Martin B. Hickman (May 16, 1925 – October 14, 1991) was the first dean of Brigham Young University's (BYU) College of Family, Home and Social Sciences.
For seven years Hickman was in the United States Foreign Service being assigned to posts in Germany and Hong Kong.
Hickman first became dean of the College of Social Sciences at BYU in 1970, not long before the end of the Ernest L. Wilkinson administration.
Early in the administration of Dallin H. Oaks he chaired a committee that studied the role of department chairmen at the university which led to department chairmen becoming the main decision makers in hiring of new faculty, although the proposals still needed approval of the central administration.
[2] Among works by Hickman are Problems of American Foreign Policy and David M. Kennedy: Banker, Statesman, Churchman.
5 (March 1952) p. 71, "Undergraduate Origin as a Factor in Elite Recruitment and Mobility: the Foreign Service — a Case Study" co-authored with Neil Hollander in the Political Research Quarterly Vol.