John Thomas Bell
Associate Professor & Director/Ballard Inst Museum of Puppet

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Education

  • Middlebury College/English Literature/Drama , B.A. 1973

  • Columbia University/Theater History , M.A. 1986

  • Columbia University/Theater History , MPH 1989

  • Columbia University/Theater History , Ph.D. 1993

Positions
  • Boston College/J. Donald Monan, S.J., Visiting Professor in Theatre Arts 2012 - 2013
  • Bread & Puppet Theater/President of the Board of Directors 2016
  • Duke University/Peer Reviewer 2013 - 2014
  • Great Small Works/Member, Board of Directors 1995
  • Harvard University/Visiting Professor, teaching Puppetry in Performance 2011 - 2011
  • Harvard University/Visiting Professor, teaching Playing with the Material World: Puppet and Object Theater as Global Traditions 2012 - 2012
  • New York University/Thesis Advisor to M.A. student Karen Zasloff 2010 - 2011
  • Performance Studies International/Chair, Undergraduate Performance Studies Committee 2004 - 2007
  • Performance Studies International/Member of the Board of Directors 2004 - 2007
  • Pratt Institute/Committee member 2017 - 2018
  • Puppeteers of America National Festival/Artistic Director 2014 - 2015
  • Puppetry International/Contributing Editor 1994 - 2018
  • Puppetry International (publication of UNIMA-USA)/Book Review Editor 1995
  • The Drama Review/Contributing Editor 1995 - 2013
  • UNIMA-USA/Member of the Board of Directors 2004 - 2008
  • UNIMA-USA/Chair of Publications Committee 2004 - 2008
  • UNIMA-USA (U.S. Branch of Union International de la Marionnette)/Counselor 2011 - 2015
  • University of Minnesota/Outside evaluator for Professor Michael Sommers' tenure review 2011 - 2011
Special Titles
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    9/1/07 - 6/30/10

  • Fellow, Program in Art, Communication, and Technology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    9/1/10 - 6/30/11

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