Dear Staff and the Class of 2017-18,

Please join me in welcoming Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar Hazel Markus for a seminar entitled, “Bridging Social Class Divides through Interdependence.” The talk will be held in the Library this Wednesday, May 9th, from 11 AM to 12.30 PM.

Hazel Rose Markus is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the role of self in regulating behavior and on the ways in which the social world shapes the self. Her work examines how cultures, including those of nation or region of origin, gender, social class, race, ethnicity, religion, and occupation, shape thought, feeling, and action.

Markus is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received the American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, the Donald T. Campbell award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology for contributions to social psychology, the Association for Psychological Science William James Award for lifetime achievement for basic research, and is a member of National Academy of Sciences.

I hope everyone is looking forward—as I am—to what will no doubt be an interesting and productive discussion.