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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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[Exhibition] Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist's Books by Werner Pfeiffer

Publication Date
2024-January-16
Authors
Hill, Thomas
Patkus, Ronald
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

On view in the Vassar College Main Library, the Art Library, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center from September 6-December 15, 2012. 2012 marked the 75th birthday of Werner Pfeiffer, an artist who for half a century has worked...

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Does Might Make Right? An Exploration of Policing in the Shanghai French Concession

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Sun, Alex
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis examines the use of policing to quell social unrest as a form of state management in the Shanghai's French Concession during the early twentieth century.

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Psyche's Library

Publication Date
2022-April-02
Authors
Hill, Thomas
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This lecture presents the architectural program of the Frederick Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College as the instantiation of the introduction of the concept of research into American undergraduate education by early Vassar faculty who were invested in the direct...

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Resisting Binaries? Multiracial Black/White Identity and the U.S. Racial Project

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Natalie Ward
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

The multiracial population is growing rapidly in the United States. With President Barack Obama, a self-identified black man with white and black ancestry, as the face of our nation, and as the face of this growing population, it is evident...

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