Curriculum Vitae
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
History Department
Social Change and Development
MAC Hall, B310
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311
Dept Tele: (920) 465-2348
Dept FAX: (920) 465-2890
Home Tele: (920) 338-9153
Email address: kerstena@uwgb.edu
Internet: http://www.uwgb.edu/kerstena/index2.html
Present Position
September, 2002-
Professor, Department of History, Social Change and
Development Unit, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (Chair of SCD,
2005-2008)
Education
1997 Ph. D., University of
Cincinnati
1993 M.A., University of
Cincinnati
1991 B.A., University of
Wisconsin, Madison
Publications
A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard of the Labor and Civil
Rights Movements (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor and World War II (New York University Press, 2006)
Encyclopedia of Daily Life: Volume 5: Nineteenth Century, editor
(Greenwood Press, 2004)
Encyclopedia of Daily Life: Volume 6: Twentieth Century, editor
(Greenwood Press, 2004)
Politics and Progress: State and Society in America, co-edited with
Kriste Lindenmeyer (Greenwood Press, 2001) [Wrote introduction, chapter
five, co-edited entire volume, and prepared camera ready copy for
publisher]
Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-1946 (University
of Illinois Press, 2000)
Current Research Projects
The American Federation of Labor
Clarence Darrow
Fair Employment
Community Service
Board Member, National Railroad Museum (2006- )
Editorial Board Member, Voyager: Northeastern Wisconsin’s Historical Review (2002- )
Member, Board of Directors, Friends of Cofrin Library (2000- )

