Robert R. Korstad
| Title: | Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Hart Leadership Program and Professor of History |
| Office Location: | 112 Sanford Inst Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 613-7335 |
| Email Address: | rkorstad@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/korstad/ |
Education
- PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987
Research Interests
Social Policy from an historical perspective
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
- H.L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
- Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Co-winner, Organization of American Historians, 2004
- Phillip Taft Labor History Award, Co-winner, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2004
- Cary McWilliams Award, MultiCultural Review, 2002
- Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, 2002
- Project Award for Outstanding Use of Oral History, Oral History Association, 1996
- Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association, 1988
- John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention, American Studies Association, 1988
- Merle Curti Award, Co-winner, Organization of American Historians, 1988
- North Carolina Society of Historians Merit Award of Recognition, 1988
- Phillip Taft Labor History Award, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1988
- PUBPOL 134D.001, POLITICS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
- Rubenstein 153, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- PUBPOL 134D.01D, POLITICS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
- Sanford 102, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
- PUBPOL 134D.02D, POLITICS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
- Rubenstein 149, Th 04:40 PM-05:30 PM
- PUBPOL 134D.03D, POLITICS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
- HISTORY 104.34, HISTORICAL PERSPECT ON PUB POL
- SEE INSTRU 225, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM; Sanford 225, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
- PUBPOL 196.34, HISTORICAL PERSPECT ON PUB POL
Synopsis
- SEE INSTRU 225, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM; Sanford 225, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
Recent Publications
Books- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2003). [html]
- William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad ed., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South (New York, The New Press, 2001). [html]
- 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 (2008).
- R.R. Korstad. "Child Labor." Tar Heel Junior Historian 39 (Fall, 1999): 28-30.
- 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.