Navigation auf uzh.ch

Suche

ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Popular Culture Studies

Lara Gruhn

Lara Gruhn, PhD

  • External lecturer
  • Former researcher in the project ReDigIm

Research Interests

  • Consumption
  • Everyday ethics
  • Material methods & material culture
  • Asylum discourse and migration history of Switzerland
  • Practices of mutual support
  • Digitalization

Education

  • 2021: PhD at the Department for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich (summa cum laude). [Everyday consumption ethics]
  • 2013–2015: MA in Popular Culture Studies and Modern History at University of Zurich; MA of Arts in Social Sciences
  • 2010–2013: BA in Popular Culture Studies, Modern History and Political Science at University of Zurich; Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences
  • 2006: Baccalaureate, Kantonsschule Stadelhofen, Zürich

Work Experience

  • From 11/2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) founded Project: Redistributive imaginaries: digitalization, culture and prosocial contribution (Redigim)
  • 9/2022–3/2023: Guest lecturer at the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
  • 2016–2022: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2013–2017: Secretary, State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), Bern
  • 2013–2015: Student Assistant at the Department for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2010–2013: Diverse jobs while studying (gastronomy, event management, German course)
  • 2007–2010: Flight Attendant for Swiss International Air Lines

Academic Teaching

Other Experience and Memberships

  • 2016–2018: Member of the editorial board of Korrespondenzblatt der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde
  • 2015: Organisation of the 40th dgv Congress: Kulturen der Sinne. Zugänge zur Sensualität der sozialen Welt [Cultures of the Senses. Approaches to the sensuality of the social world]
  • 2012–2015: Member of the Board of Directors and Student Representative of the Professional Association of Popular Culture Studies
  • Member of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde
  • Member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
  • Member of the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore