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"Where is My Disability Community?: A Comparative Close Reading of Children's Historical Fiction" in An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company UniverseUniversity Press of Mississippi, Forthcoming May 2025.

Spear MJ. "Women, Survival, and the Black Panther Party in Baltimore." Journal of Women's History. Forthcoming Summer 2025.

Spear MJ, Vaughan J, Barker C, Faitak B, Cole J, Fleischhacker S, Garcia A, Heam C, Langston K, Martin KS, McElfish PA, McElwee TM, Olamiposi O, Sperduto N, Wawrzaszek A, Wilson N, Woods H, Long CR. "Daily Reality of Food Insecurity: A PhotoVoice Study of Food Insecure Residents in a Rural, Southern State." Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. Under Review.

​Moore R, Callaghan-Koru J, Vincenzo JL, Patton SK, Spear MJ, Alik E, Ramos AP, Takamaru S, McElfish PA, Curran GM. "External Relationships as Implementation Determinants in Community-Engaged, Equity-Focused COVID-19 Vaccination Events." Frontiers in Health Services. 2024; 4:1338622.  https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2024.1338622

Purvis RS, Vincenzo JL, Spear MJ, Moore R, Patton SK, Callaghan-Koru J, McElfish PA, Curran GM. "Factors Associated with Marshallese and Hispanic Adults’ Willingness to Receive a COVID-19 Booster Dose." Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2023;14https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319231171440

Vincenzo JL, Spear MJ, Moore R, Purvis RS, Patton SK, Callaghan-Koru J, McElfish PA, Curran GM. "Reaching Late Adopters: Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination of Marshallese and Hispanic Adults." BMC Public Health. 2023; 23:631. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15468-3

Spear MJ, Rowland B, Vincent, J, Brown T, Wilson A, Palenske C, McElfish PA, Long CR, Presley J, Balis, LE. "Results of a Rural Traffic Calming Event to Promote Physical Activity." Journal of Extension, (2022) 60(2), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.60.02.18

Long CR, Spear MJ, Bogulski CA, Rowland B, Langston K, Faitak B, Sparks K, McElfish PA. "Reducing Sodium Intake in Community Meals Programs: Evaluation of the Sodium Reduction in Communities Program, Arkansas, 2016-2019." Preventing Chronic Disease, 2021;18:210028. http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210028