Dean

Marietta L. Baba
Dean, College of Social Science
Professor, Anthropology

Marietta L. Baba is dean of the College of Social Science and professor of anthropology at Michigan State University (MSU). Previously, she was professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and founding director of the Business and Industrial Anthropology initiative at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. From 1994-1996, Baba was program director of the National Science Foundation's industry-funded research program entitled "Transformations to Quality Organizations."

Dean Baba is the author of approximately 70 scholarly and technical publications in the fields of organizational culture, technological change, and evolutionary processes.

In 1998, she was appointed to serve on Motorola's global advisory Board of Anthropologists, the first of its kind in the United States. Baba is a founding member and past president (1986-1988) of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). She served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the AAA (1986-88). In addition, she was appointed advisory editor for Organizational Anthropology for the American Anthropologist (1990-1993) and is a founding member of the Anthropology and Public Policy group of the (AAA).

Dean Baba holds an MBA with highest distinction from the Advanced Management Program at MSU's Eli Broad School of Management, and a doctorate in physical anthropology from Wayne State University (doctoral research conducted in the School of Medicine). She is an inventor on a U.S. patent for ethnohistorical mapping metholodology (Patent No. 4773862) and is listed in Who's Who in America (1992-present).

Contact information:

Marietta L. Baba
Dean
College of Social Science
203 Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Telephone: (517) 355-6675
mbaba@msu.edu
Marietta Baba's Web site