He studied near eastern archaeology, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Egyptian in Israel at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and took his Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology and Near Eastern Languages from the University of Utah Middle East Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He is also senior field archaeologist and director of excavations in Area F at the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project in Israel. Chadwick is a native of Ogden, Utah, and a graduate of Ben Lomond High School. He served an Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) mission in West Germany and West Berlin during the mid-1970s.
He received a Bachelor in Political Science and German from Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, and an Master of Arts in International Relations and Near Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Chadwick began teaching for Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center programs in 1982, and has taught and researched in Israel annually since then He has taught in 20 Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center student programs, specializing in archaeology and historical geography of the ancient near east, and conducting travel and field study all over Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey.
Chadwick has also excavated for 20 seasons at various archaeological sites in Israel. During the 1990s he was a senior supervisor with the Tel Miqne/Ekron Archaeological Expedition (directors Seymour Gitin and Trude Dothan) in Israel.
He joined the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project in Israel (director Aren Maeir) in 2001, and has excavated at the ancient Philistine capital each year since then
He is also director of the American Expedition to Hebron Publication Project, working on finds from the 1960s expedition of Philip Hammond at Tell er-Rumeide/Hebron. Chadwick is a Senior Research Fellow (since 2003) at the West. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He also served for six years (2008-2013)on the board of trustees of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Chadwick also taught in the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Seminary program during the 1980s, and in the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Institute program during the 1990s, at Utah State University and Weber State University.
Chadwick is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles and book chapters on the archaeology of Israel and also the intersection of archaeology and ancient scripture. He has co-authored and co-edited three books, including The Holy Land: A Geographical, Historical, and Archaeological Guide to the Land of the Bible (with Doctorate Kelly Ogden).
Chadwick is also the author of a popular ebook entitled Stone Manger: The Untold Story of the First Christmas.
