Senior Capstone Projects from 2021
The Food of Dis-possession and the Making of Western New York, Benjamin Aaron Bachman
Religion, Politics, and Belonging: A Study of Jewish Community Life on Campus, Itamar Ben-Porath
The Longevity Pagoda: A Collection of Short Stories by Ba Jin, Molly Berinato
Bending the Elementary, Sophia Blush
Creating the Autistic Perspective Via the Comic Book Genre, Adlai Brandt-Ogman
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Infants, Benjamin Brody
Can You Hear Us? A Content Analysis of Queer Representation in Audio Dramas, Tatianna Brown
Bridging the Gap, Sophia Calder
Best of Drew Canning, Drew Canning
The Black Cyborg: The Weaponization of a Human Body, Camryn Casey
Translation and Juvenal: A Study in Translation analysis and the implications for Classics translation through the lens of modern-language translation, Daisy Catling-Allen
Traces and Associations: Art and Archival Turns in the Late 20th and Early 21st Century, Karina Curry
Agitations in Western American Rangelands: Memory, Property and Regionalism in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation, Jake Edington
The House on the Riverbank: Flooding, Vulnerability, and Buyout Programs in the United States, Elsa Erling
Intersectionality amongst Disproportionate and Forgotten Numbers within the Child Welfare System, Alessandra Fable
From Organic to Co-creation: A Farm’s Process of Reshaping their Relationship with Nature, Katia Galambos
The Coloniality of Conservation: Slow Violence and the Dispossession of the Ahwahneechee in Yosemite National Park, Perri Goodman
Verified: Surfacing the Relationship Between Social Media Influencers and Emotional Capital, Hattie Goodwin
Homosexual Subculture by Li Yinhe, Nicholas Gorman
Perversion, Inversion, and Subversion: An Exploration of Intimacy in College Girl Fiction, Hannah Hildebolt
The Social Displacement and Public Censorship of Public Spaces in Buenos Aires, Matthias Howley
Whatever Makes Me a Modern Girl: Hookup Culture's Failure to Liberate Female Sexuality, Yvonne Hunter
Manifest Your Destiny: A Satirical Board Game Exploring the, Caroline James
Virgil’s Bumpkins: An examination of rural idealization and denigration in Virgil’s Georgics and 21st-century American culture, Elizabeth A. Janitz
Recording COVID-19: “Escape” an Autobiographical Graphic Novel on Pandemic Experiences, Tianyi Jiang
The Military-Industrial-Media Complex: The Decline of the “Alert and Knowledgeable Citizenry”, Helen Johnson
Cosmetics, Femininity, and Kawaii Culture in Japan, Sarah I. Kim
Senior Project: A Translation of Everyday Butterfly・日々蝶々, Sarah I. Kim
Building Love Outwards: Modeling a Pedagogy of Lovingness Through Peer-to-Peer Storytelling and Artmaking, Elliot Kleinman
Cellular Movements: A Critical Investigation of HIV/AIDS Through Dance, Elinor Krichmar
Here and There, Here and Now: A Multi-Lens Analysis of the Politics of Korean-American Adoption in the United States, Clara LeBlanc
The Thoughts of a Lecherous [Wo]man: Desire as Resistance in Celia Dropkin’s Poems, Sydney Levy
Jackson and Washington Parks: a History of Governance, Resistance and Citizenship in Urban Space, Claire Luning
What the Landscape Tells Us: Nationalism and the Erasure of Indigenous Narratives and Histories on Long Island, NY, Peter George Markotsis
"It's Gotta be the Shoes": A Case Study on Shoes, Distance Running, and Technology in Sport, Hannah K. Martin
Exploration of the unique aspects of Chinese Rhetoric Xiūcí 修辞, Spencer D. McGrath
Eichmann in Washington: American Society and the Ethics of Hannah Arendt, Ezra Mead
Diversity and Inclusion in the Brazilian Corporate Sector: The Interplay of Public and Private Discourses in a National Struggle for Human Rights, Juliana Milani Viana da Silva
Flight MH17 and Tales of Life After Violence: What to Make of Grief?, Jessica E. Moss
Colonial Imaginaries: Reconstructing French Indochina through Cultural Artifacts, Nam Nguyen
Shanghai Street Food and the Making of a Global City, Katherine Niu
The Salty Commons: Oyster Farmers Forging Socio-Ecosystems on Land & Sea, Julia Noonan
Holocene climate variability and the climate divide in the northeastern United States, Brendon Owczarek
Invisible Shrimp: An Exploration in Secret, Sound and Storytelling, Lucy Posner
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Reproductive Inequity among Incarcerated Black Women, Danielle Quick Holmes
The Hidden Effects of Trauma in Narrative: Uncovering Odysseus’ Story-truth, Logan Ragsdale
"A Disappearance of Alternatives": Contesting Monocultures in the Bolivian Lowlands, Elizabeth Ralston
POSTCOLONIAL ACTS: The use and importance of art in the immigrant experience, Rhea Randhawa
“They Pushed Me to Continue My Education”, “Portate Bien Que Nada Te Cuesta”: The Impact Of Latinx Values and Culture on Latinx Students' Aspirations and Achievements, Evelyn Lazario Ruiz
On Digitality: From Spectacular Narcissism to a Deepened Granularity of Perception, Nina Salvatore
Squash and Stretch: The Animated Body, Body Horror, and the Phenomena of Childhood Fears, Delaney Sears
[Picturing] Italy in Poetry and Prose: Collected Perspectives on Italy in Victorian Travel Literature, 1842-1877, Maya Slocum
Do or DoNo: Financing Inequality in Hartford, Connecticut Through the Downtown North Redevelopment Project, Samantha Beatrice Steeves
Vassar Students’ and High School Counselors’ Perceptions on the Role of the School Counselor: A Study on the Similarities and Differences, Marissa Steinberg
Water the Roots: The Fluidity of Blackness and Time, Lena Stevens
Unnatural Acts: A Political Ecology of Conservation in the Catskills (1820-1997), Hannah Stouter
“Can the Transatlantic World Order Survive the 21st Century", Charles Summa
What Do You Meme? An Exploration of Internet Communication Through Memes, Shannon Tilley
The Importance of Intersectional Programming for Developing Black Middle School Girls’ Future STEM Identities, Ciara Tomlinson
The Story of Milwaukee WI Reveals the Temporal Preservation of Racial Violence Embedded in Urban Renewal, Jasmin Walters
Inviting Inquiry: A Pattern Language for Learning Spaces, Kate Walters
Inviting Inquiry: A Pattern Language for Learning Spaces, Kate Walters
Your Best American Girl: Asian American Sexual Literacies in Family, Schooling, & Media, Annie Wang
Your Best American Girl: Asian American Sexual Literacies in Family, Schooling, & Media, Annie Wang
Education for Abolition: A Prison Abolitionist Curriculum for a Youth After-School Program, Ella Xiao
The “Cure” is the Affliction: Pregnancy and Childbirth as Healing and Harming in Ancient Greek Gynecology, Naomi Zeltzer
Senior Capstone Projects from 2020
Music Mentorship for Empowerment, Aidan Anderson
A Gamers Thoughts: An Exploration Into Marginalization in Video Games, Kevin Arce
The Predecessor who unexpectedly became [X] struggles to avoid the enemy, Elliot Baik
The pillows of our palms, Ella Baum
The art of resurrection: inheriting an activism from the margins of the aids crisis, Anya Bernstein
Never mind the sex pistols, here’s CBGB the role of locality and DIY media in forming the New York punk scene, Ariana Bowe
16 and pregnant: female centered sex education through reality television, Bethany Brown
The virtual museum of American queer history & culture: A reflection, Ruby Brown
The poet as oracle: T.S. Eliot and his quest for the immortal, Alyssa Jayne Burch
BUNNIES IN THE CITY: An exploration of hypertext comic as a hybrid medium, Zhiqin Cai
Patchwork Green: Visualizing Landscape Evolutions at Vassar College, Ann Carriere
Unlocking her diary: the “Confessional” in U.S. female singer-songwriting of the 1990s, Leah Cates
Oh, never dies: the haunted fiction of Alice Munro, Sam Cibula
"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic, Victoria Ashley Clarke
Beetle, Tieren Costello
Ugly Food for Thought: Ripple Effects from a New Food Movement, Lindsay Craig
Looking right at you: the culling and preserving of familial memory, Zahra Crim
Doctor D, Bella Dalton-Fenkl
“All we hear” navigating our relationship with music in the age of Spotify, Julianna DeAngelis
Storytelling’s capacity for individual and collective healing: Vassar voices as latent commons, Antonella DeCicci
The Mattapan Trolley: Public Transit Improvements amidst Displacement Concerns, Allegra Amram DeNooyer
The Netflix model: an exploration of racial capitalism and qualified progressivism in Netflix’s original programming, Sachi Depardon