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Mimi Sheller Department of Sociology — Drexel University — 3101 Market St — Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-571-3652 — E-Mail: Mbs67@Drexel.Edu Mimi Sheller Department of Sociology Drexel University 3101 Market St Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-571-3652 E-Mail: [email protected] Education B.A. History & Literature, Summa cum laude, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1988 M.A. Sociology & Historical Studies, with Distinction, New School for Social Research, 1993 Ph.D. Sociology, New School for Social Research, 1997 Current Academic Appointments • Professor of Sociology, Drexel University 2009-present • Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy 2009-present • Faculty Affiliations: Center for Science, Technology & Society and Institute for Energy and Environment 2014-present Professional Offices and Editorships • Founding Co-Editor of Mobilities, a Taylor & Francis Journal 2005-present • President, International Association for the History of Transport, 2014-2017 Traffic, and Mobility (T2M, elected position) • Associate Editor, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility 2012-2017 Studies, a Berghahn Journal • Adjunct Editor, Explorations in Mobility, Berghahn Books Series 2014-present Prior Academic Appointments • Visiting Associate Professor, Swarthmore College 2006-2009 Department of Sociology & Anthropology • Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK 2002-2005 & Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research • Lecturer A/B in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK 1998-2002 • Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for African & Afroamerican Studies, University of Michigan 1997-1998 Awards, Honors, and Prizes • Drexel Provost’s Award for Outstanding Career Scholarly Achievement 2018 • Doctor Honoris Causa, Roskilde University, Denmark 2015 Mimi Sheller • Elected President of T2M & Award of Lifetime Membership 2014-2017 • Vice-Chair & Acting Chair, Society for Caribbean Studies, UK 2002-2004 • Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award Democracy After Slavery 2002 • David J. Nicholls Memorial Prize, Society for Caribbean Studies 1997 • Albert Salomon Memorial Award for best PhD Thesis, The New School 1997 for Social Research • Eberstadt Prize Fellowship, New School for Social Research 1990-93 • Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Senior Thesis, Harvard University 1988 • Oliver Dabney Award, History & Literature, Harvard University 1988 • Harvard College, John Harvard, & Elizabeth Agassiz Scholarships, 1984-88 Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges Funded Fellowships and Visiting Professorships • Invited Professor: “Mobile Utopia” PhD School, Lancaster Univ.,, UK • Invited Professor: School of Advanced Sciences in “Mobilities: Theory & Nov. 2017 Methods”, University of São Paulo, Brazil Oct. 2017 • Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Fall 2016 Pennsylvania • Invited Professor: T2M PhD Summer School ‘The Passenger: Mobility Oct. 2011 and Modernity’, Berlin, Volkswagen Foundation • Lancaster Teaching Fellow, Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, 2011-2012 Drexel University, for Neighborhood Narratives • Penn Humanities Forum, Regional Faculty Fellow, University of 2010-2011 Pennsylvania. Annual Theme: Virtuality. • Beaverbrook Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal Oct. 2009 • Davis Fellow, Shelby C. Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton Fall 2008 University. Annual Theme: Cultures in Motion • Visiting Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark Sept. 2008 • Senior Research Fellow, Sociology, Lancaster University, UK 2005-2012 • DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for African & 1997-1998 Afroamerican Studies, University of Michigan • MacArthur Program in Global Change & Liberalism Fellow, New School 1995-1996 for Social Research, NY • Visiting Fellow, Centre for Caribbean Studies, Warwick, UK 1994-1995 2 Mimi Sheller Research Grant Awards • 2016-2017 Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Fine Arts $10,000 Film production grant for Fly Me to the Moon, with E. Figueroa • 2014-2015 Drexel Institute for Energy and Environment Seed Grant: $50,000 Shifting Engagements with Energy in a Smart Campus (CoPI: Kenner, Sheller, Miu-Miller, Neibur, Nwankpa) • 2014-2015 Drexel-Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of $73,600 Sciences: Drexel-SARI Co-Research and Education on Low Carbon & Healthy City Technology & Evaluation (Drexel Team member, PI L. Liu, M. Wang, Co PI C. Haas, W. Huang) • 2013-2016 Mobile Lives Forum, SNCF, France: The Imaginary of Trains and $195,000 Rail Mobility in the United States (Co-PIs A. Batteau, M. Sheller, S. Zielinski) • 2012-2013 NSF-RAPID: Understanding Sudden Hydro-Climatic Changes and $199,746 Exploring Sustainable Solutions in the Enriquillo Closed Water Basin SW Hispaniola (PI J. Gonzalez, CCNY, Co-PI M. Sheller et al.) ENG-CBET No. 1264466 • 2011-2012 Danish Council for Strategic Research, Analyses of Activity-based $45,000 Travel Chains and Sustainable Mobility (ACTUM), led by Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark, with Aalborg University (Sub- contract M. Sheller, Drexel) • 2010-2012 NSF-RAPID: Supporting Haitian Infrastructure Reconstruction $199,854 Decisions with Local Knowledge (PI Montalto, Co-PI M. Piasecki, P. Gurian, M. Sheller), ENG-CBET No. 1032184 $5000 • Fall 2012 Seed Grant from Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technology Center for ‘Sonic City’ (Team Member, PI H. Iverson) $5000 • 2006-2007 Faculty Research Fund, Swarthmore College • 2003 Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences, £2000 Lancaster University, Mobile Comm. Workshop • Lancaster University Small Research Grants, CeMoRe £1000 • 2001 Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Sabbatical Extension £7465 • 2000 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Initiatives, Lancaster University £885 • 1999 British Academy Research Grant for Book: Consuming the Caribbean £3900 • 1995-1996 MacArthur Program in Global Change & Liberalism, Research Fellowship $9000 • 1994-1995 Elinor Goldmark Black Dissertation Fellowship, New School $4000 • 1993 Janey Program in Latin America and the Caribbean, Dissertation Travel $3000 Grant, New School for Social Research 3 Mimi Sheller External Consulting and International Scientific Advisory Positions • Scientific Board Member, Mobile Lives Forum, SNCF, Paris 2011-present Bi-annual meetings of the Steering Committee Reviewer for international funded research projects Collaboration on the Artistic Lab with Ai Weiwei • Advisory Board, Society for Caribbean Research (Socare) 2015-2018 • External Reviewer, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, May 2016 MA, Master of Design Studies in the Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology Concentration • Connected Mobility Challenge, Michelin North America Fall 2015 Co-organizer & Judge of innovation contest with Close School of Entrepreneurship, Drexel Ventures & mCenter @ Drexel • Michelin Challenge Bibendum International Road Safety & Connect 2013-2014 Mobility Task Force, 2014 Met in Amsterdam and online to co-author final report for the Challenge Bibendum in Chengdu, China, Nov. 2014 • The World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction Invited 2012 Expert Advisor to the Government of Japan Met with GOJ and NGO representatives at World Bank, Tokyo, 1/2012 and at Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA, 5/2012 to Review Lessons from the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami for Developing Countries, presented at IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting, Sendai, Japan, Oct. 2012 • Co-leader of Steering Committee, National Science Foundation Haiti- RAPID Workshop, NSF Headquarters, Arlington, VA Sept. 2010 Organized program, Chaired sessions, Co-authored Report Professional Affiliations International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (2012-present, Awarded Lifetime Membership); Association of American Geographers (2004-present); Caribbean Studies Association (2009-present); College Art Association (2010-12); Haitian Studies Association (2010-2012); American Anthropological Association (2009-11); Association for Cultural Studies (2008-2009); American Sociological Association (1997-2008, 2017-2018); Society for Caribbean Studies (1996-2008). 4 Mimi Sheller Editorial and Editorial Board Positions • Founding Co-Editor, Mobilities, Taylor & Francis, Impact factor: 2.53 2005-present • Editorial Board, Innovation: European Journal of Social Science Research 2018-present • Editorial Board, Applied Mobilities 2016-present • Adjunct Editor, Explorations in Mobility, Berghahn Book Series 2014-present • Editorial board, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 2015-present • Advisory Board, Island Topologies & Topographies, Rowman & Littlefiel 2013-present • Associate Ed., Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Berghahn 2012-present • Associate Ed., Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled 2012-2016 • International Advisory Board, Changing Mobilities, Routledge Book Series 2012-present • Editorial board, Cultural Sociology 2012-present • Editorial board, International Journal of African & Black Diaspora Studies 2012-present • Board of Advisors, Encyclopedia of the Caribbean 2006-2010 • Editorial board, Networked Cities book series, Routledge 2006-2009 • Advisory Editor, Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English 2005 Publications MONOGRAPHS 6. M. Sheller Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes Monograph under contract with Verso, in press for 2018 5. M. Sheller Island Futures: Global Mobilities and Caribbean Survival Monograph under contract with Duke University Press 4. M. Sheller Aluminum Dreams: The Making
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