Mimi Sheller is a widely cited expert in the post-colonial context of the Caribbean, with particular expertise on Haiti. Sheller also founded and directed the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, an interdisciplinary field that studies the movement of people, objects, and information, as well as the complex new mobilities (and immobilities) that are afforded by changing technologies and infrastructures. She also is one of five WPI researchers involved in a multi-university, multidisciplinary NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership, the Caribbean Collaborative Action Network, that seeks to combine research and community engagement to expand regional capacity to adapt to climate impacts. 

Sheller can also provide insight into the following:

• Caribbean migration
• Climate adaptation
• Climate migration
• Community engagement
• Lifestyle mobilities
• Sustainable mobilities
• Labor migration and nomadic workers
• Transitions to sustainability
• Deportation from the United States

She is the author of seven books, eight co-edited books, and 125 refereed journal articles and book chapters as well as the founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities. In addition, she has consulted for international agencies, including the World Bank, and for such companies as Michelin, and has given dozens of keynote talks and invited lectures at leading universities in the United States and Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Australia, and Europe.