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Box 90245
Durham, NC 27708-0245
112 Sanford Inst Bldg
Durham, NC 27708
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Robert Korstad
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Bass Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- Ethics
- Civic Engagement
- Labor Unions
- Leadership
- Public Service
- Race
- Social Justice
- Income Inequality
- Poverty
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1987)
Prof. Bob Korstad taught K-12 teachers how to use grassroots stories of the civil rights movement in their classrooms:
In The News
Awards and Honors
Bio
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).
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).
Representative Publications
Curing my historical schizophrenia (01/2016)
Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty Journal of Southern History (08/2010)
Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle American Communist History (12/2008)
Selected Grants
(96-0531) Hart Leadership Fellows Program (Principal Investigator)
Bull City 150 (Principal Investigator)
Voting Rights in the United States (Collaborator)
Challenging the Master Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement (Principal Investigator)
J. Kirk Felsman Program on Children in Adversity: Felsman Fellowships (Principal Investigator)
Fund for Social Entrepreneurship (Principal Investigator)