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
Encounters in Psychic Everywheres (Meditations on Indeterminacy and Our Grounds of Dispersion)
I use “psychic everywheres” to articulate the explosion of our selves and entanglements in the modern era: we are hyperconnected, yet our capacities for Being (with) are limited by our terms of recognition. I understand this as a crisis of...