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 2022
“The People are Tired, and Just Want to Have Fun”: Mahraganat Music and the Struggle for Sonic Presence in Post-2013 Egypt, Mohammed Elfeky
A Repository of Books by Women from the Arab World Translated to English, Nadia El Mouldi
Individual Differences in Coping with Large Multimodal Conflicts in a Spatial Orientation Paradigm, Cassandra J. Engstrom
Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy, Philipp E. Erfurth
Dynamics of Cubic Rational Maps Under Certain Constraints on Critical Points, Arkady Etkin
A Polypharmacological Approach to Relapse Prevention in an Animal Model of Heroin Addiction, Scott T. Ewing
Process of the Memoir and the Burden of Memory, Samantha L. Fabal
Reducing Fear Overgeneralization with Safety Learning: Attention Bias as a Moderator, Boyang Fan
Biomimetic and Medical Applications of Hollow Nanoscale Structures, Justin Fang
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and School Climate with a Sociocultural Narrative Inquiry Approach, Isabella Fante
Coded Matrix Multiplication, Xiaodi Fan
Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, Alaina Claire Feldman
Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Phenomenology at the Energy Frontier, Jorge Fernandez Soriano
Exploring Social Identity Threat and Safety Cues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Cisgender Women in OB/GYN Care, Rachel Fikslin
Disposizione Scenica per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra: An Insight into Verdi’s Sense of Drama and a Valuable Tool for Contemporary Performance, Giordana Rubria Fiori
Female Spaces and Exceptional Women Under Fascism: Anna Banti’s Early Writings (1930s–1940s), Matilde Fogliani
Navigating College While Homeless: A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Young Adult Experience, Bertha Fountain
On the Bathysphere Logbooks, Brad Fox
Fathers Are Fathers Are Fathers: How Sociocultural Context and Sexual Orientation Influence the Gendering of Children, Sarah M. Frantz
Cerebrovascular Impairment as a Potential Target for Neuromodulation Therapy in Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Naomi L. Gaggi
The Politics of Feminist Citizenship: Violence, Law, and Affect in Post-Revolution Tunisia, Ola Galal
Modelling and Forecasting Methods in Financial Economics, Shuo Gao
Liquidity Commonality with Factor Models, Ernesto Garcia III
Sepulcros abiertos: Cadáveres en las narraciones de la Guerra de la Independencia de Venezuela, Víctor E. García Ramírez
Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way?, Elizabeth Garza
American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George
Gobernar es Prever: Health Management Self-Efficacy Among a National Sample of Latinx Adults, Giselle Gerardi
Generation of Mycobacterium smegmatis Model Systems for Testing Inhibitors of the Mycobactin Siderophore of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Gabrielle A. Germain
Staging Retro-Perspectives: Performing Age, Memory/loss, and Queer Desire in the Later Works of Split Britches (2009–2020), Benjamin Gillespie
Diversion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Nonprofit Organization, Leah E. Glass
The Silent Holocaust and Other Myths: The Jewish Body and Intermarriage in the Fiction of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Samuel Gold
Empirical Essays on Contingent Convertible Capital Securities, Andrea Golfari
The Important Role and Contradictions of Italian Women Image in Fashion, Magazines and Cinema during the Fascist Period, Lu M. GomezdelaTorre
Del ornitorrinco a la radio ambulante: La nueva crónica latinoamericana en la era neoliberal, Ulises Gonzales
A History of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, 1975–2015, Clarisa Gonzalez
A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612), Julian Gonzalez de Leon Heiblum
Because They Think They Can: A Memoir in History, Sarah Goodyear
“She Too ‘Omanish’”: Young Black Women’s Sexuality and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Ishan Elizabeth Gordon-Ugarte
Facing the Fringe, Laura Gradowski
A Study of Entrainment in Speech as a Possible Predictor of Perceived Trust, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor
Mitigating the Harm of Public Mass Shooting Incidents Through Situational Crime Prevention, Emily Greene-Colozzi
Cooperation or Competition with China: Interest Groups and US Policy on Climate Change, Lucia G. Green-Weiskel
Finite Gaussian Neurons: Defending Against Adversarial Attacks by Making Neural Networks Say "I Don’t Know", Felix Grezes
Pupil Responses to Emotional Images and Relations with Alexithymic and Autistic Traits, Margaret Grinshtein
A Study of the Punishment of Crimes by US Federal Legislators from 1798 to 2016, Kenneth J. Grossberger
Lost in Digitization: Physical Products Are Vessels for Social Meaning, Oden H. Groth
Effects of Chronic Stress on Safety Processing and Physiology in the Medial Prefrontal-Amygdala-Basal Forebrain Circuit, Itamar S. Grunfeld
Elucidating Mechanisms of Biofluorescence and Bioluminescence in Marine Organisms, Andrew M. Guarnaccia
A Multilevel Analysis of Political Risk, Marlon J. Guzman Valdera
Graphic Novels in the Foreign Language Classroom: Teaching Central American History in the Target Language, Vanessa Elizabeth Guzmán
Magnetic Field Effects on the Physics of Neutron Stars, Aric A. Hackebill
The Cop in Your Head: Criminal Justice Education, Liberalism, and the Carceral State, Nicole Haiber
Mechanism of Activation and Regulation of BY-Kinases, a Unique Family of P-Loop Enzymes, Fatlum Hajredini
K-12 Digital Pedagogy: An Open Educational Resource Designed to Build a Community of Practitioners, Kelly Hammond
After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s, Maya Harakawa
Experiencing Sonic Change: Acoustic Properties as Form- and Meter-Bearing Elements in Popular Music Vocals, Kristi D. Hardman
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Mandarin Chinese in Fourth Grade Chinese Immersion, Robin E. Harvey
Testing an Overtraining Protocol for Fear Learning in Humans, Gordon M. Haskell
Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence, David Hatten
"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis, Jonathan Heim
Acculturation Patterns in Childhood/Adolescence, Cultural Stress in Young Adulthood, and Exploring the Moderating Role of Skin Tone Among Puerto Rican Youth in Two Contexts, Marjorine Henriquez-Castillo
Symmetries, Zero Modes and Light Transport in Non-Hermitian Photonics, Jose David Hernandez Rivero
Katharine Bement Davis: Defying Expectations as a Woman and in the Study of Women, Ella Hester
The Life and Legacy of Edwin Greenlaw: “Teacher and Scholar”, Mykelin Higham
Lactating Justice: Constructing a Society Economically Focused on Optimizing Health through Human Lactation, Shadley Hobour
Conservation, Comparative Genomics and Species Delimitation of the Reindeer Lichens (Cladonia), Jordan R. Hoffman
Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data, Yuchen Hou
Antisocial Behavior and Callous Unemotional Traits in Youth: A Biosocial Approach, Yong Lin Huang
Cultural Predicaments: Neorealism in The Netherlands, 1927–1945, Stephanie Huber
Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics, Susana Huidobro
Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration of the Emergence of Learning, Laurie Hurson
An Overview and Assessment of the Editorial Assistant Position at Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amy M. Iafrate
Armored Feelings: Romantic Love, Sexual Consent, and Gender-based Violence in French First World War Narratives (1914–1956), Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo
Unraveling the Geographies of the U.S. Public Education System: An Analysis of Scale, Segregation, and Hegemony, Olivia Ildefonso
La literatura al gobierno: José de la Riva-Agüero y Luis Alberto Sánchez en la modernización civilista (1905–1928), Alexis V. Iparraguirre Castro
Time and Power: The Will to Temporalize in Digital Culture, Talha Issevenler
Sensitized Photooxidation of Prenylated Compounds: Mechanisms of Downstream Dark Effects and Phototoxicity Priming, Shakeela Jabeen
"You Can't Be Shakespeare and You Can't Be Joyce": Lou Reed, Modernism, and Mass Production, Daniel C. Jacobson
Caribbean Immigrant Parents and Elementary School Choice in New York City, Keshia T. James
Genetic Determinants of Carotenoid Pigmentation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Mycobacterium kansasii, Niklas Janisch
Nunc Pauperis Agri: Rural Fantasy and Economic Reality in the Elegies of Tibullus, Victoria Elizabeth Jansson
NMR Study of Materials for Energy Storage Devices, Nishani K. Jayakody
Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama, Ja Young Jeon
Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Green Gentrification in The Resilience Paradigm, Brooklyn 2010–2020, Rose Jimenez
El ascendiente latinoamericano en la literatura euskaldun: “realismo mágico”, “literatura mundial” y la emergencia del campo literario vasco, Gustavo Jimenez Vaquero
Narcommunication: The Messaging, Marketing, and Murder of Organized Crime, Philip L. Johnson
Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis, Matthew Kadish
Creating an Interactive Virtual-Reality Game as a Method for Vestibular Rehabilitation, Jessica Kaganskiy
Happiness and Policy Implications: A Sociological View, Sarah M. Kahl
Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia, Max W. Kaplan
Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900, Olga Zaferatos Karras
Influence Level Prediction on Social Media through Multi-Task and Sociolinguistic User Characteristics Modeling, Denys Katerenchuk
Is Less More? Examining the Effects of Predictor Method Factors on Mobile SJT Scores and Test-Taker Reactions, Anne E. Kato
Factors Affecting Nurses’ Intention to Leave Their Primary Nursing Position, Scott P. Kaye
Measuring Alignment Between Components of an Educational System: An Extension of Porter’s Alignment Index, Joe Kazemi