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Hornstein, G. A., Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18],  & Robinson Putnam, E. [MHC ‘14] (2021). The diverse functions of hearing voices peer-support groups: Findings and case examples from a US national study, Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.  DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2021.1897653.

Hornstein, G. A., Robinson Putnam, E. [MHC ‘14] & Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18] (2020). How do hearing voices peer-support groups work? A three-phase model of transformation.Psychosis, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2020.1749876


Serin Houston. (2019). Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press – Our Sustainable Future series.


Serin Houston. (2019). Conceptualizing Sanctuary as a Process in the United States. Geographical Review.


Serin Houston and Kirk Lange. (2018). “Global/Local” Community Engagement: Advancing Integrative Learning and Situated Solidarity. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 42(1),44-60.


Serin D. Houston's book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, was honored at the American Association of Geographers conference in April 2021 at a book celebration event and an "Author Meets her Readers" session. 


Serin D. Houston gave a talk on March 25, 2021 for the Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Her talk was titled, 'Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA."