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Serin D. Houston

Publication

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.

Jennifer Wallace Jacoby

Publication

*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

Rebeccah Lijek

Honor

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.

Elizabeth K. Markovits

Publication

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.

Mark McMenamin

Publication

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

Honor

Paleontology lab has discovered the first direct evidence for coloration in a Permian vertebrate (approximately 280 million years old). Students from the Spring 2022 Geol 116 Art in Paleontology class contributed to this study.

Kathryn A. McMenimen

Publication

Wang C., Teng L., Liu Z.S., Kamalova A., McMenimen KA., HspB5 Chaperone Structure and Activity Are Modulated by Chemical-Scale Interactions in the ACD Dimer Interface. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024; 25(1):471. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010471