Robert Korstad

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Robert Korstad is an Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He directs the B.N. Duke and Trinity Scholars Programs (1).

Background

Korstad received his B. A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research includes twentieth century United States history, labor history, and contemporary social policy. He has published articles in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Social Science History (2).

Publications

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth South (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Jim Crow South (The New Press, 2001).

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (coeditor, University of North Carolina Press, revised edition, 2000).

References

(1) Duke University, "Robert Korstad," Duke Department of History http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/hlp/about/faculty/korstad-bob/korstad_home.html (accessed April 21, 2009).

(2) Ibid.