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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.

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Formations of Queer Diaspora: Trauma and Empire

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
St.Vil, Akeel
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This thesis project is explores the contours of nation-state violence and the trauma-inflicted upon deviant populations transnationally. I will explore how fluid, relational experiences with violence evoke transnational diasporic formations which can begin to be actualized when we consider their...

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Music Mentorship for Empowerment

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Anderson, Aidan
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis project in education rolled out a program for training Vassar student musicians to be educators who then gave individualized music instruction to Poughkeepsie middle school music students. Great care was given to the positioning and approach to service...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Shui, Yuhan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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Word Play: An Interactive Response to Loneliness

Publication Date
2024-May-12
Authors
Gomez, B
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Like most people, I’ve struggled with loneliness and everything that comes with it. The depression, the anxiety, the social ineptitude, the non-interaction; I’ve seen it all, babey, and I wanted to make art in response. Not art that wallowed in...

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