Michelle MIELLY

Bio

Using my training in anthropology, humanities, and cultural studies, I approach teaching through the prism of participant observation, as a professional stranger who should learn from every interaction. Living and working abroad most of my life, I can appreciate the thrill of discovery alongside the constant difficulty of adaptation and remaining open. This has driven my worldview and my embrace of interculturality, alterity, and the ‘productive discomfort' of managing diversity. Cross- and intercultural issues alongside diversity & inclusion are therefore natural topics of predilection in my teaching portfolio. My research interests include work on post-colonial organizational legacies, social sustainability, normative and neo-normative control, migration and self-initiated expatriates, nomadic entrepreneurs, foreignness and strangeness in organizations, and gender-related questions of flexible work and the flexibility paradigm.