During 2025-26, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will support two Graduate Research Fellows with awards of $5000 each. The awards are intended to support student research and writing related to the Center’s mission. One award may be used to support graduate research on Senator Morse as part of the Wayne Morse Monograph series.

To be considered, applicants must be current University of Oregon students pursuing a master's degree or PhD, have obtained approval of their thesis or dissertation prospectus from their committee, and plan to remain enrolled at UO during the entire fellowship year. Graduate students from all disciplines, including the arts, are encouraged to apply.

The application deadline for the 2025-26 academic year has been delayed until the beginning of the Spring 2025 term. Please check back here soon for an exact date as well as detailed application information and guidelines.

2024-25

Troy Brundidge

Department of Geography

“Fix the cops: Qualified Immunity and State-Federal Conflict”

Mary Follo

Department of Political Science

"Progressive Policy, Regressive Outcome: The Oregon Case in State Preemption of Housing Policy”

Haifa Souilmi

Department of Political Science

“Unmaking Democracy: Civil Society, Media, and Democratic Backsliding in Tunisia and Hungary”

2023-24

Sophia Ford

Department of Geography

“Memory, Whiteness, and Opposition to National Heritage Areas”

David Purucker

Department of Sociology

"Return of the Mass Party? The Democratic Socialists of America and the Question of Socialist Party Formation”

Keya Saxena

School of Journalism and Communication

"Stand-up Comedy for Social Change in India"

 

Past Graduate Research Fellows