Robert Huntley Bell (born 21 February 1946) is an American academic.

Bell attended Dartmouth College in a cohort that included Robert Reich, Frederick Schauer, William Mills Todd, and Daniel S. Papp, and graduated in 1967. He pursued graduate study at Harvard University, where he met his wife Ilona Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1972.[1] Bell then joined the Williams College faculty. In 1998, Bell and Paul G. Ashdown won the Robert Foster Cherry Award.[2] The honor was followed in 2004 by an Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year award presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.[3] Bell was William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English from 1994 to 1999,[4] and was reappointed in 2001.[5] He retired from Williams in 2018 as Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English.[6]

References

  1. ^ "The education of an educator" (PDF). Williams Alumni Review. 30 January 2005. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Cherry Award Banquet to Honor Visiting Professors Sept. 21". Baylor University. 15 September 1998. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  3. ^ Lemoine, Noelle (18 November 2004). "Williams College's Robert Bell Named 2004 Outstanding College Professor". Williams College. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  4. ^ Lemoine, Noelle (14 February 2001). "Men for All Seasons: Williams College's Bell and Shepard". Williams College. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ^ Lemoine, Noelle (16 July 2001). "Four at Williams College Named to Endowed Professorships". Williams College. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Robert H. Bell". Williams College. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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