DANIEL J TICHENOR, is Associate Professor of Political Science, and a Research Professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He received his B.A. from Earlham College and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. His research interests include executive and legislative politics, social movements, interest groups, immigration and citizenship, public policy, and history and politics. He has been a Visiting Faculty Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, and the Abba P. Schwartz Fellow of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics and Polity, and he is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Migration and Development, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

He is author of Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press), which won the American Political Science Association's 2003 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 work on interest groups and social movements in American political development. He also is a recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award of APSA's Political Organizations and Parties Section. He is currently finishing two forthcoming books: Abiding Interests: Participation, Representation and the Development of the Washington Lobbying Community (Cambridge University Press) and An Uneasy Nation of Immigrants (University of Michigan Press). His next research project is focused on presidential power, civil liberties, and democracy in America during times of crisis.