Jack Welch was serving as a Latter-day Saint missionary in Regensburg, Germany, when he learned about chiasmus and, shortly thereafter, identified chiastic passages in the Book of Mormon — which effectively launched him on his course of scriptural and other Mormon-related scholarship. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)
By any standard, Jack Welch ranks among the most significant scholars and intellectuals in the history of Mormonism. This appointment at the University of Southern California appropriately recognizes that fact: