Dr. Jennifer Lemak

Chief Curator of History
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Doctor of Philosophy, American History, University at Albany, 2004
Master of Arts, Public History, University at Albany, 2000 
Bachelor of Arts, History and Secondary Social Studies in Education, State University of New York College at Cortland, 1996

Professional Affiliations and Service
New York History journal, co-editor  
New York Academy of History, fellow (inducted 2014)
New York State Historic Preservation, board member
University at Albany Center for Applied Historical Research,boardmember

Prior to my current position as the chief curator of history, I served as the senior historian/curator of social history for a decade. My major exhibition and publication projects include Votes for Women: Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial (2017) and An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War (2012).  I am also the author of Southern Life, Northern City: The History of Albany’s Rapp Road (SUNY Press, 2008), which focused on a community that migrated to Albany from Shubuta, Mississippi, and the greater migration experience in Albany.

My on-going research projects are on different ends of the history-content spectrum. Since the suffrage centennial in 2020, I have been researching the history of the Equal Rights Amendment in New York State.  Additionally, I am studying the influence New Yorkers had on Mark Twain’s life and writing.

Publications

1996

Landing, E., 1996. Avalon-Insular Continent by the Latest Precambrian, in: Nance, R., Thompson, M. (Eds.), Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic. Geological Society of America, , pp. 27-64.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, L. Knox 1996, Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Relative Sea-Level Changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, East-Central New York), Journal of Paleontology 70, 656-680.
E. Landing, K. Bartowski 1996, Oldest Shelly Fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and Late Early Cambrian Sea-Levels in Eastern Laurentia, Journal of Paleontology 70, 741-761.
E. Landing 1996, Reconstructing the Avalon Continent: Marginal-to-Inner Platform Transition in the Cambrian of Avalonian New Brunswick, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 623-632. 10.1139/e96-089
E. Landing, A. Knoll, A. Kaufman, M. Semikhatov, J. Grotzinger, W. Adams 1996, Sizing up the Sub-Tommotian Unconformity in Siberia; Discussion and Reply, Geology 24, 860-862. 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0860:SUTSTU>2.3.CO;2
E. Landing, S. Westrop 1996, Upper Lower Cambrian Depositional Sequence in Avalonian New Brunswick, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 404-417. 10.1139/e96-030

1995

E. Landing, A . Y. Rozanov 1995, Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Global Stratotype Ratified and a New Perspective of Cambrian Time: Comment and Reply, Geology 23, 285-286.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Tremblay 1995, Declining Importance of Trilobites in Ordovician Nearshore Paleocommunities; Dilution or Displacement?, Palaios 10, 75-79.
Geyer, G., Heldmaier, W., Landing, E., 1995. Arthropod Traces in the Middle Cambrian of Morocco, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco ’95-The Lower-Middle Cambrian Standard of Western Gondwana. Beringeria, , pp. 254.
Geyer, G., Landing, E., 1995. The Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas Regions, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco ’95-The Lower-Middle Cambrian Standard of Western Gondwana. Beringia, , pp. 7-46.