Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Pino, N. W., & Clement, M. T. (n.d.). Crime, Criminal Legal Reform, and Foreign Policy in Trinidad and Tobago. In Extraterritorial Crime Control: Governing, Positioning, Resisting. Routledge.
- Clement, M. T. (2026). In Texas, building roads leads to private profit and traffic, at the expense of local budgets (Vol. United States Politics and Policy). London School of Economics. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2026/09/07/texas-roads-private-profit-traffic/
- Leon-Corwin, M., Clement, M. T., & Smith, C. L. (2020). Are Global Neighborhoods in Houston Less Polluted? A Spatial Analysis of 21st Century Urban Demographics. Human Ecology Review, 26(1), 117–139.
- Clement, M. T., Pino, N. W., Dede-Bamfo, N., & DeWaard, J. (2026). Growth, Density, and Property Crime: A Longitudinal County-Level Study in the USA, 2001-2007. The Social Science Journal, 63(2), 890–905.
- Clement, M. T. (2026). Infrastructure-Led Development: The Reciprocal Asymmetry of the Urban Growth Machine. Socius, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231261438909
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professors for 2021, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2017
- Award / Honor Recipient: Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Environment & Technology. 2013
- Award / Honor Recipient: Wasby-Johnson Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon. 2013
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Student Publication Award, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon. 2011

Featured service activities
- Editorial Review Board Member
Social Currents
- Member
Research Enhancement Program
- Other
Samuel Van Vleet, Faculty Mentor, Department of Sociology
- Member
COLA Graduate Scholarship Committee
- Member
Graduate Steering Committee, Department of Sociology
- Reviewer / Referee
The Annals of Regional Science
