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 2023
Changes in the Epigenetic Landscape of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells with Time, David K. Dansu
The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona
New York City Yoga Studios Archive (NYCYSA), Allison Daugila
Memory, Violence, and Detours: Strategies of Resistance to Epidermal Invisibility within the French Republic, Claudine E. David
Identity, Access, and Equity: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of Mathematics Identity and Socialization in Pre-service Teachers, Ashley Renaire Davis
Lasting Inequalities: Gender Earnings Inequality Across Generations, Periods and Countries, Juliana de Castro Galvao
Allowed to Stay: An Exploration of DHS New Guidelines to Dismiss Certain Immigration Cases, Jazmin E. De La Cruz Sanchez
Examinations of the Close Relationship Processes and Health Framework Among Adult and Adolescent Sexual Minority Men, Trey Victor Dellucci
Towards Interpretable Machine Reading Comprehension with Mixed Effects Regression and Exploratory Prompt Analysis, Luca Del Signore
Motor Milestone Acquisition and Sleep-Related Learning and Development in Infancy, Aaron DeMasi
Characterization of the Conformational Binding of N-methyl Mesoporphyrin IX with DNA Model Telomeric G-Quadruplex Forming Sequences, Jessica Desamero
Nonlinear Processes in Room Temperature Exciton-Polaritons, Prathmesh Deshmukh
Discovering the Indian Diaspora in France and Beyond, Shweta Deshpande
Theorizing Racial Democracy, Teófilo de Souza Carmo Reis
Evidence-Based Practice in the Management of Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Rivka Deutsch
Second Generation Phenyloxadiazolyl Methyl Sulfones for Thiol-Specific Bioconjugations, Guillaume Dewaele-Le Roi
Improving Collagen-Mimetic Fibrils to Study Fibrillogenesis and Effects of Disease-Causing Mutations on Fibrillogenesis, Faizunnahar Dewan
Educating the Diaspora: In Search of Liberatory Educational Experiences, Daicy Diaz-Granados
Investigating Key Risk Factors Across Violent and Non-violent Extremists in the United States, Leevia Dillon
Freedom Song: Uncovering a Politics of Dignity in Black Feminist Thought and Praxis, Abegail M. Dobson
John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech
Abuse Victimization and Impulsivity in Incarcerated Males: Examining the Roles of Affective Instability and Trauma Symptoms, Jacqueline K. Douglas
Emancipatory and Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations of Enslaved Labor in US and Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
Extremism in America: Explaining Variations in Ideologically Motivated Fatal Violence, Celinet Duran
How the U.S. Mainstream Media Perpetuates Cis White Masculine Hegemony, Yelena Dzhanova
"A Decorator in the Best Sense": Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, the Fabric Curtain Partition, and the Articulation of the German Modern Interior, Marianne E. Eggler-Gerozissis
“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens, Damele Elliott-Hubbard
Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018, Luke P. Elliott-Negri
The Role of Nuclear Quantum Effects in Supercooled Water and Amorphous Ice, Ali H. Eltareb
Los Barrios Populares en el imaginario de América Latina durante el periodo neoliberal: La construcción de los mitos de las Villas, Favelas y Colonias populares en Argentina, Brasil y México, Roberto Elvira Mathez
Quantifying Temperature-, Pressure-, and Nuclear Quantum Effects on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Water-Mediated Interactions, Justin T. Engstler
Etiology of Injustice, Susan Erck
Extraction, Property, and Rights in Southeastern Arabian Seascapes c.1820–present, Scott Erich
Social Impacts of Robotics on the Labor and Employment Market, Kelvin Espinal
The Devil Is in the Details: Witchcraft Materiality and Systems of Belief in Early Modern France, Ryan Evelyn
Association Strength between Concepts as the Origin of the "Foreign Language Effect", Emilia Ezrina
Fuglede's Conjecture in Some Finite Abelian Groups, Thomas Fallon
The Impact of Overseas Study Experiences on Chinese Students’ Attitudes Toward the United States, Xufeng Fang
Genetic Determinants Involved in Acquisition of Iron in the Opportunistic Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus, Manal F. Farhat
Tunable Linear and Nonlinear Metasurfaces Based on Hybrid Gold-Graphene Plasmons, Matthew Feinstein
The Punitive Laboratory of Neoliberalism: A Cross-national Examination, Beth A. Fera
A Stronger Strong Schottky Lemma for Euclidean Buildings, Michael E. Ferguson
Beyond The Songs on The Vistula: Chopin and Poland, a Mythical Construction, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Nieto
Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence, Yesenny Fernandez
The Promise of Universalism Deferred: Political Economy of Social Policy in 21st Century Latin America, Juan C. Ferre
Automatic Analysis of the Frequency, Vigor, and Complexity of Spontaneous Locomotion Bouts of Mice with Loss and Gain of Function of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Smoothened in Cholinergic Neurons, Aleksandra Feshchenko
An Offer You Cannot Refuse: Understanding the Elusive Construct of "Voluntary" Plea Decisions, Melanie B. Fessinger
From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination, Agnieszka A. Ficek
Evolutions in Suicide Bombing: Exploring the Relationship Between the Tactic and Its Application by Non-state Armed Groups Across Various Conflict Zones Over Time, David E. Firester
Beat Construal, Tempo, Metric Dissonance, and Transgressing the Groove in Heavy Metal, Drew Fleming
Diagnosis and Management of Adults with Hidden Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review, Chana Flohr
Language And Conjuncture in Populist Strategy: Podemos And Contemporary Spanish Political Thought, Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier
Completive 'todo': Implications for Possessives, Existentials, and Locative Expressions, Carolina Fraga
Syntactic Parsing of Relative Clauses and Wh-Questions in L2 Italian, Pamela Franciotti
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Structural Perspectives: Mitigating Information Poverty among Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Populations in the Queens Public Library System, Richelle L. Frederick
Settling Into Inequality: Resettled Afghans in the Washington DC Metro Area, Harry Frey
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies, Ricardo Gabriel
Hands. Words. Mirrors. A letter to my mother., Iliana Emilia García
“Here in America”: Broadway Musicals and the Making of Jewish Americans, Barrie Gelles
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Population Genomics, Ecology and Conservation of Asterias Sea Stars in the North Atlantic, Melenia I. Giakoumis
Social Identities and Campus Belonging as Predictors of Flourishing Among College Students, Christine Gilchrist
“Delicious Libation”: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888, Caroline L. Gillaspie
Audible Futures: Scenes of Sonic Encounter in Cold War Kurdistan, 1923–2023, Nicholas S. Glastonbury
Health Care Providers' Attributions of Blame for Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Acquisition Among Cisgender Women, Alison J. Goldberg
Political Theatre After Occupy: Participation, Interpellation, and the Search for New Subjectivities in the Theatre, Andrew J. Goldberg
Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film, Ethan Goldberg
The Landscape of Daughterhood: A Redefinition, Sarah Goldstone
The Effect of Race on Housing Stratification Among Latinos, Julia T. Gomez
Form in Hip-Hop Music: Sections, Songs, and History, Stephen M. Gomez
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Avoiding Success: How Does Fear of Success Impact Today's Workforce?, Bradley E. Gray
The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana, Edwin Grimsley
Staying, Flowing, Resounding: Children's Interactions and Space-Based Attachments on a Manu'a Island, Mariapaola Gritti
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
Social and Cultural Processes that Impact Physical Activity among South Asian Americans Managing Hypertension: A Mixed Methods Study, Sugandha Gupta
Phase Transitions and Thermal Stability of the Magnetic Dual Chiral Density Wave Phase in Cold, Dense QCD, William G. Gyory
“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023, Anna S. Harb
Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota, Anthony J. Harb
Metabolic Reprogramming in KRAS-driven Cancer Cells, Ahmet Hatipoglu
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Finding Autonomy Under the Russian Bear: Explaining Central Asia’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Hitch
Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing, Christopher Hoffman
Public Privacy and Info-Liberal Authoritarianism, Christopher Hongach
Babel, Daniel Horowitz
Design and Synthesis of Surface-Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, Hailin Huang
Navigating Through World’s Military Spending Data with Scroll-Event Driven Visualization, Hong Beom Hur
Icons in Lyari: Resonance, Visibility, and Global Blackness in an Indian Ocean Port Town, Zehra Husain
Accelerating Parameter Identifiability of Differential Models with Applications to Parameter Estimation, Ilia Ilmer