MICHALLE E. MOR BARAK holds a joint appointment with the USC Marshall School of Business and chairs the social work in the workplace (industrial/occupational) concentration. She teaches social work practice in work settings, research, an interdisciplinary course on diversity management from a global perspective and two doctoral courses on statistics.

A principal investigator on several large research projects, including the "Center for the Inclusive Workplace" and the "Center on Child Welfare," she has published extensively in the areas of global workforce diversity and inclusion, social work practice in the workplace, older workers and work-family integration in a global context. She has authored three books: Social Networks and Health (Garland, 1991), Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage, 2005). Her most recent book won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 by the Association of College and University Libraries.

Professor Mor Barak has received numerous awards of distinction, including the Fulbright award, Lady Davis award for international exchange scholars, University of California Regents Award, Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentorship and Sterling C. Franklin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. She has been invited to give keynote addresses and lead prestigious conferences around the world, including a Rockefeller Foundation-funded global workforce diversity conference in Bellagio, Italy, and a global think tank of scholars on diversity management at the Chateau de la Bretesche in France, which was funded by the Borchard Foundation.