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 2024
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Seeing Safety in Red: Expressions of Interpersonal Gratitude Affects Conservatives’ Political Attitudes in the United States, Kyle M. Anderson
Bad Becomings: Autobiographical Writing, Queer/Trans Theory, Melancholia, Jacob Elias Aplaca
Teaching in the “Home Language” Is not Enough: Navigating Spanish Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Dual Language Bilingual Program, Gladys Yacely Aponte
Synthesis And Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) and Suzuki Polycondensation (SPC), Hamid Ardolic Jr.
Development of the Hearing Emotion/Activity Restrictions on Teenagers (Heart), Robin G. Axelrod
Studying Lake Surface Temperature Variabilities at Regional and Global Scales Using Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations, Abdou Rachid Bah
Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease, Dhaneesha R. Bahadur
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Enantioenriched Secondary Alkyltricyclohexyltin Nucleophiles, Meruyert Binayeva
Quantics Tensor Trains: The Study of a Continuous Lattice Model and Beyond, Aleix Bou Comas
Racial-Sexual Normativity in/as Narratives of “the Human”, Jeri Brand
Questionable Intelligence: Secrecy and Espionage in Richard Nixon’s Life, Maayan Brodsky
'Since No Expressions Do': Queer Tools For Studying Literature, Filipa G. Calado
The Charge Forward: An Assessment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in New York City, Christopher S. Cali
The Impact of Sport-Related Concussions on the Vestibular System Utilizing the Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) Tool: A Systematic Review for Audiologists, Tina M. Ceriello
Comparative Animal Mucomics, Antonio R. Cerullo
Exciton Dynamics, Interaction, and Transport in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Saroj Chand
A Candidate Needs Approach to Job Advertisements, Yuliya M. Cheban-Gore
Clustering of Patients with Heart Disease, Mukadder Cinar
Modeling of COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes in Mexico: An Analysis of Demographic, Clinical, and Chronic Disease Factors, Livia Clarete
Mechanistic and Engineering Studies of LOV Photoreceptors in Yeast, Matthew M. Cleere
Culturally and Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Jessica Correa
Turf War: Interstate Banking and Industry Consolidation, 1965–1998, Erin Cully
Learning from Their Flocks: Analyses of Power on Hudson River Valley Livestock Farms, Mark D. D'Alessandro
Rational Design of Peptide-Based Materials Informed by Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Dhwanit Rahul Dave
A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America, Aliaa Dawoud
Positron Emission Tomography in Oncology and Environmental Science, Samantha Delaney
Hagia Sophia: Politics of Space and Hauntology, Hazal Demir
Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, and Playing the Future in an Era of Algorithms, Rachel M.L. Dixon
Galina Ustvolskaya's Writing for Violin and Piano, 1952–1964, Patrick Doane
The True and Only Technic: Technological Ubiquity and its Critics, Heretics, and Zealots, Hampton A. Dodd
Comprehension and Production of Contrastive Reference in Autism, Georgia Drakopoulou Kalantzi
The Art of Mathematics: Modernizing K-12 Mathematics Education in the USA, Lirak Drenica
Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance, Archil Dvalishvili
Protein-Protein Interactions in Cell Cycle Proteins: An In silico Investigation of Two Important Players, Andriele Eichner
Cinema and Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Image-Making in the Americas and the Caribbean, Natalie M. Erazo
Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre, Amir Farjoun
Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame, Daniel L. Feldman
The Effect of Personal Listening Devices on Subjective Hearing Status, Esther Feldman
Dancing in the Heart of the Empire, Talisa Feliciano
The Role of the Infralimbic-Basal Forebrain Pathway in Fear Extinction, Carolina Maria Fernandes Henriques
Más allá de la crisis y la emergencia: aproximaciones a los movimientos migratorios contemporáneos a través de la traducción y la comedia, Fabiola Fernandez Peer
A Municipal Modernity: Women, Architecture, and Public Health in Working-Class New York, 1913–1950, Jessica Fletcher
Interviews and Perspectives Among Community Members Working With Undocumented Female Border Crossers in the States Along the United States-Mexico Border, Melissa M. Frasco
The Effect of Alpha Binaural Beats on Virtual Reality Experiences, Andronikki C. Gerohristodoulos
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Vinyl Triflates and An Investigation of the Synthesis and Reactivity of Activated Alkyltricyclohexylstannanes, Pejman Ghaemimohammadi
Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works, Michael A. Granger
Cognitive Reserve in Individuals with Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Progressive Aphasia, Lauren A. Grebe
The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Yulia Greyman
Cancer in Pajamas: Radio, Podcasts, and the Politics of Free Time in the Digital Age, Daniel Grjonko
The For-Profit Immigration Surveillance State: How Surveillance Capitalism Took Over ICE, Maurizio Guerrero
Heterogenous Household Expectations, Consumption Choices and Trust, Justine Guillochon
Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian?, Andrea M. Harrison
Audiological Evaluation of Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review, Yehudis Hoch
Power and the Press: Reimagining the World by Producing Information Together, Jen Hoyer
A Pearl Ravaged: The Paradox of Haiti and Its Socioeconomic Origins, Isabel Ishibe Exel
Avian Symbionts of Sulawesi: Identifying and Correlating Malaria Parasites and the Microbiome in Communities of Endemic Avian Hosts, Rachael Joakim
Knowing the Patient as a Person: Social Media Listening and Gadamerian Analysis of Nurses’ Expressions Shared During the COVID-19 Global Health Pandemic, Janusz A. Kaleta
Invisible Hand of Socioeconomic Factors in Rising Trend of Maternal Mortality Rates in the U.S., Disha Kanada
"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh
Socially Safe on Smartphones: How Smartphone Use Reduces Social Risk Taking, Diogo Koch Alves
Demarcating Psychopathologies: Nosology, Validity, and the Taxonomic Problem in Psychiatric Medicine, Julia Zentz Kolak
Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility and the Politics of Form in Modernist Women's Life Writing, Margot Kotler
In-Work Recovery Among Hybrid Employees: Examining the Relationships Between Stressors, Recovery Experiences, and Strains, Stefanie Larsen
Vestibular Correlates of Cochlear Implantation, Danielle Lewis
Staying Power: The Struggle for Space and Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Erin E. Lilli
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Metamemory Vary by Task Difficulty, Tiffanie T. Li
Development of Platinum(IV)-Gold(I)-Based Anticancer Agents, Javier E. Lopez-Hernandez
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?: Visualizing Extreme Wealth, William Mahoney Luckman
Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod
Equality, Solidarity, and Exploitation: An Essay on the Philosophical Foundations of Socialism, Callum Zavos MacRae
Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS, Nicolle Marquez
Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations of “Peau d’Âne” in Contemporary French and English Texts, Amy M. Martin
Developing Autonomy and Identity on TikTok Among Recently Arrived Latin American Migrants to the United States, Camille D. May
Making and Unmaking Multiethnic Black Neighborhoods: Immigration, Race, and Gentrification in New York and Paris, Maura McGee
Making Sense of Making Parole in New York, Alexandra McGlinchy
Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976, Douglas A. Medina
Integration of Field- and Space-Based Observations Toward Assessing Drivers of Biogeochemical Variability Across Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems, Alana B. Menendez
The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Lauren Moton
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza
The Role of Glutamate in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Acquistion and Expression of Conditioned Approach, Rudolf Nisanov
Contemporary World-Novels and their Collective Protagonists, Leonardo Nolé
Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment, John P. Orellana
Park Use, Urban Environmental Justice, and Place Attachment in Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City, Javier Eduardo Otero Peña
Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
Border Confinement and Assistance Markets in Tijuana: Mexican Deportees’ Experiences of Labor and Violence Between Mexico and the United States, Christian Pacheco-Gómez