Name: Gregory Bell
Title: Associate Professor; Director of the Medieval Studies Program
Education: Ph.D., Medieval History, Duke University
Office: 366 or 105 Bancroft Hall
Phone: 803/323-4674
E-mail: bellgd@winthrop.edu
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Area(s): Mediterranean History, World History, Crusade History, Medieval History, Military
History, Antiquity, Islam during the Middle Ages
A medievalist at heart, Dr. Bell is fascinated with cultural interaction around the
Mediterranean from Antiquity through the Middle Ages. Dr. Bell has an undergraduate
degree at the College of Wooster and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He joined the faculty
at Winthrop University in the fall of 2014 after teaching history at various universities
in North and South Carolina since 2007. In his research and writing, he focuses on
the crusades. Dr. Bell’s book, Logistics of the First Crusade: Acquiring Supplies Amid Chaos (2020), focuses on a particular crusade expedition, and he has also written articles
on exchanges among the Western European crusaders, Venetians, and the Byzantines during
the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Dr. Bell teaches the World History
courses at Winthrop University as well as classes on the medieval Mediterranean, Antiquity,
Africa and Islam, and the crusade movement.
Dr. Bell splits his time between his History department office in 366 Bancroft, and
his Medieval Studies program office in 105 Bancroft.