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(2008-09) Theme: Democracy and Citizenship in the 21st Century
2008-09 Year Events
The Wayne Morse Center continues
its examination of the theme “Democracy and Citizenship
in the 21st Century” during academic year
2008-09. During
2008-09 the inquiry will focus on current issues
of voting and participation in the United States,
immigration, and broader conceptions
of citizenship.
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Theme Overview (2007-09)
Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics:
Mark
Graber (2008-09) will occupy the Wayne Morse
Chair of Law and Politics. He will be in residence
at the School of Law during early fall, 2008, focusing
on polarization and the courts.
Senior Faculty Fellow:
Dan Tichenor
(2008-09) will
be the first ongoing Faculty Fellow at the Morse Center.
He joins the UO Department of Political Science in
2008 and will initiate a program within the Morse Center
on “Civic Engagement and
Public Policy.”
Resident Scholars:
Michelle McKinley (2008-09)
Daniel HoSang (2008-09)
Distinguished Speaker:
Lani Guinier (2008-09) invited
Upcoming Events:
2008-09 Calendar
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Theme Overview
During academic years 2007-08 and 2008-09, the Wayne
Morse Center will explore aspects of the changing conception
of citizenship and the democratic process in the United States
and other countries. The Center's inquiry will examine evolving
theories of democracy and citizenship, from constitutional
law to voting rights. It seeks to examine the underlying features
and mechanisms of U.S. democracy, the debate over immigration
and citizenship, citizen engagement, and the law of democracy.
During 2007-08 the inquiry will delve into international topics
such as global citizenship, U.S. attempts to build and transplant “democracy” and
the role of international social movements in building democratic
institutions. During 2008-09 the focus shifts to current issues
of politics and participation in the United States, immigration
and broader conceptions of citizenship.
Wayne Morse was a fierce defender of democratic principles and institutions,
and he argued that economic democracy and political democracy are closely linked.
He believed in the observance of international law as a means to peace, self-determination
for others, and non-aggression. He argued for strict constitutional adherence
to roles of the three branches of government to check executive power and ensure
Congressional participation in foreign policy matters. He also believed in the
efficacy of citizen participation in democracy and trusted people to constructively
participate as long as they had access to “the truth.” Finally, Wayne Morse was
generally skeptical of U.S. efforts to create democracies abroad and criticized
policies that supported authoritarian and undemocratic regimes. Morse was chair
of the Latin American Affairs subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
during the 1950s and 1960s, and he became increasingly critical of U.S. activities
in Latin America.
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Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics:
Mark Graber 2008-09
 Mark
Graber, Professor of Law and Government
University of Maryland School of Law
Graber is a graduate of Columbia Law School and
earned a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Yale. Professor Graber is recognized as one
of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics.
He is the author of Rethinking Abortion (Princeton University Press)
and Transforming Free Speech (University of California Press). His
most recent book is Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil.
Graber will be in residence at the UO School of Law in September
and early October, 2008, where he will teach a class on Judicial
Review and Democracy. Graber will give a public address on “Polarization
and the Courts”
on October 2, 2008.
The highlight of Graber's visit will be a “West Coast
Constitutional Law Schmooze” on September 12 and
13, 2008 at the Knight Law Center. The “schmooze” is an unstructured
conference on a general topic in constitutional law that attracts
scholars in the law and social sciences. The topic for the schmooze
will be “Polarization and the
Constitution.” Discussion
topics may include the definition of polarization, political
theories of democracy and assumptions about majoritarian or polarized
processes, and the role of the courts when the political parties
are polarized.
Read about the most recent schmooze.
View Graber's
curriculum vitae (128K PDF).
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Senior Faculty Fellow
Dan
Tichenor, 2008-09 Political Science
Dan Tichenor will join the UO Department of Political
Science in Fall, 2008 as a Knight Professor.  He will
be the first Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center
for Law and Politics, an ongoing affiliation linking
the center with the Department of Political Science.
Tichenor is currently an Associate Professor of Political
Science and a Research Professor at the Eagleton Institute
of Politics at Rutgers University. His research interests
include executive and legislative politics, social movements,
interest groups, immigration and citizenship, public
policy, and history and politics.
Tichenor will initiate an ongoing program at the Wayne
Morse Center called “Civic Engagement and Public
Policy.” He
will draw on his experience at the Eagleton Institute
to convene interdisciplinary faculty groups to facilitate
public policy research and discussion.
View Dan Tichenor's curriculum vitae (104K PDF).
Resident Scholars
The Wayne Morse Center supports two UO faculty members
as Resident Scholars, one from the School of Law and
a second from another discipline. Resident Scholars receive
stipends of $10,000 plus OPE for the law scholar and
$8,000 plus OPE for the other scholar (estimated to provide
release time for one semester at the School of Law and
one quarter for other scholars).
The Morse Center is pleased to announce that the Resident
Scholars for 2008-09 are Michelle McKinley and Daniel HoSang.
Michelle McKinley
Assistant Professor of Law
Michelle will continue her groundbreaking research on race, gender and cultural citizenship as a Wayne Morse Resident Scholar during 2008-09. Her project is entitled Bringing in Outsiders: Cultural Citizenship in Refugee and Asylum Law. She critically examines 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.
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. She is currently working on a research project on disenfranchised lower-caste and enslaved women in the colonial legal system in Peru.
Daniel HoSang
Assistant Professor
Political Science and Ethnic Studies
The Wayne Morse Center is honored to welcome a remarkable young scholar, Dan HoSang, as a Resident Scholar for 2008-09. His project, Race, Direct Democracy and the Future of Civil Rights, he 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 he is completing a book on the subject entitled Racial Proposition: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California.
As Resident Scholar, he will begin to turn his lens to Oregon and the northwest, seeking to trace the origin and development of the current “colorblind consensus” on race. Dr. HoSang earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2007. He has published several articles on race and American political development, political engagement of youth, and Asian Americans in the political process. HoSang is a public intellectual and activist with numerous community organizations.
Project Grants
The Wayne Morse Center grants awards up to $10,000 to
faculty, students, and qualified community groups to
support new classes, symposia, exhibits, or other events
related to the current theme. View the current 2008-09 Project Grant Award Recepients.
OTHER PROGRAMS PLANNED FOR 2008-09
Wayne Morse Center Symposium on
"Politics, Participation
and Dissent Following the 2008 Elections"
In the winter quarter of 2009, the Wayne Morse Center
will convene a symposium on the state of national politics,
participation and dissent in the wake of the Bush administration
and the 2008 elections. Participants will include invited
speakers, UO faculty, and community advocates. Potential
topic areas include:
- Security, Dissent and Civil Liberties
- Inequality and Democracy
- Voting and Participation
- Executive Power and the American Presidency
- Immigration Policy and Politics
- New Forms of Political Engagement and Activism
- A People's Agenda for the New Administration and
Congress
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