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 Effects of False Heartbeat Feedback on Moral Judgment, Scott Koenig
Prenatal Choline Supplementation During Maternal Obesity Alters Offspring Response to Western Diets, Hunter W. Korsmo
Humoring the Third Republic: Le Rire in French Politics and Popular Culture, 1894–1918, Andrew C. Kotick
A Bird’s Eye View: Large-Scale Tonal Structures in Robert Schumann’s Four Song Cycles (op. 42, 24, 39, and 48), Peter Kramer
Isolation and Characterization of Fluorescent Proteins and Small Molecules from Marine Vertebrates, Sara Rose Krivoshik
Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age, Michael Krondl
Time-to-Degree: Bachelor’s Degree Completion for Latine First-Year and Transfer Students, Robert E. Kunicki
Examining the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationship Between Stress and Ethical Decision Making, Irina Kuzmich
Interpreting Jean Coulthard's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963): A Pianist's Perspective, Jocelyn Lai
The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, Chelsea Lane
The Messiness Within: Personal Essays on Peeling Back the Facade, Chava Pearl Lansky
Essays on Housing and Macroeconomics, Pablo Lara Hinojos
The Campaign to End U.S. War-Making in Yemen: Strategies of Congressional Advocacy, 2015–2020, Zachary Laub
Who Taught You to Hate Yourself: Disentangling My Black Identity from White Christian Doctrine, Patrice Lorna Lebron
Unsuk Chin’s Hyper-Sheng: Sonic and Structural Development in Šu for Sheng and Orchestra, Hyun-Kyung Lee
The Bright and Dark Sides of Upward Social Comparison: Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Hiding Directed at High Performers, Soohyun (Ashley) Lee
Fragmentation and Fabulation: Reflexivity and the New Black Documentary, Joanna Lehan
Symmetry-Inspired Analysis of Biological Networks, Ian Leifer
Climate Change and Corporate Behaviors, Lei Lei
Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative Project with Vietnamese American Youth, Khanh Le
Robert Rosen and Relational System Theory: An Overview, James Lennox
Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives, Desmond W. Leung
“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception, Ki Ki Leung
Elucidation of Gene Essentiality and Genetic Determinants of Intrinsic p-Aminosalicylic Acid Resistance in Mycobacterium Kansasii, Keith J. Levendosky
Narrative Side-Stepping: Disability Beyond the Narratology of Normalcy, Christian Lewis
Nursing and Interprofessional Relationships on a Labor and Delivery Unit: Ethnography, Tricia A. Lewis
"Thus Much for Politicks": American Women, Diplomacy, and the Aftermath of the American Revolution, Miriam Liebman
Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld
A Qualitative Exploration of Discourses in Fan Community, /r/boyslove, Jessica Lin
Heating Fire Incidents in New York City, Merissa K. Lissade
Essays on Futures Market and Machine Learning, Jonathan J. Lopez Camara
Engineering Rare-Earth Based Color Centers in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Quantum and Nanoscale Applications, Gabriel I. López-Morales
Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria, Stephanie Victoria Love
Maurice Scève avant la Délie (1535–1544). Une étude des genres mineurs à l’origine d’une nouvelle esthétique poétique, Elizaveta Lyulekina
Expressivism and its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory and Practice from History to Here and Now, Sasha A. Maceira
Problematic Social Media Use, Social Comparison, and Defeat: An Intensive Longitudinal Investigation, Natalia Macrynikola
Optical Studies of Wide Bandgap Photonic Materials, Nikesh Maharjan
NYC vs. Covid-19: The Human and Financial Resources Deployed to Fight the Most Expensive Health Emergency in History in NYC during the Year 2020, Elmer A. Maldonado Ramirez
Voice, Arabness, and the Vocal Talent Competition Arab Idol, Insia Malik
Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed N1 Modifications of Inosine and 2'-Deoxyinosine and N-Directed Remote Aroylation of C6-Aryl Purine Nucleosides, Casina Malinchak
Equitable Assessment for Elementary Dual-Language Learners, Joliette Mandel
Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial–Carceral City’s Attempt to Eliminate the “Mexican Problem”, Amy A. Martinez
Terror en el Orinoco: Formas del espanto animal y vegetal en la historia natural de José Gumilla, Roberto E. Martinez Bachrich
When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez
Indigenous Mexicans in New York City: Immigrant Integration, Language Use, and Identity Formation, Leslie A. Martino-Velez
Anomalous Self-Experiences and Aberrant Salience in Schizotypy, Victoria Martin
The Politics of Media Freedom, Kyong Mazzaro
All Aboard the Abortion Pill Train: Activism, Medicine, and Reproductive Technologies in the Republic of Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey
Discrimination, Psychological Well-Being, and Racial Importance in U.S. Native-Born and Caribbean Black Americans, Jaime E. McCaw
Actual Causation: Apt Causal Models and Causal Relativism, Jennifer R. McDonald
A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Robin McGinty
Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Development of Urban Forests, Gisselle A. Mejía
Cochlear Implant Evaluations of Spanish-Speaking Adults, Mariana Mejia Turnbull
Perceptions of Economic Vulnerability and Public Opinion in the United States: A Theoretical, Historical, and Quantitative Approach, Cody R. Melcher
Witness-Authenticated Key Exchange, Kelsey G. Melissaris
Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott
The Making of a Bilingual University in the 21st Century, Michael Mena
Transcriptional Mechanisms of Neuroprotection in Excitotoxicity Driven Neurodegeneration in C. elegans, Zelda Z. Mendelowitz
Negative Dialectics in Elliott Carter: Toward an Adornian Aesthetics of Carter's Music, Gregory J. Menillo
Rima, Gregory J. Menillo
A Queens Community Teacher Storytelling Project: A Qualitative Research Study of Five Local Afro-Caribbean and Latina Public School Teachers and Community Teachers in New York City, José Alfredo Menjivar Ortéz
Dietary Regulation of Silent Synapses in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Allison M. Meyers
Screen Time and the Psychological Well-Being of U.S. Teenagers: An Exploratory Re-Analysis of Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Russell Miller
Unraveling the Double-Bind: An Investigation of Black and Latina Women in STEM, Katlyn L. Milless
The Application of Electron Backscatter Diffraction to the Forensic Analysis of Minerals, Tiffany J. Millett
Historical Sisters: Black Feminist Actions Across History and Literary Studies, Jazz A. Milligan
The Storytelling Cure: Medicine and Narrative from Galen to Shahrazad and Rousseau, Ryan A. Milov-Cordoba
Shame On You: The 2018 Senate Race and Gendered Language on Facebook and Twitter, Heather A. Mir
The Local Lifting Problem for Curves with Quaternion Actions, George Mitchell
A Pilot Feasibility Trial of Mindfulness and Modification Therapy for Males Who Use Aggression, Jenny Mitchell
Essays on Social Mobility and Distribution, Luis A. Monroy Gómez Franco
Emotion in Plato's Trial of Socrates, Thomas W. Moody
Scientific Development of an Integrated Workflow for Latent Print, Questioned Document, and DNA Processing of Paper Evidence, Ashley Morgan
Mechanism of Tau Propagation: Putative Therapeutic Approaches, Viktoriya Morozova
Janus v. AFSCME, Revisited, Benjamin Derek Morse
Natural Striatal Signaling Dynamics During Food Approach, Devry Mourra
Essays on Labor Economics, Gabriel Movsesyan
Tablets as a Vehicle for Imprisoned People’s Digital Connection with Loved Ones, Andrea Mufarreh
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility in Education, Ercio A. Munoz Saavedra
Aging on Parole: An Empirical Analysis of Reentry, Reintegration, and Life Satisfaction, Angela Silletti Murolo
Molecular Mechanisms of microRNA-1205 in Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Michelle K. Naidoo
Connections Between Atmospheric Blocking, General Circulation, and Weather Extremes in a Hierarchy of Models and Various Climates, Veeshan Narinesingh
Pervasive Nonarbitrariness: Meaning from Form in Natural Language, David J. Neely
Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers, Andrea Negret
The Differential Effects of Acoustic Discriminations on Operant Learning Performance and Neurogenesis in Male and Female Zebra Finches, Kristena L. Newman
An Analysis of the Friendship Paradox and Derived Sampling Methods, Yitzchak Novick
A Machine Learning Approach to Text-Based Sarcasm Detection, Lara I. Novic
From Perfect Victims to Collateral Damage: How Nigerian Women are Implicated in and Impacted by Contemporary French Anti-Trafficking Policies and Discourse, Oladunni Patricia Oduyemi
The Intersection of Prose and Poetics in Apollonius’ Argonautica, Stephen B. Ogumah
Incomplete Neutralization in Articulatory Phonology, Sejin Oh
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease: Targeting Toll-Like Receptor Signaling and a Multi-Target Approach, Giovanni Oliveros
Covert Determiners in Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences, William Oliver