Andrew J. E. Bell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Department of History

4505 Maryland Parkway

Box 455020

Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020

Phone: (702) 895-1608 ~ Fax: (702) 895-1782

andrew.bell@unlv.edu

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2004-2007

Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2000-

Assistant Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1994-2000

Ph. D., Classics, Stanford University,  1994.

B. A.,  Literae Humaniores, Oxford University, 1985.

Lecturer, Stanford University: Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, 1992-4.

Instructor, Stanford University Classics Department, 1991-4 passim.

Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, Stanford University, 1990-1.

Graduate Fellow, Stanford University, 1988-1992.

Teaching Fellow, Marlboro College, 1985-8.

Platnauer Scholar, Brasenose College, Oxford University, 1981-5.

Teaching

HIS 100 ‘Citizens and Slaves’ (satisfying US and Nevada Constitutions requirements) Spring 1997, 2000, 2001; Fall 2003;

Summer and Fall 2004, Spring 2009

HIS 105 ‘Western Civilization to 1648’: Fall 1994, Spring and Fall 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,1999; Fall 2000 and 2002; Summer 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003; Spring 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008

HON 110 ‘Perspectives on the Western Experience I’: Fall 1999 and 2001; Spring 2002.

HIS 388: ‘Great Personalities: Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans: Spring 2002; Fall 2004

HIS 457/657 ‘Greek Civilization’, Fall 1994, Spring 1996, Summer 1997, Fall 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005.

HIS 458/658 ‘Roman Civilization’, Spring 1995, Fall 1996 and 2003, Spring 1997,1998, 2001, 2006, 2008

HIS 490/690.4 ‘Introduction to the Study of Ancient Religions’, Fall 1995.

HIS 456X/656 ‘Topics in Ancient History: Ancient Religion’, Fall 1996, Spring 1999, and Fall 2001

HIS 456/656 ‘Topics in Ancient History: Status and Freedom in the Ancient World’, Fall 1997 and 1999; Spring 2005; Spring 2009.

HIS 497: Independent Study: numerous and various (including Greek and Latin language teaching).

HIS 728: ‘Colloquium in European Intellectual and Cultural History: Ancient Aristocracy” Spring 2000 and Fall 2003.

Innumerable independent studies.

Teaching Fellow, Marlboro College (Vermont) 1985-1988.

Books

Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City (2004): Oxford University Press; Oxford. Paperback edition 2006

Works in Progress

1) Ancient Animalities

2) Slaves and Citizens

Articles

"Cicero and the Spectacle of Power" Journal of Roman Studies  LXXXVII (1997), 1-22.

“The Popular Poetics and Politics of the Aeneid” Transactions of the American Philological Association 129 (1999), 263-279.

Articles in Progress

Chapter on Cicero’s visual rhetoric for The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

Select Reviews

F. Millar, The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (Ann Arbor, 1998) and G. Laser, Populo et scaenae serviendum est: die Bedeutung der städtischen Masse in der späten Römischen Republik (Trier, 1997), Journal of Roman Studies XC (2000), 220-21.

S. Butler, The Hand of Cicero (London, 2002), Phoenix 2004.

Select Papers Delivered

“Donkeys: Ancient Burdens and Meanings” Loyola College of Maryland, November 10, 2004

“Classical Democracy: Greece, Rome, America?” Forum Lecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 28, 2002

"Pompous Power in Republican Rome", University of Chicago-Stanford University Seminar on Hellenistic Egypt: 'Innovation and Adaptation in the Hellenistic World', Stanford Humanities Center, April 19, 1997

"Cicero and the Spectacle of Power in Rome" Loyola College of Maryland, November 7, 1996

"Religion and Power in Democratic Athens", Littauer Lecture in Religion and Society, Marlboro College, April 1, 1996

"Powerful Prominence in Democratic Athens", American Philological Association Annual Meeting, December 28, 1995

"Spectacular Discourse in the Roman Republic", American Philological Association Annual Meeting, December 29, 1993

Honors for Teaching

Rita  Deanin Abbey Award  for Teacher of the Year 2009

UNLV Alumni Association Student-Centered Award for 2004-5

Service

Professional and Administrative

Selector, Nevada State Committee, Rhodes Scholarship Trust 2002-4

Outreach Coordinator (Nevada), American Philological Association 2001-

Member, American Philological Association

Member, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

University of Nevada, Las Vegas:

Faculty Senator 2008-

Administrative Affairs Management Committee 2006-

Faculty-in-Residence Taskforce 2005-

Phi Kappa Phi Inductee 2005

General Education Advisory Committee 2004-

Director, Interdisciplinary Degree Programs 2004-2008.

Honors Council 2004-

Chair, Graduate College Summer Funding Sub-committee 2002-3

Chair, Graduate College Scholarship and Awards Committee 1998-9

Graduate Council, 1995–9, 2002-

Code Committee, Spring 1995

Outside examiner for numerous graduate theses

Commencement Seating Committee 2005

College of Liberal Arts:

Chair, Assessment Committee 2004-2007

Chair, Social Science Studies Program, 1997–2008

Forum Lecture Committee, 2001–5

Great Works Certification Program Committee, Founding Member 2003-

Curriculum Committee, 2001–3

Chair, Academic Standards Committee, 1995–7

Department of History:

MA Program Coordinator 2009-

Graduate Coordinator, 2002–4

Chair, Graduate Committee 2002-4

Awards Committee, 2002–3

Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1999–2002; 2008-

Mentor, New Faculty, 2001-4

Search Committee for position in British History, 2000-1

Graduate Committee, 1994–9

Travel Committee, 1998–9