Robert Korstad, Professor of Sanford School of Public Policy and History and Bass Fellow of Sanford School of Public Policy

Robert Korstad is Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his B.A. and PhD 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 Associate Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity.
His publications include: To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America; (coauthor, University of North Carolina Press, 2010); 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).
Teaching (Spring 2018):
- PUBPOL 290.07, SELECTED TOPICS
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- Sanford 102, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.002, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- Sanford 05, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.04D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- Sanford 05, F 01:40 PM-02:30 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.05D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- TBA, F 01:40 PM-02:30 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.06D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- Sanford 07, F 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
Teaching (Fall 2018):
- PUBPOL 290.01, SELECTED TOPICS
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- Sanford 03, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.002, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- TBA, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- PUBPOL 302D.04D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- Sanford 150, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- PUBPOL 302D.05D, POL CHOICE/VAL CONFLICT
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- Sanford 07, F 01:40 PM-02:30 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1987 |
- Specialties:
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Labor and Working Class History
Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance
- Research Interests:
Social Policy from an historical perspective
- Keywords:
- History • Human Rights • Oral history • Public Policy
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Recent Publications
- Korstad, R, Curing my historical schizophrenia,
in Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner
(January, 2016),
pp. 135-138, ISBN 9781611176537
- Korstad, R, Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty,
The Journal of southern history, vol. 76 no. 3
(August, 2010),
pp. 789-790, ISSN 0022-4642 [Gateway.cgi]
- Korstad, RR; Leloudis, JL, To right these wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America
(January, 2010),
pp. 1-436, ISBN 9780807833797 [available here] [abs]
- Korstad, RR, Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle,
American Communist History, vol. 8 no. 2
(December, 2008),
pp. 255-258, ISSN 1474-33892
- Korstad, R, 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