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Richard Bell is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He specializes in 18th- and 19th-century American history with a focus on slavery, race, and social conflict. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Cambridge.
His research examines topics such as the Reverse Underground Railroad, slave resistance, and the cultural impact of suicide in early America. Key publications include Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery (2019), We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States (2012), and co-edited Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (2012).
Bell has received numerous awards, including the NEH Public Scholar Award and the University System of Maryland’s highest teaching honor. He has held fellowships at institutions like Cambridge University, the Library of Congress, and Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center.
Active in professional service, he chairs the UMD United Kingdom Fellowships Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. His current research explores early civil rights struggles in New York’s transit systems.
