John R. Weeks

John R. Weeks is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography at San Diego State University, and a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He holds a doctorate in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. His textbook, Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (Cengage Publishing, 2021) is now in its 13th edition and has been the best-selling text in the field since it first came out in 1978. He has also published more than 200 papers and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, as well as authoring or co-authoring seven other books. He is on the editorial boards of Populations and the Journal of Minority Health, and is the Historian of the Population Association of America.