Vassar Scholarship

Street harassment, or sexual harassment in public places, is widely experienced by women and queer individuals as they move through cities across the globe. As a form of gender-based violence, street harassment prevents those who experience it from full participation...

This project is an exploration of the ways popular media interacts with sex education and sex-positivity. This paper is a mixture of scholarly research and auto-ethnographic work. While data and critical analysis often feels reductive to lived experiences, I approach...

Ivan Turgenev and His Library exhibition from 23 January through 10 June 2019.

Cover image Ivan Turgenev, frontispiece for Memoirs of a Sportsman (Scribner’s, 1922).

The 3.11 events in 2011 are historically the most destructive series of natural disasters to have ever hit the island nation of Japan. But while the international media has commended the bravery of survivors and applauded Japanese efforts to provide...

The understanding of television and book media is necessary during the years of early childhood development especially as the presence of these particular media continue to advance. Children are growing up in-almost thrown into- a world that is global, competitive...