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Contact

• workRoom C14 Law and Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• David.Gill@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

David James Gill is a Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History, Cambridge. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was previously a Fellow of the AHRC Leadership Scheme. Prior to his academic career, he spent several years working in London for a management consultancy firm. David holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Expertise Summary

David's research focuses on connections between the fields of International Relations, Economic History, and Organisation Studies. His work appears in the American Historical Review, Economic History Review, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Cold War Studies, Security Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Strategic Management Journal. David has written three books. His first book, Britain and the Bomb, was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. David's second and co-authored book, Divided Allies, was published by Cornell University Press in 2019. His third book, The Long Shadow of Default, was published by Yale University Press in 2022. David has secured external funding for his research and has been a Principal Investigator on both an AHRC Leadership Fellowship and an AHRC Curosity Award.

Teaching Summary

David teaches modules across a wide range of topics concerning international relations and economic history. In recognition of his many contributions to enhancing the student learning experience,… read more

Recent Publications

• GIIL, D. J., 2025. Security Studies. 34(2), 459-492
• GILL, D. J., M. TRACHTENBERG, M. J. GILL, P. E. TETLOCK, T. K. ROBB, M .E. W. VARNUM, C. A. HUTCHERSON, I. GROSSMANN and Z. TRODD, 2025. American Historical Review. 130(4), 1615–1630
• GILL, M. J. and D. J. GILL, 2024. Strategic Management Journal. 45(3), 588–615
• GILL, D. J., 2022. The Long Shadow of Default Yale University Press.

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Ph.D. supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work in the following areas:

• The uses of history in International Relations
• Western alliances during the Cold War
• The politics of sovereign debt and default

Current students

Patrick Endress (second supervisor)

Thomas Eason (second supervisor)

David teaches modules across a wide range of topics concerning international relations and economic history. In recognition of his many contributions to enhancing the student learning experience, David was awarded a Lord Dearing Award in 2022.

• GIIL, D. J., 2025. Security Studies. 34(2), 459-492
• GILL, D. J., M. TRACHTENBERG, M. J. GILL, P. E. TETLOCK, T. K. ROBB, M .E. W. VARNUM, C. A. HUTCHERSON, I. GROSSMANN and Z. TRODD, 2025. American Historical Review. 130(4), 1615–1630
• GILL, M. J. and D. J. GILL, 2024. Strategic Management Journal. 45(3), 588–615
• GILL, D. J., 2022. The Long Shadow of Default Yale University Press.
• GILL, D. J., 2021. Review of International Political Economy.
• ROBB, T. K. and GILL, D. J., 2019. Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War Cornell University Press.
• GILL, M. J., MCGIVERN, G., STURDY, A., PEREIRA, S., GILL, D. J. and DOPSON, S., 2019. British Journal of Management. (In Press.)
• GILL, M., D. GILL and T. ROULET, 2018. Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques British Journal of Management. 29(1), 191–205
• ROULET, T., GILL, M., STENGER, S. and GILL, D., 2017. Organizational Research Methods. 20(3), 487-517
• ROBB, T. and GILL, D. J., 2015. The ANZUS Treaty During the Cold War: A Reinterpretation of United States Diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific Journal of Cold War Studies. 17(4), 109-157
• GILL, D. J., 2015. Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings Economic History Review. 68(3), 1016-1037
• GILL, D. J. and GILL, M. J., 2015. The Great Ratings Game: How Countries Become Creditworthy Foreign Affairs.
• FU, R., GILL, D., HUNDMAN, E., LIFF, A. and IKENBERRY, G. J., 2015. Correspondence: Looking for Asia’s Security Dilemma International Security. 40(2), 181-204
• GILL, D. J., 2014. Britain and the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970 Stanford University Press.
• GILL, D. J., 2011. Contemporary British History. 25(2), 251-276
• GILL, D.J., 2010. Diplomacy and Statecraft. 21(3), 451-470
• GILL, D.J., 2010. Journal of Strategic Studies. 33(6), 819-845