Autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, future of work, inclusive pipelines, emerging

technologies

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International migration, race/ethnicity, gender, new immigrant destinations, migration

policy and politics

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Cultural, social, and urban geography, travel writing, social theory, postcolonial theory

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Social reproduction, working-class lives, feminist geography

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