Mimi Sheller, Ph.D.

Dr. Mimi Sheller is professor of sociology and founding director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities; associate editor of the journals Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and of the new journal Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled. She serves on the Scientific Board of the Mobile Lives Forum, SNCF, France,and on the Michelin Challenge Bibendum Task Force on Road Safety and Connected Mobility. She was awarded her A.B. from Harvard University (summa cum laude) in history and literature, and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology and historical studies from the New School for Social Research. She is the author of several books, including Democracy After Slavery (2000); Consuming the Caribbean (2003); Citizenship from Below (2012), and Aluminum Dreams (2014); and co-editor of Mobile Technologies of the City (2006), Tourism Mobilities (2004), The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2013) and Mobility and Locative Media (2014). She has held visiting fellowships in the Shelby C. Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (2008-09) and the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-11); and visiting professorships at Swarthmore College (2005-2009), Media@McGill in Montreal (2009) and the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark (2009).