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
Anishinaabemowin reawakening: language ideology, pedagogy, and digital technology, Charlotte C. Ells
Anishinaabemowin reawakening: language ideology, pedagogy, and digital technology, Charlotte C. Ells
“Soundtrack your life with Spotify”: music as a technology of the self in the age of affective algorithms, Amanda Fassler
Social Networks and Social Welfare Disparities Among Sexual Minorities, Dahlia Forte
Violence as an Infectious Disease: Using a Public Health Approach to Mitigate the United States’ Proliferation of Police Violence, Elizabeth Gibbs
The Politics of Mobility: Study Abroad in an Era of Climate Change, Anna Gibson
Policing the private and the public: Dalit women’s bodies, access, and agency, Sasha Gopalakrishnan
Feminized Automobility: Racing the Car as a Cultural and Technological Artifact, Eva G. Gray
Parents or teachers: who play a more important role in influencing children’s academic gains in early childhood education?, Praew Grittayaphong
A Documentation of Thing-Thinking, Olivia Guarnieri
I professionisti di Tommaso Landolfi: Una raccolta e traduzione di cinque racconti, Roman Guglielmo
AI protocol 13, Stephanie Gull
The marvel media method: negotiations in transmedia franchise structure and fan participation, Jonathan Hazin
Modernist literature and modern dance: Djuna Barnes Writing the Body, Abigail R. Hebert
Cultivating Children for the Common Good: (De)-Constructing Citizenship in Danish Child Care Institutions, Samantha Hodes
From Watts to Ferguson: The Militarized Policing of Black Communities in the United States, Jack Holmes
The spectacle of death: school shootings in America, Lucy Horgan
The long goodbye: politicizing home in the modern world, Xiaoting Hu
Secular Dreams, Bloody Oracles: Staging State and Religion in Classical Athens and Enlightenment Paris, Mendel Jimenez
An Eye for the Invisible: Exploring the Role of Image-Making in Science, Aden Kahr
Al-Khatun and artifact: Gertrude Bell and Imperial archaeology in the colonization of “The Orient", Claire Kendrick
Al-khatun and artifact: Gertrude Bell and imperial archaeology in the colonization of “The Orient", Claire Kendrick
“Well, I’m thinking about horse poverty”: Teaching and Learning about Social Justice and the Arts with Elementary School Students, Sophie Kennen
I made this myself: a reflection on the process of making and the medium of hand-knitting, Petch Kingchatchaval
Education from Perón to Videla to now: how education policy and curricula shaped national consciousness in Argentina during three periods of leadership, Grace E. Kushner
Education from Perón toVvidela to now: how education policy and curricula shaped national consciousness in Argentina during three periods of leadership, Grace E. Kushner
Temporal Exploration of the Proceedings of Old Bailey, Charlotte J. Lambert
OFRENDAS: celebrations and toolkits within Latinx Poughkeepsie, Eugene Lopez-Huerta
PLAYING WITH REALITY: Visions of the Contemporary American City as explored through Grand Theft Auto and SimCity., Joseph Manning
"O'me alone?": Aristotle and the failure of autarky in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Sarah Marshall
Loving and Moving: a memoir in search of meaning, Narendra Martin
Safe and Subversive: Medication Abortion’s Potential to Reshape Patterns of Access and Power, Margaret Matthews
Unsplitting/unsettling: resisting and reassembling visual mythologies of nuclear risk, Ruby Mayer
My whole universe in crumbs; at the center, what?: a meditation on the diary form, Noa Mendoza
Sense and Sensibility in literature and film: mapping patriarchal critique through measures of female investigation and cinematic cues, Julia Metzger
Technology's World, Graeme Mills
Law and politics at interplay: how the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia shaped the course of war in the Balkans, Jordan A. Moss
Law and politics at interplay: how the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia shaped the course of war in the Balkans, Jordan A. Moss
Following a new lead: Black women on the small screen, Kennedy Murray
Transgressional paradise: gender and dichotomy in the illustrations and text of the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost, Sydney Nemphos
Boba binds you and me: an exploration of boba, Asian American identity, and community, Heather Phan Nguyen
Cuba's Agroecological Revolution: Implications for Widespread Adoption, Cooper Olds
Students’ Perceptions of Positive School Experiences: An Investigation on the Similarities and Differences Over Time, Marisa Peczuh
Quarantine : a visual documentation of a modern pandemic, Zoë Peterson
The past, present, and future of blackness: writings on the wall and the importance of natural archives, Tatum Marie Phillips
Drill music: encounters of subaltern and sovereign, George Platt
Word on the street: reimagining the American modernist canon through vernacularism, Danyal Rahman
Nabi Taryong (The Lamenting Butterfly), Abigail Ren
12 Lessons, Emma Robinson
A comparative study on healthcare in the United States and the United Kingdom, Daniel Rosen
A comparative study on healthcare in the United States and the United Kingdom, Daniel Rosen
Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity, Kevin Ros
Broadcasting addiction: the establishment of authority in the dissemination of medical information in television media, Elizabeth Rotolo
Delivered Divinities: Senatorial Power and Senatorial Peril in the Importation Narratives of Cybele, Asklepios, and Bacchus, Joshua Samolchuk
Connecting grassroots development evaluation to achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals, Maya Sterling
Does Might Make Right? An Exploration of Policing in the Shanghai French Concession, Alex Sun
The Ghosts' Home, Alex Sun
Not all theories work: the Dorian Invasion as a 21st century failure, Andrew Szente
How Lonely the City Stands: Catholic Architecture, Religious Culture, and Suburbanization in Twentieth-Century Chicagoland, D Scott Szpisjak
Dialogues in paradise: translation’s role in bridging cultural differences through literature, Megan J. Wang
Selling (Out) The City: A Story of Amazon HQ2 in New York City, Julian Wexer
other voices: storie e esperienze delle donne migranti e straniere in Italia, Thao Williams
Who is Sandy? crisis, identity, and the superstorm in Bay Head, New Jersey, Joe Wiswell
The rave club, Yoav Yaron
Senior Capstone Projects from 2019
The modern refugee: the smartphone holds the key to digital citizenship, Karlian Achenie
Terminology in American dragon boat: a linguistic investigation, Matthew 區智強 Alain Au
Understanding intuitive design, Rebecca Andrews
Situating spatial cognition within relational ecologies: the experiential (socio)natures of affordances, Robert Appleby
Inscriptions of the French conception of race: an analysis and re-imagination of post World War II Parisian public housing, Claudia Ashworth
And she learned from experience: motherhood and womanhood in the authority of Yvette of Huy, Lestra R. Atlas
Reflections: Explorations on popular representations of mathematics, Sarah Baer