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Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).


Rittika Shamsuddin*, Milka Doktorova*, Sheila Jaswal, Audrey Lee-St. John and Kathryn McMenimen. Computational Prediction of Hinge Axes in Proteins. BMC Bioinformatics, 15(8), 2014
* indicates undergraduate author


McNally, C. (2023). Traumatic (SELF) exile: Narrative marginalization in recent and postwar German fiction. German Studies Review, 46(2), 247–261.


McNally, C. (2023a). Sammelsurium: A reader and workbook for intermediate German. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 56(1), 93–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12228


Medhi, A. (2020). Infrastructural Contingencies and Contingent Sovereignties on the Indo–Afghan Frontier. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi:10.1017/s0026749x19000015


Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trobár, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of “I Sing a New Song” with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country’s best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and received a glowing review.