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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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College-aged women on Instagram: an analysis of gender and social media

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
McGuire, Hanna
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Through an analysis of gender and image theory as well as data gathered through survey, coding and interviews, I sought to explore how twenty-first century women both perform femininity through social media and challenge gendered stereotypes while doing so. I...

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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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Theater and Social Change: How Small-town U.S. Theaters Reproduce and Resist Inequality

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

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...

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