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Sean P. Cunningham

Sean Cunningham
Contact Information:

Email: Sean.Cunningham@ttu.edu
Office: 45 Holden Hall
Website: http://courses.ttu.edu/secunnin

Fields:

Modern U.S., Political, Sunbelt

About Dr. Cunningham:

Sean Cunningham teaches broadly in twentieth-century U.S. history, while specializing in the history of post-1945 American political culture.  His geographic emphasis is on the American Sunbelt, Texas in particular.  His first book, Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right, published by the University Press of Kentucky, is now available for pre-order and will be available in April 2010.   Cunningham is also currently working on a chapter covering the political history of West Texas, to be published in a forthcoming survey of the history of West Texas, edited by Paul Carlson and Bruce Glasrud.  Additionally, Cunningham is working on a short biographical chapter on John Tower, to be included in a forthcoming book on GOP growth, 1960-1980, edited by Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan.  Cunningham has presented his research at the Southern Historical Association, as well as several state and local conferences, and has published articles and numerous book reviews in the East Texas Historical Journal and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, among others.

Cunningham was nominated for the Texas Tech Alumni Association's New Faculty Award in both 2009 and 2010.  In 2008, Cunningham was given the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award by the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.  In 2007, he was awarded the Calvin A. VanderWerf Award in recognition of his selection as the outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Florida, where he earned his Ph.D.  Prior to his graduate work in Gainesville, Cunningham completed his B.A. in Public Relations from Texas Tech University in 1999, before earning his M.A. in History and M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration, also at Texas Tech, in 2002.  In 2003, he worked as a Counseling Specialist with the Advising Center at Texas Tech where he coordinated several programs and research projects dealing with undergraduate student retention and success