As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Dissertations from 2024

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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

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Normative Orientations to Housing Activism and the Uneven Path to Nonprofitization in New York City, 1964–1989, Andrew Wilkes

Dissertations from 2023

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Evolutions in Suicide Bombing: Exploring the Relationship Between the Tactic and Its Application by Non-state Armed Groups Across Various Conflict Zones Over Time, David E. Firester

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Language And Conjuncture in Populist Strategy: Podemos And Contemporary Spanish Political Thought, Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier

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David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History, Nicholas K. Petaludis

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Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies: The Politics of Elite and Mass Engagement with Democratic Backsliding, Dean G. Schafer

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“Addiction” in U.S. Political Culture, Be Stone

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Does Political Advertising Persuade? A Quantitative Assessment of the Effects of Campaign Contact in the Context of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Origin in New York City Council Primary Elections from 2001 through 2017, Laura M. Tamman

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Numbered, Weighed, Divided: Revolution and/as Apocalypse in the Modern Liberal Tradition, Asher J. Wycoff

Dissertations from 2022

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Past Actions and Expertise: How States Infer Enemy Intentions, Yu Aoki

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The Rise of a New Machine: Dominican Political Mobilization and Incorporation in New York City from 1991 to the Present, Fernando Aquino

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Public Policy and the Business Life Cycle, Hugo Barreca

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Legislating Against Liberties: Congress and the Constitution in the Aftermath of War, Harry Blain

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Cooperation or Competition with China: Interest Groups and US Policy on Climate Change, Lucia G. Green-Weiskel

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Narcommunication: The Messaging, Marketing, and Murder of Organized Crime, Philip L. Johnson

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The Politics of Media Freedom, Kyong Mazzaro

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Shame On You: The 2018 Senate Race and Gendered Language on Facebook and Twitter, Heather A. Mir

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Protecting Peace? Analyzing the Relationship Between the Protection of Civilians and Peace in UN Peacekeeping Settings, Jenna Russo

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Purity, Exclusion, and Political Order in Colombia, Osha Smith-Gittelman

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Gospels of (Anti)Inequality: The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People’s Campaign and Capitol Ministries, Jonathan Peter Tschudy

Dissertations from 2021

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Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano

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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?, Sarah L. Kostecki

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Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera

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In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher

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Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community, Alison E. Parks

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Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colombian Political Landscape, Heidi A. Rhodes

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Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels, Sally Sharif

Dissertations from 2020

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In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman

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The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk

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Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna

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Dangerous Exhibitions: Erotic Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law, Elena Cohen

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Thoughts of Becoming: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh, Humayun Kabir

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Searching for Pōhakuloa: A Citizen Scientist’s Journey in Aloha ‘Āina, Drake Logan

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Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought, Nader Sadre

Dissertations from 2019

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The Counter-Patriotic Tradition in American Politics: Resistance, Nationhood, and Democracy, Maxwell Burkey

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Imagined Futures: Feminist Science Studies in an Era of Climate Change Denial, Emily K. Crandall

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Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny

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Between Politics and Morality: Hans Kelsen's Contributions to the Changing Notion of International Criminal Responsibility, Jason Kropsky

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Claiming the Remains of the Past: The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects to Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, Pierre Losson

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Coordination, Collaboration, and Delegation in EU Migration Management, Nicholas R. Micinski

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Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman

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Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World, Amy B. Schiller

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The Diffusion of a Movement Moment: Labor Organizing in the Shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Pamela Whitefield

Dissertations from 2018

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Feeling as Knowing: Trans Phenomenology and Epistemic Justice, B. Lee Aultman

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Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg

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State Unbuilding: Presidents and the American National Security State, 1952–2016, Adam M. McMahon

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A History of Employee Ownership in the United States, Christopher Michael

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Movements and Political Parties in the 21st Century: Exploring the Role of ICTs, Human Development, and Political-Activism Culture in East Asia and Latin America, Wilneida Negron

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Oil Pollution on the High Seas: The Establishment of an International Regime to Deal with Public International Law and Private Law Issues and the Role of Non-State Actors in Their Resolution Prior to and at the 1969 International Legal Conference on Marine Pollution Damage (“Brussels Conference”), Milton Ottensoser

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The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen

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(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ, Paul M. Romita

Dissertations from 2017

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Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham

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Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown

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The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke

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Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003, Tatiana Carayannis

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Electoral System Effects: Institutions and Context or New and Old Democracies, Helen Chang

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Rights and Feelings: Marriage Equality and the Language of Citizenship in Argentina and the United States, Julie Hollar

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Thine Is the Kingdom: The Political Thought of 21st Century Evangelicalism, Joanna Tice Jen

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Asymmetric Alliances and Side Payments: Alliance Politics Between Unequal Powers, Muhammad S. Kabir

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A Political Ecology of Information: Media and The Dilemma of State Power in China, Michael L. Miller

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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency, Matthew Murray

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Thresholds of Atrocity: Liberal Violence and the Politics of Moral Vision, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton

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The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico, Domenico Romero

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Dinosaurs for the Digital Age: Democratic Party Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Aaron B. Shapiro

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Customer Management in the Internet Age, Joshua Sperber

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The Bourgeois Crown: Capitalism and the Monarchy in Thailand, 1946–2016, Puangchon Unchanam

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History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace

Dissertations from 2016

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Better Work and Global Governance, Paul Alois

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The Politics of Middle Class Decline and Growth in Industrialized Democracies, 1980 to 2010, Young-hwan Byun

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Assessing Social Protection Arrangements in Angola and Mozambique, Andre Cavaller Guzzi

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Claiming Time: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith on Freedom and Futurity, Jennifer Corby

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The Politics of Court Driven Morality Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage 1971-2015, Korey L. Hughes

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Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding, Ervin Kallfa

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Internet Access and Freedom: Constructing and Reacting to Transnational Norms about Internet Diffusion and Use, Heather L. Katz

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Refractions Through the Secular: Islam, Human Rights and Universality, Zara Khan

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“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig

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Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez

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Politics Between and Within Us: Authenticity and Theatricality in Modern Political Thought, Daniel J. McCool

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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory, John McMahon

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The Transatlantic Oarsmen Cooperative: Doubling Down on a Transatlantic Financial Regulatory Regime, Joselyn Muhleisen

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The Hermeneutics of International Trade Conflicts: U.S. Punitive Trade Policy Towards China and Japan, Barry F. Murdaco

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Power and Proximity: The Politics of State Secession, Elizabeth A. Nelson

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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation, Sobukwe O. Odinga

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The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, Heidi M. Rafferty-Reijm

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"They have sold the clouds": Queering Indigenous Politics in Colombia, Taylor O. Ramsey

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Richard A. Posner: A Study in Judicial Entrepreneurship, Sean J. Shannon

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Social Ties and State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia, David Siegel

Dissertations from 2015

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The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit, Kara Susan Alaimo

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Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity, Emily Cury

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Getting Out of the Ghetto: Harm Reduction, Drug User Health, and the Transformation of Social Policy in New York, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein

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Immigration & Naturalization Policy Innovation Through Bureaucratic Reorganization, Neil Hernandez

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The Voting Rights Act Under Siege: The Development of the Influence of Colorblind Conservatism on the Federal Government and the Voting Rights Act, Melanie Adrienne Jones

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The Archdiocese Of New York: Transition From Urban Powerhouse To Suburban Institution, 1950-2000 A Case Study, Henry A. Sheinkopf

Dissertations from 2014

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Diaspora As Development Actors: A Source Of Human And Social Capital For Local Development In Turkey, Meryem Senay Ataselim

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Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855-1888, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer

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Ulu Al Amr & Authority: The Central Pillars of Sunni Political Thought, Hisseine Faradj

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Leaders, Ideas, National Interests, And Economic Strategies: Explaining The Regional Integration Decisions Of Mexico And Brazil, Roberto Genoves

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Right Without Might: Prophecy and Enervation in the American Political Tradition, Jonathan Keller

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Access To Healthcare For Vulnerable Asian Subgroup Populations In The United States, Deborah Kim-Lu

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Immigrants Facing Immigration Policy: State Laws Regulating Eligibility For In-State Tuition And Belonging Among Immigrant Youth In The United States, Fanny Lauby