CURRICULUM VITAE OF MIMI SHELLER
Work Address
Home Address
Department of Sociology
Drexel University, 3600 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Tel: 1-215-571-3652
938 Summit Road
Penn Valley, PA 19072
Tel: 1-610-949-0169
[email protected]
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Sociology, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University
Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy Drexel University
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL OFFICES & EDITORSHIPS
President, International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility
Founding Co-Editor of Mobilities (a Taylor & Francis journal) – 10th Anniversary 2015
Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (a Berghahn journal)
Associate Editor of Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled (a new Springer online journal)
Adjunct Editor, Explorations in Mobility, Berghahn Books Series
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005-2009
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1998-2005
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England
1997-1998
Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for African and Afroamerican Studies (CAAS)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
EDUCATION
1988
A.B.
1993
M.A.
1997
PhD
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
New School for Social Research
New York, NY
New School for Social Research
History & Literature
Summa cum laude
Sociology & Historical
Studies
Sociology
With
Distinction
I.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FUNDING
Research Funding Awarded or Pending
Award
NSF-Sustainability Research Networks: SMART Innovation
Partnerships for Networked Transportation Systems (PI P. Adraeans – U.
MICH, Subcontract M. Sheller – Drexel) ($12 million overall budget)
NSF-RIPS Type 1: Mapping Urban Infrastructure Systems, Processes and
Products (PI A. Pradhan, Co-PI M. Sheller et al.)
Drexel Institute for Energy and Environment Seed Funding Award:
‘Shifting Engagements with Energy in a Smart Campus Environment’ (Co
PI’s Kenner, Sheller, Miu-Miller, Neibur, Nwankpa)
SNCF Forum Vie Mobiles (Paris) The Imaginary of Trains and Rail
Travel in the United States (PI Allen Batteau [Wayne State University], CoPI Mimi Sheller, Susan Zielinski [U. MICH])
NSF-RAPID: Understanding Sudden Hydro-Climatic Changes and
Exploring Sustainable Solutions in the Enriquillo Closed Water Basin
(Southwest Hispaniola) (PI Jorge Gonzalez, CCNY, Co-PI M. Sheller et al.)
ENG-CBET Award No. 1264466
Danish Council for Strategic Research (Subcontract)
Analyses of Activity-based Travel Chains and Sustainable Mobility
(ACTUM), led by the Department of Transport at the Technical
University of Denmark (DTU Transport), with Aalborg University
NSF-RAPID: Supporting Haitian Infrastructure Reconstruction Decisions
with Local Knowledge (PI Franco Montalto, Co-PI’s Michael Piasecki,
Patrick Gurian and Mimi Sheller), No. 1032184
Year
Oct. 2014Sept. 2019
Oct. 2014 –
Sept. 2016
July 2014June 2015
Amount
$263,000
(subcontract)
Pending
($299,998)
Pending
$50,000
July 2013Dec. 2015
$195,000
Oct. 2012 to
Sept. 2013
$199,746
Feb. 2011 to
Dec. 2012
April 2010
To April
2012
$45,000
DKK 255,000
$199,854
Research applications submitted, but not awarded
NSF-WSC Type II: Water at Nexus of Climate Change & Sustainability:
Submitted
Development of Stakeholder Participation and Mitigation Strategies (PI M. March
Piasecki, CCNY, Co-PI M. Sheller et al), 5 years
2014
NSF Water Sustainability and Climate Category 2 Collaborative: Niche,
Submitted
landscape, and regime changes toward sustainable stormwater management in three US
10/2011
cities. (PI F. Montalto, Co-PI Sheller, et al.), 3 years
NSF-PIRE Pre-Proposal: International Partnership for Science, Engineering, and
Submitted
Education on Caribbean Sustainability (Carib-SEES). (PI J. Gonzales, CCNY,
10/2011
Co-PI Sheller et al), 5 years
National Science Foundation Air Mobilities and Airline Networks on
January
the US-Caribbean Border Geography and Spatial Science, (PI M. Sheller,
2011
Co-I A. Grubesic) No. 1122844
National Science Foundation Air Mobilities on the US-Caribbean
August
Border (PI M. Sheller) No. 1061140
2010
Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation, sub-contract December
via Aalborg University for “Mobile Mediality”
2009
National Science Foundation P.I. for “The Caribbean Mobilities Project: Aug.2009
Airport Mobility Regimes on the US Third Border” No. 0960997
Danish Strategic Research Council, co-P.I. for “Mobile Futures:
September
Decoupling Sustainable Transport and Social Inequality”
2009
The Graham Foundation, P.I. for “Mobile Mediality”
Feb. 2010
NSF EFRI-SEED & IGERT “INDOOR ECOLOGY: Defining the
March 2010
Human-Building Ecosystem”, 1009170 (P.I. Eugenia Ellis, SI Sheller et al) Sept. 2010
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$4.8 million
$2,064,500
$4,000,000
$405,000
$400,000
$22,500
$382,452
$203,819
$30,000
$1.5 Million
II.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS
4. M. Sheller, Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014)
3. M. Sheller, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke University Press, 2012)
2. M. Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (London and New York: Routledge, 2003)
1. M. Sheller, Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (London and
Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2000; Miami: University Press of Florida, 2001)
EDITED BOOKS
6. A. de Souza e Silva and M. Sheller (eds), Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces.
Routledge, 2015 (50%)
5. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
(London: Routledge, 2014). (20% editorial content)
4. M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Materialities and Mobilities, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, 38
(London: Ashgate, 2006). (50%)
3. M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Mobile Technologies of the City, (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
Networked Cities Series. (50%)
2. M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds), Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, (London and New York:
Routledge, 2004) (50%)
1. S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, AM Fortier, and M. Sheller (eds), Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and
Migration, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003) (25%)
BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES IN PROGRESS
5. M. Sheller, Caribbean Mobilities and Virtual Islands (monograph book manuscript in progress)
4. M. Büscher, M. Sheller & D. Tyfield (eds) Mobilities, 10th Anniversary Special Issue: “Future Agendas in
Mobilities Research” (scheduled for 2016) (33%)
3. JC Freeman & M. Sheller (eds) Public Art Dialogue, SI: Digital Art and the Public Sphere (for 2015) (50%)
2. D. Brebion & M. Sheller (eds) ‘Antinthesis/Synthesis: Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage’, Special Issue of
Caribbean InTransit (2014) (50%)
1. M. Sheller, H. Iverson, L. Aceti (eds) LA Re.Play (Leonardo Electronic Almanac SI for 2014) (50%)
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES - UNDER REVIEW OR FORTHCOMING
5. Sheller, M. ‘Uneven Mobility Futures’, Mobilities (under review).
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4. Sheller, M. and Deleón, Y. ‘Assessing Citizen Understanding, State Action, and Capabilities in Responding
to the Rising Waters of Lake Azuei (Haiti) and Lake Enriquillo (Dominican Republic)’, Submitted to Geoforum,
Special Issue on Climate Justice and the Caribbean, eds. A. Baptiste and K. Rhiney (under revision).
3. Sheller, M. ‘Racialized Mobility Transitions and Urban Spatial Form: Post-automobility Transport Justice in
Philadelphia’, City and Society, SI on Cities and Mobilities, ed. M. Freudendal-Pederson (under revision).
2. Sheller, M. and Iverson, H., ‘Introduction’, LA Re.Play, forthcoming in special issue of Leonardo Electornic
Almanac, eds. Sheller, M., Iverson, H., Aceti, L.
1. Sheller, M. “How to be seen while being unseen: Finding the un-visible Bahamas in the (dis)assembled
works of Tavares Strachan”, E-misphérica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Special Issue on Rasamblaj, ed.
Gina Ulysse (under review).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES – PUBLISHED
36. Sheller, M., S O'Connor, HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki (forthcoming) ‘Participatory
Engineering for Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti’, Engineering Studies, Special Issue on Engineering Risk and
Disaster, eds. SG Knowles and G. Downey (in press).
35. Sheller, M. ‘Mobility History and Caribbean Tourism’, T2M Yearbook: Mobility in History,
34. Sheller, M. ‘Mobility, Debordering and Territoriality on a Haitian-Dominican Border’, Sociologica, Special
Issue on Moving boundaries of mobilities research, 1/2014, eds. J. Caletrio and G. Mandich.
33. Sheller, M. ‘Global Energy Cultures of Speed and Lightness: Materials, Mobilities and Transnational
Power’, SI Theory, Culture and Society: Energizing Society, 31 (5): 2014 eds. David Tyfield & John Urry, DOI:
10.1177/0263276414537909
32. Sheller, M., ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm for a Live Sociology’, Current Sociology, first published on May
23, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0011392114533211
31. Sheller, M. ‘News Now: Interface, Flow, and the Temporalities of Mobile Media’, Special Issue of
Journalism Studies, The Places and Spaces of News, ed. Chris Peters. DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2014.890324
30. Sheller, M. ‘The Vital Materiality of Aluminum: light modernity and the global Atlantic’ Atlantic Studies,
Global Currents, Vol. 11, No, 1 (2014), pp. 67-81. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2014.872331
29. Galada, HC; Montalto, FA; Gurian, PL; Sheller, M; Ayalew, T; and S O'Connor ‘Assessing Preferences
Regarding Centralized and Decentralized Water Infrastructure in Post-Earthquake Leogane, Haiti.’ Earth
Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled, 2014, 1:5 (12 February 2014).
28. Jensen, O.B., Sheller, M., and Wind, S. ‘Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in
Families’ Everyday Life and Mobility’, Mobilities, 2014. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2013.868158
27. Galada, HC, PL Gurian, , FA Montalto, , M Sheller, M Piasecki, T Ayalew, S Oconnor, ‘Attitudes toward
Post-Earthquake Water and Sanitation Management and Payment Options in Leogane, Haiti’, Water
International, Vol. 38, No. 6 (Sept. 2013): 744–757, doi: 10.1080/02508060.2013.832102
26. Sheller, M. ‘Aluminum Across the Americas: Caribbean Mobilities and Transnational American Studies’,
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Journal of Transnational American Studies: Caribbean Issue, eds. B. Edmondson and D. Francis, Vol 5, Issue 1, 2013
(e-ISSN: 1940-0764).
25. Sheller, M., HC Galada, FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, S O'Connor, T. Ayalew, ‘Gender, Disaster
and Resilience: Assessing Women’s Water and Sanitation Needs in Leogane, Haiti, Before and After the 2010
Earthquake’, wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, Vol. 2, No. 1, May 2013 special issue.
24. Vukov, T. and Sheller, M. ‘Border Work: surveillant assemblages, virtual fences, and tactical counter-media’
in ‘Charting, Tracking, and Mapping: New Technologies, Labor, and Surveillance’, a special issue of Social
Semiotics, Vol. 23, No. 2, (May 2013): 225-241. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2013.777592
23. Sheller, M. ‘The Islanding Effect: Post-Disaster Mobility Systems and Humanitarian Logistics in Haiti’,
Cultural Geographies, 20 (2) April 2013: 185-204. Special issue on Islanding Geographies, eds. Eric Clark and
Godfrey Baldaccino. doi: 10.1177/1474474012438828.
22. Ward, K., Anderson, B., Coward, M., Sheller, M., Williams, A., Cresswell, T. and Adey, P. ‘Review Forum:
Reading Peter Adey’s Aerial Life’, Political Geography (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.07.001.
21. Sheller, M. (2011) ‘Bleeding Humanity and Gendered Embodiment: From Anti-Slavery Sugar Boycotts to
Ethical Consumers’ in Special Issue of Humanity, eds. S. Martinez and K. Libal, Fall 2011, 171-92.
20. Sheller, M. (2011) ‘Hidden Textures of Race and Historical Memory: The Rediscovery of Photographs
Relating to Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865’, Princeton Library Chronicle, Vol. 72, No. 2, Winter 2011,
532-67.
19. Sheller, M. ‘Air Mobilities on the US-Caribbean Border: Open Skies and Closed Gates’, The Communication
Review, Vol. 13: 4 (2010): 269-288.
18. Sheller, M. ‘The New Caribbean Complexity: mobility systems, tourism and the re-scaling of development’,
The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30 (2009) pp. 189-203.
17. Sheller, M. ‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities and the Architecture of Caribbean
Paradise’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 41 (2009), pp. 1386-1403.
16. Sheller, M. ‘Bodies, Cybercars and the Production of Automated-Mobilities’, Social and Cultural Geography, 8:
2 (2008): 175-197.
15. Sheller, M. ‘Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity and the New Caribbean Spatialities’, Small Axe: A
Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 24 (October 2007): 16-33.
14. Hannam, K., Sheller, M., Urry, J. ‘Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings’, Editorial Introduction to
Mobilities, 1: 1 (March 2006): 1-22.
13. M. Sheller and J. Urry, ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’, Environment and Planning A, ‘Materialities and
Mobilities’, 38 (2006): 207-26.
12. Sheller, M. ‘“Her Majesty’s Sable Subjects”: Citizenship and Subaltern Masculinities in Post-Emancipation
Jamaica’, Political Power and Social Theory, 17 (2005): 71-100.
11. Sheller, M. ‘Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car’, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 21, No. 4/5, (2004):
221-42. Special issue eds. M. Featherstone, N. Thrift and J. Urry
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10. Sheller, M. ‘Mobile Publics: Beyond the Network Perspective’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
22: 1 (February 2004): 39-52.
9. 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 (2004): 72-86.
8. Sheller, M. ‘Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole’.
Language and Intercultural Communication, 4: 1-2 (2004): 100-108.
7. Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘Mobile Transformations of “Public” and “Private” Life’, Theory, Culture and Society,
20: 3 (2003), pp. 107-125.
6. Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘The City and the Car’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 24, No.
4, (2000) pp. 737-57.
5. Sheller, M. ‘The Army of Sufferers: Peasant Democracy in the Early Republic of Haiti’ in New West Indian
Guide, Vol. 74, Nos 1&2 (2000), pp. 33-56.
4. Emirbayer, M. and Sheller, M. ‘Publics in History’, Theory and Society, 28 (1999): 145-197.
3. 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, 1999), pp. 283-301.
2. Sheller, M. ‘Quasheba, Mother, Queen: Black Women’s Public Leadership and Political Protest in Postemancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865’, Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 19, 3 (1998), pp. 90-117.
1. Sheller, M. ‘Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti’, Plantation Society
in the Americas, Vol. IV, No. 2 (1997), pp. 233-278. [Re-print in Haitian History: New Perspectives, ed. A.
Sepinwall, New York and London: Routledge, 2012].
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS - FORTHCOMING, UNDER REVIEW OR IN PRESS
6. Sheller, M. “Mobilizing Transportation, Transporting Mobilities”, Preface to Julie Cidell and David
Prytherch (eds) Transportation and Mobilities.
5. Sheller, M. ‘Mobilities’, in Debates on Mobile Communication, ed. A. de Souza e Silva (forthcoming).
4. Sheller, M. ‘Vital Methodologies: Live Methods, Mobile Art, and Research-Creation’ in Phillip Vannini, ed.,
Non-Representational Methodologies: Re-envisioning Research (in press for 2014).
3. Sheller, M. ‘Unraveling Caribbean States of (Un)Freedom and (Im)Mobility’, in Michaeline Crichlow,
Deborah Jensen, and Patricia Northover (eds) States of Freedom: Freedom of States (in press for 2014).
2. Sheller, M. ‘Globalizing Caribbean Mobilities, Caribbeanizing Global Mobilities’ in Eva Sansavoir and
Richard Scholar (eds) Caribbean Globalizations: Histories, Cultures and Genres from 1492 to the Present Day (Oxford
University Press, in press for 2014).
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1. Cook, I, Sheller, M et al.. ‘Food’s cultural geographies: texture, creativity & publics’. In Press for The New
Companion to Cultural Geography.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS – PUBLISHED
43. Sheller, M., ‘Globalizing of Bananas: Of Rhizomes, Fungi, and Mobility Systems’, in Globalization in Practice,
eds. N. Thrift, A. Tickell, S. Woolgar, and W.H. Rupp (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 223-28.
42. De Souza e Silva, A. and M. Sheller, ‘Introduction: Moving toward adjacent possibles’, in A. De Souza e
Silva and M. Sheller (eds) Mobilities and Locative Media (Routledge, 2014), pp.1-16 .
41. Sheller, M. ‘Cruising Cultures: Post-War Tourism and the Circulation of Caribbean Musical Performances,
Recordings and Representations’, in T. Rommen & D. Neely (eds) Sun, Sea and Sound: Music and Tourism in the
Circum-Caribbean (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 73-100.
40. Sheller, M. ‘Mobile Art: Out of Your Pocket’, in G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (eds) The Routledge Companion to
Mobile Media (London: Routledge, 2014), pp.197-205.
39. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Introduction’, in P. Adey, D.
Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge,
pp.1-20.
38. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Genealogies, philosophies,
approaches’, in P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of
Mobilities, London: Routledge, pp.21-24.
37. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Qualities’, in P. Adey, D. Bissell,
K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge, pp.103106.
36. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Spaces, systems, infrastructures’, in
P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London:
Routledge, pp.183-185.
35. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Materialities’, in P. Adey, D.
Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge,
pp.265-267.
34. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Subjects’, in P. Adey, D. Bissell, K.
Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge, pp.345348.
33. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Events’, in P. Adey, D. Bissell, K.
Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge, pp.439441.
32. Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (2014) ‘Methodologies’, in P. Adey, D.
Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman and M. Sheller (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London: Routledge,
pp.503-505.
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31. Sheller, M. ‘Sociology After the Mobilities Turn’ in The Handbook of Mobilities, eds. Adey, P., Bissell, D.,
Hannam, K., Merriman, P. and Sheller, M. (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 45-54.
30. Sheller, M. ‘Aluminology: An archaeology of mobile modernity’, Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the
Contemporary World, eds. P Graves-Brown, R Harrison, A Piccini (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 395-408.
29. Sheller, M. ‘Speed Metal, Slow Tropics, Cold War: Alcoa in the Caribbean’, Cultures in Motion, eds. Dan
Rodgers, Helmut Reimitz, Bhavani Raman (Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 165-193.
28. Sheller, M. ‘Epilogue: The Bodies, Spaces and Tempo of Elite Formations’. Elite Mobilities, eds. J. Caletrío
and T. Birtchnell (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).
27. Sheller M. ‘Mobile Mediality: Locations, Dislocations, Augmentation’, New Mobilities Regimes in Art and
Social Sciences, Witzgall, S., Vogl, G. & Kesselring, S. (eds.) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 309-326.
26. Sheller, M. ‘Skinning the banana trade: racial erotics and ethical consumption’, Geographies of Race and Food:
fields, bodies, markets, eds. Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013), 291-312.
25. Sheller, M. ‘Space Age Tropics’, Surveying the American Tropics: Literary Geographies from New York to Rio, eds.
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson, Lesley Wylie (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2013).
24. Sheller. M. ‘Metallic Modernities in the Space Age: Visualizing the Caribbean, Materializing the Modern’,
Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices, eds. Gillian Rose and Divya Tolia-Kelly (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2012), pp. 13-37.
23. Sheller, M. ‘Virtual Caribbeans: Edens, Economies, Elsewheres’, Technologies of Mobility in the Americas, eds.
Phillip Vannini, Lucy Budd, Christian Fisker, Paola Jiron, and Ole B. Jensen (New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, 2012), pp. 23-41.
22. Sheller, M. ‘Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: towards a twin transition’, Mobilities: New Perspectives
on Transport and Society, eds. Margaret Grieco and John Urry (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 289-304.
21. Sheller, M. ‘Materializing US-Caribbean Borders: Airports as Technologies of Communication,
Coordination and Control’, Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks, eds. J.
Packer and S. Wiley (Routledge, 2012), pp. 233-44.
20. Sheller, M. ‘The Emergence of New Cultures of Mobility: Stability, Openings, and Prospects’, in
Automobility in transition? A socio-technical analysis of sustainable transport, eds Geoff Dudley, Frank Geels, and René
Kemp (Routledge, 2011), pp. 180-202.
19. Sheller, M. ‘Creating Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice’, in Mobile / Immobile: Quels choix, quels droits pour
2030? (Paris: Forum des Vies Mobiles, 2011), pp. 113-23.
18. Sheller, M. ‘Cosmopolitanism and Mobilities’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism, eds. M.
Nowicka and M. Rovisco (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 349-365.
17. Sheller, M. ‘Foreword’, Mobile Methodologies, eds. Ben Fincham, Mark McGuinness, and Lesley Murray
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
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16. Sheller, M. ‘Mobility, Freedom and Place’, in The Ethics of Mobilities: Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and
Environment, eds. Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 25-38.
15. Sheller, M., ‘Epilogue’ to Gendered Mobilities, eds. Tanu P. Uteng and Tim Cresswell (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2008), pp. 257-66.
14. Sheller, M., ‘Always Turned On: Atlantic City as America’s Accursed Share’, in A. Cronin and K.
Hetherington (eds) Consuming the Entrepreneurial City (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 107-126.
13. Sheller, M., ‘Work that Body: Sexual Citizenship and Embodied Freedom’, in H. Henke and K-H
Magister (eds) Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2007), pp. 345-376.
12. Sheller, M., ‘Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance’ in Janet Momsen and Jean Besson (eds)
Caribbean Land and Development Revisited (Oxford and London: Macmillan, 2007), pp. 207-28.
11. Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities’, Introduction to M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds)
Mobile Technologies of the City (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 1-17.
10. Sheller, M., ‘Acting as Free Men: The Performance of Masculinity Among Free and Indentured Men in
Post-emancipation Jamaica’ in Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, eds. Pamela Scully and Diana
Paton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. 79-98.
9. Sheller, M., ‘“You signed my name but not my Feet”: Paradoxes of Peasant Resistance and State Control in
Post-Revolutionary Haiti’, in Gad Heuman and David Trotman (eds) Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in
the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (Oxford: Macmillan, 2005), pp. 87-103.
8. Urry, J. and Sheller, M.,‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’, Reprint in Mobilites.net: Villes, transports et technologies
face aux nouvelles mobilités, eds. Daniel Kaplan, Hubert Lafont, Frank Beau (LGDJ, 2004).
7. Sheller, M. and Urry, J., ‘Places to Play, Places in Play’, Introduction to M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds) Tourism
Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 1-10.
6. Sheller, M., ‘Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Caribbean’, in M. Sheller and J. Urry (eds) Tourism
Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 13-21.
5. Sheller, M., ‘Natural Hedonism: The Invention of the Caribbean as Tropical Playground’ in Tourism in the
Caribbean: Trends, Developments, Prospects, ed. David Duval (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 23-38.
Also reprint in Beyond Blood, Bananas and Beaches, ed. Sandra Courtman (Kingston: Ian Randle)
4. Sheller, M. and J.Urry, ‘The City and the Cybercar’, in Steve Graham, ed., The Cybercities Reader (New York
and London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 167-72.
3. Sheller, M. and J. Urry, ‘The City and the Car’, Reprint in Amanda Root, ed., Delivering Sustainable Transport
(Oxford: Elsevier, 2003), pp. 171-89.
2. Sheller, M. ‘Creolization in Discourses of Global Culture’ in Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and
Migration, S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A. Fortier, M. Sheller (eds) (Oxford/New York: Berg, 2003), pp. 273-94.
1. S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A. Fortier, M. Sheller, ‘Introduction: Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of
Home and Migration’ (Ahmed, Castaneda, Fortier and Sheller) in Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and
Migration, S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A. Fortier, M. Sheller (eds) (Oxford and NY: Berg, 2003), pp. 1-19.
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REVIEW ESSAYS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES, REPORTS, ETC.
25. FA Montalto, PL Gurian, M Piasecki, M Sheller, H Galada, S O'Connor, T Ayalew, (2013) Supporting
Haitian Infrastructure Reconstruction Decisions with Local Knowledge: A Case Study Focusing on Water and Sanitation in
Leogane, Final Report on NSF Haiti-RAPID No. 1032184.
24. Mom, G., Clarsen, G., Merriman, P., Seiler, C., Sheller, M. and Weber, H., ‘Editorial’, Transfers, Vol. 3, No.
1, (2013), pp. 1-5.
23. Merriman, P. et al. ‘Mobility: Geographies, Histories, Sociologies’, Transfers, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2013) A
discussion between Peter Merriman, Rhys Jones, Tim Cresswell, Colin Divall, Gijs Mom, Mimi Sheller, and John Urry.
22. Sheller, M. (in press) ‘Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice’, submitted for The Right of Mobility, eds.
Vincent Kaufmann and Vincent Stephanie (Les Ateliers de l’édition).
21. Sheller, M. (2013) “Mobile Mediality II: Locative Mobile Gaming”, FlowTV, Vol. 17, No. 05 (January
2013), http://flowtv.org/2013/01/locative-mobile-gaming/
20. Sheller, M. (2012) “Mobile Mediality”,
http://flowtv.org/2012/11/mobile-mediality/
FlowTV,
Vol.
17,
No.
01
(November
2012),
19. Sheller, M. (2012) ‘Mobilities and Globalization’, The Encyclopedia of Globalization, Vol. III. ed. George
Ritzer, pp. 1425-28.
18. Sheller, M. (2011) ‘Mobility’, Sociopedia (an online database published by the International Sociological
Association with ‘state-of-the-art’ entries in social sciences).
17. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (for the National Science Foundation), “The 12 January 2010
Haiti Earthquake: Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities” (Oakland, CA: EERI, November 2010),
Technical editors: Marc Eberhard, Mimi Sheller, Reginald DesRoches, Marjorie Greene.
16. Sheller, M. (2011) ‘Consumer Culture, the Caribbean and the Slave Trade’ Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture,
ed. Dale Southerton (Routledge).
15. Cook, I., Hobson, K., Hallett, L., Guthman,J., Murphy, A., Hulme, A., Sheller, M. et al., (2010)
‘Geographies of Food: Afters’, Progress in Human Geography, 35 (1): 104-120.
14. Sheller, M. ‘Haiti’, The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Caribbean Series: The
Caribbean Diaspora, Vol. 1, ed. Robert A. Hill (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
13. Sheller, M., ‘Jamaica, peasant rebellions, 19th century’, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest:
1500 to the Present, ed. Immanuel Ness (Blackwell, 2009).
12. Sheller, M., ‘Haiti, protest and rebellion, 19th century’, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest:
1500 to the Present, ed. Immanuel Ness (Blackwell, 2009).
11. Sheller, M., ‘Transatlantic’, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift,
Volume 1, (Oxford: Elsevier, 2009), pp. 345–349.
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10. Sheller, M., ‘Re-Touching the “Untouched Island”: Post-Military Tourism in Vieques, Puerto Rico’, Téoros,
26: 1 (Spring 2007): 21-28.
9. Sheller, M., ‘Jamaican-Haitian Relations in the Nineteenth Century: The Origins of Trans-Caribbean Black
Radicalism’, Jamaica Historical Review, 2007, pp. 37-49.
8. Sheller, M., ‘Haiti and British Relations’, Oxford Companion to Black British Literature, eds. David Dabydeen
and John Gilmore (Oxford University Press, 2006).
7. Sheller, M., ‘The Caribbean’, in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, 2nd Edition, ed.
William Darity (Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), pp. 447-49.
6. Sheller, M., ‘Towards a Caribbean Cultural Political Economy’, a Review Article on Shalini Puri, The
Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Joy
Mahabir, Miraculous Weapons: Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture (Peter Lang, 2003), in New West Indian
Guide, 80: 1&2 (2006): 91-95.
5. Sheller, M., ‘Citizenship and the Making of Caribbean Freedom’, in NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol.
38, No. 4 (Jan./Feb. 2005): 30-34.
4. Sheller, M., ‘Tourism’, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, eds. Prem Poddar and David
Johnson (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), pp. 460-61.
3. Sheller, M., ‘Morant Bay Uprising’, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, eds. Prem
Poddar and David Johnson (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), pp. 324-25.
2. Sheller, M., ‘Haiti’ and ‘Slave Narratives’, The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jennifer
Speake (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003).
1. Sheller, M., ‘Beyond Post-emancipation Studies?’ in Slavery and Abolition, 22: 2 (2001): 119-125. (Review
article)
PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS
17. Review of David Boxer & Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaica in Black and White: Photography in Jamaica c.1845c.1920: The David Boxer Collection. Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2013. In press for New West Indian Guide.
16. Review of Tim Cresswell and Peter Merriman (eds) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects, for
Progress in Human Geography (forthcoming).
15. Review of Perspectives on Mobility. Edited by Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland (Amsterdam and New
York: Rodopi 2013) in Cultural Geographies 21:3 (2014): 538-9.
14. Review of Kate Ramsey, The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, in Slavery and Abolition 34:1 (2013):
179-82.
13. Review of Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Johnson Osirim (eds) Global Philadelphia: Immigrant Communities Old
and New (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010) for Contemporary Sociology.
12. Review of Saolo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring and John Urry (eds) Aeromobilities (Ashgate), in Time and Society.
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11. Review of Matthew J. Smith, Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957
(University of North Carolina Press, 2009), in The Americas, 66: 3 (2010): 413-15.
10. Review of David Lambert, White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition (Cambridge
University Press, 2005), in Cultural Geography 16 (1): 138.
9. Review of David P. Geggus, The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (University of South
Carolina Press, 2001)
8. Review of J. Goodwin, J. Jasper and F. Polletta, Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements, in Sociological
Review, 51: 1 (2003): 157-59.
7. Review of P. Hulme, Remnants of Conquest, in Cultural Geographies, 9: 4 (2002): 489-91.
6. Review of Robert Asen and Daniel C. Brouwer (eds) Counterpublics and the State, in Social Movement Studies.
5. Review of Daniel Miller (ed.), Car Cultures, in The Journal of Consumer Culture 2: 1(March 2002): 142-4.
4. Review of Reyita, in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 9: 1 (2002): 95-6.
3. Review of Hilary M. Beckles, Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society, in Slavery and
Abolition (December 2000).
2. Review of David B. Gaspar and David P. Geggus (eds) A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater
Caribbean, in International Labor and Working-Class History 54 (Fall 1998): 173-75.
1. Review of Michael Craton, Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean, in Slavery and Abolition 19: 3 (Dec.
1998): 161-3.
III.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2002
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award: Democracy After Slavery
1997
David J. Nicholls Memorial Prize, Society for Caribbean Studies
1997
Albert Salomon Memorial Award, New School for Social Research
1990-93
Eberstadt Prize Fellowship, New School for Social Research
1988
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Senior Thesis, Harvard University
1988
Oliver Dabney Award in History and Literature, Harvard University
1984-88
Harvard College, John Harvard, and Elizabeth Agassiz Scholarships
IV.
FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
09/2014
Invited Master Class on Mobilities and Locative Media for the Project for Advanced Research
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in Global Communication (PARGC) at The Annenberg School of Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, PA
10/2011
Invited Lecturer: International Association for Traffic Transport and Mobility (T2M)
Summer School ‘The Passenger: Mobility and Modernity’, Berlin, 9/30-10/6, 2011,
Volkswagen Foundation funding, Germany
2010-11
Penn Humanities Forum Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, PA
10/09
Beaverbrook Visiting Professor, Media@McGill, McGill University, Montreal, CA
2008, Fall
Visiting Fellow, Shelby Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, NJ
9/08
Visiting Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark (two weeks)
2006-07
Faculty Research Fund, Swarthmore College
2005-09
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, PA
2005-12
Senior Research Fellow, Lancaster University, UK
2004
Lancaster University, UK, Research Sabbatical
2003
Lancaster University Small Research Grants funding for CeMoRe Seminar Series
2003
Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences, Lancaster
University, funding for Mobile Communications Workshop
2001
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Extension of Sabbatical
2000
Faculty of Social Sciences Research Initiatives Fund, Lancaster University
1999
The British Academy, Research Grant for ‘Consuming the Caribbean’
1997-98
DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Center for African and Afroamerican Studies, University of Michigan
1995-96
MacArthur Program in Global Change & Liberalism Fellow
1994-95
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, England
1994-95
Elinor G. Black Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research
1993
Dissertation research grant, Janey Program Latin America and the Caribbean
V.
MANAGERIAL, EDITORIAL AND BOARD POSITIONS
2014-
Adjunct Editor, Explorations in Mobility, Berghahn Books Series
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2014-
Advisory Board, Island Topologies and Topographies Book Series, Rowman & Littlefield
2013-
Executive Committee Member, and 2014 Conference Program Committee Chair,
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
2012-
Associate Editor, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
2012-
Associate Editor, Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled (a new Springer journal).
2012-13
Co-Director of City Scale Projects, ExCITe Center, Drexel University
2011-
International Advisor, Routledge Book Series, Changing Mobilities, eds. M. Büscher , P. Adey
2011-
Scientific Board, Forum Vies Mobiles (Mobile Lives Forum), SNCF, France
Twice yearly meetings of board in Paris; contribution to online platforms; and serve on
steering committee of two major research projects funded by the Forum.
2006-
Editorial board, Cultural Sociology (including 2010 Prize Selection Committee)
2006-
Editorial board, International Journal of African and Black Diaspora Studies
2006-9
Board of Advisors, Encyclopedia of the Caribbean
2005-
Founding Co-editor of the journal Mobilities, Taylor & Francis
• Co-editor of four issues per year, including soliciting article submissions, assigning
referees, deciding on revisions, copy editing, proofing
• Serve as internal referee for up to two Special Issues per year
• Recently recognized in the Thomson & Reuters Social Science Citation Index
2005-
Editorial board of the Networked Cities book series, Routledge
2005
Advisory Editor, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, eds. Prem
Poddar and David Johnson (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
2002-04
Founding Co-Director, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster University
2000-04
Convenor of the Mobilities Reading Group and the CeMoRe Seminar Series
2003-04
Chair, Society for Caribbean Studies, UK; and Vice-Chair, 2002-03.
2003
Contributor to Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers, Caribbean Series (Univ. of California)
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VI.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Drexel University, 2010-2014
COM690
Special Topic: Mobile Media and Digital Mobilities
Graduate Course
W 2014
6 students
CIVC299
Urban Vitality and the Arts
Sp 2013
14 students
SOC 212
Science and Technology Studies
F 2011
10 students
SOC210
Race and Ethnic Relations
Great Works Symposium
Pennoni Honors College
Global Cities
(co-taught w/ M. Fortner, S.G. Knowles)
Sp 2014
Sp 2013
Sp 2012
Sp 2011
Sp 2010
W 2011
16 students
20 students
25 students
20 students
30 students
36 students
COM801-501
(Graduate Course)
Contemporary Social Theory:
The New Mobilities Paradigm
F 2010
12 students
SOC380.001
Mobilities: cities on the move
W 2010
9 students
ANTH212.002
Topics in World Ethnography:
The Caribbean
Su. 2010
18 students
Swarthmore College, 2005-2009
SOAN010P
SOAN 030K
Race and Ethnicity in the USA
Forest of Symbols (1st Yr Seminar)
Mobilities (Senior Seminar)
Producing and Consuming the Caribbean
SOAN 010M
Food, Bodies and Power
Global Sociology, Postcolonial World
SOAN 030
SOAN 030J
Race, Sexuality and Public Culture
Race, Gender and Nation
2009
2007, 2009
2009
2005, 2006,
2007
2006, 2007
2005, 2006,
2007
2006
2005
24 students
13
6
20-25
21-22
5-8
14
20
Lancaster University, 1998-04
SOCL 208
SOCL 243
SOCL 301
WS 101
Postgrad
Postgrad
Women in Society
Race Relations and Social Change
Historical Data (short module)
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Contemporary Debates in Sociology
(Core course, MA in Sociology)
Theories of the World System, Globalization, and
Post-Colonialism
(Core Course, MA in Contemporary Sociology)
15
1998-2004
1998-2004
2001, 2002
2002-2004
40-50 students
50-60 students
54 students
40 students
10-12 students
1999-2002
8-10 students
Ph.D. Supervision
• PhD Committee Member, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University:
o
o
•
•
Jim Malazita: Ontic Cultures: The Role of Ontology in the Digital Design Community
Candice Roberts: Everybody's Living Room: CouchSurfing and Hybrid Sociality
Lancaster University: Joint supervision of three PhD Students, with two completing in 2004
Served on four PhD review panels per year, Lancaster University, UK
Ph.D. Examination
• Internal examiner for three PhD dissertations, Lancaster University, UK
• External examiner for international PhD dissertations (Lancaster University, UK 7/2013;
University of Toronto, Canada 6/2004; Dublin City University, Ireland, 6/2005; Monash
University, Australia, 9/2008; Royal Holloway, University of London, 10/2011)
MA and Postdoctoral Supervision
• 2011-13: Postdoctoral Supervisor: Tamara Vukov, “Border Refusals in Fortress North
America and Europe: Mobilities Research and Investigations into Border Regions”, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada ($85,000 award).
• MA Committee Member, MA in Industrial Design, University of the Arts, Philadelphia:
o 2011-12: Dominic Prestifilippo & Nicolas Coia, MA Thesis on Shifting Bicycling Policy in
Philadelphia
o 2010-11: Woodburn MacDuffie & Michael Barakat, MA thesis project on
Redesigning Public Space in the Grand Concourse in Philadelphia.
Undergraduate Research Supervision at Drexel
• Supervised CoAS Humanities Fellow Niacka Carty in Summer Term 2013
• Supervised CoAS Humanities Fellow Adam Zahn in Summer Term 2010
• Co-authored papers with Steve O’Connor, RA on NSF-Haiti RAPID grant, 2010-11
• REU Engineering Cities, Faculty Advisor for student Teri Price in Summer 2011
• Supervised a Steinbright Research Co-Op Student Fall-Winter 2011-2012
Teaching Administration
2003-04
Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences Postgraduate Teaching Committee,
Lancaster University, UK
2000-04
MA Director, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
1999-00
Convenor of MA in Contemporary Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
Professional Accreditation and Development
2/11
Mobile Apps for Academe, sponsored by Apple Inc., at Drexel University
Fall 2010
Academic Portfolio Workshop, Drexel University
9/09
Innovation in Information Technology in Teaching Workshops, Drexel University
5/07
Teaching in Diverse Classrooms: Workshop on the Intersection of Diversity,
Identity and Pedagogy, Swarthmore College, USA
9-10/01/01 Effective Postgraduate Supervision Course, Warwick University, UK
12/12/01
Faculty of Social Science Postgraduate Supervisory Forum, Lancaster University
2000-02
Completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher
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Education, Lancaster University, with SEDA Accreditation
VII.
CONFERENCE, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
2013-14
Chair of the Program Committee for International Association for History of Transport,
Traffic & Mobility, 12th Annual Conference, Sept. 18-21, 2014, Drexel University.
10/13
Co-organizer of Fuller in Phila Symposium at the ExCITe Center, Drexel University.
5/13
Organizing Committee for “Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked
Societies”, 4th Annual Pan-American Mobilities Network Conference, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
5/12
Organizing Committee for Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference 2012,
Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
3/12
Organizing Committee for “Local and Mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication
and locative media”, North Carolina State University, a joint international conference of the
Pan-American Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network, and the 3rd annual
research symposium of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at
North Carolina State University.
2/12
Co-organizer (w/ Sven Kesselring and Ole Jensen) of session on “Utopian/Dystopian
Mobilities” at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York.
2/12
Co-organizer (w/ Hana Iverson) of session “Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network
Culture in Place Making”, College Arts Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles.
3/11
Conference organizer and host: “Mobilities in Motion: New Approaches to Emergent and
Future Mobilities”, Drexel University (a major international conference of the Pan-American
Mobilities Network and Cosmobilities Network with 70 participants from 12 countries).
9/10
Co-leader of the steering committee of the National Science Foundation’s Haiti-RAPID
workshop, held at NSF in Arlington, VA, September 30th-October 1st, 2010. Organized
program, Chaired sessions, Co-authored final report: Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute (for the National Science Foundation), “The 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake:
Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities” (Oakland, CA: EERI, November 2010),
Technical editors: Marc Eberhard, Mimi Sheller, Reginald DesRoches, Marjorie Greene.
4/10
Organized and hosted the Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Mobilities Research and
Policy, Drexel University, with three international keynote speakers.
4/10
Co-organized double session on “Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice” at
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
2009-11
Organizer of the Mobilities Visiting Speaker Series (mCenter @ Drexel), with two to three
invited speakers per term.
07/04
Co-organizer of the Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, Lancaster
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University, an international conference with over 70 participants
01/04
Co-organizer of Alternative Mobility Futures, a major international conference
(100 participants) sponsored by CeMoRe, Lancaster University
01/04
Co-organizer of the Mobile Communications Workshop, funded by the Institute
for Advanced Study in Management and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
2003-04
Coordinator of the CeMoRe Seminar Series, including an inaugural workshop on Mobilities,
Migration and Identities (10/03)
2000-03
Co-founder and organizer of the Caribbean Research Seminar in the North, a UK-based
inter-disciplinary research network in Caribbean Studies
1999-02
Co-organizer of the Mobilities Group at Lancaster University
1999-01
Coordinator of the Lancaster Institute for Women’s Studies Open Seminar series
1999-00
Co-organizer of the Institute for Women’s Studies 2000 Seminar Series and Dayschool:
‘Uprootings/Re-groundings: Questions of Home and Migration’
VIII.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
*27/03/14
Invited Lecture: ‘Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World’, PARGC Colloquium,
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
*24/03/14
Invited Lecture: ‘Sexual Citizenship and a Queer Caribbean’, Rutgers University, Critical
Caribbean Studies Series, New Brunswick, NJ
*10/09/13
Invited Lecture: “Towards Transnational Mobility Justice: Caribbean Mobilities and Global
Erotics”, Yale University, Series on Transnational feminist research and its theoretical paradigms,
New Haven, CT
*10/04/13
Participant in the Review Workshop on Sustainable Exuma, Harvard Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge, MA, with the Government of the Bahamas
*9/06/13
Keynote Address: “Mobility in the Time of Cholera”, CeMoRe 10th Anniversary Conference,
Lancaster University, UK
*8/27/13
“Elite mobilities: Bodies, Spaces, Infrastructures”, University of Macau, SAR, China
*8/23/13
“Aluminum’s Global Flows: Material Traces of the Atlantic World’s Demise”, Atlantic Studies:
Global Connections Symposium, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, China
5/13
“Mobility Capability: Social Justice and Counter-Geographies of Movement”, Differential
Mobilities, 4th Annual Conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network, Concordia
University, Canada
*04/13
“Aluminum Wars”, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Research Seminars
(* = by invitation of host organization)
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*14/12/12
Workshop on Land and Agriculture in Haiti, The Haiti Lab, Duke University, NC
*1/12/12
“Repeating Archives: Morant Bay, Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley and Me”, Against Recovery:
Slavery, Freedom and the Archive, American History Workshop, CLACS, History, with CUNY
Graduate Center, New York University, NY
*17/11/12
Plenary Roundtable: International Association of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Annual
Conference, Madrid, Spain
*11/09/12
Plenary Panel: “The Islanding Effect”, Panel on Haiti, Tourism and Diaspora, Haitian Studies
Association Annual Meeting, York University, NY
*10/24/12
“The Black Diaspora and a Queer Caribbean Freedom”, Center for Black Diaspora, Depaul
University, Chicago
*07/5-7/12
Keynote Address: Moving Boundaries in Mobilities Research Conference, University of
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
*06/30/12
Plenary Panel: The Caribbean Studies Association 37th Annual Conference, Guadeloupe, FWI
*05/23-24/12
Keynote Address: Mobile Communication, Community and Locative Media: From the
Everyday to the Revolutionary, 2012 International Communication Association PreConference Workshop, Phoenix, AZ
*05/08/12
“Mobile Methodologies for Future Transitions” presented to the Mobile Methods PhD
Course, Aalborg University, Denmark
*05/04/12
“Virtual Caribbeans” presented to the Caribbean Globalizations Seminar, Oriel College,
University of Oxford, England
*04/17/12
“Metallic Modernities in the Space Age: Visualizing the Caribbean, Materializing the
Modern”, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, NJ
03/17/12
“LA Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking”, Local and Mobile: linking mobilities,
mobile communication and locative media, 3rd Joint International Conference of the Pan-American
Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network, and Annual Communication, Rhetoric
and Digital Media (CRDM) Research Symposium, North Carolina State University
2/28/12
Discussant and co-organizer for the panel “Utopian/Dystopian Mobilities” at the Association
of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY
2/22-25/12
Co-chair and Introduction to the double session “The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture
in Place Making”, College Arts Association Centennial Conference, Los Angeles, CA
*10/20/11
Invited Lecturer in the International Association for Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M)
Summer School on “The Passenger: Mobility and Modernity”, Berlin, 9/30-10/6, 2011; and
Presenting “Speed Metal: from Streamline to Airstream” at the T2M Conference “Transport
and Mobility on Display”, 6-9 Oct. 2011, Berlin, Germany.
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*06/6/11
Keynote Address: “Place Pulse: Mobile Orientations, Sentient Cities, New Media Ecologies”,
at Symposium New alliances – body, nature and social relations, Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark.
*29/4/11
Keynote Address: “Mobile Art: Locating Mobile Network Culture” at the conference NetCultures: Mobility and Location in Social Networks, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
12/4/11
“Theorizing Aeromobilities on the US-Caribbean Border”, presented in session on
“Geographies of Everyday (Im)mobilities” at the Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
*7/4/11
“The Emergence of New Cultures of Mobility”, invited lecture at the Rudin Center for
Transportation Policy & Management, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,
New York University, NY
*1/4/11
“You Signed My Name but Not my Feet: Unsilencing the Haitian Past”, A Workshop in
Honor of Robin Blackburn, at The New School for Social Research, NY
*28/2/11
Distinguished Lecture, “Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice”, University
Transportation Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
*17-21/11/10
“Open Skies and Closed Borders: The Production of Airports as ‘Soft Walls’ on the USCaribbean Border”, Executive Session of the American Anthropological Association’s
Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA
11-13/11/10
‘Supporting Haitian Infrastructure Reconstruction Decisions with Local Knowledge: A Case
Study Focusing on Water and Sanitation in Leogane’, Haitian Studies Association Annual
Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI
*27-29/10/10
Keynote Address: “Mobile Mediality: Putting Place in Motion” at the Cosmobilities Network
Annual Conference, at University of Aalborg, Denmark
*15/10/10
“Air Mobilities on the US-Caribbean Border” invited talk to the Latitudes Group at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
*7/10/10
“Automobility in Transition”, invited talk at the University of Delaware’s School of Urban
Affairs and Public Policy, Newark, Delaware
*27-29/08/10
Keynote Address: “Caribbean Aeromobility: Offshore Economies, Mobile Technologies, and
Changing Island Spatiality” at the International Geographical Union’s Island Studies
Conference, Isle of Ven, Sweden
27/05/10
‘Space Age Tropics’, Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Barbados
21/04/10
‘Mobile Futures: New approaches in mobilities research and public policy’, Dean’s
Seminar in the College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University
18/04/10
‘Cultural Transitions Towards New Mobility Systems: Beyond Transport Geography?’
at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
*10-12/04/10
Keynote Address, ‘Caribbean Mobilities: Postcolonial Mobile Subjects in a Denationalizing
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Digitized World’ at Pan-American Mobilities Network Conference: Cultures of Movement:
Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas at Royal Roads University,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
*25/03/10
‘Space Age Tropics: Aluminum Dreams and Divergent Modernities in the Caribbean’,
invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh, PA
*05/03/10
Keynote Address: ‘Broken Borders: Caribbean Mobilities, (Im)Mobile Technologies and
Fractured Spatialities’, University of Miami, conference on Global Caribbean(s)
2/12/09
‘Space Age Tropics: Producing US-Caribbean Modernities via Aluminum’s Visual Culture’,
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
*19/11/09
‘Space Age Tropics: Aluminum, Mobility and Caribbean Modernity’ invited talk at Bucknell
University, PA
*25/10/09
Roundtable on ‘Race, Space and Cultural Studies’, Canadian Association for Cultural Studies
Conference, Montreal, CA
*16/10/09
‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Media, Mobility and Tourism’ Media@McGill
Keynote Public Lecture, Montreal, CA
*25-26/9/09
‘Open Skies and Caribbean Flows: Materializing Airports, Border Surveillance and
Offshore Economies, Symposium on Materializing Rhetoric and Communication, North
Carolina State University, USA
9-11/7/09
‘Space Age Tropics: Visual Imaginaries of Aluminium and Divergent Materialities of
Modernism’, Workshop on Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and
Practice,
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
6/7/09
‘Out of the Ground, Into the Sky: Tropical Bauxite, Space Age Modernization, and
the Caribbean Struggle for Resource Sovereignty’, American Tropics Conference, Essex
University, Colchester, UK
3/6/09
‘ALCOA Cruises the Caribbean: Visual Cultures of Bauxite Mining During the
Caribbean Struggle for Resource Sovereignty’, Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies
Association, Kingston, Jamaica
*14-16/5/09
“Engendering Anti-Slavery Practices: Sugar Boycotts, Female Embodiment and the
Invention of Ethical Consumption” invited presentation to the workshop on “The Gender of
Humanitarian Narrative”, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
24-27/3/09
‘Metallic Mobility and the Making of Modernity: From Aluminum Dreams to Aluminum
Wars’, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, USA
*5/12/08
‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’, Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Culture and
Communication, Drexel University
*21/11/08
‘Out of the Ground, Into the Sky: How Aluminum Put the World in Motion, Davis Center
for Historical Studies Seminar Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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*16-17/10/08
‘The Art of Mobility’, Keynote Address, Cosmobilities Network Conference: Tracing the
New Mobilities Regimes, Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.
*15/09/08
‘Architectures of Complex Mobility in Island-Space’, Keynote Address for the launch of the
Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark.
*11-12/09/08
‘Sim-City-Sur-Mer: Virtual Islands, Tourism Mobilities and the Offshore Caribbean’,
Conference on Luxury Tourism in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Lancaster
University, England.
11/07/08
‘Alchemy at the Crossroads: Mining the Savage Slot in the Space Age’, International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Kingston, Jamaica.
*28/09/07
‘Gender and Freedom After the Haitian Revolution’, French Atlantic History Workshop,
Université de Montreal, Quebec.
11-14/08/07
‘Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity and the New Caribbean Spatiality”, Annual Meeting
of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY
*02/07/07
‘Virtual Islands’, Urban Salon Workshop, Open University, London, UK
16/04/07
‘Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities, and the New Architecture of
Natural Paradise’, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San
Francisco, USA
5-8/07/06
‘Work That Body: Sexual Citizenship, Embodied Freedom and Erotic Autonomy’, Society
for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, London, UK
*14-17/06/06
‘Mobility and Freedom’, Mobility Symposium, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology; Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, Trondheim, Norway
14/03/06
‘Mobility Systems, Urban Disasters and the Re-Scaling of New Orleans’, Paper presented at
the Association of American Geographer’s Annual Meeting, Chicago.
16/08/05
American Sociological Association, Roundtable in Race and Ethnicity.
29/06/05
‘Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance’, Society for Caribbean Studies Annual
Conference, Newcastle, UK
*18/04/05
‘Citizenship from Below: Popular Publics and ‘Vulgar’ Bodies in the Making of Caribbean
Democracy’, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology, Swarthmore College
07/03/05
‘The Caribbean and the West: Democracy, Ethics, and Citizenship’, Job talk presented to
Dept. of African and African American Studies, Duke University
*01/03/05
‘Breaking Methods: Writing histories of gender and slavery’, London Group of Historical
Geographers, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
*24/02/05
‘The Ethical Banana: markets, migrants and globalization’ invited to present to
‘Globalization in Practice: STS perspectives on the every day life of globalization’ Visiting
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Speaker Series, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK
15/02/05
‘Global and Local Mobilities in the Making of Caribbean Space and Place’,
Progam in Latin American Studies Seminars, Princeton University, NJ
*28/01/05
‘Citizenship from Below’, two invited talks at University of Toronto, Canada.
* 12/04
‘Returning the Tourist Gaze’, presented to the Latitudes Group, Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (12/04)
*11/04
‘Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Caribbean: Recent and Future Research Agendas’, job
talk presented to the Sociology departments at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and
Rutgers University, NJ, USA
*09/04
‘Presencing the Past: Writing Histories of Gender and Slavery’, AHRB Research Centre in
Law, Gender and Sexuality: ‘Text and Terrain: Legal Studies in Gender and Sexuality’,
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
08/04
‘Returning the Tourist Gaze’, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, USA.
*06/04
Invited commentator at ‘The Haitian Revolution After 200 Years’ conference at
the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
*05/04
‘Consuming the Caribbean: Global Mobilities and Ethical Consumption in the
Atlantic World’ presented to Sociology Colloquium, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
*05/04
Invited to present and moderate a symposium on my book ‘Consuming the Caribbean’,
sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the English Department, and Caribbean Literary Studies
at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
*04/04
Invited speaker at ‘The Haitian Revolution in Global Context: A Bicentennial
Commemoration’, sponsored by the Africana Studies and Research Center and The Society
for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
03/04
‘Automotive Emotions: Emotional Geographies of the Car’, Annual Conference
of the American Association of Geographers, Philadelphia, USA
*02/04
‘Consuming the Caribbean’, Invited speaker in Seminar Series of the Department
of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK
*01/04
‘Consuming the Caribbean’ Invited speaker in Seminar Series of the Department of
Sociology, City University, London, UK
01/04
Alternative Mobility Futures: Conference Organizer and Commentator,
Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK
12/03
‘Oraliteracy, Opacity and Otherness: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of
Caribbean Creole’, Conference of the International Association of Language and Intercultural
Communication, Lancaster University, UK. Also presented at ‘The Caribbean Unbound’
Conference, Franklin College, Switzerland (04/03)
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*11/03
‘Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Caribbean’, Invited to Postcolonial and Americas
Research Group, University of Newcastle, UK; and given in CeMoRe workshop: Mobilities,
Migrations and Identities, Lancaster University (10/03)
*2/03
‘Breaking Methods’, presented to the ‘Things that can’t quite speak’ workshop, Centre for
Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK
*11/02
‘Creolisation in Discourses of Global Culture: Migrant Theorists, Grounded Theory’
presented to the ‘Exploring the Diaspora’ Seminar Series, Department of Sociology,
University of Manchester (organizer Sheila Rowbotham), UK
*10/02
‘Returning the Tourist Gaze in the Caribbean: Gender and Racial Perspectives’, Centre for
Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, UK
*4/02
‘Mobile Publics: Decoupling, Contingency, and the Local/Global Gel’, workshop on ‘Absent
Presence: Localities, Globalities, and Method’, Sponsored by the Centre for Science Studies,
Lancaster, and Nokia Phones, Helsinki, Finland
*2/02
Invited participant in the ESRC Mobile Network seminar on the impact of new
communications technologies on transportation, Cambridge University
*12/01
‘Ethical Consumption, Transnational Publics, and the Cannibalisation of the Caribbean’
presented to the Department of Sociology, Reading University, UK
11/01
‘Iconic Islands: The Invention of Caribbean Nature and Landscapes’ presented to the Social
and Cultural History Seminar, Lancaster University, UK
10-11/09/01
‘Creole Connections and the Making of Botanical Knowledge’ presented to the
Ethnographies of ‘The Centre’ Workshop, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster
2-4/07/01
‘Natural Hedonism: The Invention of the Caribbean as Tropical Playground’ Society for
Caribbean Studies Conference, University of Nottingham, UK
5-8/06/01
‘Theoretical Piracy on the High Seas of Global Culture: Appropriations of Creolization in the
Discourses of Globalization’, (Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture Conference, University of the
West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
*14/05/01
& 9/05/01
‘From Sweet Tooth to Banana Wars: Northern Consumption of the Caribbean’
presented to the Institute for Commonwealth Studies Caribbean Seminar Series, London; and
the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK
26/01/01
‘Orienting the Caribbean’, Caribbean Research Seminar in the North, Lancaster Univ., UK
3-5/11/00
‘The Mechanisms of Mobility and Liquidity: Re-thinking the Movement in Social
Movements’, presented to conference of the ISA/BSA study group on protest and social
movements, Manchester; and to the Mobilities Group, Lancaster, UK
12-16/8/00
‘Mobility and the Transformation of “Public” and “Private” Life’, (w/ J. Urry), Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.
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*5-6/7/00
‘You signed my name but not my feet: The Paradoxes of Peasant Resistance to
State Control in Post-Revolutionary Haiti’, workshop on Control & Resistance in Postemancipation Societies, Centre for Caribbean Studies University of Warwick
*22-25/6/00
‘From Social Networks to Social Flows: Re-thinking the Movement in Social Movements’,
presented to international workshop on ‘Social Movement Analysis: The Network
Perspective’, Loch Lomond, Scotland.
*5-6/5/00
‘The City and the Car’ (co-author J. Urry) presented to ‘Mobilizing Forces: Social and
Cultural Aspects of Automobility’, Workshop in Göteborg, Sweden
16-19/3/00
‘Haitian Influences on Afro-Jamaican Radical Activism in the Nineteenth Century’, Latin
American Studies Association Conference, Miami, USA
10/3/00
‘Breaking Methods in Historical Research’ presented to workshop at Institute for
Commonwealth Studies, London, UK
18-21/08/99
‘The Haytian Fear: European Racial Projects and Competing Reactions to the First Black
Republic’, European Sociological Association, Amsterdam, NL
11-17/04/99
‘The Army of Sufferers: Black Publics and Peasant Rebellion in Post-Revolution Haiti’,
Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Havana, Cuba
01/12/98
‘Mapping Multiple Publics as Interstitial Processes’, Sociology Departmental Seminar,
Lancaster University, UK
*24/11/98
‘Black Publics and Peasant Rebellion in Post-Revolutionary Haiti’, Centre for
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series, University of Warwick, UK
2/98
‘The Political Sociology of Afro-Caribbean Societies: A Cultural Perspective’ Department of
Sociology Seminar Series, University of Michigan, USA
10/97
‘Quasheba, Mother, Queen: Black Women’s Public Leadership and Political
Protest in Postemancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865’, CAAS Faculty Colloquium (Working Paper
Series #42), University of Michiganm USA
8/97
‘The “Haytian Fear”: Narratives and Networks in the Construction of Race’,
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Toronto, Canada)
8/97
‘Peasants and Politics in Post-slavery Societies’ presented at Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association (Toronto, Canada)
1996
‘Publics in History: A Programmatic Statement’ (with Mustafa Emirbayer) presented at Social
Science History Association Meeting (New Orleans; Oct. 10-13, 1996); Annual Meeting of
the American Sociological Association (New York, 1996); and to Theory and Culture
Seminar, Princeton University (March 1996)
9/96
‘Black Women’s Public Leadership and Political Protest in Postemancipation
Jamaica, 1834-1865’, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York,
USA
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7/96
‘Nationhood, Brotherhood, & Manhood in the Republic of Haiti in the 19th Century’,
Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies (London, UK)
IX.
UNIVERSITY, PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2014
Organizer/facilitator of Drexel Cyber Infrastructure research design Charrettes 3/6/14
Society, Energy and Cyberinfrastructure and 6/27/14 Cybersecurity and Energy
2012-14
Member of Drexel University Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force
Task 5: Creating a Transportation-Hub Based Innovation Neighborhood
Including Sub-Committees on One University, Diversity & Inclusion
2012-14
Member of Udall Prize Committee, Drexel University
Reviewing applications, interviewing and nominating students for national competition
2013-14
Reviewer of Seed Proposals for ExCITe (Expressive & Creative Interaction Technologies
Center), Drexel University
4/2014
Invited Book Manuscript Workshop Reader for Clapperton Muhvingha, MIT Press,
Department of Science and Technology Studies, MIT.
1/2013
Invited Book Manuscript Workshop Reader for Natasha Lightfoot, Department of History,
Columbia University.
4/26/11
Moderator of “Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now”, a panel discussion of
cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology
and science, hosted by Breadboard, at Van Pelt Auditorium, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2/11
Served on the Best Article Prize Selection Committee for Cultural Sociology, a journal of the
British Sociological Association
2011, 2013
Moderator of student panels for the Drexel Office of International Programs Student
Conference on Global Challenges
1/11
Invited member of a brand charrette for Breadboard, a non-profit educational and arts
program of the University City Science Center, Philadelphia
2010-11
Supported PhillyCarShare and the City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Sustainability in a
successful application for the Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant, leading to the
installation of 20 electric-vehicle chargers across the city, including on Drexel’s campus
4/10
Served on the Final Jury for the 2010 Interdisciplinary Design Charrette of the Architecture
Program in Westphal CoMAD on the theme of “Urban Connection”
2010-12
Drexel representative in the Urban Sustainability Forum, Center for Environmental Policy,
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2010-11
International House Philadelphia Centennial Events Program Committee Member
Helped plan and promote Centennial events around the theme of “Movement”
Introduced films and led Q&A with 3 guest film directors in the “Migration” Series
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12/09
Co-hosted conversation with Ricardo Dominguez of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, UC
Santa Barbara at the Basekamp arts organization, Philadelphia
2009 -
Co-ordinating Committee for the Pan-American Mobilities Network
2008 -
Steering Group of the Cosmobilities Network
X.
EXTERNAL CONSULTANCY AND RESEARCH
2013-2014
Strategic Task Force for the Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2014, on Connected Mobility and
Road Safety, meeting in Chengdu, China in November 2014.
2011-14
Scientific Board, Forum Vies Mobiles (a research institute financed by the French
railway company SNCF to work on mobility from a social sciences perspective). Attend
annual meetings in Paris; contribute audio and video recordings to Forum website; piloting
two research projects:
a)
“Living in Mobility Transitions”, PI Tim Cresswell & Peter Adey
b)
“Mobilities Futures & the City”, PI Sven Kesselring & Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
8/2013
Consultant to J2 Designs/Ex;it Strategies mobility and way-finding design proposal for
Hudson Yards, NY project, Relation developers.
1/2012
Invited expert advisor to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction,
meeting at the World Bank, Tokyo, Japan, on Lessons from the Japanese Earthquake and
Tsunami for Developing Countries; with follow up meeting 5/12 at the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA. Reviewed and commented on the final report
that was presented to the IMF/World Bank Annual meeting in Sendai, Japan, October 2012.
XI.
Media Coverage and Social Networking
4/14
KPCC Public Radio, Los Angeles, live broadcast AirTalk on new mobilities
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/04/21/37050/driverless-cars-ehail-servicescar-share-programs/
12/13 WHYY Newsworks, quoted in Elizabeth Fiedler story on Car Culture in Philadelphia
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/62804-young-philadelphiansdriving-less-raising-kids-outside-of-car-culture?linktype=hp_impact
10/13 Action Speaks Radio with Marc Levitt, WGBH Public Radio, live panel recorded in
Providence, RI. http://actionspeaksradio.org/paradise-found-and-lost-frommers-europe-on5-a-day-is-published-1957/#.Us7Z0o1i7rN
9/13 Interview on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, on “Changing Attitudes
Toward Driving the Automobile”, Broadcast to NPR National Affiliates.
7/13
7/13
6/13
http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/09/26/changing-attitudes-toward-driving-the-automobile/
“Staying Afloat: The Race to Understand Rising Waters”, article about my research in Drexel
Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 2013, http://drexelmagazine.org/2013/07/staying-afloatthe-race-to-understand-rising-waters/.
Interviewed on Viewpoints with Todd van der Heyden, CJAD Radio Montreal, Canada
Quoted in Elisabeth Rosenthal, “The End of Car Culture”, the New York Times, Sunday
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1/13
1/13
Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/sunday-review/the-end-of-car-culture.html.
In print on June 30, 2013, p. SR3, New York edition with headline: The End of Car Culture.
Mobile World Barcelona, video recorded for an exhibit on mobility organized by
BCN Mobile World Capital, shown in Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVYeZgCFtnA&feature=youtu.be
Mobile Lives Forum website, Launch of a series of audio and video clips recorded in Paris:
http://en.forumviesmobiles.org/search/node/Sheller%20language%3Aen
“There when Disaster Hits, by Susan Snyder, In Education column, Philadelphia Inquirer,
2/13/12.
4/11 Net-Cultures Keynote Address Live Web-cast and on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/23194824)
2/11 Article on the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy in The Drexel Triangle.
6/10 Interviewed on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, on NSF-Rapid project on
post-earthquake water and sanitation reconstruction in Leogane, Haiti
3/10 Ignite Philly Speaker: “Aluminum Dreams” at Johnny Brenda’s with web coverage
2010- Maintain Twitter site @mCenterDrexel with 600+ followers and on 36 lists
2010- Maintain HaitiWater Twitter site with 1000+ followers
2010- Maintain mCenterDrexel Facebook page
2009-13 Blog at mCenterDrexel.wordpress.com with 51,000+ all-time views
2003 BBC Radio 4 Discussion of my book Consuming the Caribbean on “Thinking Allowed” with
Laurie Taylor (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20030226.shtml)
2/12
XII.
OTHER INFORMATION
Book manuscript referee for:
Oxford University Press (2/14); Rutgers University Press (12/13); University Press of Mississippi
(11/13); Indiana University Press (12/12); University of Minnesota Press (11/11); International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research (Special Issue Reviewer 11/10); Routledge (8/08); University of
Chicago Press, Reference Books (7/06); University of Chicago Press (3/06); Taylor & Francis,
(4/06); Broadview Press (4/04); Palgrave/Macmillan (03).
Article referee 2009-2014 for:
Disaasters Journal (4/14)
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (1/14)
Journal of Transport Geography (12/09, 09/11, 4/14)
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (11/13)
Mobile Media and Communication (3/13)
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (5/08, 10/13)
Transfers (1/13, 3/13)
T2M Yearbook (2/13)
Environment and Planning A (5/04, 05, 7/06, 7/09, 12/09, 11/11, 6/12, 12/12)
Cultural Geographies (6/09, 6/12)
Convergence (8/12)
Political Geography (11/11)
Geography Compass (2/08, 11/09, 3/11)
Earthquake Spectra (11/10, 3/11)
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Island Studies (4/10)
Small Axe (4/10, 10/10)
Annals of Tourism Research (5/01, 1/10)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (4/05, 2/04, 10/10, Special Issue 11/10)
New Media and Society (10/09)
Cultural Sociology (1/09)
Article referee before 2009 for:
American Journal of Sociology (12/06); Annals of the Association of American Geographers (5/04); Antipode: A
Radical Journal of Geography (10/07); Caribbean Studies (1/08);Comparative Studies in Society and History
(1/05); Cultural Values (7/99); Current Anthropology (2/08); Environment and Planning D (3/05); European
Spatial Research and Policy (3/04); Feminist Review (11/08); Geografiska Annaler B (1/07); Journal of
Cultural Geography (8/07); Mobilization (5/98; 9/00); Political Power and Social Theory (12/98; 12/01);
PsychNology (12/06); Social Science History (9/98); The Sociological Review (7/03); Space and Culture (12/01,
7/08); Theory, Culture and Society (3/04, 11/03, 8/01); Tourist Studies (4/05); Transport Policy (7/03);
Urban Studies (9/06); Wadabegei (8/06).
Research Application Reviewer for:
National Science Foundation, BCS-Cultural Anthropology Proposal (1/13)
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF, Austria) “Public Spaces in Transition” program
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR, Europe)
The Austrian Science Fund (Austria)
National Science Foundation (USA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
Reviewer of Tenure/Promotions Cases for:
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (12/13)
University of Maryland, Dept of American Studies (9/12)
Carnegie Mellon University, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences (8/12)
Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, Royal Roads University, Canada
Department of Geography, Durham University
Department of Communication, North Carolina State University
Department of Geography, Keele University
Professional Affiliations:
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (2012-2014)
College Art Association (2010-12)
Haitian Studies Association (2010-2012)
Caribbean Studies Association (2009-2013)
Association of American Geographers (2004-2014)
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American Anthropological Association (2009-11)
Association for Cultural Studies (2008-2009)
American Sociological Association (1997-2008)
Society for Caribbean Studies (1996-2008)
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