Field of study: Film and Drama. Current occupation: Retired. Robinson grew up in Los Angeles, California; obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California (USC); lived in California, Kansas, Idaho, and New York. Married in 2011.
Field of study: English; current occupation: professor. Author of six novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Coming Storm, and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, as well as a work of nonfiction, The Gay 100: a Ranking of he Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present. This interview
Field of study: Geology. Current occupation: Professor of Earth Science and Geography. Schneiderman was born in the Bronx, N.Y., grew up in Queens and Long Island. She received her undergraduate degree at Yale University and graduate degree from Harvard University. She moved to Los Angeles, Calif
This interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: social work. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; moved to Dallas, Texas; left home at fifteen years old; went to University of Colorado; transferred to University of Michigan; worked
This interview took place over June 12-13, 2013 and is divided into two parts. Field of study: Human Ethology: Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; then to Dallas, Texas; left home at age fifteen, studied at Universities of Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, New School (NYC); worked
Grew up in Portage, Michigan, graduated from Michigan State University, completed Masters program in social work and PhD program in social welfare at University of Wisconsin-Madison, came to Vassar in 2012 as a Sexual Assault Violence Prevention Coordinator.
Born in Caguas, Puerto Rico; moved to Fishkill, New York at 5 years old; moved to Beacon, New York a few months later. Currently a pharmacy technician.
Associate Vice President of Human Resources, Vassar College. Born in Nuremberg, Germany; grew up in West Virginia; graduated from Oberlin College; got Masters in clinical social work; got law degree.
Born in Newburgh, New York; grew up in Fishkill, New York; worked as dispatcher for Fishkill Police Department; worked as security officer and supervisor at IBM; worked as director of security at Bard College; started working at Vassar in 1996 as Associate Director of Safety and Security.
Grew up in Virginia; went to doctoral program in San Francisco; Interests in community mental health services for LGBTQIA persons, couples, and families, supports for LGBTQ students at Vassar, Psychological counselor and former Vassar College employee.
Field of study: history and library science. Current occupation: Vassar College Archivist. Grew up in Troy, NY; undergraduate at SUNY New Paltz, graduate studies at the University of Maine; worked at Smith College and Cornell University before coming to Vassar. Keywords: LGBTQ, oral history, New
Urvashi Vaid was born in New Dehli, India; moved to Potsdam, NY in 1966 at 6 years old; moved to Boston in 1979; and then moved to Provincetown, MA in the early 1990s. Fields of study at Vassar: political science, English. Current occupation: Director of the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia
The interviews in this collection are a result of the projects by students in Vassar College's "ANTH/AFRS 386: Situating Blackness" course in Spring 2015. The course encouraged students to explore the meanings of blackness (and raced identity categories) as lived experience at Vassar College and
The Vassar LGBTQ Oral History Project is a partnership between the LGBTQ Center, the Women's Studies Program and the Vassar College Archives that began in the fall of 2012. The goal of the project is to capture the experiences, stories, and reflections of LGBTQ and ally alumnae/i as well as former
Vassar College Library was built in 1905, the architecture and the style of the building is perpendicular Gothic, with many embellishments. Among those embellishments are approximately thirty-six gargoyles and grotesques. Gargoyles are decorative water-bearing fixtures meant to redirect rainwater
Major: independent major, Ethnic Studies; current occupation/field: law. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives."
Field of study: International Studies (correlate in French); masters in Women's Studies. Current occupation: AIDS United Grant Manager (nonprofit), gender queer activist. This interview was conducted as part of Spring 2013 Women's Studies Class (WMST 219), "Queering the Archives.",Interview
The Archives & Special Collections Library is part of the Vassar College Libraries system. It holds the rare book, manuscript, and archival collections of the college. It collects, preserves, and makes available rare and unique collections, and also engages in teaching and outreach activities. This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives.
The Vassar College herbarium holds over 8,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Holdings are primarily from northeastern North America, and include collections made by several notable 19th century botanists. To learn more about this project visit the website here.
Vassar College's institutional repository reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community. It provides access to senior theses, peer reviewed open access articles, and projects from a wide range of disciplines.
