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ID3632503
NAMEDavid Cunningham
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMECunningham
SIGNATURECUNNINGHAM D
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0002-3497-0705
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS76
TOTAL CITATIONS1491
AUTHOR COUNT75
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15
  • Legacies of Racialized Social Control

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•2026

    Research on legacies of racialized control recognizes and examines how historical violence continues to exert effects on contemporary inequalities. Focused predominantly on histories of enslavement and lynching in the US South, studies have demonstrated the continuing hold of these institutions on a wide range of racialized outcomes, including income inequality and poverty, violent crime, incarceration and other criminal legal consequences, polit…

  • Tq: Public Memory, Structural Violence, and Transgender Erasure

    Open Access•Ashley C Rondini, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Contexts•2025

    Ashley C. Rondini and David Cunningham on an indelible community

  • International economic sanctions and conflict prevention in self-determination disputes

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2025•References: 22

    Can international sanctions prevent civil war? Despite the increased scholarly and policy focus on conflict prevention, we lack an understanding of the impact of a commonly used tool of the international community – economic sanctions. We examine the impact of sanctions targeted against states with self-determination (SD) disputes. We argue that the threat of sanctions leads states to decrease repression and increase accommodation in these disput…

  • Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•2024

    Journal Article Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain Get access Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain. Dir. by Samantha Young. Prod. by Kristian Weatherspoon and the Atlanta History Center, 2023. 33 mins. (https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/monument/) David Cunningham David Cunningham Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…

  • Policing White Supremacy: Asymmetry and Inequality in Protest Control

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2024•References: 35

    Despite evident and oft-cited disparities in the policing of right-wing extremists and more progressive social movements, we understand much less about how such distinctions emerge and unfold as the police prepare for, and act within, protest events. How does the racial and political orientation of social movements affect how they are policed? What are the processes through which such effects are realized? In contrast with most existing studies o…

  • Montgomery’s Monumental Truths

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Christina Simko•ARTICLE•Contexts•2023

    One city, three eras: Touring the monuments of Montgomery reveals ongoing struggles over collective memories of the past and visions of the future

  • Regional approaches to conflict prevention: The effectiveness of rhetorical and diplomatic tools

    Open Access•Jori Breslawski, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Conflict Management and Peace…•2023•References: 14

    Research has shown that international actors can contribute to resolving violent conflicts. In this article, we focus on conflict prevention, and argue that tools that are relatively non-invasive and rapid to deploy are effective at preventing conflict from escalating. We identify two tools that meet these criteria—rhetorical and diplomatic action, and argue that regional organizations are particularly poised to deploy these tools successfully. D…

  • Transitional Justice in Public and Private: Truth Commission Narratives in Greensboro

    Open Access•Nicole Fox, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    In 1979, during an anti-racism march in the city in Greensboro, North Carolina, KKK and Nazi Party members opened fire on demonstrators, killing five and wounding eight. On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of these killings, efforts by community members culminated in the convening of the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC) in the US. Drawing on a unique collection of public testimonies and private interviews with GTRC staff, we use a…

  • Extremism’s Mainstream Appeal

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•2022

    Since its 2017 debut, the Slate podcast Slow Burn has offered incisive, immersive takes on well-known ­­political scandals. Beginning with seasons focused, respectively, on Watergate and Bill ­­Clinton’s ­­impeachment, the series detoured in its third ­­installment into a tragic political controversy of a different sort when it offered a close look into the fatal rivalry between hip-hop artists Tupac Shakur and Christopher George Latore Wallace (…

  • Contesting Commemorative Landscapes: Confederate Monuments and Trajectories of Change

    Open Access•Christina Simko, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 29

    Following the racially motivated shootings at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, a wave of contentious campaigns around Confederate statuary emerged, or at least intensified, in communities across the country. Yet local struggles have culminated in vastly different alterations to the built environment. This paper develops a framework for differentiating distinct 'modes of recontextualization' rooted in the relocati…

  • Quagmire in Civil War

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Political Science Quarterly•2021

  • White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths

    Open Access•Ricardo Gabriel, Ryan Gabriel et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 22

    Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from opioid use, but this national conversation has lacked consideration of potential associations between opioid mortality among whites and durable legacies of white advantage that were established t…

  • (Dis)Continuities in Racialized Legal Violence

    Open Access•Geoff Ward, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Amid growing research on the history and legacies of racist violence in the United States, there has been limited development of theory and measurement pertaining to racist violence as a sociological process. Social science research has centered on lynching and, to a lesser extent, slavery and broader Jim Crow laws and customs, and rarely have these and other forms been engaged together and in relation to contemporary outcomes. We focus on racial…

  • Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past

    Open Access•David Cunningham, H Lee et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    Scholars increasingly agree that histories of racial violence relate to contemporary patterns of conflict and inequality, and growing interest exists among civic leaders in reckoning with these legacies today. This volume examines the contributions and limitations of scientific research on legacies of racial violence and suggests implications for policy, practice, and other forms of intervention aimed at redress

  • Exculpating Injustice: Coroner Constructions of White Innocence in the Postbellum South

    Open Access•Sarah Gaby, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 17

    Research notes the broad complicity of white public officials in historical racial violence and repression. These discussions emphasize the role of criminal justice actors in perpetrating and enabling this repression. Extending this assessment, the authors examine coroners' facilitation of white racial dominance through administrative performances constructing white innocence. Using cases from post-Emancipation South Carolina, the authors documen…

  • International Influences on Nonviolent and Violent Contention

    Jori Breslawski, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•International Interactions•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 32

    How do international actors influence dissidents’ decisions whether to challenge their states using violent means, nonviolence, both or neither? We argue that the presence of important actors affects dissident decisions to engage in violent or nonviolent contention by affecting whether dissidents expect that governments will repress or concede to dissident demands in response to this contention. We examine the effect of two prominent types of act…

  • Configuring Political Repression: Anti-Civil Rights Enforcement in Mississippi

    David Cunningham, Geoff Ward et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2019•Cited by: 9

    Dominant approaches to political repression, which rely on linear analytic models and focus on discrete state agencies or repressive forms, obscure the complex organization and impacts of enforcement networks. Building on recent investigations of collective action fields and arenas of political contention, we develop a relational approach to political repression emphasizing joint actions to suppress challenges to the political status quo. We use …

  • Integrating Conflict Event Data

    Open Access•Karsten Donnay, Eric T Dunford et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2019•Cited by: 22•References: 22

    The growing multitude of sophisticated event-level data collection enables novel analyses of conflict. Even when multiple event data sets are available, researchers tend to rely on only one. We instead advocate integrating information from multiple event data sets. The advantages include facilitating analysis of relationships between different types of conflict, providing more comprehensive empirical measurement, and evaluating the relative cover…

  • Mediation, Peacekeeping, and the Severity of Civil War

    Open Access•Kyle Beardsley, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2019•Cited by: 34•References: 47

    One of the proposed benefits of third-party involvement that has been offered to justify its use is that it helps reduce the severity of conflict. Existing work finding that peacekeeping operations reduce battle-related fatalities considers peacekeeping in isolation from other forms of third-party diplomatic involvement, such as mediation. We argue that mediation has its own effect on patterns of violence. Moreover, we argue that peacekeeping and…

  • BlacKkKlansman

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Thomas Doherty•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•2019

    Though set in 1970s Colorado, Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman trains a lens on the broad sweep of American history. Its cinematic bookends span the film version of Gone with the Wind (1939) and footage of contemporary white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Birth of a Nation (1915), the film that sparked and styled the real-life reformation of the Ku Klux Klan (Kkk), features prominently as well, juxtaposed with Harry Belafonte's …

  • Where, when, and how does the UN work to prevent civil war in self-determination disputes

    Open Access•Peter B White, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 52

    The UN has placed rhetorical emphasis on the prevention of armed conflict before it starts and has taken selective action toward that end. What determines where the UN gets involved? We examine UN preventive actions by focusing on UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions in self-determination (SD) disputes. We argue that UN decisionmakers consider at least three factors when deciding where to target preventive action: the dispute's conflict history…

  • Differentiating Hate: Threat and Opportunity as Drivers of Organization vs Action

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    While research on hate mobilization tends to conflate organization and action, this article extends theoretical insights from opportunity and threat perspectives on social movements to differentiate explanations of hate groups and hate incidents. Drawing illustratively on data collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center, I suggest that threat serves as the predominant driver of hate organizations, while-in contrast-hate incidents are facilitated…

  • We Don't Belong There: New Geographies of Homelessness, Addiction, and Social Control in Vancouver's Inner City

    Open Access•D Fast, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•City & Society•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 27

    Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Vancouver's inner city, we explore how aligned processes of gentrification and poverty management are producing new geographies of homelessness, addiction, and social control for young people who use drugs and inhabit the social, spatial, and economic margins of urban space. In particular, we examine the emergence of government-subsidized supportive housing for youth in this setting. Tracing the …

  • Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

    Open Access•Kyle Beardsley, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 58

    A large literature has demonstrated that international action can promote the resolution of civil wars. However, international actors do not wait until violence starts to seek to manage conflicts. This article considers the ways in which the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reduces the propensity for self-determination movements to escalate to civil war, through actions that directly pertain to the disputing actors or that indirectly shape …

  • Words and deeds: From incompatibilities to outcomes in anti-government disputes

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 42

    Dissidents can choose among different tactics to redress political grievances, yet violent and nonviolent mobilization tend to be studied in isolation. We examine why some countries see the emergence of organized dissident activity over governmental claims, and why in some cases these organizational claims result in civil wars or nonviolent campaigns, while others see no large-scale collective action. We develop a two-stage theoretical framework …

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  • It Takes Two: A Dyadic Analysis of Civil War Duration and Outcome

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2009•Cited by: 396•References: 48

    Theories of conflict emphasize dyadic interaction, yet existing empirical studies of civil war focus largely on state attributes and pay little attention to nonstate antagonists. We recast civil war in a dyadic perspective, and consider how nonstate actor attributes and their relationship to the state influence conflict dynamics. We argue that strong rebels, who pose a military challenge to the government, are likely to lead to short wars and con…

  • Veto Players and Civil War Duration

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2006•Cited by: 247•References: 26

    Civil wars show a remarkable variation in how long they last. Some end within days; others continue for decades. What explains the extreme intractability of some wars while others are resolved quickly? This article argues that conflicts with multiple actors who must approve a settlement (veto players) are longer because there are fewer acceptable agreements, information asymmetries are more acute, and shifting alliances and incentives to hold out…

  • Explaining External Support for Insurgent Groups

    Open Access•Idean Salehyan, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch et al.•ARTICLE•International Organization•2011•Cited by: 178•References: 47

    Many rebel organizations receive significant assistance from external governments, yet the reasons why some rebels attract foreign support while others do not is poorly understood. We analyze factors determining external support for insurgent groups from a principal-agent perspective. We focus on both the supply side, that is, when states are willing to support insurgent groups in other states, and the demand side, that is, when groups are willin…

  • Non-state actors in civil wars: A new dataset

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Conflict Management and Peace…•2013•Cited by: 175•References: 15

    This paper introduces the Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset (NSA), which contains detailed information on the state–rebel group dyads included in the Uppsala Conflict Data Project Dyadic Dataset. Existing quantitative studies generally focus on characteristics of countries and conflicts to examine the duration, severity, outcome and recurrence of civil wars, in ways that often ignore the actors in civil wars. The NSA data provides additi…

  • Blocking resolution: How external states can prolong civil wars

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2010•Cited by: 62•References: 25

    What explains the effect of external intervention on the duration of civil war? The literature on intervention has made some progress in addressing this question, but it has been hindered by an assumption that states intervene in civil wars either to help one side win or to facilitate negotiations. Often, however, external states become involved in civil war to pursue an agenda which is separate from the goals of the internal combatants. When sta…

  • Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome: 1960S Klan Activism and Its Enduring Impact on Political Realignment in Southern Counties, 1960 to 2000

    Open Access•Rory Mcveigh, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Cited by: 48•References: 48

    Radical social movements can exacerbate tensions in local settings while drawing attention to how movement goals align with political party agendas. Short-term movement influence on voting outcomes can endure when orientations toward the movement disrupt social ties, embedding individuals within new discussion networks that reinforce new partisan loyalties. To demonstrate this dynamic, we employ longitudinal data to show that increases in Republi…

  • Contexts for Mobilization: Spatial Settings and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-1966

    David Cunningham, Benjamin T Phillips et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2007•Cited by: 42•References: 54

    Ethnic competition theory provides considerable insight into the localized contexts within which ethnic solidarities intensify and contribute to increased conflict, but gives less guidance as to how the spatial dynamics of such contexts impact the rise of sustained ethnic mobilization. Using the case of the Civil Rights–era Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, the authors show that threat/competition dynamics were tied to distinct dimensions of spatia…

  • Combining Civil and Interstate Wars

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•International Organization•2013•Cited by: 36•References: 38

    Quantitative studies of conflict analyze either civil or interstate war. While there may be observable differences between civil and interstate wars, theories of conflict focus on phenomena—such as information asymmetries, commitment problems, and issue divisibility—that should explain both conflicts within and between states. In analyses of conflict onset, duration, and outcome combining civil and interstate wars, we find most variables have sim…

  • Mediation, Peacekeeping, and the Severity of Civil War

    Open Access•Kyle Beardsley, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2019•Cited by: 34•References: 47

    One of the proposed benefits of third-party involvement that has been offered to justify its use is that it helps reduce the severity of conflict. Existing work finding that peacekeeping operations reduce battle-related fatalities considers peacekeeping in isolation from other forms of third-party diplomatic involvement, such as mediation. We argue that mediation has its own effect on patterns of violence. Moreover, we argue that peacekeeping and…

  • Preventing Civil War: How the Potential for International Intervention can Deter Conflict Onset

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•World Politics•2016•Cited by: 29•References: 40

    Civil wars occur in some countries at some times and not in other countries at other times. This articleexamines how the potential for large-scale external intervention can prevent civil wars. The authorargues that intervention by external states in civil war can be so overwhelming that it reduces one side’s probability of victory to essentially zero. When dissidents expect this type of intervention on the side of government, they anticipate no c…

  • The Emergence of Worthy Targets: Official Frames and Deviance Narratives Within the FBI

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Barb Browning•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2004•Cited by: 24•References: 7

  • Nonviolence as a Weapon of the Resourceful: From Claims to Tactics in Mobilization

    Peter B White, Dragana Vidović et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2015•Cited by: 23•References: 11

    Recent world events have renewed interest among social movement scholars in strategies and associated outcomes in campaigns against nondemocratic regimes. Most comparative work is limited to large-scale mobilization and takes violent/nonviolent tactics as given, thereby overlooking prior group mobilization and initial tactic choice. While a chosen tactic is plausibly related to group characteristics and resources, we argue that the mobilization p…

  • Integrating Conflict Event Data

    Open Access•Karsten Donnay, Eric T Dunford et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2019•Cited by: 22•References: 22

    The growing multitude of sophisticated event-level data collection enables novel analyses of conflict. Even when multiple event data sets are available, researchers tend to rely on only one. We instead advocate integrating information from multiple event data sets. The advantages include facilitating analysis of relationships between different types of conflict, providing more comprehensive empirical measurement, and evaluating the relative cover…

  • Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

    Open Access•Kyle Beardsley, David E Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 58

    A large literature has demonstrated that international action can promote the resolution of civil wars. However, international actors do not wait until violence starts to seek to manage conflicts. This article considers the ways in which the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reduces the propensity for self-determination movements to escalate to civil war, through actions that directly pertain to the disputing actors or that indirectly shape …

  • The Patterning of Repression: FBI Counterintelligence and the New Left

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2003•Cited by: 16

    While the social movement literature recognizes the interactive nature of collective action, models almost uniformly focus on protestors themselves. Consequently, we know a great deal about how social movement organizations recruit participants, mobilize resources, and initiate activity, but have considerably less understanding of how authorities allocate repression in response to (and sometimes in anticipation of) protest events. Here, I use mem…

  • We Don't Belong There: New Geographies of Homelessness, Addiction, and Social Control in Vancouver's Inner City

    Open Access•D Fast, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•City & Society•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 27

    Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Vancouver's inner city, we explore how aligned processes of gentrification and poverty management are producing new geographies of homelessness, addiction, and social control for young people who use drugs and inhabit the social, spatial, and economic margins of urban space. In particular, we examine the emergence of government-subsidized supportive housing for youth in this setting. Tracing the …

  • Words and deeds: From incompatibilities to outcomes in anti-government disputes

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 42

    Dissidents can choose among different tactics to redress political grievances, yet violent and nonviolent mobilization tend to be studied in isolation. We examine why some countries see the emergence of organized dissident activity over governmental claims, and why in some cases these organizational claims result in civil wars or nonviolent campaigns, while others see no large-scale collective action. We develop a two-stage theoretical framework …

  • White Health Benefits of Histories of Enslavement: The Case of Opioid Deaths

    Open Access•Ricardo Gabriel, Ryan Gabriel et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 22

    Popular media and researchers have given increasing attention to the perceived growing alienation and despair of white Americans. The narrative of white decline has been particularly robust in light of the recent uptick in premature deaths of whites from opioid use, but this national conversation has lacked consideration of potential associations between opioid mortality among whites and durable legacies of white advantage that were established t…

  • Mobilizing ethnic competition

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Theory and Society•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 35

  • Contesting Commemorative Landscapes: Confederate Monuments and Trajectories of Change

    Open Access•Christina Simko, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 29

    Following the racially motivated shootings at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, a wave of contentious campaigns around Confederate statuary emerged, or at least intensified, in communities across the country. Yet local struggles have culminated in vastly different alterations to the built environment. This paper develops a framework for differentiating distinct 'modes of recontextualization' rooted in the relocati…

  • Configuring Political Repression: Anti-Civil Rights Enforcement in Mississippi

    David Cunningham, Geoff Ward et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2019•Cited by: 9

    Dominant approaches to political repression, which rely on linear analytic models and focus on discrete state agencies or repressive forms, obscure the complex organization and impacts of enforcement networks. Building on recent investigations of collective action fields and arenas of political contention, we develop a relational approach to political repression emphasizing joint actions to suppress challenges to the political status quo. We use …

  • American Sociological Association Elections, 1975 to 1996: "Exploring Explanations for "Feminization

    Rachel A Rosenfeld, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•1997•Cited by: 9•References: 11

    Since 1972, the proportion of women in American Sociological Association governance positions has increased. Woman candidates for ASA offices and the ASA Council have been overrepresented and generally have had higher odds of winning than male candidates. The authors examine three possible factors behind these trends : the general impact of the women's movement, the influence of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), and elite dilution. Liberal…

  • Beyond Civil War: A Quantitative Examination of Causes of Violence within Countries

    David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Civil Wars•2014•Cited by: 8

    A large quantitative cross-national literature examines why countries are more or less likely to experience civil war. Many of the theories motivating hypotheses about civil war are really arguments about when violence will happen without necessarily explaining why this violence is organized or targets the state. In this article, we examine how variables identified as causing civil war affect other forms of internal violence such as communal conf…

  • Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods: A Multipronged Departmental Initiative

    Open Access•Sara Shostak, Jennifer Girouard et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching Sociology•2010•Cited by: 8•References: 26

    This article describes a departmental initiative designed to integrate the teaching of graduate and undergraduate sociology through research methodology and the completion of actual research projects. The goal was to develop a multilevel team approach within which faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates would view their work as part of a connected project. The authors describe the three central components of the multilevel approach: a newl…

  • Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past

    Open Access•David Cunningham, H Lee et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    Scholars increasingly agree that histories of racial violence relate to contemporary patterns of conflict and inequality, and growing interest exists among civic leaders in reckoning with these legacies today. This volume examines the contributions and limitations of scientific research on legacies of racial violence and suggests implications for policy, practice, and other forms of intervention aimed at redress

  • American Sociological Association Elections, 1975 to 1996: "Exploring Explanations for "Feminization

    Rachel A Rosenfeld, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•1997•Cited by: 9•References: 11

    Since 1972, the proportion of women in American Sociological Association governance positions has increased. Woman candidates for ASA offices and the ASA Council have been overrepresented and generally have had higher odds of winning than male candidates. The authors examine three possible factors behind these trends : the general impact of the women's movement, the influence of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), and elite dilution. Liberal…

  • Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology

    David Cunningham, Mike Forrest Keen•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2001

  • States, Parties, and Social Movements

    Open Access•Jack Α Goldstone, Doug Mcadam et al.•BOOK•States, Parties, and Social…•2003•Cited by: 4

    Studies of social movements and of political parties have usually treated them as separate and distinct. In fact they are deeply intertwined. Social movements often shape electoral competition and party policies; they can even give rise to new parties. At the same time, political parties and campaigns shape the opportunities, personnel, and outcomes of social movements. In many countries, electoral democracy itself is the outcome of social moveme…

  • Understanding State Responses to Left- versus Right-Wing Threats: The FBI’s Repression of the New Left and the Ku Klux Klan

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Social Science History•2003•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Between 1956 and 1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operated five counterintelligence programs (COINTELPROs) designed to repress a range of threats to the status quo. This article examines more than twelve thousand pages of memos related to FBI programs against white hate groups (mostly the Ku Klux Klan) and the New Left in an effort to gain insight into the Bureau's repression of left- and right- wing targets. The article's goals ar…

  • A Time for Dissonance and Noise

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Angelaki•2003•References: 8

  • The Patterning of Repression: FBI Counterintelligence and the New Left

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2003•Cited by: 16

    While the social movement literature recognizes the interactive nature of collective action, models almost uniformly focus on protestors themselves. Consequently, we know a great deal about how social movement organizations recruit participants, mobilize resources, and initiate activity, but have considerably less understanding of how authorities allocate repression in response to (and sometimes in anticipation of) protest events. Here, I use mem…

  • There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence

    David Cunningham•BOOK•There's Something Happening Here•2004

  • The Emergence of Worthy Targets: Official Frames and Deviance Narratives Within the FBI

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Barb Browning•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2004•Cited by: 24•References: 7

  • Comparative Collective Community-Based Learning: The “Possibilities for Change in American Communities” Program

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Cheryl Kingma-Kiekhofer•ARTICLE•Teaching Sociology•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    This article introduces an approach to service learning based on students' collective engagement with a range of community organizations. We explore the particular benefits of this comparative collective community-based (CCC) learning model through a discussion of the “Possibilities for Change in American Communities” program, which was begun by the authors in 2001. The program exposes students to a diverse set of community contexts by integratin…

  • The Futures of Surrealism: Hegelianism, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•SubStance•2005

    In the course of urging upon us a "re-reading of the history of the modernism of the 1920s," Colin MacCabe counterposes, in a recent work, the writings of Georges Bataille and those of a man he calls that "loathsome Leninist Breton" (MacCabe, 82). The comment is an aside—it appears in brackets and in a book devoted to the late 1960s cult film Performance—but is perhaps all the more significant for that. For it would seem to reflect, all-too-fashi…

  • Adorno and Literature

    David Cunningham, Nigel Mapp•BOOK•Adorno and Literature•2006

    Despite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a distinguished international group of contributors, this book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. It is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poe…

  • Veto Players and Civil War Duration

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2006•Cited by: 247•References: 26

    Civil wars show a remarkable variation in how long they last. Some end within days; others continue for decades. What explains the extreme intractability of some wars while others are resolved quickly? This article argues that conflicts with multiple actors who must approve a settlement (veto players) are longer because there are fewer acceptable agreements, information asymmetries are more acute, and shifting alliances and incentives to hold out…

  • Product Review: Surveillance and Social Movements: Lenses on the Repression-Mobilization Nexus

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2007•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • Surveillance and Social Movements: Lenses on the Repression-Mobilization Nexus

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2007•References: 13

    Police monitoring of law-abiding activists at protest events. A CIA-sponsored program dedicated to investigating financial transac tions. An NSA initiative to collect data from massive numbers of domestic phone calls. The Pentagon's aborted Terrorism Informa tion and Prevention System, TIPS, and Total Information Awareness programs. The USA Patriot Act. Over the last half-decade, Ameri can citizens have been bombarded with a dizzying array of iss…

  • Contexts for Mobilization: Spatial Settings and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-1966

    David Cunningham, Benjamin T Phillips et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2007•Cited by: 42•References: 54

    Ethnic competition theory provides considerable insight into the localized contexts within which ethnic solidarities intensify and contribute to increased conflict, but gives less guidance as to how the spatial dynamics of such contexts impact the rise of sustained ethnic mobilization. Using the case of the Civil Rights–era Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, the authors show that threat/competition dynamics were tied to distinct dimensions of spatia…

  • The Death of a Project

    Open Access•David Cunningham, Stewart Martin•ARTICLE•Journal of Visual Culture•2008

    The title of Robert Storr's Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, also proposed a link between mind and body

  • Spacing Abstraction: Capitalism, Law and the Metropolis

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Griffith Law Review•2008

    In considering contemporary accounts of the interrelations of economic, legal and urban forms of social relations in the emergence of a global capitalist modernity, this paper argues that politico-juridical imaginaries of new forms of transnational universality have tended to be limited by virtue of both an anachronistic recourse to spatial models of the polis and a failure to confront the ineliminability of abstraction to any idea of global soci…

  • Thinking the urban: On recent writings on philosophy and the city

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•City•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Philosophy and the City: Classical to Contemporary Writings, Sharon M. Meagher (ed.). SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2007, 308 pp., ISBN13 9780791473085, US$24.95 (pbk), US$74.50 (hbk). Global Fragments

  • It Takes Two: A Dyadic Analysis of Civil War Duration and Outcome

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2009•Cited by: 396•References: 48

    Theories of conflict emphasize dyadic interaction, yet existing empirical studies of civil war focus largely on state attributes and pay little attention to nonstate antagonists. We recast civil war in a dyadic perspective, and consider how nonstate actor attributes and their relationship to the state influence conflict dynamics. We argue that strong rebels, who pose a military challenge to the government, are likely to lead to short wars and con…

  • Ambivalence and Control: State Action Against the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Qualitative Sociology•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 41

  • Returns of the Modern: Nicolas Bourriaud, ‘Altermodern’, in Nicolas Bourriaud (ed.) Altermodern: Tate Triennial (London: Tate, 2009). Nicolas Bourriaud, ‘Altermodern Manifesto’, online at Tate website…

    Open Access•David Cunningham•ARTICLE•Journal of Visual Culture•2010

  • The Durability of Collective Memory: Reconciling the "Greensboro Massacre"

    David Cunningham, Chris Nugent et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2010

    While the general dynamics governing collective memory processes are well developed theoretically, our tool kit for systematically assessing how collective memory changes over time remains limited. Here, we focus on a particular tragic event - the killing of five participants in an anti-KKK march in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Nov. 3, 1979 - to assess continuity and change across accounts presented as part of a 1980 federally-sponsored investi…

  • Rights, politics and strategy: A response to Seeking Spatial Justice

    David Cunningham•ARTICLE•City•2010•Cited by: 1

  • Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods: A Multipronged Departmental Initiative

    Open Access•Sara Shostak, Jennifer Girouard et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching Sociology•2010•Cited by: 8•References: 26

    This article describes a departmental initiative designed to integrate the teaching of graduate and undergraduate sociology through research methodology and the completion of actual research projects. The goal was to develop a multilevel team approach within which faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates would view their work as part of a connected project. The authors describe the three central components of the multilevel approach: a newl…

  • Book Notes

    Open Access•David E Cunningham, David Cunningham et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Peace Research•2010

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