FELLOWS & ASSOCIATES RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, FALL 2014

FELLOWS & ASSOCIATES RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, FALL 2014

John A. Booth, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • Book, Latin American Political Culture: Public Opinion and Democracy. John A. Booth & Patricia Bayer Richard, Congressional-Sage Publications, 2015.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Central America, 2014” Houston Seminar, Houston, TX, November 24, 2014.
  • “Latin American Political Culture” and “Central America’s Current Crisis” SOUTHCOM Theater Course, United States Air Force, Cannon AFB, Clovis, NM, December 2, 2014.

Caroline B. Brettell, Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • Book, Anthropological Conversations: Talking Culture Across Disciplines. 2015.
  • Book, Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (3rd edition). 2015.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Perspectives on Nation Unbound: The Transnational Migration Paradigm in the Current Conjuncture” Vrije University, Amsterdam, October 2014.

Karisa Cloward, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • “False Commitments: Local Misrepresentation and the International Norms Against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage.” International Organization 68(3): 495-526, 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Presentation, “The NGO Life Cycle: Organizational Birth and Death in the Kenyan Development Sector” The annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Indianapolis, IN, November 21, 2014.
  • Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Fellows Seminar, Co-organizer, “Global Africa: Between Intervention and Engagement” 2014-2015.

Christopher Jenks, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • Security Versus Freedom: Contemporary Challenge of Indefinite Detention Pursuant to Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Harvard J. Law & Pub. Pol., 2014.
  • Strange Bedfellows: How Expanding the Public Safety Exception to Miranda Benefits Countererrrism Suspects, 61 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1, 2014.
  • Down the Rabbit Hole: Notes from Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay. August, 2014.
  • A Kellog-Briand Pact for the 21st Century. Small Wars Journal, June, 2014.
  • US Military Should Publish All Investigations of Civilian Deaths. Al Jazeera America, June, 2014.
  • Targeting Transparency: A Call for DoD to Automatically Release Investigations of Civilian Casualties in Armed Conflict. Just Security, May 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “International Humanitarian Law”, “Who is Protected and How?” and “Implementation and Enforcement of IHL” as part of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection special training for United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York City, NY, November 2014.
  • “Trying Terror Suspects” panel chair as part of Appellate Judges Education Institute, panel included General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor Office of Military Commissions and Chris Harland, Legal Adviser International Committee of the Red Cross, Dallas, TX, November 2014.
  • “Protection of the Environment: An Operational Perspective,” United Nations Seminar on Protection of the Environment During Armed Conflict, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, NY, October 2014.
  • “Asymmetric or the New Normal? Autonomous Weapon Systems & The Next Arms Race,” Texas A&M Law Review Symposium Technology and Law: Rethinking National Security, Ft. Worth, TX, October 17, 2014.
  • “Hacked! Ethical Issues for Lawyers in the Cyber World,” panelist on the impact of cyber intrusions and collective cyber defense, General Counsel Forum, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX, May, 2014.
  • “Rules of Engagement” and “Use of Force in Peace Operations” and “The Responsibility to Protect”,” as part of Conduct of Peace Support Operations Course, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Deputy Course Director and Presenter; Sanremo, Italy, June, 2014.
• Media Appearances
  • Carol Rosenberg, Is Guantanamo Navy Base Part of the USA? Well That Depends….. Miami Herald, September 8, 2014.
  • Wade Goodwyn, Rick Perry’s Legal Trouble: The Line Between Influence and Coercion, National Public Radio, August 30, 2014.
  • ABC News Interview, The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Conundrum, August 28, 2014.
  • Wade Goodwyn, Grand Jury in Texas Probes Whether Gov. Perry Abused Powers, National Public Radio, June 9, 2014.
  • Chris Carroll, What Punishment Could Bergdahl Face? Stars and Stripes, June 5, 2014.

Robert Jordan, Senior Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • Book, Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11. Accepted for publication by Potomac Books.

Jeffrey D. Kahn, Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • The Law is a Causeway: Metaphor & the Rule of Law in Russia, in The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law & the Legal State (Rechtsstaat)(Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law & Justice, Vol. 38) 229-250 (Silkenat, Hickey, & Barenboim, eds., Springer, 2014).
  • How Federal Is The Russian Federation? (with Trochev & Balayan) in Federalism & Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law & Justice, Vol. 28) 355-390 (Halberstam & Reimann, eds., 2014).
• Additional Writings
  • Guest Post: A Reply to Margo Schlanger on Latif & Fundamental Rights.Just Security, June 30, 2014.
  • Guest Post from Jeff Kahn on Latif v. Holder (Striking Down the No-Fly List). Lawfare, June 25, 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Presentation on “Robert Bolt, Vaclav Havel, and the Rule of Law in Russia,” in the roundtable “The Rule of Law, Business, and Crime: Law and Politics in Russia and Kazakhstan,” 46th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, November 22, 2014.
  • Presentation on “The Khodorkovsky Case, Collateral Attacks, and the Rule of Law,” 14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference on Restructuring State and Society in Russia, University of Helsinki, Finland, October 24, 2014.
  • Chair and panelist, “Citizenship and the Right to Travel: A Legal History of the Relationship from before the Passport to after the No Fly List,” 8th Annual European Consortium for Political Research, University of Glasgow, Sept. 4, 2014.
  • Invited Lecture entitled “The Khodorkovsky Saga, Power Politics and Legal Reform in Russia,” International Institute for Strategic Studies, Arundel House, London, Sept. 3, 2014.
  • Invited Panelist, 22nd Annual Teaching Effective Symposium, SMU, August 21, 2014.
  • 30-minute radio interview, “Lawsuit Over Federal Watch List,” Bloomberg Law, August 18, 2014.
  • Keynote Speaker, “The Past, Present, & Future of the No Fly List,” Weil Gotshal, Dallas, Aug. 13, 2014.
  • Public lecture entitled, “Liberty and Security at 30,000 Feet: Freedom of Movement and the No Fly List,” Dallas Public Library Preston-Royal Branch, August 7, 2014.
  • Invited Panelist, Fugh Symposium on Law and Military Operations, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Department of the Army, Charlottesville, VA, May 14, 2014.

LaiYee Leong, Fellow

• Appointments
  • Fellow at the SMU Center for Presidential History to work on its Collective Memory Project (lead researcher and interviewer for US “Post-9/11 Policy in East and Southeast Asia).

Michael McLendon, Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • McLendon, M. K., D. Tandberg, & N. Hillman. (2014). Financing college opportunity: Factors influencing state spending on student financial aid and campus appropriations from 1990 to 2012. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 655, 143-162.
  • McLendon, M. K., & L. W. Perna. (2014). State policies and higher education attainment. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 655, 6-15.
  • Perna, L. W., M. Klein, & M. K. McLendon. (2014). State Policies and higher education attainment: Insights and implications for state policymakers. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 655, 209-230.
  • McLendon, M. K., L. Cohen-Vogel, & J. Wachen. (2014). Understanding education policymaking and policy change in the American states: Learning from contemporary policy theory. In L. Fusarelli, J. Cibulka, & B. Cooper (Eds.). Handbook of Education Politics and Policy (2nd ed.).
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Presenter, “The Rhetoric and the Reality of State Performance Funding in U.S. Higher Education.” Association for the Study of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
  • Presenter,“Financing American Higher Education: Revolution, Evolution, or More of the Same?” SMU Faculty Club 2014 Distinguished Lecture, SMU.
  • Presenter, “Lessons in Leadership from the Summer of 1940.” Faculty keynote to the Hart Global Leaders Forum, SMU.
  • Presenter, “What Will the College Student Experience Look Like in the 21st Century?” Education Writers Association’s Annual Higher Education Seminar, SMU.

Edward T. Rincón, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • “Texas:  Quality of Life at the Crossroads.” Public policy paper co-authored by Marcos G. Ronquillo and Edward T. Rincón.  August 18, 2014.
  • “Raising the bar in health-related research.”  Viewpoint article, HispanicAd.com, May 20, 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Presenter, “Marketing and Demographic Trends of the U.S. Latino Population,”  Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México,  October 2014.
  • Presenter, “Designing Survey for Diverse U.S. Audiences,”  workshop presented to Parametro Research staff in Tuluca México, October 2014.
  • “D-FW law firms employ few Hispanic lawyers, study finds.” Media coverage regarding our Legal Watch Dallas study, Dallas Morning News, Natalie Postgate and Mark Curriden, 2014.
• Media Appearances
  • “Shortsighted Business Law Firms Ignoring Hispanic Business Growth.” Media coverage regarding the Legal Watch Dallas study, www.Texaslawbook.net, Natalie Postgate and Mark Curriden, 2014.

Carolyn Smith-Morris, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • Smith-Morris, Carolyn, Gilberto Lopez, Lisa Ottomanelli, Lance Goetz, and Kim Dixon-Lawson. “Ethnography, Fidelity, and the Evidence that Anthropology Adds: Supplementing the Fidelity Process in a Clinical Trial of Supported Employment”. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(2): 141-161.
  • Smith-Morris, Carolyn and Jenny Epstein. “Beyond Cultural Competency: Skill, Reflexivity, and Structure in Successful Tribal Health Care”. In Special Issue Cultural Capital and Health in Native American Communities, Jennie Joe and Robert Young (Eds). American Indian Culture & Research Journal 38(1): 29-48.
• Grants, Fellowships, Awards
  • PI. National Science Foundation #1502792 ($28,500). “Cultural Patterns in Crisis-Induced Stigma: Ebola in two Dallas Neighborhoods”.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Community Action Research Track (CART) lecture for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern.  “Social Determinants of Health”.  May 14, 2014.  UTSW Campus, Dallas, TX.

Mary Spector, Associate

• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Panelist,  Credit Reporting Issues Among Limited English Proficiency Latinos, Federal Trade Commission/Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Roundtable on Debt Collection and the Latino Community, Long Beach, CA, October 23, 2014.
  • Presenter, Bellow Scholar Workshop, University of Notre Dame Law School, Fort Bend, IN, October 17-18, 2014.
  • Panelist, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Credit Cards (but Were Afraid to Ask,) American Bankruptcy Institute, CARE Financial Literacy Conference, Dallas, TX, September 12, 2014.
  • Panelist,  Making the Most of Consumer Clinics, Teaching Consumer Law Conference, Santa Fe, NM, May 30, 2014.
  • Presenter, Can Empirical Research in our Clinics Help us Become Better Clinicians? (with Judith Fox and Michael Gregory), American Association of Law Schools, 37th Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, IL,  April 29, 2014.

Hiroki Takeuchi, Senior Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • Book, Hiroki Takeuchi, Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• Additional Writings
  • “The ‘Russia’ issue for the U.S. (1): Implications of ‘Ukraine’” (in Japanese), Foresight, November 25, 2014.
  • “Whither ‘Arab Awakening’? Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talks about the Middle East” (in Japanese), Foresight, October 19, 2014.
  • “The ‘Middle East?’ ‘Asia?’ The U.S. Thinks How to Commit” (in Japanese), Foresight, September 29, 2014.
  • “The U.S. Facing the ISIS: Obama’s Speech and US Grand Strategy” (in Japanese), Foresight, September 21, 2014.
  • “The Commander of ‘Operation Tomodachi’ Analyzes Security in East Asia” (in Japanese), Foresight, September 4, 2014.
  • “Political Economy of the TPP (3): The Chinese Perspective” (in Japanese), Foresight, August 18, 2014.
  • “Political Economy of the TPP (2): The Abenomics and Japan’s ‘Homework’” (in Japanese), Foresight, July 23, 2014.
  • “Political Economy of the TPP (1): The U.S. That Does Not Do ‘Homework’” (in Japanese), Foresight, July 11, 2014.
  • “Dallas with Darvish: Texas and the U.S. Seen from the Texas Rangers” (in Japanese), Foresight, June 28, 2014.
  • “Managing China Is Most Important: Ambassador Schieffer Talks about Japan-U.S. Relations” (in Japanese), Foresight, May 19, 2014.
  • “The Korean Peninsula Seen from the U.S. (3): Why Japan-South Korea Relations Have Deteriorated” (in Japanese), Foresight, May 3, 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Migration, Participation, and Taxation in Rural China.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 2014.
  • “Dancing in Another Ballroom? What Are the Roles of China’s Democratic Institutions” (co-authored with Tomoki Kamo). Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the European Association for the Chinese Studies, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2014.
  • “Trade and Globalization in the Asia-Pacific,” Global Citizenship Series by Stephen F. Austin State University, Sugar Land, TX, October 2014.

Bernard L. Weinstein, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • The Keystone/Gulf Coast Pipeline System: A Catalyst for American Jobs and Energy Security, Maguire Energy Institute, May 2014.
  • The Financial Outlook for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority: Challenges and Opportunities, Maguire Energy Institute, November 2014.
  • “Can the U.S. Government Revive Nuclear Power?” Wall St. Journal, November 24, 2014.
  • “Corporate Inversions a Symptom of Dysfunctional Tax System,” The Hill, October 28, 2014.
  • “Ban on Oil Exports Has Outlived its Usefulness,” Houston Chronicle, October 24, 2014.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Congressional Testimony, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 24, 2014.
  • Invited participant, Workshop on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sponsored by Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Atlanta, November 20-21, 2014.
• Appointments
  • Named Fellow of Goodenough College, London (UK), November 2014.

Mark A. Wynne, Fellow

• Conference organizer, The Federal Reserve’s Role in the Global Economy: A Historical Perspective, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, September 2014.