ROBERT KORSTAD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Policy & History
Duke University

Welcome to my site! I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where I direct the B.N. Duke and Trinity Scholars Programs. I received my B. A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research interests include twentieth century U. S. history, labor history, African American history, and contemporary social policy, and I was 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." I served as Director of the Hart Leadership Program at the Sanford Institute from 1995-2001. My 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). I have published articles in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Social Science History.