Senior Capstone Projects from 2018
Commodity, conservation, and nation building: the orchid and the Singaporean identity., Jonathan Alperstein
Staging Euripides’ Medea: notebook & retrospective, Schuyler deVos
Conservation in conflict: an assessment of plurality in environmental management, Frank Najarro
It’s happened a thousand times before: the process of adapting Ariadne - a new musical, Michael Oosterhout
Taking the poet’s part: Sulpicia’s elegy, Jordy Schnarr
Vox Passorum: rape narratives from Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita to today, Allison Lia Sugino
Becoming white: religion and the construction of race, Haydn Wall
Senior Capstone Projects from 2017
Re-pathologizing queerness: The digitization of lesbian space and the production of respectability within lesbian dating App, “Her”, Sophie Bedecarré Ernst
Representations and belonging: a brief study of the social contexts of museums in Samoa and Fiji, E.M. Bennett
A past for the present: decolonizing heritage and building sustainable localities in Southeast Asia, Kryzel Bonifacio
The impact of environmental regulations on the West Virginia coal economy: assessing the “coal means jobs” mantra and the prospect of deregulation, Richard G. Bryenton
Creating a sense of community through self-description within LD spaces, Rory V. Chipman
Clear blue light, Jack Conway
An American gunplay: performances of race, gender, and nationalism in three acts, Jessica Villegas Couch
Interrogating the gayborhood: violence & the uneven geography of queer space, Karen A. Crook
Let women live: (dis)ability at work in Mexican maquiladoras, Lauren F. Cutler
“Pathetic and impressive”: recovering the role of American sentimental novels in the fiction/morality conflict, Elizabeth Dean
Scenes from twin modernization projects of American empire: twentieth-century experiments in tropical modern architecture and oral contraception in the Puerto Rican “laboratory”, Lily Doolittle Platt
A “not-straight time”: choreographing queer spatio-temporalities, Alexandra Dunham
From archetypes to actors: the impact of the repatriation movement on museum displays of Native America, Penelope Heilbrun Duus
An exploration of the diary as a medium: during the 17th and 18th centuries, Samuel Stephen Every
Too much, too soon: a toolkit for teenagers who learn more about sexuality through their phones than in the classroom, Ryan Eykholt
A renewable Cuba: bilateral relations and renewable energy investments between the U.S. and Cuba, James Falino
Selected applications and ethical implications of artificial human engineering and enhancement by three-dimensional bioprinting, Matthew Fastman
Lost in transnation: reconciling geographical, linguistic and cultural distance in NoViolet Bulawayo’s "We Need New Names", Elizabeth Fetterolf
moss green velvet tablecloth, Alexandra Frankland
Transplanting the womb: an examination of the ethics and potential of uterine transplantation, Nathalie Freeman
The CRISPR-Cas9 mediated disruption in the ethics of gene therapy: an analysis of contemporary developments, Walter Gabriel
Easier said than done: collaborative pedagogy and its challenges in the Vassar College Writing Center, Liza Garrity
Cødes: a poetry collection in three parts, Mariah Ghant
Ghost calls, Noah Goldberg
Shifting music culture in the age of streaming, Benjamin Greenspan
Embodying American rituals: a corporeal understanding of cultural production, Grace Gregory
Unseeing, Rishi Guné
Hooha are you? (hooha am I?), Samantha Guss
One common picture: the politics of character development and discipline at a ‘no-excuses’ charter school, Shania Lily Harford
The drone and our society, Patrick Hood
Transgression and containment: transhistorical themes and tropes within televised American women’s stand-up comedy, Nicole Howell
Homecoming(s), Rachel Jacobe
Same size: a collection of linked stories, Abigail "Abby" Johnson
Marginal Revenue Products of Collegiate Basketball Players: What's March Madness Worth to Your Team?, Nicholas K.S Johnson
“Alternative” childbirth: the complexity of birthing among Latinx folk in the United States, Natalie Kopke
“Blind puppets of a capricious goddess”: clothing and skin in fairy tale adaptations, Jenna Lang
“Digital Punk Rock Spirit:” A Spatial Reorientation of Asian American Diasporic Subcultural Subjectivities, Richard Le
Searching for the human(ness): resisting detachment in the specters of IR and the shadows of the drone, Emily Lerman
Windows, mirrors, and tables: methodologies and theories of anthropological photography, Drew Robert Leventhal
Barriers to racial consciousness in Asian Americans, Amanda Ma
ThemTube: commercializing the digital public sphere, Jamie Bellomy Maher
Talking about educating teachers: neoliberal rhetoric and the teaching profession since 1983, Aleena Malik
Towards a computational model of long-term diachronic change: simulating the development of Classical Latin to Modern French, Clayton Marr
Spoil the rod, spare the child: cultural, personal, and social scientific perspectives on corporal punishment as a child-rearing technique, Mariah Marshall
“Reading for our lives”: healing from sexual violence and remembering stolen sisters in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie, Monica Martinez
Rurally raised students: displacement for higher education, Neena McBaer
College-aged women on Instagram: an analysis of gender and social media, Hanna McGuire
Webster Hall: an examination of urban nightlife in NYC, Josean Melendez
anti-Pride: disrupting gay pride parades, igniting queer futures, Joe Metcalf
rape jokes, Olivia Michalak
Voicing the past: the legacy of imperial footprints on language policy in 1990s Ukraine and Belarus, Priya Ellen Misra
Swamp queens: identity formation, domination & abjection in women’s stand-up comedy performance, Shira Mizel
With not for: community design in Murphy Park, Joseph More and Elizabeth Vamos
Making (sense of) history after apartheid: neoliberal education in the ‘new’ South Africa, Caitlin Munchick
Chinese resource extraction urbanization: the Xinjiang operational landscape, Elijah Ness
The "touch" versus the "see": tactility as a challenge against digital media in "Subway Therapy", Sieu Nguyen
Motivational insights for atomic spies during the Manhattan Project, Muhannad Al Nisheiwat
Cowboys for a week: modern American dude ranching in myth and practice, Rose Paxton
Wonder nine, James Pedersen
Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of the Cook Canyon Tuff with implications for magmatic processes, Sarah E. Perry
Pills + porn: exploring the conventions and implications of digital pharma spam, Soshyan Petroulas
Race and the social construction of scientific knowledge in biomedical genomics research, Kylie Prutisto-Chang
Charlotte Brontë’s utilization of depression as a source of agency and the denial of this agency in her historical memory, Kelsey Quinn
White supremacy as design, Gabriel A. Ramos
The low-income, first generation and Latinx experience: resilience at an elite predominantly white liberal arts institution, Abigail Romero
Olympic cities and the legacy of infrastructure: Barcelona 1992 and Athens 2004, Samuel Rosenthal
School choice policies and education inequality in New York City, Céleste Royo
The inside, Hannah Shlaferman
Justice for all?: the Pledge of Allegiance as a site of surveillance and discipline in American culture and classrooms, Zayne Sibley
A jab well done: acupuncture, American healthcare, and a place for ethnomedicines, Shereen Sodder
A people without: personal and political American histories of Palestine, Sophia Steinert-Evoy
Striking back: combating predatory equity and promoting affordable housing in New York City, Jonah Stewart Grob
Exploring issues of access to cancer clinical drug trials, Seamus William Taylor
Autonomy through image: the path of identity formation in Fun Home, Calling Dr. Laura, and Lighter Than My Shadow, Brooke Thomas
A path cut by water: the making of the Cochabamba water war through internationalization, postcolonialism and decoloniality, Sierra Tobin
The city and the citizen: shifts in Argentine national identity through the contested spatial production of Buenos Aires 1880-1955, Michael Zajakowski Uhll
Reluctant religion and radical politics: reimagining theology for countersovereign critique, Rainah Umlauf
Textbook: the sitcom, "Louie", and the French New Wave, Cristian Uriostegui
"Saga Hwaet Ic Hatte": The Riddles of the Aenigmata and the Exeter Book in Conversation, Miranda Chiharu Villesvik
Wing: a collection of short stories, Windy Vo