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Gloria Bell

Title: 
Associate Professor
Gloria Bell
Department: 
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
Faculty of Arts
Contact Information
Email address: 
gloria.bell [at] mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Gloria Bell is an art historian and artist. Bell’s scholarly book Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travellers Reframing Rome (Duke University Press, 2024), investigates the long history of Indigenous presence in Rome. They are an associate professor at McGill University in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. Her art criticism and essays are in publications including Wicazo Sa Review, First American Art Magazine, Journal of Global Catholicism, and KULA. Bell has received many prestigious awards including two (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), Insight Development Grants, an FRQSC (Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la sociéte et la culture) New Researchers Award, and the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.

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Areas of interest: 
  • Indigenous and settler colonial art histories
  • Animalia studies
  • Tattooing and body arts
  • Transnational Indigenous exchanges
  • Creative writing
Group: 
Faculty
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