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There are two (2) Fellowship programs:
one for Law Students and one for Graduate Students writing a dissertation.
Wayne Morse Law Student Fellowships:
Wayne Morse Fellowships support law students who want to follow in the tradition of Senator Wayne Morse who was also dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. Fellowships are awarded on the basis of academic merit and demonstrated interest in the principles and issues that inspired Morse including public service, fair labor practices, representative government, and civil rights. Wayne Morse Fellows receive support toward their law school tuition and participate in the activities of the Wayne Morse Center. Activities include providing assistance to visiting scholars, event planning and support, research assistance, and being a Wayne Morse Center ambassador to law and non-law students and the broader community.
Fellows are selected in a competitive process each winter for the following academic year.
Law Student Fellowship Program & Alumni
How to apply for 2009-10: Incoming Law Students
How to apply for 2009-10: Current Law Students
Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowships:
Each year, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, with the support of the Graduate School, supports two graduate students while they conduct research and write dissertations related to the Wayne Morse Center theme. Each Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellow receives a stipend of $3,000 for one academic term, in addition to a tuition waiver.
The Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship Awards for 2008-09:Camille Walsh is a Harvard Law School graduate, is pursuing a Ph.D. in history. Her dissertation, Class, Race, and Claiming the Right to Equal Education, 1874-1974, traces the legal history of modern de facto school segregation as the product of both racial and economic inequality. It explores how class and race are treated differently under the law, and how better to understand the ongoing challenge of educational equity in the law.
Veta Schlimgen is completing her Ph.D. in history in 2008-09. Her dissertation, From Insular Subjects to Colonial Aliens: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Filipino America from 1900 to 1950, is a history project that is, as she puts it, both “grand and intimate.” She analyzes a rarely-explored civil status between citizen and alien, the status of “American national” that is used for certain citizens. Veta will be the Alternate Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellow.
Jen Erickson is a Ph.D candidate in anthropology and her dissertation is titled Citizenship, the State, and Resistance: Refugees and Social Service Organizations in the Midwest United States. She asks is how social citizenship in the United States is mediated and experienced among immigrant and refugee groups. The locus of the study is Bosnian and Sudanese refugees living in Fargo, North Dakota. She examines how public and private social service agencies categorize refugees and the varied ways in which ideas about citizenship are felt, contested, and perpetuated.
Note that the Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship program for 2010-11 will focus on Climate Ethics and Climate Equity.The Wayne Morse Center will host visitors and resident scholars to examine overarching ethical issues as we confront climate change as well as solutions that focus on environmental justice and equity. Dale Jamieson, Maxine Burkett and Vandana Shiva will be occupants of the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics in 2009-2011.
The Fellowships are selected in March 2009.
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
1221 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1221
Phone: (541) 346-3700, Fax: (541) 346-1564
