Devin R. Lander

New York State Historian
518-474-0206

​MA, Public History, State University of New York at Albany (2007)
BA, History, State University of New York at Plattsburgh (2000)

Devin Lander is New York’s 16th State Historian and Head of Museum Chartering for the State Education Department. Previous to being named State Historian, he was the Executive Director of the Museum Association of New York (MANY) and worked as Deputy Legislative and Policy Director for the Chair of the New York State Assembly’s Tourism, Arts, Parks, and Sports Development and Governmental Operations Committees. He holds a BA in History from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a MA in Public History from the University at Albany where he is currently completing work on his PhD dissertation. Devin is also co-host of the award-winning podcast A New York Minute in History produced by WAMC-Northeast Public Radio and co-editor of the New York History journal published by Cornell University Press.  He was elected as a New York Academy of History Fellow in 2020.

My Research Project

Publications

2006

Geyer, G., Landing, E., 2006. Morocco Field Excursion 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco 2006. EdiacaranCambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide. , , pp. 47-112.

2005

Landing, E., 2005. Ancient Life, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 83-86.
Landing, E., 2005. Geology and Plate Techtonics, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, pp. 632-636.
E. Landing 2005, Early Paleozoic Avalon — Gondwana Unity: An Obituary — Response to ’Palaeontological Evidence Bearing on Global Ordovician-Silurian Continental Reconstructions’ by R. R. Fortey and L. R. M. Cocks, Earth-Science Reviews 69, 169-175. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.10.002
E. Landing 2005, Fabulous Fossils-The State Museum’s Trilobites. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 1, 8-9

2004

G. Geyer, E. Landing 2004, A Unified Lower-Middle Cambrian Chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 233-273.
E. Landing 2004, Fossils and "Deep Time" In New York, New York State Museum Educational Leaflet The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY
E. Landing 2004, Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Interval Deposition and the Marginal Platform of the Avalon Microcontinent, Journal of Geodynamics 37, 411-435. 10.1016/j.jog.2004.02.014
Landing, E., Westrop, S., 2004. Environmental Patterns in the Origin and Evolution and Diversification Loci of Early Cambrian Skeletalized Metazoa: Evidence from the Avalon Microcontinent, in: Lipps, J., Wagoner, B. (Eds.), Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions. Paleontological Society, , pp. 93-105.

2003

E. Landing 2003, Self-Taught American Scientist. New York Archives 2, 13-15