New book for children, I have a friend named Conor (Sea House Books, 2021) released on April 15, 2021
Like Max, The Sea-Dog, published in 2018, this new Cape Cod story was illustrated by artist and book designer, Evanleigh Davis.
Interview on WXOJ-LP in Northampton, MA.on Tropes of Intolerance, March 28, 2021
The interview was recorded and may be heard by clicking on https://archive.org/details/occupy-the-airwaves-3.22.2021-peter-rose
Interview with Mindy Todd on “The Point” on NPR station WCAI, January 6, 2021
On January 6, 2021, Peter Rose was interviewed by Mindy Todd on the program “The Point” on NPR station WCAI. The interview took place only a few hours before the attempted siege of the Capitol in Washington. Some of what was discussed was all too prescient.
Click here to listen to Peter’s interview or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.capeandislands.org/post/how-racism-fear-and-bigotry-threaten-social-fabric-democratic-societies#stream/0
New book, Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear, (Routledge, 2021) was released on December 31, 2020.
In this book, which touches on many aspects of bigotry and scapegoating, populism and xenophobia, the Trump Era is presented as a case study.
Faculty member, Global Citizenship Alliance, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria, May 24-June 5, 2020
Two one-week sessions for students from American community colleges and universities focused on contemporary problems such as racial and ethnic relations, immigration, women’s rights, sustainable development
Closing Lecture, “Reflections on the U.S. as a ‘Herrenvolk Democracy’,” symposium at Roosevelt Institute for American Studies of Leiden University, Middelburg, NL, May 7-8, 2020.
Closing lecture at a symposium on “Racial Democracies” led by Damian Pargas
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research in Social Science, Stanford University, January–April, 2020.
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, “Whether Pride or Prejudice, the Media is Still the Messenger,” conference at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, November 29-30, 2019.
Keynote address at international conference , mostly attended by Americanists from Central and Eastern Europe on “U.S. Politics and the Media,” ,
“Yank is a Four-Letter Word,” symposium on “American Islands,” RIAS, Middelburg, NL, May 22, 2019.
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.
Roosevelt Visiting Professor, RIAS, Middelburg, NL, April–May 2019.