Dan Tichenor

Dan Tichenor is the first Senior Faculty Fellow at the
Wayne Morse Center. He is also the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science at the UO Department of Political Science. Tichenor is a scholar of American
political thought and history and has published extensively on immigration policy and politics: the American presidency; public policy; organized interests, social movements, and inequality in the U.S.; and American political thought and political history more generally. His book, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America, won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy. He has also received the Jack Walker Prize and the Mary Parker Follett Award for his research on interest groups, social movements, and American political development, in addition to numerous awards for his teaching and mentorship. 
 
Tichenor has been a Faculty Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, Abba P. Schwartz Fellow in Immigration and Refugee Policy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Research Scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, a visiting scholar at Leipzig University. 

He is currently a faculty associate at Princeton's Center for Migration and Development and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is completing a book on presidential power, civil liberties, and democracy in times of crisis (Princeton University Press) and an edited volume on international migration (Oxford University Press). He also writes and gives talks regularly for popular audiences, and has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration policy and history. 

At the Wayne Morse Center, Tichenor organizes a program on Politics and Policy to encourage discussion and scholarship on key public policy issues. He will host visiting distinguished speakers and convene interdisciplinary faculty for a colloquia series on critical issues in American politics, public policy, and current affairs.

View his curriculum vitae (104K PDF). 

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