Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY. Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA), U. Albany
Brief Bio: I investigate how economic, environmental, household, and family contexts shape past and present populations. My ongoing research in North Orkney, Scotland, focuses on historical variation in household and family patterns and its implications for population and economic change. Another project in Orkney examines fertility and mortality responses to grain price fluctuations in the nineteenth century. My other research interests include demographic responses to climate variation, intergenerational transmission of fertility, and the effects of household composition on fertility, mortality, and migration.
Penn State’s demography Program: The Penn State Demography program offered broad, interdisciplinary training that has helped me develop collaborative research projects. Research support from the program and PRI was important as I worked toward my degree and workshops and colloquia contributed to my professional development.
Website: https://www.albany.edu/anthropology/faculty/julia-jennings
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