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New York Times: “Before That Gilded Tower, Another President-Elect Had a Manhattan Home Base”
View Online — A Lens on FDR’s New Deal: Photographs by Arthur Rothstein, 1935-1945
The Roosevelt House COVID-19 Forum
Unpacking the Tensions Between Minority Communities & Law Enforcement in the United States
Faculty Journal — The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19
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.
Roosevelt House celebrates the accomplishments of our Public Policy and JFEW Students
Speaking of Justice: Conversations on Race, Racism, and Reform
Visit Roosevelt House: Historic Home of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Roosevelt in New York City
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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
Roosevelt House Advisory Board Member Stanley Litow in Barron’s “The Private Sector Must Lead on Diversity”
RH Faculty Associates Jonathan Rosenberg and Manu Bhagavan author Op-Ed in CNN “1918 + 1929 + 1968 = 2020”
Charles Kaiser, Acting Director of the The LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College, Authors Article “LGBT activist Larry Kramer spent his life upending prejudice” in NBC News Think
Public Programs

Upcoming Programs

Currently, there are no upcoming events scheduled. Here is a selection of recent events:
Recent Programs
August 10, 2020 | Jill Watts — The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Recent Programs
August 6, 2020 | Speaking of Justice — Code Switching: Style, Expression, or Survival?
Recent Programs
July 30, 2020 | Speaking of Justice — Hunter Alumni Advancing Racial Equity
Recent Programs
July 23, 2020 | Speaking of Justice — Health Care for All? Confronting the Racial Divide
Recent Programs
July 16, 2020 | Speaking of Justice — Down with Monuments and Symbols?
Recent Programs
July 14, 2020 | America Through Foreign Eyes
Recent Programs
July 9, 2020 | Speaking of Justice — Protest as a Path to Progress: Making Black Lives Matter
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July 8, 2020 | The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Recent Programs
June 17, 2020 | Hunter@Home — Remembering Larry Kramer
Recent Programs
June 10, 2020 | Remembering the AIDS Crisis in the Time of COVID-19: How Lessons from One Epidemic can Guide the Response to Another
Recent Programs
May 27, 2020 | Modeling COVID-19: Disease Burdens, Economic Activities, and Policy Outcomes
Recent Programs
May 22, 2020 | The Moral Imperative to Center Racial Equity and Justice in Education During the Pandemic
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May 8, 2020 | “The Asian Americans” — Sneak preview with Renee Tajima-Pena
Recent Programs
May 6, 2020 | Local Responses to the Pandemic: Lessons and Challenges
Recent Programs
May 1, 2020 | The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19: The Pandemic’s Role in Highlighting Entrenched Racial Inequalities in the U.S.
Recent Programs
April 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Cities, and Climate Change: Revelations, Ambitions, and Public Policy in a Pandemic World
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April 27, 2020 | Campus ERA Day 2020
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April 16, 2020 | The Reality of the Coronavirus Pandemic for the American Medical System – Online Event
Recent Programs
April 7, 2020 | Awakening in Tomorrow’s Post-Pandemic World: Economic Policy in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Latest News from Roosevelt House

Dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. 1936

Now Online — “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
The Fiscal Relief States Really Need
- By: Howard Chernick
Facing a coronavirus-induced recession, states and cities are looking at an acute fiscal crisis, with the National Governors Association requesting $500 billion in fiscal relief from the federal government.
In recessions, the federal government has a crucial responsibility to maintain the fiscal viability of states and local governments. Without additional federal revenue, states ...
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 ...
Roosevelt House Student Forum
The Global Pandemic and its Impact: Preparing for the Future, Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Issue with Profiteering During a Pandemic
- By: Anthony Edwards
Post COVID-19: The Wipeout of Asian-Owned Businesses
- By: Jiaqi Situ

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 are postponed until further notice. Roosevelt House — the former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and now owned by Hunter College — offers visitors a chance…

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