Duncan Bell (historian)

Professor Duncan Bell FBA
Born	31 December 1976 (1976-12-31) (age 48) 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

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

• 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

1. "Bell, Duncan, 1976–". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
2. "Professor Duncan Bell — Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)". polis.cam.ac.uk. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
3. Steele, Brent (17 May 2022). "Duncan Bell". The Duck of Minerva. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Ceyda Erten (21 April 2017). "Review: Duncan Bell's Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (2016)" (PDF). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
13. Dreamworlds of Race | Princeton University Press. 8 December 2020.
14. Political Theory and Architecture. Bloomsbury. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
15. Bell, Duncan, ed. (2019). Empire, Race and Global Justice. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108576307. ISBN   978-1-108-57630-7.
16. Uncertain Empire. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
17. Ethics and World Politics. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
18. Political Thought and International Relations. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
19. 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.
20. Bell, Duncan, ed. (2006). Memory, Trauma and World Politics. doi:10.1057/9780230627482. ISBN   978-1-349-28241-8.

External links

• POLIS webpage