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
Soundness and Completeness Results for the Logic of Evidence Aggregation and its Probability Semantics, Eoin Moore
From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers on the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat, and Politics, Kevin Morris
Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian
Examining Metacognitive Access to Low-Level Ensemble Representations, Vladimir Mudragel
Only for the Pleasure of Telling: Filling the Void in Pasolini's Trilogia della vita, Courtney Munson
Artists, Activists, and Therapists Making Meaning of Collective Violence in Lebanon: A Community-Engaged Participatory Research Study, Nawal Muradwij
Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy
Extreme E-Service Learning: Remote Learning for Undergraduate Students and Telehealth Intervention for Children with Autism, Madiha S. Muzammal
Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in the Dorsolateral Striatum Following a High Fat Diet, Tikva Nabatian
Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815, Cody E. Nager
Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam
Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction, Emma Navarro
A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease: Sex-Dependent Mechanisms Altered by the HDAC Inhibitor RG2833 in a Transgenic Rat Model, Kelechi Ndukwe
A Field of Relations: A Mixed Analysis of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” with Voyant, a Text Analysis Tool, Asma A. Neblett
English Learners In NYC, Raquel Neris
Cost-Effective and Performance-Preserving Secured Application Management in Cloud Environments, Minh Nguyen
Creative Figures: Portraiture and the Making of the Modern American Artist, 1918-1930, Sasha Nicholas
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668, Nathan D. Nikolic
Speakers and Addressees as Creative Interpreters, Svitlana Novikova
Marriage Stories: Legal Reform and the Novel in France and Britain, 1780–1860, Tatiana Nunez-Bright
Sit Less, Move More: A National Study of Physical-Activity Behavior and Cancer, Stella O. Nwogugu
Essays on Entrepreneurship, Yoshiko Oka
Barriers to Optimal Audiological Care for Members of the Deaf Community, Joyce Orenshein
A Consecutive Case Series Evaluation of Tummy Time With and Without Preferred Items, Rika Ortega
Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face, Gregory Kent Oswald
The Neural Correlates of Bodily Self-Consciousness in Virtual Worlds, Evan A. Owens
Wild Women of Anatolia: The Critical Construct Validity of the Liberation of Women in Turkey, Sedef Ozoguz
The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982, Sergio G. Palencia Frener
Never-Ending Parenting: Challenges Experienced by Caregivers of Adults with Severe Autism, Andrea Palerino
Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine, Julia Panter
Frontier Precarities: Inequality and Exclusion in Tech, Spiros M. Papadantonakis
The Effects of Isolated Affordances on Preschool Counting Improvement when Using a Digital Coloring App, Katherine Papazian
Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Francesca Paradiso
Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Hollow Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Aloka S. Paragoda Arachchilage
Sustainable to the Core: Essays on Strategy and Sustainability, Junghoon Park
The Impact of Political Affiliation on Performance Judgements, Kajal Patel
MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media, Patricia K. Paul
Nosotras no somos Ayotzinapa: Transfiguraciones feministas del México contemporáneo (2000–2022), Laura Pavón Aramburú
doc/u/ment: Affinities in 20th and 21st-Century Documental Poetics, Katherine Payne
Feminismos del exilio: devenir mass media y militancia de las escritoras republicanas en Buenos Aires (1938–1963), Lorena Paz Lopez
The Possibilities and Limitations of Parent Organizations to Advance Equity, Nildania Perez
Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation, Ana Cristina Perry
The Numbers Don’t Lie: A Quantitative Examination of Trauma Outcomes Among Black Homeless Women, Lisa Marie Persad
David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History, Nicholas K. Petaludis
Reflections on the Digital Memory of Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Vinh T. Pham
The Development of Novel Radioscandium and Hydroxypyridinonate Based Radiopharmaceuticals, Michael Phipps
Expanding the Role of the Temporal Dimension in Ecological Niche Models: A Study on Mexican Montane Small Mammals, Gonzalo E. Pinilla Buitrago
Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives, Karen C. Pitt
Design and Applications of Fmoc-Histidine and Aspartic Acid Tripeptides as Proton Conductive Materials, Shejla S. Pollozi
Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Johan Svensson, John Popham
Rotation Period Distributions and Light Curve Morphologies of Low Mass Stars and Young Associations, Mark Popinchalk
Three Essays on Substructural Approaches to Semantic Paradoxes, Brian C. Porter
Dynamics in Designed Elastins and Enzymes, Jonathan M. Preston
Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano
Drug Repurposing Using Gene Expression Data Mining, Yue Qiu
Attenuated Typicality Effect in Category-based Inferences: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Janani Rajagopalan
A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho
Beyond Punishment: A Critical and Interpretive Phenomenology of Accountability, Cameron Rasmussen
Between Two Messiahs: An Ethnography of Settler-Colonizers in the West Bank, Amir Reicher
Ethnic Tensions in the Western Balkans and the Experience of Ethnic Minorities, Nadina Resulani
The Impact of Utilitarian Public Policies on Minority Communities: A Comparison of New York City and New South Wales, Australia., Nicholas Reyes
Observers' Perceptions of Rapport in Accusatorial Interrogations, Gabriela Rico
Statistical and Biological Analyses of Acoustic Signals in Estrildid Finches, Moises Rivera
Negotiating With Myself: A Grounded Theory Study of How Women With Sporadic Unilateral Early-Stage Breast Cancer Choose Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy, Nancy Ellen Roecklein
Grand Strategy at the End of History: Chinese Strategic Thought in the 21st Century and its Western Perceptions, Daniel A. Rogers
Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers
“Investment in Inertia”: Language Ideologies of Instructors and Students of Spanish as a Heritage Language, Michael E. Rolland
Hydrodynamic and Physicochemical Interactions Between an Active Janus Particle and an Inactive Particle, Jessica S. Rosenberg
Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Based Complex Nanomaterials, Prashun G. Roy
Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
Thermodynamics of Learning With Parametric Probabilistic Models, Shervin Sadat Parsi
The Development of Novel Radioimmunoconjugates for the PET Imaging and Radioimmunotherapy of Cancer, Samantha M. Sarrett
Gender Role Conflict, Campus Climate, and Satisfaction among Male Undergraduate Nursing Students, Randelle Sasa
Metabolic Control of Proliferation and Differentiation in Oligodendrocytes, Sami Sauma
Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies: The Politics of Elite and Mass Engagement with Democratic Backsliding, Dean G. Schafer
You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel
“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media, Martha Schulenburg
Gaps of Speculation: Refusing Representation in Queer and Postcolonial Fiction, Sarah Schwartz
Transformation and Abstraction to Aid Comparison of Binary Executables Across Compilation Environments, Jeremy D. Seideman
Learning to Fly while Staying Grounded: How Forcibly Displaced Individuals Develop a Sense of Belonging in Disempowered Cities, Janina L. Selzer
Indigenous Performances in Contemporary Indian Urban Public Theatres: Coloniality, Globalization, and the State, Mayurakshi Sen
Voice Leading in Fugue, Yuval Shapira
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
Memetic Epidemiology: A Mathematical Model for Tracking the Spread of Linguistic Features across Western Europe, Benjamin Shavitz
Insidious Fibs: Early Stories of Henry James, Katherine Shloznikova
Modulatory Effects of Schreckstoff on the Startle Escape Response of Goldfish (Carassius auratus), Denis Shor
Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Abraham Silberstein
Pedagogies of Reform: The Role of Game-Based Learning in Recontextualizing Education, Hamad Sindhi
A Study of Geo-Regional Place-Consciousness in American Literature, Eugene Slepov
Reimagining the Inner Ear: A Morphometric Modeling Approach for Establishing Shape Change in the Evolution of the Human Otolith System, Christopher M. Smith
Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith
Police Academy Attrition Rates: A Long-Term Analysis of Female Candidates in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, and New Jersey, Shamus W. Smith
Pleasure and Power in a Cover Culture: Audiences, Musicians, and Venues in İzmi̇r’s Popular Music Scene, Yılmaz Onur Sönmez
A Multifaceted, Non-Militarized Approach to Security Dynamics in Protected Areas: From Foot Patrols, to Tourism, and Local Communities, Monique Sosnowski
Uprooting Patriarchy: Meditations on Gender, Masculinities, and Healing Through Buddhist Practices, Noah Souder-Russo