Experts in the News

Kelsey Norman, director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, was interviewed about the impact of the Trump administration's decision to lower the number of refugees allowed into the United States.

Fellow Quianta Moore discussed her recent survey on the attitudes and experiences of residents of Houston's Third Ward.

Fellow Jim Krane’s recent book, “Energy Kingdoms,” won the Book Award 2019 prize at the Middle East Studies Association conference last week in New Orleans. Twenty-two books were submitted for consideration in the biannual contest, which is sponsored by the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. In the book, Krane explained the important roles of oil in the domestic economies and internal politics of the Persian Gulf states, and the hard choices that will have to be made as governments try to wean their citizens from a troubling reliance on it.

Recent developments in the Middle East have created new opportunities for diplomacy, says Baker Institute director Edward P. Djerejian in an interview with Al-Monitor.

“I generally believe that statements about a looming physician shortage are overblown,” said health economics fellow Vivian Ho.