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 2019
Through the Mouth: An Essay on Appetite and Ecocide, Iemanja Brown
Optical and Collective Properties of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors, Matthew N. Brunetti
Infinity Wars: Post 9/11 Superhero Films and American Empire, Peter J. Bruno
Training as Restructuring: Cases from Entry-Level Healthcare and Manufacturing Workforce Training in Eastern Connecticut, Shelley Buchbinder
Transposon Mutagenesis Facilitates Discovery Of Genotype-Phenotype Associations and Functional Interrogation of the Mycobacterium Kansasii Genome, William C. Budell
The 5-HT1A-R Knockout Mouse as a Model of Later Life Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Sex Differences, Tatyana Budylin
Molecular Analysis of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis from a Specific Retinal Progenitor Population, Diego F. Buenaventura
The Counter-Patriotic Tradition in American Politics: Resistance, Nationhood, and Democracy, Maxwell Burkey
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
Using Transfer Learning in Network Markets, Kai Cai
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
The Effects of Language Background and Foreign Accent on Listening Comprehension, Sita Carraturo
Reimagining the Flute Masterclass: Case Studies Exploring Artistry, Authority, and Embodiment, Sarah Carrier
The Transformation of Women's Roles in Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France: Femininity, Fashion, and Frivolity in Fiction, Christine M. Carter
A New and Unsettling Force: Information Technology, Popular Education and the Movement to End Poverty, Christopher Caruso
You Can’t Eat Altruism: Searching for Workplace Democracy at New York City’s Nonprofits, Celia Castellan
CK2 Negatively Regulates 5-HT4 Receptor Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex and Mediates Depression-like Behaviors, Julia Castello Saval
The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer, Carolyn J. Cei
Italian/Americans and the American Racial System: Contadini to Settler Colonists?, Stephen J. Cerulli
One-Dimensional Excited Random Walk with Unboundedly Many Excitations Per Site, Omar Chakhtoun
‘Its Something You Do Bro’: Language and Identity on a Male Erotic Hypnosis Messageboard, Eric Chambers
The Subject of the Novel: Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, Jin Chang
Mandarin Assessment in Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers, Jennifer A. Chard
MEN SET ON FIRE. Algernon Sidney & John Adams: Remodeling Anglo-American Republicanism, Deborah B. Charnoff
An In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of the Anticancer Potential of Resveratrol and Pterostilbene Against HPV-E6 Positive Cancers, Kaushiki Chatterjee
Recognition by Flickering Components: The Effect of Temporal Modulation on Image Recognition, Alla Chavarga
Working Lives: Artistic Solidarity in Revolutionary Peru (1960–1980), Jose R. Chavarry
Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure, Biwei Chen
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
Employment Duration and Attrition of Federal and State Inspectors General in the United States, Frank Chen
Baroque Pianism: Perspectives on Playing Baroque Keyboard Music on the Piano, with Emphasis on Bach’s Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, Chih-tung Cheng
Sexual Violation, Feminism, and Foucault: Against a Confessional Politics of Truth, Amber M. Chiacchieri
Examining the Effects of a Multi-Component Neurocognitive Intervention for School-Aged Children with Co-Occurring ADHD and Reading Difficulties, Alyssa L. Chimiklis
Eugenics in the 21st Century, Jessica Linn Chin
Humoring Violations: Uncanny Humor in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Christine Choi
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian
Sounds of Alter-destiny and Ikonoklast Panzerist Fabulations, Mette Christiansen
Exhibition Catalog on Rediscovering the Fashion of Hanboks and Kimonos: The Tale of Kisaengs and Geishas, Sylvia Chung
Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: What They Wore and How it Was Made, Wanett I. Clyde
The Effects of An Educational Intervention for Caregivers on Their Knowledge of Child Sleep and Child Sleep Behavior, Rachel Cohen
Translingual Rhetoric, Lucas Corcoran
Imagined Futures: Feminist Science Studies in an Era of Climate Change Denial, Emily K. Crandall
Testimonios in Liminal Spaces: Puerto Rican Women Living in Extended-Stay and Shelter Hotels in New York City After Hurricane Maria, Jessica Crespo
Essays on Applied Machine Learning for Implied Volatility Interpolation and Artificial Counterfactuals, Pablo A. Crespo
"He Who is Conscious of the Bright but Keeps to the Dark": The Fame and Legacy of Jack Kerouac, Regina Crotser
Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833, Michael Crowder
Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum, Noah R. Cypher
Coulomb Excitation and Transport Properties of Monolayer Graphene and the alpha-T3 Lattice, Dipendra Dahal
Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System, Muhammad Dalhatu
The Body and Its Signifiers: Bodily Depictions in Niccolò de’ Conti and Odorico da Pordenone, Antonella Dalla Torre
The Social Cost of Pain: Rejection Sensitivity, Social Rejection, and Cannabis Use in Young Adults, Naomi Dambreville
Relational Processes in Support-Related Communication Among Young Adults with Cancer, Kathleen Darabos
A Study of Factors Influencing Hiring Decisions in the Context of Ban the Box Policies, Ronald F. Day
The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
The Development and Validation of an Ideal Point Measure of Work Engagement, Michael M. DeNunzio
Control of Energy Transfer and Molecular Energetics using Photonic Nanostructures, Rahul Deshmukh
Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz
Neural Correlates of Automatic Emotional Processing and Emotion Regulation in Empathy and Psychopathy-Related Coldheartedness, Danielle diFilipo
Internal Displacement in the United States: A Result of Climate Change and U.S. Policy, Ahmad T. Diop
Examining Financial Stress and Coping Among U.S. Cancer Patients and Survivors: Quantitative Analyses of Survey Data., Meredith J. Doherty
The Past is Never Dead: Amorphous Time in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Anthony E. Dominguez
A Series of Acts that Disappear: The Valparaíso School’s Ephemeral Architectures, 1952–1982, Elizabeth Rose Donato
Youth Voice and the Promise and Peril of Affirmative Governmentality: An Analysis of New York City’s Borough Student Advisory Councils, Hillary R. Donnell
Broadway Bodies: Casting, Stigma, and Difference in Broadway Musicals Since "A Chorus Line" (1975), Ryan Donovan
Systematics of Carex section Laxiflorae (Cyperaceae), Jenna Dorey
A Credible Fear: The Politics of Gang Violence in the Northern Triangle, Jane E. Dowd
Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four, LeiLani Dowell
Contested Development: A Poor People's Movement for a Better Los Angeles, 1960–2018, Deshonay R. Dozier
Reclaiming the Musical Burlesque: A Reconstruction of the 1855 Musical Score to John Brougham’s Po-Ca-Hon-Tas: Or, The Gentle Savage, Christopher Drobny
A Living Experience of Feeling Listened To: A Parsesciencing Inquiry, Teodora Duarte-Quilao
Refusing White Privacy, Olivia Dunbar
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value, John Dyck
Characterization of Early Biofilm Formation and Physiology in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Kelly Eckenrode
Assessment of Third Wave Therapy Assumptions about the Relation between Emotional Schemas and Psychoemotional Functioning, Emily Rachel Edwards
Internal and External Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tehila Eilam-Stock
New Factor Structure Models and Idiosyncratic Volatility, Ossama Elhadary
Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer, Benelita Elie
İbne, Gey, Lubunya: A Queer Critique of LGBTI+ Discourses in the New Cinema of Turkey, Azmi Mert Erdem
Emotion Processing Deficits in Psychopathy: Does Cueing to Relevant Facial Features Increase Cognitive and Emotional Empathy?, Shawn E. Fagan
Systems Analysis of Faculty Hiring Process Within Academia, Nicole P. Farrell
Added Interpretive Centers at U.S. War Memorials and the Reframing of National History, Jennifer K. Favorite
Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992, Nadiah Rivera Fellah
Just Borders: The Foundations of Immigration Policy, Cody Fenwick
Sequential Discrimination Between Non-Orthogonal Quantum States, Dov L. Fields
The Music in His Words: The Art of Sound and Folk in Louis Armstrong’s Manuscript for Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup
Revolutionary Affinities: Democracy and Revolution in Hannah Arendt’s Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg, Matthew P. Finck
Oldowan Tool Behaviors Through Time on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya, Emma M. Finestone
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel
The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music, M. Elizabeth Fleming
Afro-Cuba Transnational: Recordings and the Mediation of Afro-Cuban Traditional Music, Johnny Frias