The DemogBlog was created by Joshua R. Goldstein josh-dot-goldstein-at-berkeley.edu. Josh is the Chancellor’s professor of demography in Berkeley’s Demography Department and director of the Berkeley Population Center. Josh’s research is supported in part by NIH.

Shripad Tuljapurkar is a professor of biology and the Morrison professor of population studies at Stanford.

Wenyun Zuo is a research scientist in biology at Stanford.

The banner image for this blog is from John Graunt’s “Table of Casualties” from his 1662 treatise Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of Mortality written in the midst of the Black Death.