From a contentious primary season to an even more heated general match-up, the 2016 U.S. presidential election has continued to defy conventional political wisdom. Hunter College Professor of Political Science and Roosevelt… 
The Complex Realities of the ‘Brexit’ Vote The United Kingdom’s decision last month to leave the European Union – commonly known as ‘Brexit’ – stunned the world. Brought to a…
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Manu Bhagavan (Professor of history and human rights) writes: “The British people have spoken. And the old European Union and the particular international order of which it…
On June 22, 2016, Faculty Associate Manu Bhagavan was asked to submit an opinion to the New York Times’ discussion of Indian politics. The text of Bhagavan’s opinion piece is…
“RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope“ was recently screened at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) with filmmaker Larry Shore on hand to discuss the film….
Faculty Associate and Hunter College Professor Manu Bhagavan (History and Human Rights) recently wrote an OpEd for Quartz that analyzes the rise of global authoritarianism: “The World War II generation faced…
Faculty Associate Donna Haverty-Stacke (History) has a new book out this January: Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR (NYU Press, 2016). Based on newly…
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College is pleased to announce that Professor Sanford Schram, a Roosevelt House Faculty Associate who teaches in the Political Science department and Public…
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, edited by Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti, Tony Weis and Wendy Wolford…
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate and Assistant Professor Jennifer Samson (Special Education) has a recent publication in Teacher’s College Record using a national dataset to analyze the disparity in teacher characteristics…
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