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November 2008

Dean Honored with Prestigious Anthropology Award Dean Marietta Baba

Marietta L. Baba, dean of the college of social science and professor of anthropology and labor and industrial relations, has been awarded the the Conrad Arensberg Award for her influential ethnographic and collaborative approaches to research in the anthropology of work—especially in business and industry—that have expanded the scope of our anthropological understandings.

The Arensberg Award was established in 1991 by the Society of Anthropology of Work, a section of the American Anthropological Association, to recognize significant contributions to the field. The Arensberg Award is the primary recognition in this field of study and is awarded every other year. The award was presented to Dean Baba at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association on November 21, where she presented Anthropologies of Work in Late Capitalism: Constructing a Discipline for “Warner's Quadrant.”