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Karin Shapiro, Visiting Assistant Professor, History

Contact Info:

kshapiro@duke.edu
(919) 684-2961

Office Location:	243D Friedl Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2961
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• AAAS 349S.01, CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 216, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 259S.01, POLSCI 368S.01, PUBPOL 321S.01, RIGHTS 351S.01, SOCIOL 259S.01)

• AAAS 316S.01, APARTHEID S-AFRICA/DEMOCRACY Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 216, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 386S.01, ICS 211S-2.01, POLSCI 337S.01, PUBPOL 327S.01, RIGHTS 316S.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1991
M.Phil.	Yale University	1986
M.A.	Yale University	1983
Honours Degree in History	University of Witwatersrand	1981
B.A. (hons)	University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)	1981
B.A.	University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)	1980

Specialties:

Politics, Public Life and Governance
Race and Ethnicity
Global Transnational History

Research Interests:

I study American social and southern history, as well as South African history. My interest in the political economy of race and coerced labor in both societies led to me to examine a dramatic Gilded Age labor rebellion in the Tennessee coalfields against the use of convict workers. While I brought my knowledge of South African history to my research in the American southern social history, I am turning to a more transnational project, studying twentieth-century South African emigration to North America. This project is driven by an interest in the social experience of globalization.

Keywords:

U.S. • South Africa • History • Social History • Globalization

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Shapiro, K, A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (1998), University of North Carolina Press
2. Paul Weinberg and Karin A. Shapiro (Producers and Directors), Double Vision (May, 2005) (A documentary on South African immigration to North Carolina.)  [abs]
3. Brown, J; Bozzoli, B; Delius, P; Manning, P; Shapiro, KA; Wiener, J, History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (1991), Temple University Press
4. Shapiro, K, William R. Riley: Limits of Interracial Unionism in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, in The Human Tradition in American Labor History, edited by Arnesen, E (2004), Scholarly Resources
5. Bonner, P; Shapiro, K, "Company Town, Company Estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910-1932, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 19 no. 2 (June, 1993), pp. 171-200, Informa UK Limited [doi]
6. Steve Channing and Karin Shapiro, Fulbright Revisited (2011) (A film on one of America's premier fellowship programs.)  [abs]
7. Shapiro, KA, Doctors or Medical Aids - The Debate over the training of Black Medical Personnel for the Rural Black Population in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 13 no. 2 (January, 1987), pp. 234-255 [doi]
8. Shapiro, KA, Entries for: William Riley, Richard L. Davis, Myles Horton, the Tennessee Coal Miners’ Insurrection of 1891-92, the Highlander Folk School/Research Center, and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South, in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, edited by Arnesen, E (2007), Routledge
9. Shapiro, K; Letwin, D, David Montgomery, 1927 – 2011, Radical History Review, vol. 2012 no. 113 (Spring, 2012), pp. 225-228, Duke University Press, ISSN 0163-6545 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
10. Review of Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil, Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 19 no. 2 (2000), pp. 129-130
11. Shapiro, K, Steel Drivin’ Man - John Henry - The Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, vol. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 113-115
12. Review of George Fredrickson, Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (November, 1996), South African Sunday Times

Selected Grant Support

• Josiah Charles Trent Grant, Duke University.      
• Council for International Exchange of Scholars.      
• Institute for International Education.      
• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow, Harvard University (Declined).      
• Social Science Research Institute Faculty Fellow, Duke University.      
• John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Fellow, Duke University.      
• Fulbright Scholar, Yale University.      
• Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fund Grant, South Africa.      

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow (Harvard University). John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Fellow (Duke University). Fulbright Fellowship, Albert J. Beveridge Grant, John F. Enders Grant (Yale University), Alexander Bouchet Prize (Yale University), Various Human Sciences Research Council Grants (South Africa), Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fund Grant (South Africa).