This is the code for Alina's Jekyll-based website: http://alinadavis.me.
(1) This plugin (or custom tag) reads in an hierarchical list of publications and displays the list or its subset depending on the provided argument. For example:
{% show_pubs %}will display the entire list (see this page){% show_pubs dissertation_phd %}will display a subset related to project dissertation_phd (see bottom of this page)
(2) Modals for most photos are handled by this simple jQuery script.