Vassar Scholarship

Telehealth, with its focus of addressing healthcare at a distance and being cost efficient, has been suggested to be a good fit in Native American communities. However, very little study has been done bridging the two; even less has been...

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...

ThemTube is a 3-part video essay, running about an hour in total. I aimed to characterize the contradictory, ambiguous status of YouTube, a site that claims to level the playing field for video creators while promoting certain users over the...

Bringing together Tim Ingold’s anthropology of lines, the internal
movement of Chinese calligraphic lines described by Zhenzhong Qiu and the
philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I argue that the internal movement
of lines, as a concept in its...

Opening comments by Jonathon Kahn for the "The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations" event on
Feb 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. in the Villard Room.

Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with...

This thesis presents a narrative and cognitive investigation of grief, specifically, how individuals of different genders experience, anticipate, express, and adapt to the emotional, cognitive, and existential implications of death. Employing a phenomenological and gender-informed qualitative methodology, I draw upon...

This project uses photographs and audio as a way to both hear about, and see the lives of Black women in a way that humanizes them without making them into a spectacle within the art world.

The existence of a coalition strategy to achieve a goal does not necessarily mean that the coalition has enough information to know how to follow the strategy. Neither does it mean that the coalition knows that such a strategy exists...