Dr. Maurice T. Cunningham is a political scientist whose work focuses on how dark money influences education policy. Before his retirement, he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Before becoming an academic, Cunningham was an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts, and he participated as co-counsel in Voting Rights Act litigation.Cunningham is a cofounder and contributor to the political blog MassPolitics Profs. His first book, "Maximization, Whatever the Cost: Race, Redistricting, and the Department of Justice," was published in 2000. His second book, "Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization," was published in 2021.