Andrew Kersten

Professor

Office

MAC A326

Phone

(920) 465-2443/465-2355

Email

kerstena@uwgb.edu

Website

www.uwgb.edu/kerstena/

Andrew Kersten, Frankenthal Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies, earned his PHD at the University of Cincinnati and has taught at UW-Green Bay since 1997. He teaches courses in U.S. History—the U.S. History Survey, U.S. Immigration History, U.S. Labor History—and courses in DJS. His books include an investigation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fair Employment Practice Committee (Race, Jobs, and the War, 2000), a history of the American Federation of Labor during World War II (Labor’s Home Front, 2006), and a biography of labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph (A Life in the Vanguard, 2006). His biography of the famous defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, Clarence Darrow, American Iconoclast (2011), has just been published. He has two other professional passions. Kersten works with public historians in the region. Lately, he’s devoting a lot of time to redeveloping the National Railroad Museum, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Museum, and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. He also enjoys working with K-12 history teachers. From 2003-2006, he led a Teaching American History Grant Program of his own design that offered intensive professional development for history teachers, and he continues to collaborate on curricular design and other educational issues.

Publications

• Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II (New York University Press, 2006)
• A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard (Rowman & Little, 2006)
• Politics and Progress: The State and Society Since the Civil War (Praeger, 2001)
• Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-1946 (Illinois, 2000)

Grants & Awards

• Founders Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007
• US Department of Education "Teaching American History Grant" 2002