Graduate Research Fellows

Since 2008, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics has supported the research and writing of more than forty UO graduate students doing work related to the Center’s mission of expanding knowledge about and understanding of significant public problems confronting Oregon, the nation, and/or the world. During academic year 2025-26, the Wayne Morse Center will support two to three Graduate Research Fellows with awards of $5000 each. 

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.

Graduate students interested in conducting research on Senator Morse as part of the Wayne Morse Monograph series will also be considered. If you are interested in this option, please email Wayne Morse Center Co-Director Daniel Tichenor at tichenor@uoregon.edu for instructions.

The application deadline for the 2025-26 academic year was April 4, 2025. 

We will post application information for academic year 2026-27 in late 2025 or winter term 2026.
 

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2025-26

Dara Craig
Department of Environmental Studies
"Co-governance on whose terms? Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first marine park and lessons for the Pacific Northwest"
Kaito Campos de Novais
Department of Anthropology
"The Politics of Art among Queer and Trans Latine Immigrants in Oregon"
AI-generated headshot of Yuxuan Gao
Department of Political Science
"Seeing Like an Entrepreneur: Exploiting Authoritarian Populism through Creative Destruction"

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”

 

Past Graduate Research Fellows