Daniel Tichenor is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Political Science and Director of the Wayne Morse Center's Program for Democratic Governance at the University of Oregon. He writes extensively about immigration policy and politics, racial and ethnic politics, social movements, political institutions, and U.S. political history. His research awards include the American Political Science Association’s Gladys Kammerer Award, Jack Walker Prize, Mary Parker Follette Award, Polity Prize, and Charles Redd Award. He has been a fellow at Princeton’s School of Policy and International Affairs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Abba Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, a research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and was named to the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015.