Professor
340C Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706

(608) 265-9930
michaelbell@wisc.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Professor Bell’s personal website
Professor Bell’s Curriculum Vitae [240 kb pdf]

Education: Ph.D., 1992, Yale University

Classes:
C&E Soc 541: Social Behavior and Natural Resources
Agroecology 702: The Multifunctionality Of Agriculture
Agroecology 710: Agroecology Seminar
Agroecology 710: Agroecology Seminar
C&E Soc 754: Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology

Course Syllabi:
Agroecology 702: The Multifunctionality Of Agriculture [1063 kb pdf]
Agroecology 720: Agroecology Field Study [225 kb pdf]
C&E Soc 748: Environmental Sociology [119 kb pdf]
C&E Soc 754: Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology [108 kb pdf]

Books:

• An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach

• The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology

• An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

• Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life

• Farming For Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability

• Walking Toward Justice: Democratization in Rural Life

• Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words

• Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village

• The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land

Articles:

• Bell, Michael. “The Problem of the Original Capitalist.” Environment and Planning. (2009): 1-16 [173 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael, et al. “The productivity of variability: an agroecological hypothesis.” International Journal Of Agricultural Sustainability. 6(2008): 233-235 [57 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael. “In The River: A Socio-Historical Account Of Dialogue And Diaspora.” Humanity & Society. 31(2007): 210-234 [371 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael. “The two-ness of rural life and the ends of rural scholarship.” Journal Of Rural Studies. 23(2007): 402-415 [178 kb pdf]

• Bland, William and Michael Bell. “A holon approach to agroecology.” International Journal Of Agricultural Sustainability. 5(2007): 280-294 [535 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael. “Dialogue and Isodemocracy: an Essay on the Social Conditions of Good Talk.” International Review of Sociology. 11(2001): 281-298 [159 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael and Phillip Lowe. “Regulated freedoms: the market and the state, agriculture and the environment.” Journal of Rural Studies. 16(2000): 285-294 [115 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael. “The Dialogue Of Solidarities, Or Why The Lion Spared Androcles*.” Sociological Focus 31(1998): 181-199 [1254 kb pdf]

• Bell, Michael. 1997. “The Ghosts of Place.” Theory and Society 26: 813-836. [2245 kb pdf]