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Daniel HoSang (2008-09)
Assistant Professor
Political Science and Ethnic Studies

Dan Hosang's project, Race, Direct Democracy and the Future of Civil Rights, explores the way that ballot initiatives related to race, such as affirmative action and immigration policy, shape the terrain of state and national politics. His award-winning dissertation focused on California electoral initiatives, and during his residency he completed a book on the subject entitled Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press, 2010).

As Resident Scholar, he organized a major symposium on Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, exploring recent scholarship on racial formation theory in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking book by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. The symposium gathered leading scholars and engaged with issues of race and politics in the U.S. He also chaired and facilitated a Morse Center-sponsored panel, “Mobilizing New Constituencies: The 2008 Elections” profiling the work of several community-based organizations during the 2008 presidential elections.

HoSang also initiated a new research and evaluation project in conjunction with the Portland-based Western States Center’s VOTE project, a recipient of a Morse Center Project Grant in 2009. The VOTE project builds the capacity of non-profit organizations in the region to participate in electoral politics. HoSang’s collaborative research project included a randomized experiment evaluating the impact of a voter turnout initiative of the Statewide Poverty Action Network in Seattle and a documentation project on a ballot measure campaign conducted by the Partnership for Safety and Justice in Portland.

Michelle McKinley (2008-09)
Assistant Professor of Law

Michellle McKinley continued her groundbreaking research on race, gender and cultural citizenship as a Wayne Morse Resident Scholar during 2008-09. Her project was entitled Bringing in Outsiders: Cultural Citizenship in Refugee and Asylum Law. She critically examined a new generation of refugee litigation focused on gender and culture, using the legal ambivalence of the refugee to explore critical aspects of our debate on citizenship. Her paper Cultural Culprits (pdf) was published in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice in fall 2009.

McKinley organized a symposium on Contested Citizenships that was held May 7 and 8, 2009. Senior scholars discussed  exciting new works by junior faculty and Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellows. Leti Volpp, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, gave the keynote address, with comments by Linda Bosniak from Rutgers University. Her paper Conviviality and Cosmopolitanship was recently published in Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, 5: 55-87 (2009).

Professor McKinley joined the UO law faculty in 2007. She attended Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. McKinley has been active internationally, serving as the Managing Director of Cultural Survival, an advocacy and research organization dedicated to indigenous peoples.

In 2009, McKinley was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book manuscript Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1700. She will use the fellowship in 2010 and 2011.

Recent papers by Michelle McKinley:

Cultural Culprits
Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice
Volume 24, Issue 2
Fall 2009