Graduate Research Fellows

Each year the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics supports three Graduate Research Fellows. Starting in 2024-25 the amount of each award will be $4000.

The application deadline for the 2024-25 academic year was January 12, 2024. Application information for 2025-26 will be available in Fall 2024.

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