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
16 and pregnant: female centered sex education through reality television, Bethany Brown
The poet as oracle: T.S. Eliot and his quest for the immortal, Alyssa Jayne Burch
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
Doctor D, Bella Dalton-Fenkl
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
Anishinaabemowin reawakening: language ideology, pedagogy, and digital technology, Charlotte C. Ells
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
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
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
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
“Well, I’m thinking about horse poverty”: Teaching and Learning about Social Justice and the Arts with Elementary School Students, Sophie Kennen
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
Temporal Exploration of the Proceedings of Old Bailey, Charlotte J. Lambert
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
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
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
Transgressional paradise: gender and dichotomy in the illustrations and text of the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost, Sydney Nemphos
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
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
Iteratively Linking Words Using Word2Vec and Cosine Similarity, Kevin Ros
Delivered Divinities: Senatorial Power and Senatorial Peril in the Importation Narratives of Cybele, Asklepios, and Bacchus, Joshua Samolchuk
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
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
"I hope y'all hear me" : Chicago hip hop & counter-narrative, Tamar Ballard
“To make his own hearthstone smile”: working-class fatherhood and the Chartist movement, Nicholas Barone
Conflict exposure and human capital development: evidence from the Rwandan genocide, Remy Beauregard
A multiplicity of singularities: isolation and interdependence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Maria Octavia Bell
Dora the Explorer, Latinidad, and the crisis of identity in the transition to neoliberalism, Ilan Berkman
Designing a 21st century community: an exploration of the ford plan in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sophie Blumenstock
A platform of her own: an examination of feminist attempts to reclaim pregnancy from medicalized gynecology, Cece Bobbitt
Common sense?: gentrification, rezoning, and community along Brooklyn’s 4th Avenue, James Boyd
The bootstraps have snapped: the stigmatization of those on American welfare in present day, Edmond Tyler Boyle
Dancing in the stars: the radical capacity of utopic thought, Zoë Bracken
“For the girls, scare the boys”: social media as a means of access for women in skateboarding culture, Lauren Brady
Dissecting our heroes: Paul Atreides as catastrophic superhero in Frank Herbert’s Dune, Louie Brown
Notions of the biologically inferior: using 17th century medicine to analyze the early modern woman, Setse Bush
Under obstruction: looking at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander H. Butler
The role of agricultural science in the Washington state apple industry: extension, education, and its environmental health consequences, Mariah Caballero
The impact of foreign labor demand on international student enrollment in the United States, Yunhao Cai
Stopping the spread of pathogen and panic: the creation and effects of moral panic in the SARS outbreak, Lily Carruthers
Movement building, activism, feminism and celebrity culture in the digital age: an analysis of politics and political identity on social media, Hope Challenger
Untitled, Dana Chang
The journey’s not over: a veteran’s homecoming in The Odyssey and Ulee’s Gold, Leah Clark
The journey’s not over: a veteran’s homecoming in The Odyssey and Ulee’s Gold, Leah Clark
When women whisper: rumor and gossip as transcripts of resistance, Violet Cole
Predicting pandemics: past disease outbreaks and what they teach us about preparing for the next pandemic, Acadia DiNardo
Close quarters: reimagining campus living and the student module, Annie Duncan
Iconicity in the age of social media: Augmenting theories of iconicity through the study of a contemporary iconic photograph, Jakob Eckstein
Ways of seeing, Brendan Elefante
The digital divide: the impact education and in students color/low income in urban communities, Magno Enriquez
“The Seattle way”: urban governance before and during Amazon’s boom, Katherine C. Fallon
Out of her oak frame freebies, gifts, and throwaways in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sadie Frank
All that we are going to become / all that we have ever been: a patchwork of life in collective memory, Evelyn Frick
“I called you sister”: liner notes on women, songwriting, and self-representation, Isabel Furman
Investigating potential barium sources at Mormon Mesa, Nevada: an integrated geochemical-geomorphological study, India Futterman
Stead: visions of outer space in the American West, Saskia Globig