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Full Time Faculty

• Associate 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
• Associate Professor Kathleen A. Camara - Director, YouthBEAT Project with Berklee College of Music on Music and Development of youths from underserved communities - Arts and children's development, family relationships, culture, social development, research methods and program evaluation
• Professor M. Ann Easterbrooks - Risk and resilience studies, social and emotional development, infancy, evaluation of prevention and intervention programs
• Professor David Henry Feldman - Cognitive development, developmental and educational theory, creativity
• 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 Tama Leventhal - Neighborhood influences on children, youth, and families; social policy
• Lecturer Debbie LeeKeenan - Director, Eliot-Pearson Children's School - Multicultural and anti-bias education, curriculum development and implementation, special needs, early childhood education, teacher education
• Professor Richard M. Lerner - Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
  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
• Associate Professor Christine McWayne - Early Childhood Education, Low-income, urban-residing children's school success, Community-based research collaborations
• Associate Professor Jayanthi Mistry, Department Chair - Cultural perspectives in child development and education; Navigating multiple cultural worlds and identities, Interpretive methods in the study of children and families
• Associate Professor Ellen E. Pinderhughes - Influences on family socialization processes among families with children at risk for problematic outcomes; adoption and foster care
• Senior Lecturer Martha Pott - Personal, social and emotional development; evolutionary roots of developmental psychology; coordinator of master's internship program
• Senior Lecturer W. George Scarlett, Deputy Chair - Children's play; Religious and spiritual development; Approaches to managing children's problem behavior; Organized youth sports
• Lecturer Carlota Schechter - Professional Development coordinator, early childhood education, teacher education, early care and education policy and community partnerships, equity and accountability in early education, and young English language learners.
• 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

Part-Time Faculty

• Assistant Professor Martha Julia Garcia-Sellers - Cross-cultural studies, parent-child interaction, preventive intervention, school adaptation
• Adjunct Associate Professor Lynn Meltzer - Learning disabilities and assessment
• Lecturer Mary Anton-Oldenberg - Early childhood education; literacy
• Lecturer Terrell Clark - Sign language, deaf studies
• Lecturer Julie Dobrow - Director, Communications and Media Studies Program - Effects of media on children, ethnic and gender representations in media
• Lecturer Jim Lipsky - Sign language
• Lecturer Kerri Modry-Mandell - Pediatric psychology; developmental psychopathology
• Lecturer Sean Parker - Quantitative and qualitative methods for developmental research
• 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 Cynthia Smith - Child Art
• Lecturer Laura Vanderberg - Children with Special Needs
• 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.

Emeritus

• Emeritus Professor David Elkind - Cognitive development, perceptual development, Piaget
• Emerita Professor Sylvia G. Feinburg - Teacher education, early childhood education, child art
• Emeritus Professor Donald Wertlieb - Clinical aspects of family and child development, pediatric and health psychology, stress and coping

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