Robert Korstad
Associate Professor, Public Policy Studies and History

Robert Korstad is Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where he directs the B.N. Duke Scholars Program. He received his B. A. and Ph.D. 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 co-director of a major documentary research project at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South."

His publications include: Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth South (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (coeditor, University of North Carolina Press, revised edition, 2000); Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Jim Crow South (The New Press, 2001). He has published articles in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Social Science History.

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