Robert R. Korstad, Professor of Public Policy; Professor of History; Co-director, Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change; and Professor of Public Policy

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

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HOUSECS 59.11, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Keohane 4B 402 SEM, W 07:30 PM-09:30 PM

• PUBPOL 190FS.02, FOCUS PROGRAM SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

  Rubenstein 149, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

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  

Recent 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]