Crunden taught History and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 until his death in 1999.[2] He was the director of the American Studies program from 1985 to 1990.[2][3] He was awarded a Fulbright chair as the Bicentennial Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki in 1976-1977,and he was the director of the American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad,India from 1982 to 1984,also thanks to the Fulbright Program.[2][3][4] He was awarded a Fulbright senior lectureship to teach at La Trobe University in Australia in 1978.[1][4]
Crunden was the author of many books,including American Salons:Encounters with European Modernism,1885-1917,which was translated into many languages.[2]
Personal life and death
Crunden had three daughters.[2] He died of a heart attack on March 23,1999,in Austin,Texas.[1][2][3]
Buenker, John D.; Burnham, John C.; Crunden, Robert M. (1967). Progressivism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Pub. Co. ISBN9780870736872. OCLC2986138.
Crunden, Robert M. (1969). A Hero in Spite of Himself: Brand Whitlock in Art, Politics and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. OCLC431257447.
Crunden, Robert M., ed. (1977). The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN9780292775275. OCLC2284055.
12Meikle, Jeffrey L. (November 1, 1999). "Robert Morse Crunden (1940-99)". Perspectives on History. American Historical Association. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
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