Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, Associate Editor of the journal Transfers, and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility. She helped establish the interdisciplinary field of mobilities research. She is author/co-editor of ten books, including most recently Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018) and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014).