David Churchill

• HIST 7110 - Advanced Historical Methodologies

David Churchill started teaching at the University of Manitoba in 2001. Along with his colleague Dr. Tina M. Chen, he was the co-founder and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism (IRCGC), which ran from 2003 to 2014. In 2004-2005, David was a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. From 2007-2012 he was the Director of the University of Manitoba Institute of the Humanities. David was also the principal investigator and coordinator of the Manitoba Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two‐Spirit and Queer (LGBTTQ) Archival and Oral History Initiative (2010-2012). Additionally, he has been the Associate Head of the Department of History and is currently the Graduate Chair for History. 

David has published articles in The Canadian Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of the CHA 2010/ Revue de la SHC, History of Education Quarterly, Journal of Urban History, Histoire sociale—Social History, and Canadian Review of American Studies, among others. With Tina Chen, he co-edited two books The Material of World History (Routledge 2015) and Sites of Production: Film, History and Cultural Citizenship (Routledge 2007). David is also active in Winnipeg’s art community as an art writer, reviewer, video maker, and occasional curator. 

• PhD (History), University of Chicago
• MA (History), OISE/University of Toronto
• BA Honours (History), Trent University

Research interests

• History of the United States
• Queer history
• Histories of gender and sexuality
• History of visual culture
• History of human rights and social justice

• Tina M. Chen and David S. Churchill eds., The Material of World History (New York: Routledge, 2015).
• David S. Churchill, "Demanding More than We: Legacies and Possibilities of sex and Gender Activism" Journal of Canadian Studies/ Revue d'études canadiennes 48.1 (2014): 5-14.
• David S. Churchill, “Draft Resisters, Left Nationalism and the Politics of Anti-Imperialism” Canadian Historical Review 93, 2, (June 2012): 227-260.
• David S. Churchill, “Paul Goodman and the Biography of Sexual Modernity” Journal of the CHA 2010/ Revue de la S.H.C. New Series, Vol. 21, issue 2/nouvelle Série, Vol. 21, numéro 2 (2010): 47-60. 
• David S. Churchill, “Building Expatriate Social Space and Alternative Modernity in Toronto” Urban History Review/Revue D'Histoire Urbaine, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (Fall 2010 automne): 31-44.

• 2018, 2008 - Outstanding Teaching Award-Graduating Students’ Teacher Recognition Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba
• 2015 - Outstanding Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba
• 2013 - Outreach Award, University of Manitoba
• 2013 - Merit Award for Research, Service and Teaching, University of Manitoba