Kerry Taylor
Assistant Professor
| 424A Capers Hall |
 843-953-5357 |
| kerry.taylor@citadel.edu |
A specialist in 20th century US, labor, civil rights, and oral history, Kerry attended Marquette University (B.A. 1988), Indiana University Northwest (B.S. 1995), and the University of Mississippi (M.A. 1998). He received his Ph.D. in History from UNC-Chapel Hill (2007), where he studied the impact of the social movements of the 1960s on the American labor movement.
Kerry came to the Citadel after serving as the Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program in Chapel Hill and he has also taught courses on the civil rights movement, American workers, and oral history at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and Mills College in Oakland, CA. He co-edited volume 4 and volume 5 of the Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of California Press 2000 and 2005) and American Labor and the Cold War (Rutgers University Press 2004), and contributed a chapter to Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long Seventies (Verso 2008).
He is a native of Lombard, Illinois, but Kerry has deep ties to the Low Country. His mother is a Savannahian and he descends from Irish immigrants to Charleston who repaired shoes at 541 King St. in the 1890s. Kerry is director of the Citadel’s new oral history initiative and he welcomes inquiries from area residents who are interested in the preservation and study of local history.