People

Directors

Jacquelyne Luce

Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies; Interim Director of the Teaching and Learning Initiative (Spring 2026)

Jacquelyne Luce is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, specializing in feminist science studies, chronic illness and disability studies, rare disease ethnography, and queer feminist research methodologies. Jacquelyne’s interest in transdisciplinary and collaborative research pedagogies and methodologies of co-inquiry in the classroom underpin the work that she and students have done within the Feminist Technoscience Governance Collaboratory. She and colleagues recently hosted Feminist Health Futures: Enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in the Health Humanities, an online speaker series and pedagogy retreat. Jacquelyne was the Director of the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center from 2021-2024. 

Jacquelyne Luce

Jennifer Wallace Jacoby

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education; Director of First-Year Seminars; Director of the Teaching and Learning Initiative (on leave Spring 2026)

Jennifer Jacoby is interested in how both children and teachers develop in school contexts. In particular, she seeks to understand how teachers can best support the learning of linguistically and socio-economically diverse groups of children. Jacoby's current research investigates how school settings support the language and literacy development of young English learning children, as well as, how these school settings support the professional learning of the teachers who work with English learners. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in her research.

Jennifer Wallace Jacoby

Staff

Dawn Costa

Program Coordinator, Teaching & Learning Initiative and First Year Seminar Program

Dawn Costa, MS, supports operations for TLI programming, where she continues her mission of multi-sector collaboration and lifelong learning. Beyond Mount Holyoke College, she leads interdisciplinary teams, directs cross-functional projects, and manages content across diverse platforms. 

Dawn Costa