Executive Curriculum Vitae

Research & Scholarship

Scholarship in agricultural economics, international trade, institutional governance, organizational trust, and land-grant university leadership.

Scholar-practitioner

Research linked to executive practice

Dr. Whitesides’s published work applies quantitative methods to agricultural economics and international trade. His current collaborative research examines institutional trust, governance, and analytical capacity in public and land-grant universities.

Agricultural economicsInternational tradeFood-safety standardsInstitutional trustLand-grant leadershipHigher-education governance

Research profile

Eight verified peer-reviewed journal articles are identified in the governing executive CV.

Two publicly distributed collaborative SSRN working papers are identified.

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Selected peer-reviewed publications

Karemera, D., Xiong, B., Smalls, G., & Whitesides, L. (2022). The political economy of maximum residue limits: A long-term health perspective. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(3), 709–719. DOI

Karemera, D., Xiong, B., & Whitesides, L. (2020). A state-level analysis of the impact of a U.S.–EU harmonization of food safety standards on U.S. exports of fruits and vegetables. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 42(4), 856–869. DOI

Davis, B., Karemera, D., & Whitesides, L. (2013). The intertemporal stability of the US money demand function: New evidence from switching regressions. Applied Economics Letters, 20(6), 581–586. DOI

Publicly distributed working papers

Whiteside, J. E., & Whitesides, L. D. (2026). Beyond funding formulas: Institutional trust as strategic capacity in public land-grant HBCUs. SSRN Working Paper. Abstract 6969498

Whiteside, J. E., & Whitesides, L. D. (2026). Institutional trust as a strategic asset: Developing the Institutional Trust Index (ITI) for public and land-grant universities. SSRN Working Paper. Abstract 6942998

INDEPENDENT R2 EVIDENCE

Carnegie R2 status — externally reported

Independent News 19/WLTX coverage documents South Carolina State University’s Carnegie R2 research status. This strengthens the institutional context for Dr. Whitesides’s research-leadership narrative without attributing the classification solely to one executive.

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Public Working Papers

Convergent University Research Series

Selected co-authored institutional working papers connecting higher-education governance, institutional trust, land-grant leadership, and applied executive practice. Repository records govern publication identity and provenance.

CU-WP-001 · Version 1.0

The Convergent University

A Conceptual Framework for Constituent Alignment, Governance Intelligence, and Trust Production in Complex Public Institutions

Co-authors: Jermaine E. Whiteside · Louis D. Whitesides

This working paper introduces the Convergent University Framework and uses a bounded pilot archive of 25 historical administrative initiatives associated with Dr. Whitesides's research-administration and state agricultural-extension leadership. The paper explicitly treats the pilot as an instrument-development exercise rather than causal validation.

Open Governance Repository

Recommended citation

Whiteside, J. E., & Whitesides, L. D. (2026). The Convergent University: A conceptual framework for constituent alignment, governance intelligence, and trust production in complex public institutions (CU-WP-001, v1.0). IAM of America Policy Center.

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CU-WP-002 · Version 1.1

Institutional Trust as a Strategic Asset

Developing the Institutional Trust Index (ITI) for Public and Land-Grant Universities

Co-authors: Jermaine E. Whiteside · Louis D. Whitesides

The paper develops institutional trust as a governance variable, distinguishes trust from confidence, reputation, and satisfaction, and specifies the Institutional Trust Index across constituency-facing dimensions while preserving its status as a conceptual and measurement-development working paper.

Canonical Repository Record Publication / Payhip Access

Canonical citation

Whiteside, J. E., & Whitesides, L. D. (2026). Institutional trust as a strategic asset: Developing the Institutional Trust Index (ITI) for public and land-grant universities (Convergent University Research Series, Institutional Working Paper No. CU-WP-002, Version 1.1). IAM of America Policy Center. https://repository.anointededu.com/record/CU-WP-002/v1.1/

Dr. Louis D. Whitesides presenting on research possibilities in the age of artificial intelligence

Research Leadership in Practice

Connecting institutional research capacity with emerging technology

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Peer-Reviewed Scholarship

Published article & Google Scholar citation matrix

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11Published article records currently governed

5Core articles already carried in the public executive CV

LiveScholar citation counts remain profile-governed

Year	Article	Journal	Volume / pages	Role	Verification	Identifier	Scholar citations
2022	The political economy of maximum residue limits: A long-term health perspective	Journal of Agricultural Economics	73(3), 709–719	Co-author	Verified published	DOI / record	Verify live
2020	A state-level analysis of the impact of a U.S.–EU harmonization of food safety standards on U.S. exports of fruits and vegetables	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	42(4), 856–869	Co-author	Verified published	Published article	Verify live
2017	The Impacts of Regional Free Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Volatility on World Vegetables and Fruit Trade Flows	International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics	5(4)	Co-author	Published; live-site bibliographic record	ISSN 2147-8988 / E-ISSN 2149-3766	Verify live
2017	Impact of Capital Investment, Export, and Education on Growth of Gross State Product: ARDL Bound Testing, Dynamic OLS and GMM Approach	Journal of Academy Business and Economics	17(3), 51–57	Co-author	Published; live-site bibliographic record	Published article	Verify live
2015	Trade Creation and Diversion Effects and Exchange Rate Volatility in the Global Meat Trade	Journal of Economic Integration	30(2), 240–268	Co-author	Verified published	Published article	Verify live
2015	Glycoxidative Modification of Adenosine in Relation to Diabetes and Obesity: Detection of Carboxymethyl-Adenosine (CMAd) in Biological Sample	American Laboratory	August 2015	Co-author	Live-site bibliographic record	Published article	Verify live
2014	Thermogravimetric and Kinetics of Thermal Degradation of Powdered Laboratory Examination Gloves: 1. Analysis of Thermal Scan Traces from 310–455°C	British Journal of Applied Science & Technology	4(34), 4731–4750	Co-author	Verified published	Publisher record	Verify live
2014	Waste Plastics: Pyrolysis of Powdered and Powder-Free Laboratory Examination Waste Gloves	British Journal of Applied Science & Technology	4(6), 967–1019	Co-author	Verified published	Published article	Verify live
2013	The intertemporal stability of the US money demand function: New evidence from switching regressions	Applied Economics Letters	20(6), 581–586	Co-author	Verified published	DOI / record	Verify live
2013	Pyrolysis of Household Plastic Wastes	British Journal of Applied Science & Technology	3(3), 417–439	Co-author	Verified published	DOI / record	Verify live
2012	Trade, the Environment, and Impacts on State Agricultural Exports	Journal of Management Policy and Practice	13(4), 11–20	Co-author	Verified published	Published article	Verify live

Reconciliation rule. Conference papers, invited presentations, working papers, and manuscripts marked “submitted,” “under editorial review,” or “under peer review” on the legacy publication page are not counted here as published peer-reviewed articles. Apparent title variants are not double-counted unless a separate bibliographic record establishes a distinct publication.