Background
Baba, Marietta Lynn was born on November 9, 1949 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Daughter of David and Lillian (Joseph) Baba.
academic administrator anthropologist
Baba, Marietta Lynn was born on November 9, 1949 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Daughter of David and Lillian (Joseph) Baba.
Bachelor with highest distinction, Wayne State University, 1971. Master of Arts in Anthropology, Wayne State University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Anthropology, Wayne State University, 1975.
Master of Business Administration, Michigan State University, 1994.
Assistant professor science and technical Wayne State University, Detroit, 1975-1980, associate professor anthropology & professor labor & industrial relations, 1980-1988, professor, since 1988, special assistant to president, 1980-1982, economic development officer, 1982-1983, assistant provost, 1983-1985, associate provost, 1985-1989, director international programs, interim associate dean Graduate School, 1988-1989, associate dean Graduate School, 1989-1990, acting chair department anthropology, 1990-1992, chair department anthropology, 1996-2001. Dean, professor anthropology Michigan State University College Social Science, East Lansing, since 2001. Adjunct professor Institute Society Anthropological Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, since 2007.
Professor human resources & labor relations Moscow State University, since 2010. Research collaborator International Business Machines Corporation Almaden Research Center, 2005. Sterring committee American Anthropological Association, since 2005.
Program director transformations to quality organizations, director social, behav., and economic science National Science Foundation, 1994—1996. Evolution researcher Wayne State University, 1975—1982. Consultant General Motors Research Laboratories, 1988—1992, Electronic Data Systems, 1990—1993, McKinsey Global Institute, 1991.
Research contractor General Motors/European Democrat Students, 1990—1994. Visiting scholar International Business Machines Corporation Almaden Services Research Institute, 2005. Lecturer in field; secretary defence, under secretary logistics & mathematics readiness Future Logistics Enterprise, Coml.
Industry Team, 2002—2005. Advisor logistics CECOM, 2002—2005. With United States Air Force, 1992-1994.
Member State Research Fund Feasibility Review Panel, 1982—1984. Member advisory panel on technical innovation and United States trade United States Congressional Office Technology Assessment, 1990—1991, member panel on electronic enterprise, 1993—1994. Active Leadership Detroit Class IV, 1982—1983.
Director Michigan Technology Council (Southeast division), 1984—1985. Fellow American Anthropological Association (board directors 1986-1988, executive committee 1986-1988, delegate to International Union Anthropological and Ethnological Science 1990-1994, chair global commission anthropology 1993-1998), National Association Practice Anthropology (president 1986-1988), Society Applied Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (Morton Fried award 1991, Conrad Arensberg award, American Anthropological Association, 2008), Beta Gamma Sigma., Society Anthropological Work.
Married David Smokler, February 14, 1977 (divorced 1982). 1 child, Alexia Nicole Baba Smokler.
