Dr. Kerry Taylor
Associate Professor and Director of the
A specialist in twentieth-century US, labor, African American, and oral history, Dr. Taylor came to the Citadel after serving as the Associate Director of the at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and teaching courses at Duke University and Mills College in Oakland, California. He is the author of (University of South Carolina Press, 2018). He co-edited and of the Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of California Press, 2000 and 2005) and (Rutgers University Press, 2004).
His current manuscript project is entitled Turn to the Working Class: The New Left, Civil Rights, and the American Labor Movement (1967-1981). Current oral history research projects explore Charleston’s working class as an agent of change and document the of the region.
Listen to Professor Taylor speak to “Walter Edgar’s Journal” about .
Degrees
Ph.D. History (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
M.A. Southern Studies (University of Mississippi)
B.S. Labor Studies (Indiana University Northwest)
B.A. Journalism (Marquette University)
Research Interests: 20th Century US, Labor, Civil Rights, Oral History