Sinclair Bell

Title:	Professor
Department:	Art History
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 201E
Office Phone:	815-753-1473
Office Fax:	815-753-7701
Email:	sinclair.bell@niu.edu
Website:	niu.academia.edu/sinclairbell

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Classics, University of Edinburgh, 2004
• M.Sc., Classical Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 1999
• M.St., Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford, 1996
• B.A., Classical Studies and History, Wake Forest University, 1995

Teaching Interests

• Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art, architecture and archaeology.

Current Research

• The art and archaeology of the Etruscans.
• Sport, spectacles and games in the Roman imperial period.
• The visual representations of slaves, freedmen, and foreigners in Roman imperial art.

Courses Taught

• ARTH 486 - Art Historical Methodologies
• ARTH 465 - Introduction to Museum Studies
• ARTH 310 - Studies in Ancient Art
  • Egyptian Art
  • Aegean Art
  • Archaic and Classical Greek Art
  • Hellenistic Art
  • Etruscan and Early Roman Art
  • Roman Imperial Art

Major Publications

Books

• (2016) A Companion to the Etruscans, co-edited with A. Carpino. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 528.
• (2012) Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, co-edited with T. Ramsby. London: Bloomsbury.
• (2008) Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation, co-edited with I.L. Hansen. (MAAR Supplementary volume; VII). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Book Chapters

• (2014) "Horse Racing and Chariot Racing" (co-authored with C. Willekes). In The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life, edited by G. Campbell, 478–90. Oxford: Oxford University Press (invited contribution).
• (2014) "Roman Chariot-Racing: Charioteers, Factions, Spectators." In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, edited by P. Christesen and D. Kyle, 492–504. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell (invited contribution).

Journal Articles

• (2009) "Roman Circus Sarcophagi: New, Lost and Rediscovered Finds." Boreas. Münstersche Beiträge zur Archäologie 30: 127–140, pls. 29–32.
• (2005) "Responding to the Antique. A Rediscovered Roman Circus Sarcophagus and its Renaissance Afterlife." Pegasus. Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike 7: 49–80.

Interdisciplinary Affiliations

• Fellow, The American Academy in Rome
• Fellow, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• Fellow, Howard Foundation