Chad Richardson
Abbreviated Vita
November 2016
Personal Information
Current Status: Professor Emeritus of Sociology (since June 27, 2011); The University of Texas—Rio Grande
Valley, Edinburg, Texas 78539 Cell Phone 512-937-0999.
Home Address: 13210 Cardinal Hill, Austin, TX 78737. Preferred E-mail [email protected]
Foreign Language/Experience:
Fluent in Spanish; Three years residence in Spain; 6 in Central America and Mexico.
Academic Training
Ph.D. 1975 The University of Texas at Austin
(Sociology)
(Dissertation: Minority Participation in Texas Programs of Adult Basic Education)
M.S. 1969 Brigham Young University
(Sociology)
B.A. 1967 Brigham Young University
(Spanish)
Academic Appointments
Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas Pan American/Rio Grande Valley 2011-to present
Professor, The University of Texas - Pan American
1977 - 2010
Monterrey Tech (ITESM)--International Extended Faculty--Grad. Business
1995-2002
Univ. Auton. de Nuevo Leon (Mex.), USIA Acad. Spec. Program
Fall 1993
San Diego State University
1975 - 1977
The University of Texas at Austin (Extension Div.)
1971 - 1972
Lamar Community College, Lamar, Colorado
1968 - 1971
Primary Teaching Areas
Graduate Level
Undergraduate Level
U.S.-Mexico Border Issues
Social Inequality
Social Inequality
Current Social Issues
Sociology of Education
American Minorities
Primary Research Areas
Borderlands Studies, with primary emphasis on the Texas/Northern Mexico Border
The Informal Economy of Border Regions
Program Development/Administration
Chair, Department of Sociology, UT Pan American (2007 to 2010)
Initiator and Director, UTPA Borderlife Research Project and Archive, College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 1982 - 1988; 1993 - 2010.
Coordinator, Masters in Sociology, UTPA Department of Sociology, 1992 – 1996; 2004-2007;
Co-President, Rio Bravo Association (a bi-national higher-educ. assoc.) 1993- 1996.
Editorial Advisory Board, Rio Bravo: A Journal of Research and Issues. 1992 - 2004
Initiator and Director, UTPA Center for International Studies, 1988 - 1993.
Honors/Awards
2011—to present. Professor Emeritus, University of Texas-Pan American (now UT Rio Grande Valley)
2007. University of Texas System Chancellor’s Teaching Award.
2006. Piper Professor Nominee for UT-Pan American (statewide teaching award). Provost Award in
International Studies (UTPA) for College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, November 2006
2004 Featured in What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, pages 60-63,
106, 175
2002 Provost Scholars Award, University of Texas Pan American
2001 Arnulfo Martinez Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement in the Americas, 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Books/Monographs
Chad Richardson and Michael Pisani. 2nd (extensively revised and updated) edition. Batos, Bolillos, Pochos and
Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border. University of Texas Press. (ISBN 1-978-47731272-8) Release date, July 2017)
Chad Richardson and Michael Pisani. The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border. .
University of Texas Press. November 2012.
Chad Richardson and Rosalva Resendiz. On the Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor and Deviance on the South
Texas Border. University of Texas Press. December 2006.
Chad Richardson and Kathleen Earle. Relationship Based Leadership. University Press of America, 2005
Suad Ghaddar, Chad Richardson and Cynthia Brown, “The Economic Impact of Mexican Visitors to the Lower Rio
Grande Valley 2003,” Center for Border Economic Studies, May 2004 (37 pages).
Chad Richardson. Batos, Bolillos, Pochos and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border. March 1999,
University of Texas Press.
Refereed Journal Articles (Additional Publications prior to 1985 available upon request)
Pagan, José, Michael Pisani, J; Lackan, Nuha; Chad Richardson. (2012), "Substitution of formal health care services
by Latinos/Hispanics in the US-Mexico border region of South Texas." Medical Care. 2012 Oct;
50(10):885-9. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318268ea29.
Pisani, Michael J. and Chad Richardson (2012), “Cross-border Informal Entrepreneurs across the South Texas –
Northern Mexico Boundary,” Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal,
24(3-4), 105-121. Cross-border Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Border Regions].
Su, Dejun, Richardson Chad, Wen M., Pagán Jose. A. (2010) “Cross-Border Utilization of Health Care:
Evidence from a Population-Based Study in South Texas” Health Services Research. [HSR]. 12/2010;
46(3):859-76
Dejun Su, Chad Richardson, and Guang-Zhen Wang. Assessing Cultural Assimilation of Mexican Americans:
How Rapidly do Their Gender-Role Attitudes Converge to the U.S. Mainstream? Social Science
Quarterly, 01/2010; 91(3):762-76
Michael J. Pisani, Chad Richardson and J. Michael Patrick, (2008) “Economic Informality on the U.S.-Mexican
Border: A (Re)View from South Texas.” in Volume 23 No.2, Fall 2008, Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Richardson, Chad "Building Strength from Within: Colonias of the Rio Grande Valley," Journal of
Borderlands Studies (Vol. XI, No. 2), Fall 1996.
Richardson, Chad, Maria Olivia Villarreal and Cruz Torres. "Anglo-Hispanic Relations in South-Texas Schools
from 1945 to 1993: A Triangulated Profile," Rio Bravo. Vol IV, No. 1 (Spring 1994). __________.
Richardson, Chad, "Cultura Social y Su Impacto en la Promoción del Turismo," in Papers de Turisme, Ano 5,
No. 13 (Fall 1993), Selected papers published by the Institut Turistic Valencia, Spain.
Richardson, Chad and Joe Feagin. "The Dynamics of Legalization: Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the
United States, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY, v. 3. 1987
Richardson, Chad "Human and Labor Rights of Undocumented Workers in the United States." IN DEFENSE
OF THE ALIEN, V. 3. Lydio F. Tomasi, ed. New York: Center for Migration Studies. 1986.
Martin, Harry, Chad Richardson, et. al. "Physician Reports of Folk Illnesses in Two Border Cities."
ETHNOLOGY. Vol. XXIV, No. 3, July 1985
Invited Academic Chapters/Comments
Invited Comments on "The Undergraduate Ethnographic Field School as a Research Method” by John P.
Hawkins, Current Anthropology, Vol 55, No 5, October 2014.
Richardson, Chad and Michael J. Pisani (2011), “Labor, Informality, and the Underground Economy in South
Texas,” in Belem Iliana Vásquez Galán, Mario Alberto Jurado Montelongo, and José Luis Castro Ruiz
(Eds.), Procesos Económicos, Urbanos y Laborales en la Frontera Norteste en el Contexto de la Apertura
Económica (a COLEF publication from the conference “Río Bravo/Río Grande, Los Retos del Desarollo
Socioeconómico de la Región ante la Crisis” [Monterrey, Mexico, October 8, 2009]) Tijuana, Mexico: El
Colegio de la Frontera Norte, pp. 239-272. ISBN: 978-607-479-056-6.
Richardson, Chad. “The Social Costs of Worker Dislocation in a South Texas Border Environment (Chapter 5,
pp. 48-66), in José Pagan (ed.), Worker Displacement In the U.S./Mexico border Region, Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2004.
Richardson, Chad. “Pochos y Mojados,” in Hector M. Capello (Ed.) Nuevos Paradigmas sobre la frontera
Estados Unidos-México: problemas asociados a una larga transición (Cuernavaca, Mexico: Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, 2003) 547-586. (ISBN: 970-32-0992-0)
Richardson, Chad. “The Impact of Structure and Culture on Organizations.” In Oscar Johansen and Eduardo
Soto (eds.), Restricciones Organizacionales. Prentice-Hall/Pearson Education, Mexico, 2001.
Presentations to Professional Audiences since 1990 (Details available upon request)
 American Sociological Association: 2009, 2000, 1994
 Western Sociological Assn.: 2014, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1991
 SCOLAS, Monterrey, Mex. 1990
 Southwestern Social Science Assn.: 2005, 2000, 1997, 1996
 Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Monterrey, Mex. 2009. 2004
 Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, San José, Costa Rica, March 2001.
 Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State 2000.
 University of Redlands, 1999
 Universidad de Santiago (Chile): 1995
 UT Austin, Mexican Center, 1995
 Universidad de Deusto (Spain), 1995
 Rural Sociological Assn. 1994
 Barcelona and Valencia (Spain) universities; 1992, 1993
 Universidad de Monterrey, 1992
 Monterrey Tech (ITRSM) 1992
 Universidad Austral, Valdivia Chile: 1991
GRANTS/AWARDS
 2009-2010. PI, Program for Investment in Micro-entrepreneurs Act, (PRIME) Track 3, Funded by U.S. Small
Business Administration – Office of Financial Assistance, through the Women’s Business Center, Southwest
Community Investment Corporation. $154,945/year for 3 years.
 2007-2010. Co-PI (with UTPA colleagues Dr. Jose Pagan and Dr. Dejun Su). $1 million, three-year federal grant from the
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct research on the use of health care in Mexico by South Texas residents;
2008-2009. The effectiveness of Community Health Workers Model in Combating Type 2 Diabetes in Low Rio
Grande Valley. Co-PI with Dr. Igor Ryabov. Center for Health Disparities, The University of Texas-Pan American.
Borderlife Research Director. Grants include $7,000 equipment donation from Lacks Foundation; $8,000 from the
South Texas Border Initiative to prepare teacher workshops; Various Internal UT-PA grants [Scholars Fund, Friends
of the Library; University Projects Account--approximately $8,000 total].

May 1995. $11,500 ($8,500 from the Texas Committee for the Humanities Major Grant and matching $3,000 grant
from UTPA University Projects grant) Using Oral History to Promote Cultural Understanding and Writing Skills.
 Summers 1992 and 1994. $13,000. Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development research grant,
"Qualitative and Bibliographic Research on Cultural and Legal Systems Facing Texas Entrepreneurs in Mexico."
 Fall 1993. $2,500. Academic Specialist, United States Information Agency; Grant to teach a graduate Sociology
Course (Border Issues), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon.
CONSULTING/TRAINING/OUTSIDE TEACHING
 Presenter. Ken Bain Summer Institute: What the Best Teachers Do. “Developing a Natural Critical Learning
Environment.” Summers of 2008, 2009, 2010.
 Consultant/Researcher/Analyst, Encore (Valley Communities Foundation College Readiness Research and
Initiative). Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 2008—2009.
 Community Outreach Consultant. “Race and Place: Poverty in the Texas borderland and Mississippi Delta.
National Research Initiative, USDA. Rogelio Saenz, et. al., Texas A&M University. 2006-2009.
 Leadership training and materials development for Early Head Start programs in Texas and New Mexico,
Institute for Child and Family Studies, Texas Tech University. 1997 to 2004.
 Sociological Aspects of Organizational Behavior, Graduate Organizational Behavior courses offered in La Paz
Bolivia (EMI, May 17-22, 1999) and Managua,Nicaragua (UAM, March 10-13, 1999) for Monterrey Tech
(ITESM), Graduate School of Business
 Diplomado Courses in Human Resources Management in San Pedro Sula, Honduras (July 1998) for Monterrey
Tech and in Reynosa, Mexico (September 1998) for Expo-Time.
