Mark D. Hayward is an American demographer and sociologist.
Hayward completed his bachelor's degree in sociology at the Washington State University in 1975, then pursued a master's (1978) and doctorate (1981) in the same subject at Indiana University Bloomington.
[1] He taught at the University of Southern California and Pennsylvania State University before moving to the University of Texas at Austin in 2005,[2] where he holds the Centennial Commission Professorship in Liberal Arts #1.
[3] Hayward became a honored member of the Population Association of America in 2019.
[2] He is a former chief editor of the academic journal Demography.