History Faculty Database
History
Arts & Sciences
Duke University

 HOME > Arts & Sciences > History > Faculty    Search Help Login pdf version printable version 

Robert Korstad, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy

Robert Korstad

Please note: Robert has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Robert Korstad is Emeritus 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.

His publications include: Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina (coauthor, University of North Carolina Press, 2020); 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).

Contact Info:
Office Location:  112 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 613-7335
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc0u36LVGdg

Education:

Ph.D.University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill1987
Specialties:

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   (Former Students)

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Korstad, R, Curing my historical schizophrenia, in Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner (January, 2016), pp. 135-138, ISBN 9781611176520
    2. Hall, JD; Korstad, R; Leloudis, J, Cotton mill people: Work, community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940, in The Intersection of Work and Family Life (February, 2013), pp. 497-538, ISBN 9783598414763
    3. 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]
    4. Korstad, R, Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty, Journal of Southern History, vol. 76 no. 3 (2010), pp. 789-790, ISSN 0022-4642 [Gateway.cgi]
    5. 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


    Duke University * Arts & Sciences * History * Faculty * Staff * Grad * Reload * Login