Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As of 2014, all Graduate Center dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are posted to Academic Works. Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. All pre-2014 dissertations and doctoral capstone projects are available to the CUNY community via our Retrospective Dissertations, 1965-2013 database (CUNY Login required).
Some pre-2014 works have been added to this collection at the author's request. If you graduated before 2014 and would like to add your own GC dissertation, or for information about changing your embargo settings, please email deposit@gc.cuny.edu.
Dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are listed by year below. To browse by program, go to the Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects by Program page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan
A Causal Inference Approach for Spike Train Interactions, Zach Saccomano
Studies of Oxidopyrylium Ylide Dimers and Their Utility in the Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Troponoids, Daniel V. Schiavone
Biomolecular Crystals as Functional Materials, Fahmeed Khan Sheehan
Evaluating the Reliability and Accuracy of Alchemical Binding Free Energy Methods and Calculations, Fnu Sheenam
Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo
Regulation of the Intracellular Trafficking of Ajuba by Cell Density and Cell Cycle-Dependent Mechanisms, Huanhuan Sun
Deep Learning-Based Human Action Understanding in Videos, Elahe Vahdani
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Employment Outcomes in Higher Education, Yunxia Wei
Neurochemical Signaling of Reward-Based Learning in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons, Kyla F. Wholley
Normative Orientations to Housing Activism and the Uneven Path to Nonprofitization in New York City, 1964–1989, Andrew Wilkes
The Black MAP Project: A Black People’s Epistemology of Healing, Britton Williams
Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Population Social Vulnerability and Risk: A Spatial Analysis Based on the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) of India, Paradorn Wongchanapai
Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021, Olivia Wood
How Do We Learn What We Cannot Say?, Daniel Yakubov
Spain's Vision of Empire through Conquest, Ideology, and Law in the Sixteenth Century, Penelope Yau-Wen
New Algorithmic Support for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Vitaly Zaderman
Shaping Art Cinema Canon: The Venice Film Festival's Evolution and Influence (1946–1968), Luca Zamparini
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
Examining the Prevalence and Psychopathological Correlates of Paraphilic Interests in a Non-clinical Sample, Dylan H. Abrams
Neo-Nazi Postmodern: Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual Neue Rechte, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989, Esther E. Adaire
Synthesis of Biologically Active Tropolones and Stereochemically Rich Compounds via Cross-Coupling Reactions, Nana B. Agyemang
Writing the Unwritten: Politicians, Celebrities and Activists on Lebanese Twitter, May Ahmar
International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Param S. Ajmera
Writing as Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari
Entextualización del Discurso Político en Colombia. Análisis Glotopolítico Del Proceso de Escritura de la Constitución de 1991, Jorge Luis Alvis-Castro
Phantom Shootings, Allan Ambris
Conservative and Cultural Clashes with Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Bryan Z. Anderson
Extinction of Threat Memory via Reconsolidation Interference: A Behavioral Intervention Meta-Analysis, Chris M. Andrae
Unsung Heroines in Black and White: Sixties Girl Groups as Sonic Rock Rebellion, Hilarie Ashton
There’s No Space in History: Affiliation, Eros and Colonial Entanglements in North American Nuclear Poetry, 1945-Present, Marguerite Daisy Atterbury
Navigating the Unprecedented: A Behavioral Theory of the Firm's Perspective on COVID-19's Impact on Workplace Practices, Jeffrey Augugliaro
Redrawing the Contours of Care: Ethical Commitments and Gendered Politics in the Work of Government Psychological Counsellors in Sri Lanka, Nadia Augustyniak
It Has Always Been the “Business Model”: Racism and Sexism in Creative Arts Therapy Higher Education, Yasmine J. Awais
Social Capital, Social Support, and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Ghana and South Africa: The Moderating Role of Country, Paul K. Ayernor
Structural Basis of Signal Transduction within Environmental Sensing PAS Regulated Ser/Thr Kinases, Roksana Azad
Establishing a Mouse Model of Glioblastoma (GBM) And Developing Strategies to Eliminate Cancer Cells., Juliet N.E. Baidoo-Kanneh
Witnessing Climate Change in the United States Virgin Islands: Emotional Responses and Calls for Action, Thomas Bane
The Myth of Measure in American Poetry, Joshua M. Barber
Searching for Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women of Color Feminisms, Art, and Archiving, Wendy S. Barrales
The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917, Theodore W. Barrow
Older Adults in the Great Recession: Labor Force Transitions, Perceived Workplace Ageism and Life Satisfaction, Duygu Başaran Şahin
Examining Factors Related to Tobacco Treatment Engagement Among Tobacco Dependent Black/African American; Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients: An Analysis of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Tobacco Treatment Program, Gleneara E. Bates-Pappas
Is Gifted Education and Its Program a Brand?, Farzana Begum
Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women, Kavya Beheraj
Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Crates, Jordan Bell
Separation of Zr from Complex Matrices for Isotope Harvesting Applications, Jake A. Bence
music lessons, Cecilia-Rose Louise Bender
One-Loop Corrections to Dihadron Production in DIS at Small x, Filip Bergabo
Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Troponoid-Based Chemical Probes, Alex Berkowitz
Konohana, Jean-Patrick Besingrand
Ways of Silence and Other Absences in the Music of George Crumb, Jean-Patrick Besingrand
Justice, Pandemics, and Museums in Cyberspace: Archaeology Museums’ Decolonization Projects During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Besse
Untenable Spaces and Inconceivable Futures in the 21st Century Anglophone Indian Novel, Shoumik Bhattacharya
Development of Chemical Probes for Two Pro-Metastatic Enzymes: Cysteine Cathepsins and Nek2 Kinase, Ashif I. Bhuiyan
The Relationship between Democratic Measures, LGBTIAQ* Rights Acceptance, and U.S. Foreign Aid Allocation in the Global South, Jacqueline Biergans
“Bending the Law” – Weimar Judiciary and the Political Bias Paradox of the Legal System, Irit Bloch
Stokes Vector Modulation of Optical Signals; Coherence, Noise, and Digital Signal Processing, Mario Bnyamin
Type of Glossing Affects Cognitive Load and Retrieval of Meaning During L2 Reading, Camilo Andrés Bonilla Carvajal
An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino
Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: Provider Perspectives, Elisabeth Brodbeck
Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories, Donald V. Brown Jr
Quantifying Separability in Limit Groups, Keino Brown
A Blackgirl Artivisionary Mosaic: Art-Based Participatory Refusals to School Punishment, Tyese A. Brown
An Explicit Construction of Sheaves in Context, Tyler A. Bryson
Nursing Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence Screening in the Emergency Department, Justin Cabrera
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Deep Learning to Illuminate Dark Protein Functional Space, Tian Cai
Epistemic Virtue and Receptivity to Science in Policing, Braden L. Campbell
Representaciones Ideológicas Del Lenguaje Entre la Población Mexicana en Nueva York, Maria del Rocio Carranza Brito
Understanding the Experiences and Associated Symptomology of Disclosers and Non-disclosers of Sexual Victimization, Kaitlin Carson
Beam-Based Target Alignment for Mu2e, Helenka Casler
Unlocking Potential: The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities, Navena F. Chaitoo
Overview of the Intern Position at SexGenLab and the Importance of Public Scholarship, Elizabeth S. Chapin
Spectacle on the Fringe: Masks, Materiality, and Movement in South Asia, Deepsikha Chatterjee
On the Order-Type Complexity of Words, and Greedy Sidon Sets for Linear Forms, Yin Choi Cheng
Agreement in Languages that Do Not Agree: The Processing of Accented Speech in Chinese-English bilinguals, Stanley Chen
Wanting Under Surveillance: A Critical Analysis of Young Women’s Sexual Desire, Jennifer Chmielewski
Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi
Play Makes Perfect: An Exploration of Game and Play Elements in Composition and Performance, Gabrielle Chou
Salty: A Diffractive Inquiry of Visceral Knowing and Embodied Aesthetics, Mei Ling Chua
Performance Modeling for Network Anomaly Detection and Sensor Networks, Jie Chu
Chromatic Dissensus: An Otherwise Archive of Natural Dyes, 1700–1856, Luke Church
Quality Management and Oversight of Texas Forensic Science Service Providers, Sarah P. Chu
TGF-b Signaling Mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans Response to Bacterial Pathogens, Emma J. Ciccarelli
The Role of Intersectional Stigma and Social Anxiety in Black, Latino, and Multiracial Young Sexual Minority Men, Jorge L. Cienfuegos Szalay
Disordered Protein Aggregates Are Linked to Changes in the Histone Post-Translational Modification Landscape in Disease and Non-Disease Models, Samantha Cobos
Examining the Effect of Talker Familiarity Using Familiar and Unfamiliar Talkers on Noise-Vocoded Speech Perception in Normal-Hearing Listeners: A Training Study, Daria N. Collins
Factors Associated with the Life Satisfaction of Gay and Bisexual Men and Their Variation by Race, Robert G. Considine
Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers, Lenore Costello
Understanding the Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-Term Memory, Kelly Cotton
Flamboyant Abundance: Performing Queer Maximalism, 1960–1990, Jack Owen Crawford
Bow Articulations in the Late Galant (1775–1812): An Analysis of Bow Strokes in Selected Violin Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven, Julia E. Danitz