Background
He is the son of noted sociologist Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin Bell (Alfred Kazin"s sister).
historian university professor
He is the son of noted sociologist Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin Bell (Alfred Kazin"s sister).
He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature at Harvard University in 1983, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his Master of Arts in History in 1987 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1991, both at Princeton University.
David Avrom Bell is an American historian specializing on French history. He then taught at Yale University from 1990 to 1996. Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2010, where he was Dean of Faculty beginning in 2007.
And at Princeton University since 2010.
Bell has regularly taught undergraduate survey courses on European history from 1492 to the present and on the French Revolution. He has taught advanced undergraduate seminar courses on the art of narrative history and the history of the French empire in the Americas.
He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic and a regular contributor to several other magazines, including The London Review of and Slate.
He has taught also graduate courses on early modern France, nationalism, war, the first French empire, on the Enlightenment, and the way that thinkers have understood the Enlightenment over the past quarter-millennium.