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Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper
Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper
Group portrait of the students that worked on the college newspaper, with professor Burgess Johnson
Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper with professor Burgess Johnson
Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper with professor Burgess Johnson
Group portrait of the staff of the college newspaper
Mita Choudhury, Professor of History at Vassar College, discusses her book The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint: A Tale of Sex, Religion and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France, published by Pennsylvania University Press in 2015. "Students of eighteenth-century France have long been aware of
Half-length picture of Mme. M. Spartan wearing a white headpiece, necklace, bracelets, and black dress with white collar and white-trimmed sleeves. She is standing, holding a flower and resting both hands on an urn.
Vassar Professor Molly Nesbit (VC'74) talks about her book, featured in last year's New York Art Book Fair at PS1: The Pragmatism in the History of Art, published in 2012 by Periscope Books. "The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of
Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art at Vassar College, talks about her new book, Midnight: The Tempest Essays, just published in 2017 by Inventory Books."'What Was An Author?' Right from the opening words of these Tempest Essays, we see the great Molly Nesbit at work undoing and radically repositioning
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1 letter from Moore to her sister. Moore gives a detailed description of Thanksgiving dinner at Vassar, which included both students and faculty. In particular, she focuses on the fashion, the food, and the setting of the dinner. She also lists a number of arts performances given that week
Kiana Moore grew up in Manhattan, New York, and was the first person to self-identify as 'transexual' at Vassar, from which she graduated in 2002 with a degree in Psychology. She is now a transgender rights activist living in Los Angeles where she is a producer on television shows. In 2001, she
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