Melissa F. Baird

Melissa F. Baird

Melissa F. Baird is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Michigan Tech University.

Melissa’s work engages multi-sited and comparative and ethnographic approaches to examine how multi-national corporations, the State, private sector, heritage experts, and other decision-makers draw on the rhetoric of heritage, rights, and sustainability in environmental decisions and management. Through the lens of resource frontiers, her research seeks to broaden our understanding of global heritage and environmental politics, especially how heritage intersects with indigenous rights and environmental protections.