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• Professor M. Ann Easterbrooks - Family development, social and emotional development, infancy
• Professor David Elkind - Cognitive development, perceptual development, Piaget
• Emerita Professor Sylvia G. Feinburg - Teacher education, early childhood education, child art
• Professor David Henry Feldman - Cognitive development, developmental and educational theory, creativity
• Professor Richard M. Lerner - Bergstrom Chair in Applied Research in Youth Development
  Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development - Application of developmental science across the life span, personality and social development in adolescence, university-community collaboration and outreach scholarship
• Professor Fred Rothbaum - Parent-child relationships, family and culture, child-clinical psychology, research dissemination
• Professor Donald Wertlieb - Clinical aspects of family and child development, pediatric and health psychology, stress and coping
• Professor Maryanne Wolf - John DiBiaggio Chair in Citizenship and Public Service
  Director, Center for Reading and Language Research - Dyslexia, cognitive neurosciences, cognition, developmental psycholinguistics, reading development and intervention
• Associate Professor Kathleen A. Camara - Family relationships, social development, research methodology
• Associate Professor Calvin Gidney III - Linguistics, literacy, sociolinguistic development, language of African American children, language in children's television, development of children's language attitudes
• Associate Professor Francine Jacobs - Child and family policy, program evaluation
• Associate Professor Jayanthi J. Mistry - Sociocultural perspectives on development, cultural issues in educational practice
• Associate Professor Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Department Chair - Influences on family socialization processes among families with children at risk for problematic outcomes; adoption and foster care
• Adjunct Associate Professor Lynn Meltzer - Learning disabilities and assessment
• Assistant Professor Marina Bers - Math, Science & Technology/Engineering Initiative; Educational technology, impact of new technologies for personal, social and moral development, use of technology in hospitals, museums, schools and communities
• Assistant Professor (part-time) Martha Julia Garcia-Sellers - Cross-cultural studies, parent-child interaction, preventive intervention, school adaptation
• Assistant Professor Tama Leventhal - Neighborhood influences on children, youth, and families; social policy
• Assistant Professor W. George Scarlett, Deputy Chair - Children's play; Religious and spiritual development; Approaches to managing children's problem behavior; Organized youth sports
• Lecturer Betty Allen - Coordinator, Field Placement and Student Teacher Placement Inclusion in regular education classrooms, antibias education, teacher training
• Lecturer Gretchen Biesecker - Social and personality development
• Lecturer Terrell Clark - Sign language, deaf studies
• Lecturer Margery Davies - Child and family policy
• Lecturer Julie Dobrow - Coordinator of Family and Media Initiative - Effects of media on children, ethnic and gender representations in media
• Lecturer Mary Eisenberg - Director, Evelyn G.Pitcher Curriculum Resource Laboratory - Teacher education, early childhood curriculum development, tools for supporting and understanding teacher and children thinking, the arts in child development and learning.
• Lecturer Heidi Given - Early Childhood Education, Head teacher, Eliot-Pearson Children's School - diversity and equity in education, teacher development
• Lecturer Debbie LeeKeenan - Director, Eliot-Pearson Children's School - Multicultural and antibias education, curriculum development and implementation, special needs
• Lecturer Jim Lipsky - Sign language
• Lecturer Roberta Pasternack - Creative movement
• Lecturer Martha Pott - Personal, social and emotional development; evolutionary roots of developmental psychology; coordinator of master's internship program
• Lecturer Marion Reynolds - Children's literature, elementary curriculum development and teacher education, professional development of elementary teachers, children's understanding of the content and concepts of elementary subject matter
• Lecturer Jenny Weisz - Interdisciplinary Study of Children's Policy within a legal framework. Special focus on children living in poverty and children at risk for care and protection or probate guardianship proceedings.
• Lecturer Janet Zeller - Director, Tufts Educational Day Care Center - Teacher education, special education, school-home community relations
• Research Professor Lawrence Gianinno - Socialization of economic understanding and practices of children of immigrants; Influence of cultural belief systems on child development
• Research Professor Erin Phelps - Quantitative and qualitative methods for developmental research, longitudinal analysis, social responsibility and civic engagement, positive youth development in diverse contexts

Affiliated Faculty

• Professor Phillip J. Holcomb (Psychology) - Cognitive neuropsychology
• Professor Howard R. Spivak, M.D. (Tufts University School of Medicine, Pediatrics) Director, Tufts University Center for Children - Pediatrics; Adolescent Health; Youth Violence; Public Policy
• Professor Ellen C. Perrin, M.D. (Tufts University School of Medicine, Pediatrics) Behavioral Pediatrics

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