Julia Jennings
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Julia Jennings investigates how economic, environmental, household, and family contexts shape past and present populations. Her 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. Her other research interests include demographic responses to climate variation, intergenerational transmission of fertility, and the effects of household composition on fertility, mortality, and migration. Jennings received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. She is an associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at UAlbany.
Research Interest
human demography (fertility, mortality, and migration) and 19th century Europe (with an emphasis on Scotland); household ecology; historical population change
Publications
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nings JA, Wood JW, and Johnson PL. 2011. Household-level Predictors of the Presence of Servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851-1901. The History of the Family. 16(3): 278-291.
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Jennings JA, Sullivan AR and Hacker JD. 2012. Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior during the Demographic Transition. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 42(4): 543-569.
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Jennings JA and Leslie PW. 2013. Differences in Intergenerational Fertility Associations by Sex and Race in Saba, Dutch Caribbean, 1876-2004. The History of the Family.18(2):135-153.
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Parker DM, Wood JW, Tomita S, DeWitte S, Jennings JA, and Cui L. 2014. Household Ecology and Out-migration among Ethnic Karen Along the Thai-Myanmar Border. Demographic Research. 30(12): 1129-1156.
