Fellows and Associates Research Highlights: Fall & Spring 2022

Cullum Clark,  Senior Fellow
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • Appeared in two additional podcasts – the “Feudal Future” podcast in December 2021 and the “Flyover Coalition” podcast in February
    • Keynote speaker at a conference focused on housing in Laredo, Texas in September 2021
    • Spoke on a Dallas Business Journal panel on the Dallas economy in October 2021
    • Presented to the Salesmanship Club of Dallas in January 2022
    • Moderated a panel discussion at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the unfinished legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in February
    • Bush Institute webinar on “The Future of America’s Cities” in March, alongside former San Antonio Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and Bush Institute Executive Director Holly Kuzmich
    • Panelist on the Dallas area’s economy at a Texas Lyceum event in Frisco, Texas in April
    • Panelist on workforce development at a North Texas Commission event in April
    • Presented on housing challenges in Dallas to the Dallas Citizens Council in Ma
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
Neil Foley, Senior Fellow
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • I convened a workshop for the Fulbright Commission in Spain: “Developing Collaborations with International Colleagues,” Crossing the Straits Seminar, Fulbright Commission, Cordoba, Spain, April 21-23, 2022
    • Keynote address titled “Whose History? Monuments, Memory, and the Contested Past of the U.S. South and West,” at the VII Congreso Internacional de Vínculos Históricos entre España y Norteamérica: Movimientos Migratorios y Derechos Humanos, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, April 27-29, Madrid
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
Jason Galui, Associate 
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • Speaker at the United States Military Academy at West Point in November on “The Presidency,”
    • Speaker at the StratCommWorld in Washington, D.C., in late April on “Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail”
    • Speaker on “when preparing for cybersecurity threats”, with the Plano Metro Rotary Club in early May, and at the Texas A&M Economic Statecraft Symposia (December and May).
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
Danielle Lemi, Fellow
Manochehr Dorraj, Associate 
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
    • Dorraj & Jean-Marc Blanchard, “Iran in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Bounded Progress and Bounded Promise” in Jean-Marc Blanchard Editor, China’s Maritme Silk Road Initiative, Africa and the Middle East. (London and New York: Palgrave/ MacMillan Publishers, 2021): 165-197.
    • “Belt and Road: China’s Opportunities and Challenges” in Mojtaba Mahdavi & Tugrul Keskin Editors, China-Middle East, Asia Relations in a Multiplex World (Netherland, Brill publishers, 2022):  1-11
    • Ann Bluntzer & Manochehr Dorraj “Russian Invasion of Ukraine Means Green Light for Green Energy in Europe”, The Hill, March 20, 2022
    • “Belt and Road and China’s Expanding Ties with West Asia and North Africa” In Yahia Zoubir, Editor, Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa., (London and New York: Routledge Publishers, Forthcoming, 2022
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • Interview: On Iran-China Relations: International Team for the Study of Security (ITSS), Verona, Italy. May 2022
    • Faculty Fellow and Summer School Lecturer: International Team for the Study of Security (ITSS), Verona, Italy. 2022
    • Faculty Fellow and a Member of the Board: Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, TCU (2022-2023)
    • Collaborator and a member of the board: Food, Water, and Energy Nexus Research Program at Texas A & M University. College Station, Texas (2022-2023)
    • Invited Panelist: “Rethinking China, Middle East, and Asia in a ‘Multiplex World’, University of Alberta, China Institute, Canada. May 2022
Dennis Ippolito,  Fellow
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
    • Deficit Politics in the United States: Taxes, Spending, and Fiscal Disconnect (London: Routledge, 2022). This book is in Routledge’s Europa Economic Perspectives series
Edward T. Rincón, Associate
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • Webinar presentation to Convenience Store News regarding diversity/equity issues and introduction of our Multicultural Insights Test. (April 28, 2022)
    • Presentation to the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) regarding our newly developed Multicultural Insights Test. (May 12, 2022)
    • Introduced first graduate course on Multicultural Research Methods at The University of Texas at Arlington School of Business (Sept. 2021
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
    • Grant proposal submitted to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop an urban supermarket ecosystem
Stefano Recchia,  Senior Fellow
Hiroki Takeuchi,  Senior Fellow
  • Papers, Publications, and Other Writings
  • Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
    • “Public Response to Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East” (co-authored with Saavni Desai), paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, January 2022; the revised version presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 2022
    • “The Domestic Political Economy of Japan’s New Geoeconomic Strategy” (co-authored with Keely McNeme), paper presented at the SMU Tower Center Research Workshop Series, February 2022; revised version presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Association, Portland, OR, March 2022
Bernard L. Weinstein, Associate