Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Sociology

Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies
Social Justice and Social Policy
Sociology

Expertise

Social movements. Organizations. Community structure. Quantitative inquiry.

Profile

David Cunningham teaches courses in social movements, youth subcultures, and research methodology.

Awards and Honors

Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2007)

Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, Brandeis University (2003 - 2004)

Mellon Special Project Fellow (2000)

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant (1997 - 1998)

Everett K. Wilson Graduate Student Teaching Award (1996 - 1997)

Courses Taught

SOC	1a	Order and Change in Society
SOC	151a	Biography, Community, and Political Contention
SOC	154a	Community Structure and Youth Subcultures
SOC	155b	Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements
SOC	156a	Social Change in American Communities
SOC	181a	Quantitative Methods of Social Inquiry
SOC	182a	Applied Research Methods
SOC	183a	Evaluation of Evidence
SOC	209b	Social Movements
SOC	240a	Approaches to Sociological Research
USEM	55b	How to Travel
USEM	57a	Freedom and Repression

Scholarship

Cunningham, David. "Ambivalence and Control: State Action Against the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan." Qualitative Sociology (2009). (forthcoming)

Cunningham, David and John Noakes. "What If She's From the FBI? The Effects of Covert Social Control on Social Movements and Their Participants." Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond. Ed. Mathieu Deflem. New York: Elsevier, 2008. 177-199.

Cunningham, David. "Truth, Reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan." Southern Cultures 14. 3 (2008): 68-87.

Cunningham, David and Benjamin T. Phillips. "Contexts for Mobilization: Spatial Settings and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-1966." American Journal of Sociology 113. 3 (2007): 781-814.

Cunningham, David. "Paths to Participation: A Profile of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 27. (2007): 283-309.

Cunningham, David. "Surveillance and Social Movements: Lenses on the Repression-Mobilization Nexus." Contemporary Sociology vol. 36, 2 120-125.

Cunningham, David and Cheryl Kingma-Kiekhofer. "Comparative Collective Community-Based Learning: The 'Possibilities for Change in American Communities' Program." Teaching Sociology 32. (2004): 276-290.

Cunningham, David and Barb Browning. "The Emergence of 'Worthy' Targets: Official Frames and Deviance Narratives within the FBI." Sociological Forum 19. 3 (2004): 347-369.

Cunningham,David. There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence. University of California Press, 2004.

Cunningham,David. "The Patterning of Repression: FBI Counterintelligence and the New Left." Social Forces 82. 1 (2003).

Cunningham,David. "Understanding State Responses to Left vs. Right-Wing Threats." Social Science History 27. 3 (2003).