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About Michael Mayerfeld Bell
- Michael Mayerfeld Bell (born June 7, 1957) is an American sociologist and social theorist.
- He is currently Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Co-Chair of the Agroecology Program.
- In addition, Bell has been the Director of UW-Madison's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) since 2011.
- Created in 1989, CIAS is a research center for sustainable agriculture programs that respond to the needs of farmers and citizens.Bell is best known for his work in developing a dialogic approach to sociology and environmental sociology.
- He is also the author of Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village, which won the 1995 Best Book Award in the Sociology of Culture from the American Sociological Association, and of Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability, which won an Outstanding Academic Title award from the American Library Association.
- Bell is as well the author of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, a textbook now in its fifth edition. In the area of agroecology, Bell has worked with William L.
- Bland, a soil scientist also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to develop holon agroecology, an approach to agroecology that emphasizes the role of intentionality in agroecological relations. Bell is also a mandolinist and guitarist and part-composer of grassroots and classical music, and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, the long-time radio variety show on National Public Radio in the United States.
- He currently performs with Graminy, a Wisconsin-based "class-grass" ensemble.
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