Vassar Scholarship

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...

The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has distributed our lives in every aspect. After a year of living under the 'new normal, we are finally seeing vaccinations becoming available, which greatly benefits everyone at risk. This pandemic uncovered the...

Different political regimes have principals that possess different in- formation regarding agents' behavior. This paper studies how this difference affects the comparative efficiency of corruption control between a democratic regime and an authoritarian regime. We ob- serve that such comparative...

An Exhibition in the Vassar College Art Library October 23-December 15, 2023

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...

An exhibition commemorating the centennial anniversary of the opening of the Alumnae House at Vassar College.

Vassar College Art Library

May 27 - July 26, 2024

This thesis investigates why music streaming services are so popular, beyond their affordability, and the ways in which streaming is shifting music culture. Certain aspects of listening culture which we tend to understand as originating from streaming services, specifically the...

This thesis interrogates the social function of small-town theater in the United States. Through a series of interviews with theater artists working at regional and local theaters in the northeast United States, I demonstrate theater's capacity to both reproduce and...