Dr. Mimi Sheller

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		Mimi Sheller, Ph.D.
		Professor of Sociology
		Office:	Macalister 5011
		Phone:	215-571-3652
		Email:	mimi.sheller @ drexel.edu
	Center for Mobilities Research and Policy mCenter@Drexel [Facebook]     Centre for Mobilities Research in Lancaster Mobilities (Journal)
	Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the new Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University. She also holds a continuing appointment as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (UK) and is founding co-editor of the international journal Mobilities. She is on the international editorial boards of the journals Cultural Sociology, and African and Black Diaspora. She was awarded her A.B. from Harvard University (1988, summa cum laude) in History and Literature, and MA (1993, with distinction) and PhD (1997) in Sociology and Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research. She also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan. From 1998-2006 she was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University (UK). From 2006-2009 she was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College, and in Fall 2008 was Visiting Fellow in the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. In October 2009 she is the Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar in Media@McGill, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is the author of the books Consuming the Caribbean (2003), which explores the relations of production and consumption in the transatlantic world from the colonial era until today; Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (2000); and recently completed Citizenship from Below: Caribbean Agency and Modern Freedom (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She is currently writing a book titled Aluminum Dreams, which tells the story of aluminum and its impact on the material culture of mobility, lightness and speed in the 20th century United States, in its relation to bauxite mining, tourism, and military power in the Caribbean and other tropical regions. She is also co-editor with John Urry of Mobile Technologies of the City (2006), Tourism Mobilities (2004), and a special issue of Environment and Planning A on “Materialities and Mobilities”.
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: new cultures and infrastructures of travel, transport, mobile communication, and urbanism Caribbean Studies: history, culture and political theory of the region, including intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class Caribbean Mobilities: the relation between tourism, migration and air travel across the U.S.-Caribbean borders Tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility and wider mobility regimes, including theorizing transitions in complex systems CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS National Science Foundation application for the Caribbean Mobilities Project: Airport Mobility Regimes on the US Third Border (August 2009) Danish Strategic Research Council application for Mobile Futures: Decoupling Sustainable Transport and Social Inequality (September 2009) Passenger Transport in Transition, project in collaboration with research team in the Netherlands and the U.K.
	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Monographs 2003 Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge) 2000 Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean; University Press of Florida)     Edited Books 2006 Mobile Technologies of the City, Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds) (London and New York: Routledge, Networked Cities Series) 2004 Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds) (London and New York: Routledge) 2003 Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castaneda, Anne-Marie Fortier, and Mimi Sheller (eds) (Oxford and New York: Berg)     Refereed Journal Articles on “Mobilities” topics 2009 Sheller, M. ‘The New Caribbean Complexity: mobility systems, tourism and the re-scaling of development’, The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30, pp. 189-203 2009 Sheller, M. ‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities and the Architecture of Caribbean Paradise’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 41, pp. 1386-1403 2008 Sheller, M. ‘Bodies, Cybercars and the Production of Automated-Mobilities’ Social and Cultural Geography, 8 (2): 175-197 2006 Hannam, K., Sheller, M., Urry, J. ‘Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings’, Editorial Introduction to Mobilities, 1: 1 (March 2006): 1-22 2006 M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, ‘Materialities and Mobilities’, including Editorial Introduction: ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’, 38: 207-26 2004 Sheller, M. ‘Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car’, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 21 (No. 4/5): 221-42. Special issue eds. M. Featherstone, N. Thrift and J. Urry 2004 Sheller, M. ‘Mobile Publics: Beyond the Network Perspective’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22: 1(February 2004): 39-52 2003 Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘Mobile Transformations of “Public” and “Private” Life’, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 107-125 2000 Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘The City and the Car’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 737-57     Refereed Journal Articles on “Caribbean” and historical topics 2007 Sheller, M. ‘Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity and the New Caribbean Spatialities’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 24 (October 2007): 16-33 2005 Sheller, M. ‘“Her Majesty’s Sable Subjects”: Citizenship and Subaltern Masculinities in Post-Emancipation Jamaica’, Political Power and Social Theory, 17: 71-100 2004 Sheller, M. ‘“You signed my name but not my Feet”: Paradoxes of Peasant Resistance and State Control in Post-Revolutionary Haiti’, Journal of Haitian Studies, 10: 1: 72-86 2004 Sheller, M. ‘Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole’. Language and Intercultural Communication, 4: 1-2: 100-108 2000 Sheller, M. ‘The Army of Sufferers: Peasant Democracy in the Early Republic of Haiti’ in New West Indian Guide, Vol. 74, No. 1/2, pp. 33-56 1999 Emirbayer, M. and Sheller, M. ‘Publics in History’, Theory and Society, 28: 145-197 1999 Sheller, M. ‘The “Haytian Fear”: Racial Projects and Competing Reactions to the First Black Republic’, in Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 6, The Global Color Line: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Struggle From a Global Perspective, ed. P. Batur-Vanderlippe and J. Feagin (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press), pp. 283-301 1998 Sheller, M. ‘Quasheba, Mother, Queen: Black Women’s Public Leadership and Political Protest in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865’, Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 19, 3, pp. 90-117 1997 Sheller, M. ‘Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti’, Plantation Society in the Americas, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 233-278