American Studies Program
"The Old, Same Place": Memory and Material in a Family Artwork
16 and pregnant​: female centered sex education through reality television
A people without: personal and political American histories of Palestine
An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future
This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...
An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future
This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...
anti-Pride: disrupting gay pride parades, igniting queer futures
Art in the homeland: tracing the American imaginary through the context of war from colonization to modern day imperialism
Becoming white: religion and the construction of race
Building Love Outwards: Modeling a Pedagogy of Lovingness Through Peer-to-Peer Storytelling and Artmaking
Cellular Movements: A Critical Investigation of HIV/AIDS Through Dance
Cowboys for a week: modern American dude ranching in myth and practice
Cultivating Freedom: Reimagining Individualism and Community through the Landmark Forum
Drill music: encounters of subaltern and sovereign
Embodying American rituals: a corporeal understanding of cultural production
Fantasies of Realness: Rehearsals of Queer Transcendence in the Ballroom Scene
Hooha are you? (hooha am I?)
How About FAT: The Fat Body and its Intersections in Pop Culture & Media
Iconicity in the age of social media: Augmenting theories of iconicity through the study of a contemporary iconic photograph
In-Residence: Domestic Space Preservation and Contemporary Art in the Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley has a long history of attracting artists. Today, this has manifested in a high concentration of artist residency programs that not only draw creatives from neighboring metropolises, but from an international pool. In this paper I will...