PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2018. Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar (2021-2022). Bell will work on a book about efforts to reform U.S. law and policy on race and class marginalization. Drawing in part on interview data from a participatory study of black youth, she concludes that policymakers often miss an important challenge confronting lawmakers in poor communities of color: legal estrangement, or the process through which institutions perpetuate the idea that marginalized groups do not fully share in all the rights and freedoms that flow to other Americans.
Suzanne Tassier Chair, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2020-2021.
Yale Law Women Faculty Excellence Award, 2019.
Harvard Law School Annual International Women’s Day Honoree, which recognized "women inspiring change through their outstanding contributions in the area of law and policy," 2019.
PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2018. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University.
Co-winner (with Alexandra Killewald) of American Sociological Association Population Section Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, 2019.
Winner of American Sociological Association Family Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, 2018.
PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2018. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Effective Lawmaking, Vanderbilt University.
Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Dissertation Award on Urban Politics, 2019.
Winner of Best Paper Award in Urban or Regional Politics, American Political Science Association Section on Urban and Local Politics and Urban Affairs Review, 2019.
Winner of the Susan Clarke Young Scholars's Award, American Political Science Association Setion on Urban and Local Politics, 2019.
Awarded Harvard University's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for his dissertation, "Ideology and Factions in Urban Politics," 2018.
PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2018. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Kentucky. Research Affiliate, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research.
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, 2018-2020.
Society for the Study of Social Problems Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division Graduate Student Paper Award, 2018
Society for the Study of Social Problems Family Division Graduate Student Paper Award, 2017.
