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New York Times: “Before That Gilded Tower, Another President-Elect Had a Manhattan Home Base”
Faculty Journal: New and Renewed Visions of Environmental Justice
On View: Reimagining the Four Freedoms: Rockwell, Roosevelt, & The Four Freedoms
Roosevelt House’s Public Policy students visit Washington D.C. for a day of meetings at the State Department, Representative Maloney’s office, The Brookings Institution and a little sightseeing in between...
Human Rights Program students meet with Dr. Kyung-wah Kang, ASG and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at Roosevelt House
Visit Roosevelt House: Historic Home of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Roosevelt in New York City

Undergraduate Programs

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…
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…
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
Hunter College Professor Manu Bhagavan Featured in Raisina Files 2018
Joseph P. Viteritti – The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio’s Quest to Save the Soul of New York
Issues of Equity and Justice in Education Policy
Public Programs

Upcoming Programs

Currently, there are no upcoming events scheduled. Here is a selection of recent events:
Recent Programs
June 20, 2018 | Stanley Litow – The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward
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May 29, 2018 | David Margolick – The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
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May 21, 2018 | Craig L. Symonds – World War II at Sea: A Global History
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May 17, 2018 | Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir
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May 15, 2018 | Patricia O’Toole – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
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May 14, 2018 | Safiya Noble: Confronting Algorithms of Oppression
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May 8, 2018 | From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s House
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May 7, 2018 | South Asian Americans in Politics: Off of the Sidelines and Into the Game
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May 4, 2018 | An Evening of Arts and Activism to End Child Sex Trafficking
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April 30, 2018 | 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
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April 27, 2018 | Moral Transformation and War Conference
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April 26, 2018 | Campus ERA Day 2018 – Did you know that women are not guaranteed equality under the constitution?
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April 18, 2018 | Reimagining the Good Life: Sustainability Ethics in Theory and Practice
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April 11, 2018 | Girls Doing Activism – An Interactive Panel
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April 10, 2018 | Benjamin Carter Hett – The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
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April 9, 2018 | Panel Discussion on Changes to New York State’s Surrogacy Law
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March 29, 2018 | David B. Woolner – The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
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March 28, 2018 | The Return of Cold War Nuclear Fears
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March 20, 2018 | Engaging #MeToo: Marginalized Voices in the Campaign to End Sexual Harassment and Violence
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March 20, 2018 | Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy

Latest News from Roosevelt House

Roosevelt House to Open New Exhibition: Reimagining The Four Freedoms, A Traveling Show From The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

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Roosevelt House History

Roosevelt House Faculty Forum
Why Trump Won: Outgroup Hostility as the New Ethnocentrism
- By: Sanford F. Schram Richard Fording
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election has understandably sparked considerable debate among political analysts regarding the reason that Trump won. In this paper, we present analyses of data from the American National Election Study (ANES) to show that Trump’s victory was most significantly affected by ...
Why Social Justice Today Means Environmental Justice
- By: Omar Dahbour
This post appeared as part of a Roosevelt House Faculty Journal series on the New and Renewed Visions of Environmental Justice.

Environmental justice in the USA, though not necessarily elsewhere, has generally been characterized in two ways. First, it has been taken to be a “special issue” pertaining to the effects of ...
Roosevelt House Student Forum
Consumer Data Privacy Rights: The Time is NOW
- By: Dennis Dontsov
Curbing New York City’s Impending Garbage Crisis
- By: Cristopher Garcia
Russian Concussion
- By: Alexandre A. Zelinski

Special Projects

Politics, Policy, and the Arts

Youth, Jobs and the Future: Responses to Youth Unemployment
History

Roosevelt House Announces Digital Exhibit “Women Take the Lead”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: HUNTER COLLEGE CONTACT: Roosevelt House Digital Media and Programs, 212-396-7947 / media@roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu Roosevelt House Announces Online, Digital Exhibit of Women Take the Lead: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton…
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
Roosevelt House — the former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and now owned by Hunter College — offers visitors a chance to get closer to a…

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