Duncan Bell (historian)

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.

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)

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]