Associate Professor Leonard Bell has taught Art History at The University of Auckland since 1973. He is a highly-regarded scholar both nationally and internationally. His writings on cross-cultural interactions and representations in all visual media, and on the works and careers of travelling, migrant, expatriate and refugee artists, photographers and architects have been published throughout the world. He is the co-editor (with Professor Diana Morrow) of Jewish Lives in New Zealand (2011) the first authoritative history of the impact of Jewish settlers on New Zealand since the 1840s.