Duncan Bell (historian)
Professor Duncan Bell | |
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| Born | 31 December 1976 (age 47) Birmingham, England |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Alma mater | King’s College London (B.A.) Jesus College, Cambridge (M.Phil, PhD) |
Duncan Bell (born 31 December 1976)[1] is Professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Biography
[edit]Bell’s first degree was a BA in War Studies from King’s College London (1995–1998). He was awarded an M.Phil in International Relations (1999) and a PhD in History (2004) from the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Jesus College. During the academic year 2000–2001 he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2004–2008), and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2008–2010), Bell was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).[2] He was promoted to a professorship in 2019. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Darmstadt and the FU Berlin. He is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.[3]
In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[4]
Books
[edit]- The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 (Princeton University Press, 2007)[5][6][7]
- Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2016)[8][9][10][11][12]
- Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020)[13]
- (ed.), Political Theory and Architecture (with Bernardo Zacka). (Bloomsbury, 2020)[14]
- (ed.), Empire, Race, and Global Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2019)[15]
- (ed.), Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (with Joel Isaac). (Oxford University Press, 2012)[16]
- (ed.), Ethics and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010)[17]
- (ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford University Press, 2008)[18]
- (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth Century British Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007)[19]
- (ed.), Memory, Trauma, and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bell, Duncan, 1976–". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Professor Duncan Bell — Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)". polis.cam.ac.uk. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ Steele, Brent (17 May 2022). "Duncan Bell". The Duck of Minerva. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ^ "The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences". British Academy. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ "The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 | Reviews in History". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ Kendle, John (1 October 2008). "Duncan Bell. The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 321. $45.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern". The American Historical Review. 113 (4): 1245–1246. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.4.1245.
- ^ Graff, Ann-Barbara (2011). "The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (review)". Victorian Review. 37 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1353/vcr.2011.0007. S2CID 143058322. Project MUSE 478589.
- ^ Middleton, Alex (1 June 2017). "Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire, by Duncan Bell". The English Historical Review. 132 (556): 744–745. doi:10.1093/ehr/cex085.
- ^ Getachew, Adom (June 2018). "Book Review: Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire , by Duncan Bell". Political Theory. 46 (3): 487–493. doi:10.1177/0090591717749487. S2CID 149277707.
- ^ Sagar, Paul (November 2017). "Book Review: Duncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire". Political Studies Review. 15 (4): 613–614. doi:10.1177/1478929917712148. S2CID 149049920.
- ^ Visana, Vikram (9 July 2019). "Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire by Duncan Bell (review)". Journal of World History. 30 (1): 260–264. doi:10.1353/jwh.2019.0022. S2CID 199244384. Project MUSE 729114.
- ^ Ceyda Erten (21 April 2017). "Review: Duncan Bell's Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (2016)" (PDF). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ Dreamworlds of Race | Princeton University Press. 8 December 2020.
- ^ Political Theory and Architecture. Bloomsbury. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Bell, Duncan, ed. (2019). Empire, Race and Global Justice. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108576307. ISBN 978-1-108-57630-7.
- ^ Uncertain Empire. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Ethics and World Politics. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Political Thought and International Relations. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Bell, Duncan, ed. (2007). Victorian Visions of Global Order. Ideas in Context. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511490439. ISBN 978-0-521-88292-7.
- ^ Bell, Duncan, ed. (2006). Memory, Trauma and World Politics. doi:10.1057/9780230627482. ISBN 978-1-349-28241-8.