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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] The Artist's Book in Wales: Shirley Jones and the Red Hen Press

Publication Date
2024-January-16
Authors
Antonetti, Martin
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Physical exhibition was on view at Vassar College Thompson Library January–May, 2013. This exhibition was also on view in 2013 and 2014 at the University of Vermont, Smith College, and Swarthmore College. This is an essay written by Martin Antonetti...

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[Exhibition] Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage

Publication Date
2024-January-09
Authors
Cohen, Miriam, 1950-
Seidl, Mark
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
History Department
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

2020 marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That victory had been the goal of suffrage activists since the middle of the 19th century and was the result of countless...

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The "touch" versus the "see": tactility as a challenge against digital media in "Subway Therapy"

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Nguyen, Sieu
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

The thesis explores how the tactile aspect of "Subway Therapy," a project in which people could write messages on sticky notes after the 2016 Presidential Election and post them on the subway walls in New York City, fosters an alternative...

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The Poughkeepsie Farmers Market: Whiteness and the Logic of Food Access

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
David A. Orkin
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The Poughkeepsie Farmers Market was the epitome of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project's mission to create a "just and sustainable food system in the Hudson Valley." While farm itself had been operating for many years prior to the program, it had...

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