User:Andrew Noymer

Andrew Noymer received an A.B. in Biology from Harvard University in 1995, an M.Sc. in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London) in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. He is currently (2007) an assistant professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California at Irvine. Noymer's research foci are quantitative-historical social science, and demography. His best-known work to date is on the demographic impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States, but he has also published articles on diverse topics such as theoretical models of rumor spread.