Daniel BellUndergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow

Daniel is a rising senior from Chicago, Illinois, double-majoring in Economics and History.

His thesis project is centered around Herbert Jenkins; Atlanta’s influential twentieth-century police chief. The project seeks to establish how Jenkins’ reforms affected the police department from 1947-1972, how those changes impacted the development of Atlanta as a whole, and how his philosophy was accepted or rejected at a national level. It also seeks to understand Jenkins’ personal life and how he formed the beliefs that would often put him in conflict with his peers. Finally, the project intends to utilize Jenkins, given his outsized influence on Atlanta public safety, as an entry point into understanding the modernization of Southern police forces in the twentieth century.