Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Seeing the Sun: Maria Mitchell’s Observations, 1868-1888

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2016-January
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A Catalogue of the Exhibition Seeing the Sun Maria Mitchell’s Observations, 1868-1888. At the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library January — June 2016. Curated by Laura Streett, College Archivist and Debra Meloy Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell...

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The crypt

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2016-January-01
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A crypt is a haunted underground burial chamber where in the secret, something very important is kept (mostly dead bodies and "their" treasures). Certainly no <em>one </em>comes out of the crypt once they have entered. But precisely what secret is...

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Webcam Culture: & the Commodification of Privacy

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2015-January-01
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My thesis takes a look at the history of webcam culture and investigates the changing attitudes towards surveillance and privacy since the creation of webcam technology and the rise of participatory culture. I postulate that since webcam culture became increasingly...

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