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Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).


Rittika Shamsuddin*, Milka Doktorova*, Sheila Jaswal, Audrey Lee-St. John and Kathryn McMenimen. Computational Prediction of Hinge Axes in Proteins. BMC Bioinformatics, 15(8), 2014
* indicates undergraduate author


McNally, C. (2023). Traumatic (SELF) exile: Narrative marginalization in recent and postwar German fiction. German Studies Review, 46(2), 247鈥261.


McNally, C. (2023a). Sammelsurium: A reader and workbook for intermediate German. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 56(1), 93鈥94. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12228


Medhi, A. (2020). Infrastructural Contingencies and Contingent Sovereignties on the Indo鈥揂fghan Frontier. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi:10.1017/s0026749x19000015


Mitchell, C. (2021). . Business and Politics, 1-17.


Mitchell, C. (2020). United We Stand: Gruppenwettbewerb and European Banking Union. German Politics, 1鈥17. 


Mitchell, S. (2020). Fault-TracingAgainst Quine-Duhem. A defense of the objectivity of scientific justification. Berlin/Boston Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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Monahin, Nona & Pash, Meg. (2024, February 22). The Interdependence of Music and Dance in 16th-century Renaissance Dance Reconstruction. Early Dance Symposium 2024 - virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association鈥檚 Early Dance Working Group.


Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trob谩r, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of 鈥淚 Sing a New Song鈥 with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country鈥檚 best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and .