Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Sarah Bell received her B.A., summa cum laude in History and Theory of Architecture from Columbia University in 2015. Her thesis was titled, "The History of Preservation as a History Worth Preserving: William Sumner Appleton and His Work at Jackson House". She also earned an Associate Degree in Humanities from the City College of San Francisco in 2010.  Her interests include cross-cultural connections through the identification of “vocabularies” of spatial arrangement, and the tracing of etymologies of spatial language, particularly in architecture associated with religious or cult worship, especially Minoan palaces. Her fieldwork experience includes the Onchestos Excavation, Thebes, Greece; Dixon Excavation, New Mexico; and Sissi, Crete, under the direction of Jan Dreissen. She has also worked as Young Women’s Advisor, Conservation Intern at Whydah Museum, Editorial Intern at ARTnews, and Research Fellow at Historic New England. Her work has been published in Journal of Monsters and the Monstrous.