Rate My Professor David Bissell

Bissell's influential monograph, Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities, was published by MIT Press in 2018, delving into the transformative effects of everyday transit on urban lives. Key publications also include 'Working in the gig economy is boring: Non-encounters and the affective atmospheres of contemporary urban work' (2022), 'A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID-19' (2021), and 'Embodying non-places: The drag of the human in a time of cognitive convenience' (2026). His work has garnered over 7,658 citations according to Google Scholar. In recognition of his contributions, Bissell was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2023. He holds the position of Managing Editor for Social & Cultural Geography and founded and chairs the steering committee of AusMob, the Australian Mobilities Research Network. Bissell contributes to public discourse through articles in Pursuit and The Conversation, as well as Agenda contributions for the World Economic Forum.