University of Colorado at Boulder geography Professor Andrei Rogers has received the Walter Isard Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the North American Regional Science Association.
The award was given in recognition of Rogers聮 pioneering work in the field of multiregional demography during his 35-year career. His work, including publishing six books on the subject, has helped create an independent subfield of demography focusing on the causes and effects of expansion of human populations over time and space.
Rogers, who has been a faculty member at CU-Boulder for 17 years, is director of the Population Program, which is part of the Institute of Behavioral Science. Researchers in the program look at population trends and patterns in the United States and abroad and seek to identify the causes and consequences of those trends and patterns.
Rogers聮 current teaching and research interests are in immigration, internal migration, population geography and urbanization. In one of his research projects, he and two of his graduate students estimated the patterns of fertility, mortality and internal and international migration that have shaped the regional distribution of foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States since 1950.
The North American Regional Science Association is part of the Regional Science Association International, which was founded in 1954 primarily to study regional populations throughout the world.
Rogers is the author of 10 books and is a member of the editorial boards of four journals in the fields of population, urban studies and regional science.