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.

[Exhibition] Work Prints: Eric Lindbloom’s Panoramas of the Hudson Valley

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2024-January-09
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During his lifetime, Eric made many photographs of the region where he lived. Some of them have appeared in print; others have not. In 2019, Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections Library acquired a collection of twenty-eight of Eric’s Hudson Valley...

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Deconstructing the Asian-American Student: Storytelling through Portraiture

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2015-January-01
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The model minority stereotype was coined in 1966 to describe the Japanese and their post-World War II success, but it quickly generalized across all Asian ethnic groups. Today, although many Asians resist this stereotype, many Americans—both Asian and non-Asian—embrace it...

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Leaks: Tracing the path of secrets through democracy

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2014-January-01
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In this thesis, I explore the unique potential of political leaks to illuminate and critique the underlying power structure of the state. The primary motive of the institutional state is to maximize and preserve its own power; because of this...

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