MLK Annual Lecture: Stanford Scholar Claude Steele Speaking at Brown
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Brown will bring noted author and scholar Claude Steele to Rhode Island from Stanford University to speak on stereotypes and how they affect us. Steele will deliver the university's 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Wednesday, February 1, at 4pm at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and the event is both free and open to the public.
Steele’s talk, titled “Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us,” will examine his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory looks at how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book, Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, published in 2010, was based on this research.
Claude Steele
Steele is the I. James Quillen Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. Previously, he served as the 21st provost of Columbia University, as well as professor of psychology. He was educated at Hiram College and at Ohio State University, where he received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1971. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, Yale University, Princeton University, and from the University of Maryland–Baltimore County.
Before joining Columbia University, Steele was a faculty member at Stanford University, holding appointments as the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, as director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and as director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is recognized as a leader in the field of social psychology and for his commitment to the systematic application of social science to problems of major societal significance.
Steel’s work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, and he has been elected to several academic organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Education. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Dean’s Teaching Award from Stanford, and the Donald Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2001).
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