Duncan Bell#
| Membership Number: | 6832 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Staff_and_Students/professor-duncan-bell |
| Twitter: | @DrDuncanBell |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge & Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
- 2018 Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Previous positions:
- 2015 - 2019 Reader in Political Thought and International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge
- 2011 - 2015 University Senior Lecturer, POLIS, University of Cambridge
- 2010 - 2011 University Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
- 2008 - 2010 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
- 2008 - 2010 Bye-Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
- 2005 - 2007, 2007 - 2008 University Lecturer (Temporary) in International Relations, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - 2008 Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- History of Political Thought
- International Relations
- Political Theory
Honours and Awards
- 2024 elected Member of the Academia Europa
- 2021 elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2021 Winner, Transatlantic Studies Association / Cambridge University Press Book Prize
- 2021 Shortlisted, BISA Susan Strange Book Prize
- 2020 Book Prize for best edited collection, ISA Historical International Relations Section
- 2019 Book Prize for best edited collection, ISA International Theory Section
- 2019 Shortlisted for the John Peterson Prize for the best article published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations (with Srdjan Vucetic)
- 2017 Runner-up, Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association
- 2017 Kenneth M. Roemer Award for Innovative Course Design, Society for Utopian Studies
- 2012 Philip Leverhulme Prize (Modern History)
- 2009 elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- 2008 Whitfield Book Prize 2007 (Royal Historical Society)
