Senior Capstone Projects
Stone Shoulders and Wax Wings
Stopping the spread of pathogen and panic: the creation and effects of moral panic in the SARS outbreak
Stories of a Waldorf School: Looking for Inspiration in Education
Storytelling's capacity for individual and collective healing: Vassar voices as latent commons
Streaming Females 2.0: Que(e)ry-ing Sites of Lesbian Counternarrative & Exhibition
The lesbian/queer female audience has a history of being elated with news that its community will be represented on the small screen, then grossly disappointed with how it's represented. For many lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, especially those lacking a...
Striking back: combating predatory equity and promoting affordable housing in New York City
Stripping Autonomy: Coloniality and the Production of Territory vis-à-vis Canada's Exotic Dancer Visa Program
This paper traces the making and unmaking of a unique former temporary visa program in Canada: the Exotic Dancer Visa Program. Using theories of territory and colonialism, I imaginatively analyze the construction of the Canadian state and migrant exotic dancer...
Stuck
Students' Perceptions of Positive School Experiences: An Investigation on the Similarities and Differences Over Time
This study aimed to understand the factors of positive school experiences from children's own perspectives. The foundation of this research depended on school satisfaction, school connectedness, and academic self-perception. Overall, these terms encompassed general feelings about enjoying school, engaging with...
Suffering in silence: the politics of shaping cultural memory in the context of narratives around Korean "comfort women" in South Korea
In <em>Tangled Memories</em>: <em>The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, </em>Marita Sturken discusses the shaping of cultural memory in the U.S. in the context of the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. She writes that...
Sulayman Al-Bassam's The Al-Hamlet Summit: Allegorical anti-Orientalism in the Shadow of 9/11
Super women
Surrealist Fashion: A Critical Introduction
My project explores the role of fashion in the commercialization of the Surrealist movement and the lasting impact of Surrealist language and imagery on the landscape of fashion design. Drawing on my survey and analysis of the history of the...
Surrogacy Policy in The United States and Germany: Comparing the Historical, Economic and Social Context of Two Opposing Policies
Sustainable Agriculture in Ancient Rome
Sustainable agriculture discourse describes agricultural practices and techniques used to maintain land fertility. At its broadest definition, sustainable agriculture aims to make land hospitable to cultivated crops for an indefinite amount of time. The discourse itself has only arisen in...