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Serin Houston and Charlotte Morse ’15, "The Ordinary and Extraordinary: Producing Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion in US Sanctuary Movements," Studies in Social Justice 11:1 (2017); 27-47.
Houston, S. and Molnar, C. [MHC ‘21]. (2020). New Sanctuary Movement. World Religions and Spirituality Project.
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.
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Berclaz LH*#, Eicher G*, Wieselquist G#, Frimpong A#, Mallare A#, Lijek RS**, & Fields KA**. (2025). Complete deletion of the Chlamydia muridarum putative cytotoxin locus reveals contributions during invasion in tissue culture and oviduct pathology during murine genital tract infection. Infection and immunity, e00419-25.
*equal contribution
**corresponding author
#MHC undergraduate