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Leadership
Throughout our history, a distinguished roster
of directors and our board of trustees have worked together to ensure
that the Center continues to bring leading scholars from around the
world to work in the best intellectual environment we can devise.
Our chief executive: The Director 
Our past and present directors are among the most respected scholars in
their fields, and they have brought administrative experience as well
scholarly distinction to the position. Our current director, Claude
Steele was the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford
University, where he has taught since 1991. He has also been a faculty
member at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, and Utah.
Throughout his career he has been interested in
how people cope with threats to their self-image. His theory of
self-affirmation describes processes for coping with this threat, and
his theory of stereotype threat describes how negative group
stereotypes can affect important behaviors, such as intellectual
performance and intergroup relations. He has also studied addictive
behaviors.
Claude received a B.A. degree from Hiram College
and a Ph. D. from The Ohio State University, and he holds honorary
doctorates from the University of Chicago and Yale University. He is
past president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and
the Western Psychological Association. He has served as chair of the
Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology,
as a member of the board of directors of the American Psychological
Society, and on numerous editorial boards and grant study sections. He
is past chair of the Psychology Department at Stanford, a fellow of the
APS and American Psychological Association, and a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education.
Claude is the recipient of a Cattell Fellowship,
the Gordon Allport Prize, the William James Fellow Award from the APS,
and the Kurt Lewin Prize from the Society for the Scientific Study of
Social Issues. He received the Senior Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and the
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the APA. He was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
CASBS Deputy Director
 Anne C. Petersen is the Deputy Director of CASBS, having come in
September 2006. She works closely with Claude Steele and the CASBS
Board on Center priorities. In addition, she leads work on fellow
selection, fellow programs, and securing the resources to support them.
Anne comes to CASBS following a distinguished career as scientist,
university administrator, National Science Foundation executive, and
large foundation executive. She has been a faculty member at the
University of Chicago, Penn State University, and the University of
Minnesota. She held administrative positions at Penn State and
Minnesota from Department Head, Dean of the College of Health and Human
Development, and Vice President for Research/Dean of the Graduate
School. She was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the US
Senate as Deputy Director/COO of the National Science Foundation. And
she was Senior Vice President for Programs at the W K Kellogg
Foundation.
She has won numerous honors and awards including election to the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (1998); Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1991), of three
divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA), and Charter
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She is currently
the President of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral
Development. She has also presided over the developmental division of
APA, the human development division of the American Educational
Research Association, and was a founding member and then President of
the Society for Research on Adolescence. She has chaired and served on
a number of committees and boards of the National Academies, as well as
other scientific, philanthropic, and community organizations.
Anne’s research has focused on biopsychosocial development in
adolescence, with an emphasis on gender differences, mental health,
affect, cognition, and achievement, among other areas. More recently
she has been writing about youth policy and science policy, with some
work also on global philanthropy.
All of her degrees are from the University of Chicago, in
mathematics, statistics and measurement, evaluation, and statistical
analysis.
Past Directors and Board of Trustees
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