• Visiting Associate Professor, Swarthmore College
• Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Mobilities Research and Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, England
• Co-Editor of Mobilities, a new journal
• Phone: 610-690-2062
  email: mshelle1@swarthmore.edu
  Office Hours: Fall 2006
  Wednesday 10:30-12:00 p.m.
  Kohlberg 238
  

A.B., 1988, Harvard University, History and Literature, Summa cum laude
M.A., 1993, with Distinction, Sociology and Historical Studies
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research
Ph.D., 1997, Sociology, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science New School for Social Research
1997-1998 Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow Center for African and Afroamerican Studies (CAAS), University of Michigan

Selected Publications and Activities:

BOOKS

Consuming the Caribbean: from Arawaks to Zombies. London and New York: Routledge, International Library of Sociology Series, 2003.

Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. London and Oxford: Macmillan, Warwick University Caribbean Studies Series, 2000.

Mobile Technologies of the City, Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds) London and New York: Routledge, Networked Cities Series (in press for 2006).

Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds) London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castaneda, Anne-Marie Fortier, and Mimi Sheller (eds) Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003.

ARTICLES

 ‘Materialities and Mobilities’, Special Issue of Environment and Planning A, eds. J. Urry and M. Sheller, including Editorial Introduction: ‘The New Mobilities Paradigm’, forthcoming 2006

 ‘“Her Majesty’s Sable Subjects”: Citizenship and Subaltern Masculinities in Post-Emancipation Jamaica’, Political Power and Social Theory, 17 (2005): 71-100

‘“You signed my name but not my Feet”: Paradoxes of Peasant Resistance and State Control in Post-Revolutionary Haiti’, Journal of Haitian Studies, 10 (2004): 1: 72-86.

‘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. Urr

Teaching and Research Interests:

Race, gender, sexuality, class, Caribbean Studies, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Social Theory and ‘Mobilities’.

Courses and Seminars Taught:

SOAN30J Race, Gender and Nation
SOAN30K Producing and Consuming the Caribbean