Annette von Alemann is a senior assistant professor at Paderborn University (Germany), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, currently holding the Chair of General Sociology at her university. She studied Sociology, Social Anthropology, Romance Studies, Law and Communication Science at the Universities of Cologne (Germany), Halle/Saale (Germany) and Mendoza (Argentina), concluding her MA studies with a (later published) empirical thesis about sociologists in consulting and counselling professions. In her PhD thesis in Sociology (Bielefeld University,
Germany) she analyzed the patterns of interpretation of top executives of the German economy. Her research areas are social inequality, gender and diversity in organizations, gender inequalities and the construction of gender, work-life balance and the conduct of everyday life, social discourses and patterns of interpretation. As a member of the Center of Gender Studies at Paderborn University, she attended the RINGS conferences in 2017 and 2018.
