Heer, David M(acAlpine)

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HEER, David M(acAlpine)

HEER, David M(acAlpine). American, b. 1930. Genres: Demography. Career: U.S. Bureau of the Census, statistician in Social Statistics Branch, Population Division, 1957-61; University of California, Berkeley, lecturer in sociology and assistant research sociologist, 1961-64; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor, 1964-68, associate professor of demography, 1968-72; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, professor of sociology and director of Population Research Laboratory, 1972-2000; University of California, San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, senior scholar, 2000-. Publications: After Nuclear Attack: A Demographic Inquiry, 1965; Society and Population, 1968, 3rd ed. (with J. Grigsby), 1992; (with P. Herman) A Human Mosaic: An Atlas of Ethnicity in Los Angeles County, 1980-1986, 1990; Undocumented Mexicans in the United States, 1990; Immigration in America's Future: Social Science Findings and the Policy Debate, 1996. EDITOR: Social Statistics and the City, 1968; Readings on Population, 1968. Address: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0510, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]