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Mancilla-Martinez, J. and Jacoby, J.W. (2018). The influence of risk factors on preschoolers' Spanish vocabulary development in the context of Spanish instruction. Early Education and Development. 


Jacoby, J.W. and Lesaux, N.K. (2017). Language and literacy instruction in classrooms that serve Latino dual language learners. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 40, 77-86.


Jacoby, J.W. and Lesaux, N.K. (2017). Policy-based instructional reform in early education: How Head Start teachers perceive instructional mandates. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 11(9). 


Jacoby, J.W. and Lesaux, N.K. (2014). Support for extended discourse in teacher talk with linguistically diverse preschoolers. Early Education and Development, 25, 1162-1179.


Jennifer Wallace Jacoby received the Taylor & Francis/National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators Foundation鈥檚 Outstanding Journal Article Award for 2019 for her article, Supporting Dual Language Learners in Head Start: Teacher Beliefs about Teaching Priorities and Strategies to Facilitate English Language Acquisition from the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. She was recently honored with the award at the NAECTE Annual Conference, which was held virtually on November 4, 2020.  


Adeline Mueller (Music) gave an invited lecture in the Musicology Colloquia series at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, entitled 鈥淭ouching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind, ca. 1819鈥 (November 8). Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab) prepared three-dimensional replicas of an experimental music notation system illustrated in one of Mueller's nineteenth-century sources; these were shared with the audience at the lecture.


Jones, S. (2022, January 22). Georgia's Fate Linked with Ukraine (Perspectives) Eurasianet.


Jones, S. (2021, December 4). 鈥淭he Lords of Misrule in Georgia,鈥 PONARS Eurasia,


Gelman, T., Jones, S., Kakachia, K. 2021. Georgia鈥檚 Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges for a Small State. Bloomsbury Press (I.B.Tauris), London.


Jones, S.F. & Toria, M. (2021) 鈥淚ntroduction: Rethinking Memory Sites and Symbolic Realms of Georgian National Identity,鈥 Caucasus Survey, 9(3), 211-219, DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2021.1975975