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Margaret Hallock, Director

Margaret Hallock is a Ph.D economist who has been active in economic and labor policy in Oregon since 1974. She is the founding director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and has been coordinating the Wayne Morse Chair since 1988 when she was director of the UO's Labor Education and Research Center. She also was a member of the faculty in the department of economics at the UO.

Dr. Hallock has extensive experience in labor relations and state policy matters. She was the chief economist for the Oregon Public Employees Union, Service Employees International Union 503. She was appointed to chair the state's Pay Equity Task Force and led the successful pay equity campaign for state employees in the 1980s.

Hallock served as senior policy advisor to Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski for 2003-04 and has been a member of numerous boards and commissions. She has published papers on tax reform, labor unions, women and the economy, and workforce education and training.

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1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
Phone: (541) 346-3949
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Dan Tichenor, Senior Faculty Fellow

Dan Tichenor is the first Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center. He is also the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science at the UO Department of Political Science. Tichenor is a scholar of American political thought and history and has published extensively on immigration policy and politics: the American presidency; public policy; organized interests,social movements, and inequality in the U.S.; and American political thought and political history more generally. His book, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America, won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy. He has also received the Jack Walker Prize and the Mary Parker Follett Award for his research on interest groups, social movements, and American political development, in addition to numerous awards for his teaching and mentorship.

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1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
(541) 346-3700
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Rebecca Flynn, Administrator

Rebecca Flynn joined the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics in 2011.

Rebecca has deep experience in both law and politics, having been an organizer and staff member for numerous grassroots organizations, most recently Basic Rights Oregon and previously the ACLU, the Human Rights Campaign, Green Corps and the Endangered Species Coalition.

Rebecca has a JD from Harvard Law School (2003) where she was editor of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After law school she clerked for Justice Robert D. (Skip) Durham at the Oregon Supreme Court and worked in the Oregon Department of Justice as general counsel to state natural resources agencies.



220B Knight Law Center
1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
(541) 346-3717
astillie@uoregon.edu


Abbie Stillie, Communications Coordinator

Abbie Stillie joined the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics in the summer of 2009. She has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alaska and an M.S. in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon. Abbie was a newspaper reporter in Fairbanks, Alaska, and she has also worked as a graphic designer and editor.








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