Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Sociology

Social Justice and Social Policy
Sociology
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Social movements. Historical Sociology. Political Sociology. Quantitative and qualitative inquiry.

Profile

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

Awards and Honors

Spencer Foundation "Civic Learning and Civic Action" Initiative Research Grant (2010)

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

EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
SOC	1a	Order and Change in Society
SOC	155b	Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements
SOC	156aj	Social Change in American Communities
SOC	182a	Applied Research Methods
SOC	182aj	Applied Research Methods
SOC	183a	Evaluation of Evidence
SOC	199b	Senior Capstone Seminar: Sociology in the World
SOC	209b	Social Movements
SOC	300a	Approaches to Sociological Research
USEM	55b	How to Travel

Scholarship

Cunningham, David and Nicole Fox. "Civil Rights." Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology (2013) (forthcoming)

Cunningham, David. "Shades of Anti-Civil Rights Violence: Reconsidering the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi." The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Ed. Ted Ownby. Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2013 (forthcoming)

Cunningham, David. Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Era Ku Klux Klan. 1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cunningham, David. "Mobilizing Ethnic Competition." Theory and Society 41. 5 (2012): 505-525.

McVeigh, Rory and David Cunningham. "Enduring Consequences of Failed Right-Wing Activism: Klan Mobilization in the 1960s and Contemporary Crime Rates in Southern Counties." Social Forces 90. 3 (2012): 843-862.

Cunningham, David. "Methods of Truth and Reconciliation." Sociologists in Action. Ed. Kathleen Odell Korgen, Jonathan M. White, and Shelley K. White. Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2011. 163-167.

Cunningham, David, Colleen Nugent, and Caitlin Slodden. "The Durability of Collective Memory: Reconciling the 'Greensboro Massacre'." Social Forces 88. 4 (2010): 1517-1542 (lead article).

Shostak, Sara, Jennifer Girouard, David Cunningham, and Wendy Cadge. "Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods: A Multi-Pronged Departmental Initiative." Teaching Sociology 38. 2 (2010): 93-105.

Cunningham, David. "Ambivalence and Control: State Action Against the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan." Qualitative Sociology 32. 4 (2009): 355-377.

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. "All the Klan's Men." Boston Globe June 26: Ideas D2-3.

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. "What the G-Men Knew." The New York Times Magazine June 20

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

Cunningham, David. "Squelching Dissent in the Name of Security." Boston Globe 15 December: Op-ed article

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).

Rosenfeld, Rachel, David Cunningham, and Kathryn Schmidt. "American Sociological Association Elections, 1975-1996: Exploring Explanations for 'Feminization'." American Sociological Review 62. (1997): 746-759.