Steve H. Murdock,
Minority Child Population Growth

Steve H. Murdock, PhD, is currently the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in management science and statistics at the University of Texas–San Antonio in the College of Business. He is also the official state demographer of Texas. Formally, he was a Regents Professor, head of the Department of Rural Sociology, and director of the Center for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research and Education at Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD in demography and sociology from the University of Kentucky and is the author of 11 books and more than 150 articles and technical reports on the implications of current and future demographic and socioeconomic change. Dr. Murdock has received the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M University, the Excellence in Research Award from the Rural Sociological Society, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky.