Vita Jason Bryan Jindrich Winter, 2010

214 Jastram St

Providence, RI 02908

Phone: (917) 842-5637

Email: jason.jindrich@gmail.com

Webpage: www.jindrichyanes.net

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Box 1916, Maxcy Hall,

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912

Office: (401) 863-6323

Education

BA-History, University of Missouri-Columbia (1999)

MA-Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia. Masters Thesis: "Our Black Children": The evolution of black space in Columbia, Missouri. (2002)

PhD-Geography, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Dissertation: Establishing the Diversity of Late Nineteenth-century Suburbs: A metropolitan context for the railroad era urban fringe. (2009)

Publications

Articles

[Under Review] Logan, J., J. Jindrich, H. Shin, and W. Zhang. 2010. Mapping America in 1880: The Urban Transition Historical GIS Project. Historical Methods.

[Under Review] Suburbs in the City: Reassessing the Location of the Nineteenth-century Working-class. Social Science History.

2010. The Shantytowns of Central Park West: Fin de siècle squatting in American cities. Journal of Urban History. 36 (5)

2010. When the Urban Fringe is not Suburban. Geographical Review. 100 (1)

[Working Paper] Of Cannibals, Kings, and Huguenots: Images of the savage in French-colonial Brazil.

[Working Paper] Annexation as a Factor in Urban Decline.

[Working Paper] The Hills of San Francisco: Hypsography and social filtering.

Encyclopedia Entries

2008, Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Barney Warf editor.

—Census Tracts

2007, Encyclopedia of the Environment and Society, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Paul Robbins editor.

—Lifeboat Ethics

—Internal Combustion Engine

—Audubon Society

2007, Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. D. R. Goldfield editor.

—Alley Housing

Conference Proceedings

Kai Chi Leung and Jason Jindrich 2003; “The National Historical Geographic Information System: Democratizing Access to Historical Censuses.” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Public Participation and Information Technologies; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Presentations

“Squatter Titles: How Shanties and Houseboats Helped Build American Cities”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington DC, April 2010

“Fringe and Suburb: Finding the nineteenth-century working class”, National Center for Suburban Studies 2009 conference, Hofstra University, October 22, 2009

“Mapping Neighborhoods and Households in U.S. Cities in 1880” (with John Logan and Qiang Cai), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA, April 17, 2008

“Chinatown No More” (with Kai Chi Leung), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL, March 28, 2006

“Spatial Persistence of Chicago’s Non-Elite Suburban Communities”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Denver, CO, April 7, 2005

“Cannibals, Kings, and Huguenots: The role of plagiarism in the invention of colonial Brazil”, Annual Meeting American Association of Geographers; Philadelphia, PA, March 19, 2004

“Processes of Segregation in Columbia, MO, 1905-1925”, Social Science History Association; Baltimore, MD, November 16, 2003

“Basics of Normalization and Classification”, Population Association of America Annual Meeting GIS Workshop; Minneapolis, MN, May 3, 2003

“The Creation of a Dependant Segregated Community in Columbia, Missouri, 1905-1925”, Annual Meeting American Association of Geographers; New Orleans, LA, March 7, 2003

“Mapping Segregation”, Department of Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia; April 29, 2002

“Identifying Elements of Racial Segregation in a Historic GIS”, Missouri Academy of Sciences; April 20, 2002

Additional Research Experience

Urban Transition Geographical Information System (John Logan PI). (www.s4.brown.edu/utp/) Post-doctoral research associate supervising a NSF/NIH granted project utilizing archival records to recreate the census geography of the tenth U.S. Census in a GIS format. Responsible for organization, collating, and assessment of all materials related to the project, and location and interpretation of period census records and materials. Position also involves the training of persons working on the project in GIS and hiring of new workers, and the creation, organization, and dissemination of the resulting database. 2007 - Present

Minnesota Population Center, (www.ipums.org) University of Minnesota (S. Ruggles, et al, PIs). Research assistant tasked with database maintenance at IPUMS and NAPP. 2005 - 2007

National Historical Geographic Information System, (www.nhgis.org) Minnesota Population Center and Department of Geography, University of Minnesota (Adams, Ruggles, et al PIs). Research assistant tasked with creating a complete census-tract level geography for the United States for every year that information was available. Also responsible for historical census-county geography, locating and geo-referencing appropriate archival maps, and cleaning and verifying finished files. 2002 - 2005

Teaching Experience

Winter 2008, Adjunct Faculty Sociology Department: Craig-Lee Hall, Rhode Island College

Winter 2006, Adjunct Faculty: Rasmussen College

Spring 2006, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Geography: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Adjunct Faculty: North Hennepin Community College in Arts and Science

Fall 2000-Winter 2002, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia

Winter 2002, Technical Assistant in Geography: University of Missouri-Columbia

Fall 2001, Honors Teaching Assistant in Geography: University of Missouri-Columbia

Summer 2001, Summer Instructor in Geography: University of Missouri-Columbia

Professional Societies

Member of the American Geographical Association

Member of the Association of American Geographers

Member Social Science History Association

Past member of the Missouri Academy of Sciences

Service

UMN Department of Geography Graduate Policy Committee, 2005 - 2006

UMN Department of Geography Graduate Representative to the Faculty, 2005

UMN Department of Geography Committee on Professional Development, 2004

UMN Department of Geography Brown Day Committee, 2004 - 2005

Technical Skills

Geographic Information Systems: ArcInfo; ArcView all versions; ArcGIS all versions through current; ARC SDE; Geoda; Crimestat

Statistical software: STATA; SASS; SPSS

Database: Access

Core Microsoft Office software applications: Word; Excel; PowerPoint

Imaging: Adobe Creative Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks; GNU Image Manipulation Program

Movie Editing: VisualSubSync; Open Movie Editor

Adobe Acrobat and other PDF formatting software

WEB-CT

Bibliographic software

Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver

Grants and Awards

The Applied Historical Geography Award, Historical Geography Specialty Group; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2005

Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota Graduate School, 2004