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Social Psychologist, Stereotype Threat Researcher, Author

Claude Steele
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Berkeley, CA, USA
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Addiction & Recovery, Black Heritage, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Family & Parenting, Health, Mental Health, Relationships, Science, Social Sciences
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Claude Steele Biography

Claude M. Steele is an American social psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He also holds an appointment in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford.

Steele is widely recognized for his research on stereotype threat and its influence on minority student academic performance. His earlier work explored the self (e.g., self-image, self-affirmation) and the role of self-regulation in addictive behaviors. His seminal book, "Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do," published in 2010, summarizes extensive research on stereotype threat and the underperformance of minority students in higher education.

He earned a B.A. in Psychology from Hiram College, an M.A. in Social Psychology from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Statistical Psychology from Ohio State University.

Steele has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. He currently serves on the boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Scripps College, and SFJazz.

His past academic leadership roles include serving as the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at Stanford University, the I. James Quillen Dean for the School of Education at Stanford University, and the 21st Provost of Columbia University. He was also the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Berkeley from 2014 to 2016. Steele has additionally held positions 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 at Stanford University.

Professor Steele has received numerous honorary degrees, including from Yale University, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, DePaul University, and Claremont Graduate University. In 2020, he received the Legacy Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. This prestigious award recognizes seminal career contributions that have significantly shaped the field of social psychology.

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Claude Steele Speaking Topics

  • Building trust, showing up, and creating ‘beloved communities’

    How can we build successfully diverse universities in which people feel they can contribute from the standpoint of their backgrounds and identities, and yet not be discriminated against based on those backgrounds and identities?

    Claude Steele, professor of psychology at Stanford University, shares early insights from his forthcoming book in a talk he calls “Churn: Life in the Increasingly Diverse World of Higher Education and How to Make It Work.”

    The author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, Dr. Steele is renowned for his research on stereotype threat and its application to the academic performance of underrepresented students.

  • Churn and the Tension Between Remembering and Forgetting

    Dr. Steele will discuss his concept: when two people, or groups of people, each with their contingencies of identity, are attempting to communicate across differences, there is a lot going on cognitively, affectively, and emotionally in these situations.

    “Here we have an American conversation… these pressures are coming from our history, the roles our history has assigned us, and the stereotypes that history has created to justify the roles that it has assigned us. We can think of things from a strictly colorblind frame of mind, that history is in the past… but as Faulkner famously said, the past is never dead, it’s not even past. We can feel this in a moment-to-moment way when we are interacting with each other. That history and its stereotypes and the pressures and tensions it creates can make it very difficult for us to trust each other.”

    Without prior work done to build trust, Steele observes,

    “…we’re left with these pressures to contend with in our efforts to relate to each other, to be part of a successfully diverse community in an institution or in a classroom. These kinds of pressures can enter the picture … a sort of tension between remembering and forgetting. ‘Do I remember how my group is seen and treated in society … and use that to interpret what’s happening to me in this immediate situation? Or do I just forget that, and trust the situation?’ That kind of tension is what I mean with the term churn.”

    Churn is the worry about how one’s identity, in light of all of this context, plays out in the subjective experience of a diverse situation. To Steele, this “identity churn” is a “huge part” of the challenge of diversity, and trust is the critical issue in the functioning of our institutions.

Claude Steele Videos

  • The Science of Diverse Community
    The Science of Diverse Community
  • Claude Steele on the Challenges of Multi-Cultural Societies - #38 ...
    Claude Steele on the Challenges of Multi-Cultural Societies - #38 ...
  • Stereotype Threat
    Stereotype Threat
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Claude Steele Books

  • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)
    Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)
  • Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time) [Hardcover] [2010] (Author) Claude M. Steele
    Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time) [Hardcover] [2010] (Author) Claude M. Steele

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Claude Steele is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Building trust, showing up, and creating ‘beloved communities’ and Churn and the Tension Between Remembering and Forgetting. The estimated speaking fee range to book Claude Steele for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Claude Steele generally travels from Berkeley, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Nikki Giovanni, Clayborne Carson, Liz Dozier, Bakari Sellers and Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Claude Steele for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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