Background
Wiley, Bell Irvin was born on January 5, 1906 in Halls, Tennessee, United States. Son of Ewing Baxter and Anna (Bass) Wiley.
Wiley, Bell Irvin was born on January 5, 1906 in Halls, Tennessee, United States. Son of Ewing Baxter and Anna (Bass) Wiley.
Bachelor of Arts, Asbury College, 1928, Doctor of Letters, 1965. Master of Arts, University Kentucky, 1929, Doctor of Laws, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1933.
Little Doctorate., Lincoln College, 1959.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Jacksonville University, 1961. Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1961.
Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford (England) University, 1965.
Assistant professor of history and debating Asbury College, 1938-1931. Professor of history, head department Mississippi Southern College, 1934-1938, U. Mississippi, 1938-1946. Julius Rosenwald fellow, 1941-1942.
Professor of history, head department Louisiana State University, 1946-1948.
Professor of history Emory University, 1948-1974, professor emeritus, 1974-1980. Visiting professor University of Southern California, fall 1974.
Mellon visiting professor humanities Tulane University, fall 1975. Visiting professor U. Kentucky, fall 1977.
Historian in residence Agnes Scott College, 1975-1977.
Visiting lecturer (under State Department), Europe, 1964-1965, Australia and New Zealand, 1970. Harmsworth professor American history University of Oxford, 1965-1966. Rockefeller Foundation postwar fellow, 1948-1949.
Visiting professor Peabody College, summers 1935-1938.
Lecturer Kyoto (Japan) summer seminar American studies, 1970.
Served lieutenant colonel, history officer, Army of the United States, World World World War World War II Member National Civil War Centennial Commission, American, Southern (president 1955) history associations, Organisation American Historians, Society American Historians, National History Society (Chairman of the Board advisers), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Frances Harrison, December 19, 1937. Children: George Bell, John Francis.