--Gardiner, Michael and Michael M. Bell. 1998. “Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: An Introduction,” pp. 1-12 in Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words, Michael M. Bell and Michael Gardiner, eds. London: Sage.
--Bell, Michael M. 1997. “The Ghosts of Place,” Theory and Society. 26:813-836.
--Bell, Michael M. and Peter F. Korsching. 1997. “Town-Country Relations,” pp. 708-711 in Encyclopedia of Rural America, Gary Goreham, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
--Korsching, Peter F. and Michael M. Bell. 1997. “Technology,” pp. 677-681 in Encyclopedia of Rural America, Gary Goreham, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
--Bell, Michael M. 1996. “Stone Age New England: A Geology of Morals,” pp. 29-64 in Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse, Melanie Dupuis and Peter Vandergeest, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
--Bell, Michael M. 1995. “The Dialectic of Technology: Commentary on Warner and England,” Rural Sociology, 60(4): 623-632.
--Bell, Michael M. 1994. "Deep Fecology: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Call of Nature," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 5(4):65-84.
--Bell, Michael M. 1992. "The Fruit of Difference: The Rural-Urban Continuum as a System of Identity," Rural Sociology, 57(1):65-82.
--Bell, Michael and Edward Laine. 1990. Reprint of “Erosion of the Laurentide Region...,” pp. 173-202 in Ice Age Research, H. Liedtke, ed. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
--Bell, Michael M.1989. "Did New England Go Downhill?" Geographical Review, 79(4):451-467.
--Bell, Michael and Edward Laine. 1985. "Erosion of the Laurentide Region of North America by Glacial and Glacio-fluvial Processes." Quaternary Research, 23:154-174.
--Laine, Edward and Michael Bell. 1982. "New Evidence from Beneath the Western North Atlantic for the Depth of Glacial Erosion in Greenland and North America: Reply to Andrew's Comment." Quaternary Research, 17:125-127.