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Name: Jayanthi Mistry
Title: Associate Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Purdue University
Expertise: Cultural perspectives on child development; Navigating multiple cultural worlds and Identities, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities in the United States; Interpretive methods in the study of children and families; Facilitating change in educational practice through teacher-research & collaboration
E-mail: jayanthi.mistry@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/epcd
Scholarship & Research: Mistry, J. (2006). Socio-Cultural Theory. In R. New & M. Cochran (Eds). Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Mistry, J., I. Deshmukh, & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2006). Culture and Infancy. In A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.), Introduction to Infant Development, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press.

Mistry, J. & Diez, V. (2004). Culture and childhood. In H. Goelman & S. Marshall (Eds.) Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child Across Time, Space and Disciplines. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Mistry, J., Chaudhuri, J., & Diez, V. (2003). Ethnotheories of parenting: Integrating culture and child development. In R.M. Lerner, F. Jacobs, & D. Wertlieb (Eds.) Handbook of Applied Developmental Science: Promoting positive child and family development. CA: Sage Publications.

Mistry, J. & Saraswathi, T.S. (2003). The cultural context of child development. In Lerner, R.L., Easterbrooks, A., & Mistry, J. (Vol. Eds.) Developmental Psychology. Volume 6 of I. Siegel (Series Ed.) Handbook of Psychology. Vol. 6. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Mistry, J. (2001). Narratives in cultural socialization. Human Development, Vol. 44(6), 337-339.

Mistry, J. Rogoff, B. (2001). What is the meaning of meaningful purpose in children’s remembering? Istomina Revisited. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 8(1), 28-41.

Goncu, A., Mistry, J. & Mosier, C. (2000). Cultural variations in the play of toddlers. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24(3), 321-329.

Mistry, J. (1997). Cultural context in the development of remembering. In N.Cowan (Ed.) The development of memory. London, U.K.: University of London College Press.

Rogoff, B., Mistry, J., Goncu, A. , & Mosier, C. (1993). Guided participation in cultural activity by toddlers and caregivers. Monogaphs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 58(8), Serial #236.

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