Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller
Born	1967
Nationality	American
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	Drexel University
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A.) New School for Social Research MA (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Tilly
Other academic advisors	Mustafa Emirbayer, William Roseberry, John Urry, Harrison White

Mimi Sheller (born 1967) is a professor of sociology in the Department of Culture and Communication, and the founding Director of the New Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is widely cited and considered a "key theorist in mobilities studies" and specializes in the post-colonial context of the Caribbean.

She attended Harvard University where she earned a B.A. in History and Literature, summa cum laude, in 1988. She received an MA in Sociology and Historical Studies in 1993 and a PhD in 1998 at the New School for Social Research. She completed her dissertation under the supervision of Charles Tilly, William Roseberry, and Mustafa Emirbayer. From 1997 to 1998, Sheller was the Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for African and Afroamerican Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

She is a founding director and visiting senior research fellow at the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in England. In 2003, she earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Lancaster University.

Along with British sociologist John Urry, she co-founded, and currently co-edits, the academic journal Mobilities. She is also the Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.

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