Brian S. Lowery

Brian Lowery has been a Stanford faculty member since 2002. He was also one of the founding faculty co-directors for the Institute for Advancing Just Societies.

At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Professor Lowery is driving the Leadership for Society initiative to support the development of leaders for a diverse society. Lowery’s research has two major threads. The first thread examines the way people understand inequality, and how these understandings affect their attitudes and behavior. The second thread examines the consequences of the reality that others shape us and we shape them. This work explores issues ranging from the nature of racial, gender, and other social identities to an understanding of how others help us generate meaning in life. His research has been published in major scholarly journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Law and Human Behavior. He has written a book on these topics, Selfless (Harper). He also hosts a podcast Know What You See, and a course webinar open to the public, The Leadership for Society series, all of which can be found at KnowWhatYouSee.com.

Lowery's involvement with the formation of a race institute at Stanford dates back to 2020, when he was appointed to serve on the Framework Task Force to Recommend New Infrastructure for the Study of Race and the Impact of Race on Society. Lowery and Tomás Jiménez later co-chaired the Race Institute Implementation Committee, and were subsequently named the institute’s founding faculty co-directors.

Professor Lowery’s full biography is available on the Graduate School of Business website and his website.