Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is professor of Sociology and founding director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, and associate editor of the journal Transfers. Her books include Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (2000); Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (2003); Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (2012); and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (2014).