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Presented her paper “Playset: The Sonnet as Enabling Constraint” at the Sonnets from the American Symposium on October 2, 2020. She read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, at Johns Hopkins University’s Film and Media Studies program on September 24, 2020.


Craig Woodard received a National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI Grant, "UBM-Institutional: Collaborative Research: Four College Biomath Consortium," with Amherst, Smith and Hampshire Colleges. (Mount Holyoke co-PI: Martha Hoopes), September 1, 2011-August 31, 2016.


Lockwood, J., M.F. Hoopes, and M.P. Marchetti. 2013, 2nd edition. Invasion Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.


Ricciardi, A., M.F. Hoopes, M.P. Marchetti, J.L. Lockwood. 2013. Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of invasive species. Ecological Monographs 83:263-282


Hornstein, G. A., Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18],  & Robinson Putnam, E. [MHC ‘14] (2021). The diverse functions of hearing voices peer-support groups: Findings and case examples from a US national study, Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.  DOI: .

Hornstein, G. A., Mazel-Carlton, C., Davidow, S., Hadge, M. &  Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18] (2019). . 22 min. film.


Hornstein, G. A., Robinson Putnam, E. [MHC ‘14] & Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18] (2020). How do hearing voices peer-support groups work? A three-phase model of transformation.Psychosis, DOI:


Gave a public lecture titled "Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Pioneer in Psychiatry"  to mark the awarding of National Historic Landmark status to "Frieda's Cottage," Fromm-Reichmann's home and office at Chestnut Lodge Hospital (Rockville, MD) for more than 20 years and an iconic place in the history of psychiatry. Recording at: 

Serin Houston. (2019). Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press – Our Sustainable Future series.


Serin Houston. (2019). From the Desk of Serin D. Houston: Exploring a Storied Landscape. Guest blog post on Behind the Book at the University of Nebraska Press.