Applications are now being accepted for academic year 2009-10.
Applications are due by noon on Thursday, January 8, 2009.
The Resident Scholar program for 2010-11 will also be focused
on the Climate Ethics and Climate Equity theme.
There are (3) three documents you will need to review and/or download:
1. 2009-10 Application Instructions (this page)
2. 2009-10 Application Checklist
3. 2009-10 Application Cover Sheet
Each year the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics hosts two UO faculty members as Resident Scholars, one from the School of Law and one from another UO department in an appropriate discipline related to the current Wayne Morse Center theme. Each Resident Scholar receives a stipend designed to allow the scholar to conduct research for one term or semester. The scholar from the School of Law will receive a stipend of $10,000 plus up to 30% for other personnel expenses (OPE), the scholar from any UO department other than law will receive $8,000 plus OPE up to 30%. Resident Scholars work collaboratively with the Wayne Morse Center director and senior faculty fellow to conduct research or undertake other professional activities that contribute to the scholar’s own work and the Wayne Morse Center’s theme of inquiry.
Objectives: The objectives of the Resident Scholar program are to stimulate and support research and programming related to the Wayne Morse Center theme of inquiry, enhance UO faculty participation in Wayne Morse Center activities, and deepen the intellectual and academic environment of the Wayne Morse Center.
Wayne Morse Center Theme and Activities
for 2009-2011: The Wayne Morse Center theme for the two academic years 2009-2011 is Climate Ethics and Climate Equity. The Wayne Morse Center themes are selected to advance interdisciplinary research and teaching at the UO and engage the broader public on critical issues. An interdisciplinary faculty committee provides guidance on the theme.
The inquiry into Climate Ethics and Climate Equity is intended to build on the broad discussion underway on climate change by focusing on its ethical dimensions and the myriad equity issues that local, regional, national and international communities will face. During the two-year inquiry, we aim to discuss the overarching ethical issues involved with climate change as well as solutions that focus on equity, both domestically and internationally.
Each year one or more scholars and activists will occupy the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. Dale Jamieson, a philosopher and Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, will be in residence at the UO during fall term 2009. He is working on a book entitled The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change, arguing that approaching climate change in political and moral terms will help contribute to solutions but will require us to revise some central concepts related to moral responsibility and global justice.
Law scholar Maxine Burkett has been invited to visit the School of Law during Fall 2010. She is in transition from the University of Colorado Law School to the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law. At UH she will also be the inaugural director of the Island Resiliency and Climate Policy Center. Currently, her work is in “Climate Justice,” writing on the disparate impact of climate change on poor and of-color communities and the United States’ moral and legal obligation to these communities, nationally and internationally.
International activist and physicist Dr.
Vandana Shiva will make a short
visit to the UO during winter term 2011. She
has contributed scientifically and as an activist
on issues of agriculture and food, bio ethics,
globalization and the world-wide impacts of climate
change. She recently released Soil Not Oil: Environmental
Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.
The Wayne Morse Center will convene events on key topics and invites proposals for research, new classes and projects through the Resident Scholar, Dissertation Fellowship and Project Grant programs.
Our priority focus topics within the broad theme include:
- Our ethical responsibility to nature and nonhuman species and the role of science in the ethical discussion about climate change;
- Race and socioeconomic class equity and “green
jobs”
- Collective and individual solutions from an equity perspective;
- Intergenerational equity and acting for future generations;
- International equity issues and perspectives from other countries;
- Legal forums and policies that will be needed to deal with ethical and equity issues of climate change and its impacts;
- Traditional knowledge, preserving cultures, indigenous approaches to environmental stewardship, and issues of land equity;
- Developing and communicating a public philosophy of climate change, including moral and religious sources.
Wayne Morse Resident Scholar applicants can propose scholarly activities that complement or supplement the focus topics described above. The theme of inquiry is broad and is intended to include topics and issues from many academic disciplines.
Eligibility and Stipend: The Resident Scholar program is open to tenured and tenure-track faculty at the UO. Faculty must be employed by the UO during the term of the scholarship. Faculty members on sabbatical leave are eligible, but they must be in Eugene and interact with the Wayne Morse Center. The stipend is for the fiscal year 2009-10. The stipend will be paid directly to the Resident Scholar’s department and can be used to buy out teaching, for summer support, or as a salary stipend, depending on the desires of the Resident Scholar and his or her department or school.
Duties and Conditions:
1. Resident Scholars will undertake research or other professional activities such as completing a paper suitable for publication, editing papers for a book, and/or organizing a public symposium under the auspices of the Wayne Morse Center.
2. The project must be related to the relevant Wayne Morse Center theme and interdisciplinary in nature and interest.
3. Resident Scholars will participate
in the intellectual life of the Wayne Morse Center,
including assisting with framing the theme of inquiry,
interacting with Wayne Morse Chair holders, selecting
future Resident Scholars, and advising the director
on symposia and events.
4. Wayne Morse Fellows (law students) may be assigned to assist Resident Scholars with research and other activities on a minimal basis. For non-law scholars, the Wayne Morse Center may be able to provide office space and other support.
5. Resident Scholars will present at least one public lecture or seminar during the 2009-10 academic year.
6. Resident Scholars will represent the Wayne Morse Center at university and public events as appropriate and feasible.
7. Resident Scholars will acknowledge the Wayne Morse Center in all publications and events related to the research and activity supported by the Center and will collaborate with the Center to publish and disseminate their work.
Selection Process: The Selection
Committee will be interdisciplinary and drawn from
the following positions and committees: the Wayne
Morse Center Director, Dean of the School of Law
or designee, Director of the Labor Education and
Research Center or designee, the Wayne Morse Center
Advisory Board, the Wayne Morse Center’s Climate
Ethics; Climate Equity Planning Committee, and current
Resident Scholars.
Application Process: Applications must be written in language accessible to readers from several disciplines. The complete application should include the following parts:
The complete application must include the
following parts:
- Completed application cover
sheet including abstract.
(available for download at www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/resscholars.html)
- Narrative Description not to exceed 1500
words.
The Narrative Description (Part 2) should
include the following points:
- Conception and Definition of the Project:
An explanation of the basic ideas, problems
or questions to be addressed, and the form
of the project (such as book, article, or
symposium).
- Significance of the Project: Relationship
to your previous and future research, and the
relationship of the project to work of other
scholars.
- Plan of work and expected results: Candidates
should be as precise as possible about the
plan of work and objectives for the term of
the Scholarship year. Is the work already in
progress? What specifically will be accomplished?
How will the results be disseminated?
- Contribution to the Wayne Morse Center: How
your work relates to other Center activities
and how you propose to interact with the Wayne
Morse Center. The Wayne Morse Center will make
available funds for a small symposium or workshop
if desired by the Resident Scholar.
- Bibliography or Citation List,
as appropriate, not to exceed one page
- Curriculum Vitae describing
your qualifications, not to exceed two pages
Application submission: Mail or deliver the original and six (6) collated and stapled copies of the complete application packet to:
The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
220 Knight Law Center
1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, 97403
Double-sided copies are encouraged.
Deadline: Applications are due by noon on Thursday, January 8, 2009
Please direct questions to Margaret Hallock, Wayne
Morse Center Director, (541) 346-3699 or hallock@uoregon.edu.
For general information about the Wayne Morse Center,
visit www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu.
