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David Hernández, Serin Houston, Avery Allen ’20, and Sofia Rivera ’18. (2018). Entrapped: Visiting Migrant Detainees in Western Massachusetts. Latino Studies 16, 250-258.
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
Jacoby, J. W. (2025). Assistant teachers’ contributions to classroom quality in Head Start. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-02055-x
Jacoby, J.W., & Edlefsen, K. [MHC '16] (2019). “I love Paw Patrol!”: Book selection and the allure of popular media characters among preschoolers. Journal of Research in Childhood Education.
*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
Jacoby, J.W. (2025, November). Language and literacy instruction in Head Start classrooms with multilingual learners and the role of assistant teachers. Invited talk for University of Delaware, College of Education and Human Development, Literacy Colloquium on Zoom.
Jean Janecki gave the closing Keynote address for the Boston Area Language Pedagogy Conference at Harvard University. Her talk "Sowing Sustainability: Creating Fertile Grounds and Planting Seeds for Language and Culture Growth". highlighted this year's theme of "Language Sustainability and the Future of Language Programs".
