Publications: In addition to journal articles, there are three books with M.IT. Press (below) and a forthcoming book, Collaborators through Time (Bloomsbury Press, 2025).
At UTK, Bentley has served as an associate dean and as department head. Undergraduate teaching includes archaeology, anthropology, data science, and computational social science. His computational social science course won the 2019 UTK Student Government Association Open Education award.
Previous appointments were at University of Houston, University of Bristol, Durham University and University College London.