[1] Churchill began his academic career as an instructor of English literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1903.

In the fall of 1907, he accepted a position as head of the English Department at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, until 1909 when he accepted a similar position at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In 1912, Churchill made his final move in accepting the position as head of the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at Rhode Island State College.

[1] Afterward in 1921, Churchill was appointed as the founding head of the History Department by the college president, Howard Edwards.

[1] He died at his home in Kingston, Rhode Island, on 13 April 1941, shortly after retiring from the college in 1940.