Senior Faculty Fellow Dan Tichenor

Daniel J. Tichenor is Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. He has published extensively on immigration, national identity, the American presidency, civil liberties, interest groups, social movements, political parties, and public policy.

At the Wayne Morse Center, Tichenor organizes a program on Politics and Policy to encourage discussion and scholarship on key public policy issues. He hosts visiting distinguished speakers and convenes interdisciplinary faculty for a colloquia series on critical issues in American politics, public policy and current affairs.

He has been a Faculty Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, Abba P. Schwartz Fellow in Immigration and Refugee Policy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Research Scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, a visiting scholar at Leipzig University, and a faculty associate at Princeton's Center for Migration and Development and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

His book, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press), won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy. He also received the Jack Walker Prize and the Mary Parker Follett Award for journal publications on interest groups, social movements, and American political development, the Parties and Political Organization Section’s Emerging Scholar Award, and awards for his teaching and mentorship. He is the editor of A History of the U.S. Political System, a three volume set examining the development of American political thought, institutions, behavior, and public policy. His forthcoming works include Faustian Bargains: The Origins and Development of America’s Illegal Immigration Dilemma (University of Michigan Press) and The Oxford Handbook on International Migration (Oxford University Press).He also has written essays for popular journals like The Nation and The Utne Reader, regularly gives public lectures, and has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on American immigration policy and politics. He recently directed the 2009 Oregon Council for the Humanities’ Teacher Institute titled, “The Unfinished Nation: Immigration and American Life.”

Some recent articles and essays include:
“Democracy’s Wartime Deficits: The U.S. Presidency, Prerogative Power, and Democratic Liberties,” in Simeon and Lenart, eds., Imperfect Democracy (Harvard, forthcoming).

“An Uneasy Nation of Immigrants: The Political Perils and Opportunities of Reform,” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (Fall, 2009).

“A Movement Wrestling: Organized Labor’s Enduring Struggle over Immigration,” Studies in American Political Development (Spring, 2009).
“The Presidency and Interest Groups: Allies, Adversaries, and Policy Leadership,” in Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System (CQ Press, 2009).

“Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (Summer, 2008).
“Insurgency Campaigns and the Quest for Popular Democracy,” Polity (Spring, 2008).

“Immigrants, Markets, and Rights: The U.S. as an Emerging Migration State,” Journal of Law and Policy (Winter, 2008), reprinted in the 2009 Immigration and Nationality Law Review.