Each year the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics hosts one UO faculty member as a Resident Scholar. Resident Scholars work with the Wayne Morse Center Faculty Codirector and Senior Scholar to conduct research or other professional activities that contribute to the scholar’s own work and the Wayne Morse Center’s programs. The Resident Scholar program is open to tenured and tenure-track faculty at the UO. Resident Scholars receive a stipend of $15,000 that can be used in a number of ways, depending on the desires of the Resident Scholar and his or her department or school.

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.

View publications related to past Resident Scholars' research

Defending Democracy 

2024-25

Erica Bornstein

Department of Anthropology

“Nonprofit Lives: Navigating Democracy through the Nonprofit Form in Global Perspective"

Joel Sati

School of Law

“Streamline: Illegality, Exception, and the Enemy Criminal Law”

 

2023-24

Renee Irvin

School of Planning, Public Policy and Management

"Identifying Dark Money Organizations Funding Political Activity in the United States"

Jennifer O'Neal

Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies

"Fighting for Native American Sovereignty through Global Indigenous Movements”

 

Making Work Work (2021-23)
Maria Fernanda Escallón
Claire Herbert
Annelise Heinz

Science, Policy and the Public (2019-21)
Leah Lowthorp
Arafaat Valiani
Krista McGuire
Leigh Johnson

Borders, Migration and Belonging (2017-19)
Laura Pulido
Julie Weise
Angela Joya
Erin Beck

The Future of Public Education (2015-17)
Charise Cheney
Michael Musheno
Erik Girvan
Jerry Rosiek 

Media and Democracy (2013-15)
Carrie Leonetti
Gabriela Martinez
Colin Koopman
Eric Priest

Capitalism and the Common Good (2011-13)
Stuart Chinn
Joseph Lowndes
Michael Fakhri
Katie Meehan

Climate Ethics and Climate Equity (2009-2011)
Richard Hildreth
Allison Carruth
Derrick Hindery
Adell Amos
Ted Toadvine

Democracy and Citizenship (2007-09)
Daniel HoSang
Michelle McKinley
Garrett Epps
Gordon Lafer

Indigenous Peoples: National Policy and International Human Rights (2005-07)
Mary Wood
Rennard Strickland
Brian Klopotek

The Changing Geopolitical Order (2003-05)
Ibrahim Gassama
Lynn Fujiwara
Keith Aoki
Lise Nelson

Race, Class and the Criminal Justice System (2001-03)
Merle Weiner