Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He chairs the Queens College Sociology Department.

 

Since 1993, Dr. Beveridge has been a consultant to the New York Times, which has published numerous news reports and maps based upon his analysis of the Census data. He writes the demographic topic column for the Gotham Gazette (www.gothamgazette.com) an on-line publication of the Citizens Union. He is working on three major projects involving urban and neighborhood change, one tracking long term change in United States urban areas and two that look at neighborhood impact on individuals, including drug users and drug dealers, high school and elementary school students, and economic and other standing. He is also collaborating on a study of test score patterns in the Houston Independent School District. He collaborates with a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota and other institutions on the National Historical Geographic Information System project, which is producing data that makes it possible to examine long term trends in major cities and urban areas in the United States.

 

He and his team have developed an interactive application and Web Based set of maps entitled Social Explorer (www.socialexplorer.com) that allow the user to compare and contrast demography based upon an area that he or she selects. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the New York Times. 

 

He has examined the social roots of American banking and credit practices; public attitudes towards science and technology; factors leading to union success in winning representation elections; social trends revealed by housing surveys; and economic development in Africa. He is the co-author of African Businessmen and Development in Zambia, published by Princeton University Press, and numerous articles, papers and reports.

 

He has taught in the Sociology Department of Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in sociology from Yale University and his B.A with honors in economics from Yale College. His research work has received grant and fellowship support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Putnam Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other agencies.

 

He is an expert in using GIS techniques to integrate demographic materials. Aside from his extensive published work he has used such techniques in numerous consulting engagements with such clients as: Time Warner Cable of New York, the Newspaper Association of America, Davis Polk, and Sullivan and Cromwell as well as with such non-profit organizations as, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maryland, the Open Housing Center of New York City, Westchester Legal Services, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Capital Defenders Office, among others.