David Churchman

David Churchman is professor emeritus California State University where he chaired graduate programs in behavioral sciences, teaching conflict theory and negotiation. He also taught Middle Eastern history in the humanities graduate program. He has chaired or served on about 200 thesis committees in the humanities or behavioral sciences.

He is the co-founder of Wildlife on Wheels, a non-profit live-animal environmental education company reaching some 100,000 Los Angeles basin children each year.

He served as an infantry officer, has been a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus, Ukraine, and Norway, a Malone Scholar in Saudi Arabia, Department of State Scholar in Europe and the Near East, has trained exotic animals and run a wildlife education and rehabilitation program, and has worked in Australia, Singapore, and Morocco. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at UCLA.