Robert R. Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History, Hart Leadership Program
Office Location: 112 Sanford Inst Bldg
Office Phone: 919.613.7335
Email Address: korstad@pps.duke.edu
Areas of Expertise:
History
Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service
Social Policy
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
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- 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.
- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. [html]
- 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]
- R.R. Korstad. "Child Labor." Tar Heel Junior Historian 39 (Fall, 1999): 28-30.
- R.R. Korstad and James Leloudis. "Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty." Law and Contemporary Problems 62 (Autumn 1999): 177-97.
Bio/Profile
Robert Korstad is Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History at Duke University where he directs the B. N. Duke and Trinity Scholars programs. 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).
