Robert R. Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Co-director, Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change; Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics and Professor of Public Policy

Contact Info:

Office Location:	112 Sanford Inst Building
Office Phone:	(919) 613-7335
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/korstad

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• PUBPOL 115D.001, HIST PERSP ON PUB POL Synopsis

  Sanford 05, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 140D.001)

• PUBPOL 115D.01, HIST PERSP ON PUB POL Synopsis

  Sanford 03, F 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 140D.01)

• PUBPOL 115D.02D, HIST PERSP ON PUB POL Synopsis

  Sanford 03, F 11:55 AM-12:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 140D.02)

• PUBPOL 116D.003, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 03, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• PUBPOL 116D.07D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 102, W 11:55 AM-12:45 PM

• PUBPOL 116D.08D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 102, W 01:30 PM-02:20 PM

• PUBPOL 116D.10D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 05, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM

• PUBPOL 116D.11D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 04, F 11:55 AM-12:45 PM

• PUBPOL 116D.12D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT Synopsis

  Sanford 05, F 01:30 PM-02:20 PM

• HISTORY 140D.02, HIST PERSP ON PUB POL Synopsis

  Sanford 03, F 11:55 AM-12:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 115D.02D)

Education:

PhD

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1987

Specialties:

Labor and Working Class History
Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance

Research Interests:

Social Policy from an historical perspective

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. R.R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis, To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (2010) [available here]
2. R.R. Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle, American Communist History, vol. 8 no. 2 (December, 2008), pp. 255-58, ISSN 1474-33892
3. R.R. Korstad, “Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction in Post-World War II South Carolina,, in Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century (2008), University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 978-1-57003-755-9
4. Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980, Journal of Southern History, vol. 69 (February, 2003), pp. 226-7
5. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2003), The University of North Carolina Press [available here]