Hazel Rose Markus

Hazel Rose Markus is a prominent social psychologist and a pioneer in the field of cultural psychology. She is currently the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she also co-directs the Mind, Culture, and Society Lab. and Stanford SPARQ: Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions. Her research interests include culture, ethnicity, self, identity formation, emotion, gender, and motivation. A former president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the prestigious Donald T. Campbell Award and Society of Experimental Social Psychology Distinguished Scientist Award, and the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Dr. Markus is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Markus was born Hazel June Linda Rose in London, England in 1949 to a British-Catholic mother and a Jewish-American father. When Markus was four years old, the Rose family immigrated to San Diego, California, where she grew up to be an accomplished longboard surfer.

Markus received her bachelor's degree in psychology from San Diego State University, where she initially wanted to pursue a career in journalism. After a demonstration in Psychology 101, however, she changed her major to psychology. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan, where she later became one of the university’s faculty members. During her time at the University of Michigan, she was also a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research.

With her husband, the late social psychologist Robert Zajonc, Markus moved to the Stanford department of psychology in 1994. As a psychology professor and co-founder of the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Markus continues her research on how cultures and selves make each other up.

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