Focused on new research on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their attitudes and actions regarding the plight of refugees from Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.

Keynote address at international conference , mostly attended by Americanists from Central and Eastern Europe on “U.S. Politics and the Media,” ,

A paper presented at a symposium looking at the impact of American s abroad, including business people, military personnel, and diplomats living in enclaves or “American islands.”

Roosevelt Visiting Professor, RIAS, Middelburg, NL, April–May 2019.

Talk to faculty, “Can We, Should We STEM the Tide”: The Liberal Arts Today—and Tomorrow,” University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, NL, May 14, 2019.

Gruber Family Lecture, “Behind the Golden Door,” Temple Israel, Manchester, New Hampshire, November 4, 2018.

Keynote address, “The Dependency of the Dispossessed,” International Symposium on Immigration and Refugee Policies, RIAS, Middelburg, The Netherlands, September 27-28, 2018.

Roosevelt Lecture for the Spring 2018, “American Refugee Policy from FDR to the Age of Trump,” Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), co-sponsored by University College Roosevelt and the Province of Zeeland, Middelburg, The Netherlands, April 16, 2018 apotekerendk.com/.

Lecture,  ‘On Strangers at the Gate” at a seminar, “We, the People,” Centerville, MA, November 9, 2017.

Peter Rose will return to California as visiting scholar in the Stanford Institute for Social Science Research in January, 2018.