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
Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller
“Addiction” in U.S. Political Culture, Be Stone
Belief and Success Health Management Self-Efficacy: A National Survey of Black Adults, Stephanie Y. Store
Coloniality, Western Science, and Critical Ethnic Studies in STEM Education, LaToya M. Strong
Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling, Rebecca Strong
Developing a Scale to Measure Internalization of Oppression Among Latinx Living in New York City, Jeannette A. Sucre
On The Spectrum of Quaquaversal Operators, Josiah Sugarman
Exploring the Potential of Hearing Screening Smartphone Applications to Enhance Access to Hearing Healthcare: A Literature Review, Adam Sulaiman
Precarious, Abby Sumner
Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing, Sophia N. Sunseri
Factors Associated with Technology Adoption by Community-Dwelling Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth A. Sutton
On the Second Case of Fermat's Last Theorem over Cyclotomic Fields, Owen Sweeney
What is the ‘E’ in ESOL? Three Papers on Linguistic Borders, Normativity, and Race in Adult English Education, Kelsey Swift
A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model, Clarisse Taboy
Analyzing ‘Fight the Power’ Part 1: Music and Longevity Across Evolving Marketing Eras, Shokolatte Tachikawa
A Gift To My Self: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Women Who Choose Not To Have Children, Irina D. Tchania
A Typological and Chemical Analysis of Roman Oil Lamps from Poggio del Molino, Brandon Tejo
Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
A Sociology of Gab: A Computational Analysis of a Far-Right Social Network, Nga Than
Evaluating the Effect of CCTV on Crime Occurrence and Case Clearances in Fayetteville, North Carolina: A Microsynthetic Control Quasi-Experiment, Amanda L. Thomas
Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist to Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson
Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography, Aysha E. Todd-Stone
Pairings in a Ring Spectrum-Based Bousfield-Kan Spectral Sequence, Jonathan Toledo
Disclosure Harmonization and R&D Investment Efficiency, Lu Tong
Colonial Geographies of Gendered Violence and Mental Health in the United States and Puerto Rico, Lorraine Lizbeth L. Torres Colon
Race, Gender, Physical Activity, and Cancer: A Quantitative Investigation, Shawna A. Townsend
A Difference of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism, Ryan L. Tracy
Untangling the Nature and Timescales of Magmatic Processes Driving Eruptions at Quiescent Volcanoes: Examples from Momotombo, Nicaragua, and Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands, Samantha Tramontano
Literature, Development, and the Reaches of Literacy, 1979 to the Present, Stephen Tremaine
Typologies of Battering: Uncovering Patterns of Coercive Tactics Used by Abusive Men in a Mixed Methods Study, Abbie L. Tuller
Singlet Oxygen-Mediated Conformational Flexibility, Antioxidant, and Isomerization Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oliver Turque
How Smoking Became a Moral Issue: A Complex Systems Perspective on Moralization, Matthew Vanaman
Political Economy in Lettres d'une Péruvienne: Françoise de Graffigny as Philosophe and Reformer, Marguerite J. Van Cook
This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School, Kimberly F. Vanderbilt
A Quantum Approach to Language Modeling, Constantijn van der Poel
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Truth: How Client Assertion, Perception of Guilt, and Predictive Inaccuracy Influence Plea Recommendations, Anna D. Vaynman
“The American Dream” and The Second Wounding: An Exploration of the Institutions of America Through a Millennial Narrative of Self, Brittany B.C Vicars
Characterization and Modulation of the Emergent Material Properties of Biomolecular Condensates, Alfredo Vidal Ceballos
Styling Sweatshops: Seamstress Imagery, Industrial Capitalism, and Nationalist Agendas in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the United States, Alice J. Walkiewicz
Staging Nature: Performing Environmental Crises in War, Housing, and Labor, 1935–1990, Erik Barrett Wallenberg
Somebody Gave Somebody Some Kind of Heat About Something: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Politically Polarized Suburbs, Melanie Waller
Nanoscale Imaging of Electrocatalytic Nanomaterials by High-resolution Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Xiang Wang
André Mocquereau's Theory of Rhythm, Charles Weaver
Practices and Attitudes Towards Infant Hearing Protection at Orthodox Jewish Weddings, Rebecca Weiss
Synthesis of Fluoroorganics and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Building Blocks, Wei Wei
“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold
Multi-Target Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS) Against B-Cell Specific Antigens Expressed in a Single Lymphoma Cell Population, Nicole B. Williams
The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological, Eric Dean Wilson
An Affective Technology of Heimat: Whiteness, Nation Building and Social Media in Germany, Friederike Windel
Body Check: Transgressive Body Politics of Gina Pane, Orlan, and Deborah De Robertis, Avant-Garde Performance Artists in France, 1960s–Present, Patricia Anne Winter
Germanic Latin Lyric Diction: Regional Variations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, James A. Worley
Numbered, Weighed, Divided: Revolution and/as Apocalypse in the Modern Liberal Tradition, Asher J. Wycoff
Targeting HIF/Coregulator Complexes in Cancer: Characterizing Fragile Fold and Inhibitor Binding Sites of ARNT, Xingjian Xu
Capital Structure Decision and Separating Risk from Optionality, Yang Xu
Ejercicios de sí: escritura, cuerpo y deporte en el Cono Sur (1964–2019), Pablo Yankelevich
Stand-up Comedy Visualized, Berna Yenidogan
Ornamentalism: Costuming and the Portrayal of the Chinese Woman in Film, 20th-21st Century, Andrea Yepez
Effects of Genes and Gene-Environment Interactions on Work-Family Conflict and Enrichment, Peter Yu
The Rent Is Too Damn High:the Spatial and Longitudinal Dimensions of Housing Affordability, Kasey Zapatka
Understanding the Impact of Incentive-Driven Changes in Hospital and Physician Practice Styles, Ke Zeng
Optimization and Application of Graph Neural Networks, Shuo Zhang
Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji, Wen Zhang
Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing for Compute-intensive Application, Xiaojie Zhang
Revealing The Three-Dimensional Magnetic Texture with Machine Learning Models, Shihua Zhao
Kinetics of Photochemical and Mechanochemical Organic Reactions on Surface, Yerzhan Zholdassov
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
Electron Transport in Quantum Systems with Interaction, Sara Abedi
The Neighborhood Stories Indexing Project, Elena Abou Mrad
Neurocardiovascular Instability (NCVI) Risk as a Predictor of Cognitive Function in the Long Life Family Study, Rebecca Abraham
Decolonizing Genderqueer: An Inquiry into the Gender Binary, Resistance, and Imperialistic Social Categories, Lauren E. Abruzzo
Monolingual Versus Bilingual Use of Context to Facilitate Speech Recognition in Background Noise: A Systematic Review, Rachel Abucasis
Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin
The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici
Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers and Bankers in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee
The Effects of Syrian Refugees on Jordanians’ Political Attitudes, Suna Buse Agkoc
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing Models, Somayeh Ahmadi
Investigating Young Adult Cancer Survivors' Perspectives on their Future and Interpersonal Relationships, Zeba N. Ahmad
Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t: The Poetics of Flicker, Sara Akant
A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography, Fidan Akinci
Genomic Insights into Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution and Evolution-inspired Strategies to Combat Pathogen Diversity, Saymon Akther
El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside, Valeria Alderete
Intelligence Testing in the New (Langu)age: Effects of Item-Type and Assessment Medium Features on Fluid Intelligence Test Linguistic Group Score Differences, Paige R. Alenick
Role of Metals in Human Immune System: Study of Metal-Dependent Structural Changes of S100A12 Protein, Aleksey Aleshintsev
La voz de Los Sures: Etnografía glotopolítica del activismo comunitario, Lara Maria Alonso Pinero
Virtual Reality Supplement to the Peers Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with ASD, Kevin Ambrose
Close-Quarters Antagonism: The New Left Within and Against the War on Poverty, Andrew S. Anastasi
A Diagnostic Pocket Guide For Audiologists: Outer, Middle, and Inner Ear Disorders and Chronic Diseases, Ashley Andino
Macroeconomic Adjustments of Global Convergence: Real Exchange Rate Response of Asia-Pacific Growth, Kumarappan Annamalai
Determining the Roles of the Oligomerization and C-terminal Domains in Mutant p53 Gain-of-Function Activities, George K. Annor
The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
Past Actions and Expertise: How States Infer Enemy Intentions, Yu Aoki