APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
As an institute dedicated to applied public policy research, Roosevelt House encompasses several growing research-oriented programs and initiatives.
UPCOMING EVENTSConference on Media Economics and Public Policy
October 15-16, 2010
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, in conjunction with the Reynolds Journalism Institute, will host a workshop on the economics of media markets on October 15-16, 2010 in New York City. The conference builds on a series of economics workshops on media topics held since 2001 in the U.S. and Europe. The conference will emphasize the role of technology in shaping markets for news and information.
For more information, please visit the conference website here. FACULTY RESEARCH AND POLICY INITIATIVES The Joan H. Tisch Legacy Project Urban public health issues – from diseases such as HIV/AIDS, obesity, and diabetes to health disparities due to economic and environmental factors – are the focus of a major new multi-disciplinary initiative at Hunter College, and named to honor a hero of New York City humanitarian activism, Joan Hyman Tisch.
The Joan H. Tisch Legacy Project is made possible with a one million dollar-plus five-year grant from her children, Academy Award-winning producer and community leader Steven Tisch, philanthropist and activist Laurie M. Tisch, and Loews Corp. Co-Chairman and New York civic leader Jonathan Tisch. The grant is managed by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, a non-profit foundation committed to increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers by supporting efforts to illuminate minds, spark imagination and build community. More... Dr. John McDonough is the inaugural Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health. Dr. McDonough served until January 2010 as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He was Chief Adviser on health care reform to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and previously served as the Executive Director of Health Care For All, a Massachusetts consumer health advocacy organization. A nationally renowned expert on health care reform, Dr. McDonough teaches a graduate course on the politics and policy of health care reform, and leads an interdisciplinary faculty seminar dealing with current public health issues. Roosevelt House Faculty Seminars The Roosevelt House faculty seminars have served as a cornerstone of Hunter’s interdisciplinary public policy research initiatives. These interdisciplinary, semester-long seminars provide a unique forum for members of the Hunter faculty across a range of disciplines to share and refine their scholarly research, with the goal of producing high quality papers for publication in journals and other venues. Seminar participants discuss one paper each week that has been previously circulated to all seminar members. The author is introduced by another member who then moderates the discussion.
Fall 2010 Faculty Seminars Joan H. Tisch Faculty Seminar on Health Reform - Fall 2010 Schedule Seminar leader: Dr. John McDonough Description: This seminar began in February 2010 before the national health reform law was signed. Involved in it are 15 faculty from public health, nursing, social work, urban studies and more. The primary purpose is to help faculty understand the ACA for their research and teaching needs. In the fall of 2010, the seminar will also focus on organizing a Hunter College conference to be held on December 3 at the Roosevelt House on the "ACA, Race, and the Future of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities." The conference will be especially timely, coming one month after the crucially important November 2 2010 midterm elections. Location: Roosevelt House, 3rd floor conference room Human Rights and International Justice Faculty Seminar - Fall 2010 Schedule Seminar leader: Dr. Jonathan Fanton Description: The faculty seminar on Human Rights and International Justice will provide a venue for Hunter’s faculty to present work under way, or in progress. Among the possible topics of discussion are: how international standards and norms like the Responsibility to Protect are developed; the role of Regional Courts and Commissions; the relationship of the ICC and adhoc and hybrid tribunals to national justice systems; the role of civil society organizations in advancing human rights (including case studies). Seminar members will have the opportunity to meet with visitors involved in human rights and international justice, such as Richard Dicker, Director of International Justice at Human Rights Watch and Juan Mendez, former Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Location: Roosevelt House, 3rd floor conference room PAST EVENTS
THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION COMMISSION ON YOUTH AT RISK 2010 SUMMIT On April 15th and 16th, the American Bar Association held its Charting A Better Future For Youth: A National Summit on Effective Implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success Act at Roosevelt House. Panelists and participants discussed key provisions of the Fostering Connections Act; Challenges and successes in states that have endeavored to move forward with implementation efforts; and cost and benefit analysis and strategies for addressing fiscal challenges. Participants then met in smaller groups to discuss specific topics affecting the Foster Care system and the Fostering Connections to Success Act, including: Health and mental issues; placement and housing; Education and Employment; the Court and legal process; and youth engagement. Speakers included: Laura Farber- Chair, American Bar Association, Commission on Youth at Risk Jennifer J. Raab- President, Hunter College Hon. Judith Kaye (Ret.)- Chair, New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children, Member, American Bar Association Commission on Youth at Risk Carolyn B. Lamm- President, American Bar Association David Berns- Executive Vice President of Child and Family Services, Casey Family Programs Carmen R. Nazario- Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA)- Fostering Connections Act Sponsor Panelists included: Hon. Patricia M. Martin- Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois JooYeun Chang- Director of Public Policy, Casey Family Programs Mark Courtney- Director of Research and Development, Partners For Our Children Erwin McEwen- Director, Illinois Department of Children and Families Theresa Moy- Congressional Research Service, Domestic Social Policy Intern Moderator: Miriam Krinsky- Lecturer, UCLA School of Public Affairs; Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School and Member, American Bar Association Youth at Risk Commission Advisory Council CENTER FOR WOMEN'S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: 20 ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM
On March 6, 2010, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and the Women and Gender Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY co-hosted the Center for Women's Global Leadership 20th Anniversary Symposium. It featured prominent speakers from the global women's movement reflecting on the body, economy and movement.
To view the complete agenda, listen to podcasts and for more information about the Center for Women's Global Leadership, please click here .
INAUGURAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE- BEYOND THE NEW DEAL: PUBLIC POLICY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Friday, February 19, 2010
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street
(between Madison and Park Avenues)
Program
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcoming Remarks: Vita Rabinowitz, Provost and
Professor of Psychology
9:15-10:30 Session I - "Reflections on National Health Reform"
John McDonough, Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow
in Public Health at Roosevelt House and Senior
Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions (through January 2010)
Introduction: Kristine Gebbie, Joan Hansen Grabe Dean
of the School of Nursing
Discussant: Donna Nickitas, Professor, School of Nursing
10:45-12:00 Session II - "The Federal Role in Education: From FDR to NCLB"
Carl Kaestle, University Professor and Professor of
Education History and Public Policy Emeritus, Brown University
Introduction: Sherryl Graves, Acting Dean and Professor,
School of Education
Discussant: Joseph Viteritti, Blanche D. Blank Professor
of Public Policy and Chair, Department of Urban Affairs
and Planning
12:15-1:00 Luncheon
1:00 Greetings: Jennifer J. Raab, President
1:15-2:00 Keynote Address
"Shaded by Fear: The New Deal and its Legacies"
Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History,
Columbia University
Introduction: Donna Haverty-Stacke, Associate Professor of History
2:15-3:30 Session III - "How is Obama Doing on Human Rights?"
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Introduction: Jonathan Fanton, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Visiting Fellow, Roosevelt House and former
President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Discussant: John Wallach, Professor of Political Science
3:45-5:00 Session IV - "America's War on Immigrants"
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of
Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
and President of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science
Introduction: Nancy Foner, CUNY Distinguished Professor of
Sociology
Discussant: Lina Newton, Associate Professor of Political Science
5:00 Closing Remarks: Judith Friedlander, Acting Director of
Academic Programs, Roosevelt House and Professor of
Anthropology
5:15 Reception About the Speakers: John McDonough is Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Roosevelt House and, until January 2010, served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health Care, Education, Labor and Pensions. He was chief advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy on health care reform, and previously had been Executive Director of Health Care for All, a Massachusetts health advocacy organization and had served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. McDonough has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Heller School of Brandeis University. A nationally renowned expert on health care reform, his articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and other journals, and he has written two books, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care (2000), and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting (1997). He received a doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1996.
Carl Kaestle is University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Education, History and Public Policy at Brown University. His scholarly record on issues from literacy development in the U.S., to the evolution of urban school systems, to the federal role in school reform place him among the top education historians in the nation today. Prior to coming to Brown Professor Kaestle taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago.
At Brown, Kaestle directed the Advanced Studies Fellowship program for junior scholars whose research was aimed at advancing knowledge about federal and national strategies for school reform. The project culminated in a book (edited with Alyssa Lodewick), To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform (2007).
Kaestle has been President of the National Academy of Education, Vice-Chair of the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council, and served on boards or study groups sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the College Board, among other organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University in 1971.
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. In addition to Columbia, he has taught at the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, where he was dean of the graduate faculty. Katznelson is currently working on books on the New Deal and on affirmative action. Among his previous publications are When Affirmative Action was White (2005), Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (2003), Black Men, White Cities (1973), City Trenches (1981), Schooling for All (with Margaret Weir, 1985), Marxism and the City (1992), and Liberalism's Crooked Circle (1996), which won the Michael Harrington and Lionel Trilling Book Awards. Katznelson was President of the American Political Science Association in 2005-2006. Previously, he served as President of the Social Science History Association, and Chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees.. He received his Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University in 1969.
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch since 1993, has investigated human rights abuses around the globe, with special expertise on: issues of justice and accountability for atrocities committed in the quest for peace; military conduct in war under the requirements of international humanitarian law; counterterrorism policy, including resort to torture and arbitrary detention; the human rights policies of the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations; and, the human rights responsibilities of multinational businesses. Roth has published more than 100 articles and chapters on a range of human rights topics. Before joining Human Rights Watch as deputy director in 1987, Roth was a federal prosecutor for both the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University.
Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has published extensively on Mexican immigration, including the books Return to Aztlan (1987) and Miracles on the Border (1995) co-authored with Jorge Durand.Also coauthored with Jorge Durand are Crossing the Border (2004) and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (2002). His most recent book on immigration (coauthored with Magaly Sanchez) is entitled Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times ( 2010). Among his other books are American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass ( 1993), which won the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the ASA’s Population Section; Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System ( 2007); and Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in America’s Selective Colleges and Universities (2009). In addition to teaching at Princeton, Massey has also served on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the current President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1978.
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