Sinclair Bell

Sinclair Bell
Academic background
Education	B.A., Classical Studies and History, 1995 Wake Forest University M.St., Classical Archaeology, 1997 University of Oxford M.Sc, Classical Archaeology, 1999 University of Edinburgh, PhD, Classics, 2004, University of Edinburgh
Academic work
Institutions	Northern Illinois University
Website	https://niu.academia.edu/SinclairBell

Sinclair Wynn Bell is an American classical archaeologist and art historian. He is a Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University where he teaches courses in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art history, architecture, and archaeology, as well as museum studies. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Etruscans; sport and spectacle in the Roman imperial period, especially the Roman circus; and slavery in ancient Rome, especially the visual representation of slaves, freedmen, and foreigners in Roman art.

Early life and education

Bell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical Studies and History from Wake Forest University, where he was a student of Allen Mandelbaum. He completed his graduate work in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne. During his graduate work, Bell was the recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2001-2) to study with Prof. Henner von Hesberg at the Archaeological Institute at the University of Cologne, as well as a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2002-3).

Career

Bell joined the Art History department faculty at Northern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor in 2008, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and to Professor in 2020. During the 2010–11 academic year, Bell was named a “Research Ambassador” to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Bell has co-edited numerous volumes, including a book with Teresa Ramsby on freed slaves in ancient Rome titled Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire and with Alexandra Carpino A Companion to the Etruscans. Bell was selected for a six-year term as an editor of the journal the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome..

He has received numerous postdoctoral grants and fellowships in support of his research, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Roman Archaeology at the University of Manitoba (2007-8), the Howard Fellowship from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (2013), the Richard D. Cohen Fellowship from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University (2019), and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021). He also recently appeared as the lead presenter in a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, "Rome's Chariot Superstar" which was based in part on his dissertation research.

Selected publications

• Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius, co-edited with Ingrid D. Rowland. Leiden: Brill, 2021/forthcoming.
• Horse-Racing in Global-Historical Perspective, co-edited with Christian Jaser and Christian Mann. London: Taylor & Francis, 2021.
• Roman Law before the Twelve Tables: An Interdisciplinary Approach, co-edited with Paul du Plessis. Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh Press, 2020.
• Child, Family, and Ancient Society: Papers in Honour of Mark Golden, co-edited with Pauline Ripat. (Mouseion. Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 15.3) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture and Religion: Papers in Memory of Carin M.C. Green, co-edited with Lora Holland. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
• Sport and Social Identity in Classical Antiquity: Papers in Honour of Mark Golden, co-edited with Pauline Ripat. (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 61–1.) Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
• A Companion to the Etruscans, co-edited with Alexandra Carpino. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
• Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, co-edited with Teresa Ramsby. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
• New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome, co-edited with Helen Nagy. (Wisconsin Studies in Classics Series). Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
• Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation, co-edited with Inge Lyse Hansen. (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Supplementary volume; VII). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
• Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity, co-edited with Glenys Davies. (BAR International Series 1220). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004.

External links

• Sinclair Bell publications indexed by Google Scholar