Duncan Bell

Duncan Bell (born 31 December 1976) 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). 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.

In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Books The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 (Princeton University Press, 2007) Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2016) Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020) (ed.), Political Theory and Architecture (with Bernardo Zacka). (Bloomsbury, 2020) (ed.), Empire, Race, and Global Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (ed.), Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (with Joel Isaac). (Oxford University Press, 2012) (ed.), Ethics and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) (ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford University Press, 2008) (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth Century British Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (ed.), Memory, Trauma, and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)