Richard Graham (born 1934, in Goiás, Brazil) is a Brazilian/American historian specializing in nineteenth-century Brazil. He was formerly Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin,^[1][2] and is now professor emeritus there. He served as president of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians.

• Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860, University of Texas Press, 2010
• Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Stanford University Press, 1990
• Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil Cambridge University Press, 1968
• The Idea of Race in Latin America edited, University of Texas Press, 1990
• Juggling Race and Class in Brazil's Past PMLA 123:5 (Oct. 2008)
• Another Middle Passage? The Internal Slave Trade in Brazil, in Walter Johnson, Chattel Principle Yale University Press 2004
• Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the U.S. South Comparative Studies in Society and History, 23:4 (Oct 1981)
• Constructing a Nation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Old and New Views on Class, Culture, and the State, Journal of the Historical Society, Boston University, Volume 1, Number 2-3, spring 2001
• Independence in Latin America: A Comparative Approach Knopf, 1972, McGraw-Hill, 1994