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New York Times: “Before That Gilded Tower, Another President-Elect Had a Manhattan Home Base”
Faculty Journal: Reconsidering the Supreme Court in Partisan America
A Lens on FDR’s New Deal: Photographs by Arthur Rothstein, 1935-1945 — On View Through April
Applications Open for the JFEW Eleanor Roosevelt Scholars Program (Deadline Extended to March 20)
Roosevelt House’s Public Policy Students’ Annual Visit to Washington, DC
Human Rights Program staff and students outside of Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C. prior to the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment on April 30, 2019.
Visit Roosevelt House: Historic Home of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Roosevelt in New York City

Undergraduate Programs

Public Policy Program
The Program in Public Policy is an 18-credit undergraduate minor open to students in all disciplines. Students also have an option to receive a Certificate in Public Policy by taking…
Human Rights Program
Hunter’s Human Rights Program aims to give students the tools they need to address human rights problems intelligently and constructively, whether as advocates, scholars, researchers or informed citizens. Via academic…
Faculty Research

Roosevelt House Faculty Associates
Hunter’s distinguished Roosevelt House Faculty Associates provide the backbone for the important work that takes place at Roosevelt House. Roosevelt House Faculty Associates develop, guide and teach in the Public Policy and Human Rights Programs.
Recent Faculty Publications
Joint article by William A. Herbert, RH Faculty Associate and Distinguished Lecturer, Sarah W. Cudahy, and John F. Wirenius “Total Eclipse of the Court? Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 in Historical, Legal and Public Policy Contexts” published in Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Distinguished Professor Virginia V. Valian Publishes “We are all complicit in harassment and abuse” in Nature
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Mimi Abramovitz Publishes “Voting Is Social Work: Voices From the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign” in Taylor & Francis Online
Public Programs

Upcoming Programs
Tue, February 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Craig Fehrman — Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and The Books They Wrote
Mon, March 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Adam Cohen — Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
Tue, March 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Adam Hochschild — Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
Fri, March 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
2020: Gender, Race, Suffrage and Citizenship will critically examine the movement that led to women receiving the right to vote in the United States

2020: Gender, Race, Suffrage, and Citizenship

Latest News from Roosevelt House

A Lens on FDR’s New Deal: Photographs by Arthur Rothstein, 1935-1945

Roosevelt House News

Faculty Associate News

Undergraduate Program News

Roosevelt House Faculty Forum
Basic Income In Canada: What’s in a Name?
- By: Sheila Regehr
In the matter of where things stand on basic income in Canada, I find that a great deal depends on how it is named and framed. By clearing away some confusion, I think there is good reason to be optimistic about the success of the movement towards a basic ...
Two Objections to Universal Basic Income
- By: Michael A. Lewis
I graduated with a PhD in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996. Shortly after, I co-founded a network of academics and activists interested in promoting discussion of the Universal Basic Income (UBI). That network was called United States Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) and still exists. When we started ...
Roosevelt House Student Forum
Reforming the Cash Bail System
- By: Olivier Plummer
Making CUNY Free Again
- By: Zachary K.
Maternal Mortality in the United States
- By: Marisa Perry

Special Projects

The Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize
Centered at Hunter’s Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, the Joan H. Community Health Prize offers $10,000 annually to both an individual and an organization in recognition of distinguished accomplishment in the…
History
The Story of Roosevelt House
The story of Roosevelt House, a double townhouse located at 47-49 East 65th Street, begins at the turn of the twentieth century…
Guided Tours

Roosevelt House Guided Tours
Tours will resume in the spring of 2020. Roosevelt House — the former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and now owned by Hunter College —…

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