Guest Speakers
Christian Licoppe
Social Science department, Telecom ParisTech, France
Christian Licoppe, Professor of sociology. Trained in history and sociology of science and technology, he is currently the head of the Social Science department at Telecom Paristech, after a stretch in industrial research, where he managed social science research at Orange R&D.
Keith Hampton
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Keith N. Hampton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. Before joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and Assistant Professor and Class of '43 Chair in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University
She is also former co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (UK) and founding co-editor of the international journal Mobilities. She received her A.B. from Harvard University, and her MA and PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan.