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.

Reflection, Reproduction, and Challenging at the Brooklyn Zen Center: Complexifying Cultural Capital, Gentrification, the Mindfulness Movement, and Scale

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2014-January-01
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This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how...

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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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