Robert R. Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Hart Leadership Program  

Office Location: 112 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7335
Email Address: rkorstad@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • History
  • Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service
  • Social Policy
    • Labor and Unions
    • Poverty and Welfare
    • Race/Ethnicity

Education:
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987

Research Categories: Ethics and Social Policy

Research Description: Research: Social Policy from an historical perspective; labor; poverty; civil rights

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • pubpol 134d.001, Politics of civic engagement
    Rubenstein 153, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. R.R. Korstad. "“Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction in Post-World War II South Carolina,." Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century. University of South Carolina Press, 2008
  2. Timothy J. Minchin. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980.  Journal of Southern History 69 (February, 2003): 226-7.
  3.  Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. [html]
  4.  Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South. Edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad. New York, The New Press, 2001. [html]
  5. R.R. Korstad. "Child Labor." Tar Heel Junior Historian 39 (Fall, 1999): 28-30.

Bio/Profile
Robert Korstad is the Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his B. A. and Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His research interests include twentieth century U. S. history, labor history, African American history, and contemporary social policy, and he is the co-director of a major documentary research project at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South."

His publications include: Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South (coeditor, The New Press, 2001); Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (coauthor, University of North Carolina Press, revised edition, 2000).

Robert R. Korstad