His Story
Andrei Rogers was born in September 1937 in Harbin, China to Russian parents who escaped the Bolsheviks as teenagers and fled to China. Forced to flee again when the Chinese communist revolution descended on Shanghai following the Japanese occupation during World War II, they emigrated to California when he was a young teenager. He was the first in his family to attend college (Berkeley), then went on to earn a PhD (University of North Carolina). He married Maria before embarking on his doctorate and the two of them had 4 kids over the next decade. He spent his career as a mathematical demography professor (at Berkeley, Northwestern, and at the University of Colorado Boulder) and research scientist (at IIASA in Vienna, Austria), developing multi-regional methods in human migration modeling and authoring around 100 articles and over a dozen books. He received numerous scholarly awards including the Walter Isard Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the North American Regional Science Association in 2000, and the Mindel C. Schepps award from the Population Association of America in 2018.
Andrei passed away peacefully while on vacation in Maine on August 18, 2026. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann Hartigan, her two children and six grandchildren as well as his own four children, 13 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren, who will hold a private ceremony for him in September.
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