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Serin Houston and Charlotte Morse ‘15. (2017). The Ordinary and Extraordinary: Producing Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion in US Sanctuary Movements. Studies in Social Justice 11(1), 27-47.


Serin Houston and Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann ‘17. (2016). The Model Migrant and Multiculturalism: Analyzing Neoliberal Logics in US Sanctuary Legislation, in Migration Policy and Practice: Interventions and Solutions.


Hoyer-Leitzel, A., & Le, P. (2025). Symmetric relative equilibria with one dominant and four infinitesimal point vortices. Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10884-025-10410-0


Meyer, K. J., Fusco, H., Smith, C., & Hoyer-Leitzel, A. (2024). Continuation of fixed points and bifurcations from ODE to flow-kick disturbance models. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 23(4), 2983–3012. https://doi.org/10.1137/23M160428X


*Golden, J. and Jacoby, J.W. (2017). Playing princess: Preschool girls' interpretations of gender stereotypes in Disney princess media. Sex Roles. DOI:10.1007/s11199-017-0773-8
* denotes Mount Holyoke College student co-author


R. Lijek with Mount Holyoke student co-authors M. Dresler, E. Webster, L. Berclaz, S. Breen, D. Hardrick, A. Taylor, J. Graham, and K. Seiger, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity.


Rebeccah Lijek, with Mount Holyoke student co-authors C. Wang, H. Knapp-Broas, J. Graham, K. W. Seiger, E. Webster, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2021 World Microbe Forum and 2021 Boston Bacterial Meeting, where Lijek chaired a session on Host-Microbe Interactions.


Markovits, E. (2023) “The Sovereign and the Tyrant: Boundaries and Violation in Oedipus,” in E. Atanassow, T. Bartscherer, and D. Bateman (Eds). When the People Rule: Popular sovereignty in theory and practice (56-81). Cambridge University Press.


McMenamin, M. (2023) New book Chiral Paleeontology (MedTech Science Press, 2023)