Alina Zurmühlen

By appointment. Please register by email and state the topic to be discussed.

o Work and organization
o Organisational culture
o Expertise and professions
o Relationship between work and democracy

PhD working title:
"An Ethnographic Study of Workplace Conflicts at the Labor Court"

Conference Contributions

2026
Becoming a Jurisdictional Subject - Professional Authority and Subjectivity at Court.
42nd EGOS Colloquium Bergamo/Italy. July 2026.

Becoming a Jurisdictional Subject - Professional Authority and Subjectivity at Court.
Ethnography and Law: Methods and Challenges in Times of Crisis. Workshop at the University of Hamburg. July 2026.

2025
Demokratie verhandeln? Eine ethnographische Studie des Rechtsstreits am Arbeitsgericht.
Symposium zur Gegenwart des organisatorischen Denkens. University of Hannover. July 2025.

Since July 2024: Research Associate at the Chair of People, Work, and Management at the Faculty for Business Administration and Economics

2018 – 2024: Occupations in the field of political communication, press and public relations

2019 & 2021: Teaching assignments at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Münster

2012 – 2017: Undergraduate and graduate studies in social anthropology in Münster and Istanbul

Bachelor
Seminar: Current Research on People, Work, Management and Organization – Conflict at Work

Seminar: Current Research on People, Work, Management and Organization – Alternative Organizations (co-teaching)

Seminar: Understanding Management & Organization through Metaphors

Master
Tutorial: Culture, Leadership, Diversity

Seminar: Current Research on People, Work, Management and Organization – Conflict at Work

Seminar: Work, Organization, Change (co-teaching)

Seminar: Qualitative Research Methods – Researching Responsibility (co-teaching)