Together with Hofstra's conferences on the American presidency, the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies make Hofstra one of the very few institutions in the country with a unique focus on the presidency. The Center's activities will include:
- Promoting a program of continuing research on important issues relating to the American presidency
- Holding annual conferences and symposia devoted to analyzing critical issues regarding the American presidency by bringing together, from around the nation and the world, leading scholars, political practitioners, and journalists
- Sponsoring a lecture series bringing to Hofstra the most distinguished scholars on the American presidency.
Recent Updates
Recent Publications
The Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency recently announced the publication of its first two edited volumes, each marking an historic moment in the center’s development and research.... | more |
The Annual Saltzman State of the Union
30-MAR-11 Gov. Howard Dean, former Democratic presidential candidate who is now a senior presidential fellow at Hofstra's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, delivered the annual Arnold A. Saltzman State of the Union address in the Helene Fortunoff Theater at Monroe Lecture Center... | more |
"A New Deal in the 21st Century? Comparing Presidential Leadership and Policy Making in the FDR and Obama Administrations"
07-APR-11 A panel discussion presented as part of the "1935: The Reality and the Promise" conference in celebration of Hofstra University's 75th anniversary, featured timely and robust debate about health care and federal entitlement reform, and how FDR's New Deal might have fared in the 21st century American political climate... | photos |
President Obama and the Media at the Midterm
22-MAR-11 A panel of top-flight journalists and political analysts will dissect media coverage of President Obama... | more |
International Scene Lecture Series Spring 2011 hosts four-lecture series
17-FEB-11 Hofstra's International Scene Lecture Series or the Spring 2011 semester will examine U.S. foreign and economic policy and feature a wide variety of speakers... | more |
U.S Presidential Leadership at the United Nations: Evaluating the Past 65 Years and Looking Ahead to 21st-Century Governance
21-OCT-10 The Kalikow Center and the Hofstra Cultural Center sponsored a symposium that included a keynote address by the Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq, and a panel discussion featuring Khalilzad and Kalikow Senior Presidential Fellows Howard Dean and Ed Rollins... | photos |
President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George. W. Bush
5-NOV-09 Hofstra Senior Presidential Fellows Edward J. Rollins and Howard Dean spoke at Hofstra on November 5, 2009, as part of the symposium President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George. W. Bush. It was the first joint campus appearance by Rollins, a Republican strategist and former presidential advisor, and Dean, the former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee chairman…| video |
From Votes to Victory: Winning and Governing the White House in the Twenty-First Century
03-APR-08 Join Hofstra University for our exclusive series of public programs and lectures exploring the issues surrounding the 2008 election... | more |
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