B.A. (Stanford), M.A., Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley)
Robert W. Gardner, visiting associate professor of sociology (spring 2000, 2001, and 2002 semesters) and sometimes teaching assistant (spring 2006, 2007), is a demographer who in previous incarnations specialized in studying migration and teaching demographic methods, with research focusing on Asian immigration to the United States. Currently, when he is not deeply engrossed in teaching methods of social research, he is editing publications on population for the United Nations Population Division.