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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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Queer Hermeneutics for an Unbound Temporality: Schools as Passageway

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Murphy, Andrew Thomas
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Queer theorists have posited that normativity is involved in a spatial practice. American society has taken great care to assign different levels of value to different identities as well as to the time and space they inhabit. Inequitable structures of...

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Recording COVID-19: "Escape" an Autobiographical Graphic Novel on Pandemic Experiences

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Jiang, Tianyi
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This senior project includes a project statement and an autobiographical graphic novel that documents the author's personal experience during the pandemic. The purpose of this project is to reflect on the continuing situation of the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it hopes...

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Scripting (In)security: Cartographic Violence and Performances of Securitization in the Western Sahara

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dann, Naomi
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Throughout the forty-year conflict over the Western Sahara, the United States has supported Morocco's occupation of the disputed territory. This overall policy has remained relatively consistent over time, yet constantly subjected to contestation. The debates over policy and various modes...

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