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Lawrence Gianinno
Research Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Culture, Identity, and Economic Socialization
Lincoln Filene Center, Room 308
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-4449
Fax: (617) 627-5596
Email: lawrence.gianinno@tufts.edu
Lawrence Gianinno is a Research Professor at Tufts University (Medford, MA)
where he is a member of the faculty in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child
Development, a member of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development,
and also an affiliated faculty member at the Fares Center for Eastern
Mediterranean Studies at Tufts. In addition, Dr. Gianinno was recently
appointed Editor (with Richard Lerner and Celia Fisher) of the journal
Applied Developmental Science.
He was trained as a cultural and developmental psychologist at the University
of Chicago, and earned his doctoral degree there from the Department of
Psychology, Committee on Human Development. Since that period of time, he
has studied how culture influences the development of children and young
people, in particular, how ethnicity, religion, and media affect what children
and young people learn about the economic world.
Dr. Gianinno has begun a series of studies in the Boston metropolitan area
to determine what children of recent immigrants understand about their economic
world and what the everyday economic practices are in which they are engaged.
His research seeks also to identify the family and community-related experiences
that influence the development of this kind of understanding and behavior.
His research is the first to systematically examine the relationship that
ethnicity and religion may play in shaping the economic values and practices
of the children of immigrants, and focuses at this time on the children of
Lebanese immigrants who are members of the Boston area's Maronite and Muslim
communities.
Dr. Gianinno's earlier career took place in the Foundation world and in the
world of business. Prior to coming to Tufts, he was Vice President, Strategic
Communication, at the William T. Grant Foundation (New York, NY), where he
helped develop and implement its communication strategy targeting networks
of influential scholars, policy makers, and practitioners. For several years,
he was Vice President for Program, Social, and Developmental Research at the
ABC Television Network (New York, NY), responsible for primary research for
all network programming. And before that, Dr. Gianinno was the senior executive
for consumer, marketing, and advertising research at leading New York-based
advertising agencies, working with clients such as General Electric, IBM,
Kraft General Foods, McDonald's, General Mills, Kellogg Company, and
Colgate-Palmolive.
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