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Houston, S. and Molnar, C. [MHC ‘21]. (2020). New Sanctuary Movement. World Religions and Spirituality Project. Retrieved from:


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.


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., & Edlefsen, K. [MHC '16] (2019). .


*Golden, J. and Jacoby, J.W. (2017). Playing princess: Preschool girls' interpretations of gender stereotypes in Disney princess media. Sex Roles.
* denotes èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓÆµ College student co-author


R. Lijek with èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓÆµ 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 èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓÆµ 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.