D. Chad Richardson

D. Chad Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas–Pan American. He received his bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a master’s in sociology at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and completed an NEH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. As a professor of sociology at the University of Texas–Pan American, he published three books with the University of Texas Press on U.S.-Mexico border issues. He has published articles in professional journals and books or book chapters on health and assimilation studies in south Texas where approximately 90 percent of the population has Mexican ancestry. During his time at UTPA, he also taught graduate business leadership courses for Monterrey Tech in Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, and Chile. His current interests involve Book of Mormon studies and Latin American issues. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are the parents of eight children and twenty-two grandchildren and live in Austin, Texas.