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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Making and Unmaking Multiethnic Black Neighborhoods: Immigration, Race, and Gentrification in New York and Paris, Maura McGee

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Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo

Dissertations from 2023

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Older Adults in the Great Recession: Labor Force Transitions, Perceived Workplace Ageism and Life Satisfaction, Duygu Başaran Şahin

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Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: Provider Perspectives, Elisabeth Brodbeck

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Lasting Inequalities: Gender Earnings Inequality Across Generations, Periods and Countries, Juliana de Castro Galvao

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Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018, Luke P. Elliott-Negri

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The Promise of Universalism Deferred: Political Economy of Social Policy in 21st Century Latin America, Juan C. Ferre

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Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies, Ricardo Gabriel

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The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana, Edwin Grimsley

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Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca

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Regulating the Care Boom: Labor Standards Enforcement and Paid In-Home Care Work, Isaac Jabola-Carolus

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Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences, Hayden Daeshin Ju

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From Prostitution to Sex Trafficking: Dilemmas of Victim Service Workers Helping Chinese Immigrant Women at the Courts, Yen-Chiao Liao

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Seeing Africans in China: Defining Race and Racial Hierarchy in Contemporary China, Xuemeng Li

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From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers on the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat, and Politics, Kevin Morris

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Frontier Precarities: Inequality and Exclusion in Tech, Spiros M. Papadantonakis

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The Politics of Expertise and the Articulation of Authority in Democracy: Cognitive Style and Intelligibility in the Education of Problem-Solving and Professional Decision-Making in the Domain of Law, Michael W. Raphael

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Learning to Fly while Staying Grounded: How Forcibly Displaced Individuals Develop a Sense of Belonging in Disempowered Cities, Janina L. Selzer

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Pedagogies of Reform: The Role of Game-Based Learning in Recontextualizing Education, Hamad Sindhi

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A Sociology of Gab: A Computational Analysis of a Far-Right Social Network, Nga Than

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Colonial Geographies of Gendered Violence and Mental Health in the United States and Puerto Rico, Lorraine Lizbeth L. Torres Colon

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The Rent Is Too Damn High:the Spatial and Longitudinal Dimensions of Housing Affordability, Kasey Zapatka

Dissertations from 2022

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Close-Quarters Antagonism: The New Left Within and Against the War on Poverty, Andrew S. Anastasi

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Brave New Wombs: Hysterectomy, Gender, and Stratified Reproduction, Andréa Becker

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The Moral Economy of Ordinary Belarussians and a Critical Examination and Re-Evaluation of the 2020 Post-Electoral Uprising, Geoffrey Blank

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Carceral Calisthenics: Physical Culture in The Hood, Albert L. de la Tierra

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Diversion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Nonprofit Organization, Leah E. Glass

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Time and Power: The Will to Temporalize in Digital Culture, Talha Issevenler

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Understanding Parental Engagement at the Nexus of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation: An Examination Through Anti-Black White Settler Colonialism, Alyssa P. Lyons

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Indigenous Mexicans in New York City: Immigrant Integration, Language Use, and Identity Formation, Leslie A. Martino-Velez

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Perceptions of Economic Vulnerability and Public Opinion in the United States: A Theoretical, Historical, and Quantitative Approach, Cody R. Melcher

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Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in the Colombian Countryside, Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría

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"It Was Handed to Them": The Origins of Targeted Delivery and the Spirit of Nanomedicine, Marzena Woinska

Dissertations from 2021

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The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam

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Standing Trans Before the Law, Kyla Bender-Baird

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Food-as-Medicine: An Everyday Strategy of Health, Rachel Rebecca Bogan

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Navigating Ocha: LGBT Practitioners' Participation and Navigation of Lucumí, Carlos M. Camacho

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The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Roots of Uneven Development in Brazil, Chris Carlson

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Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney

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The Impact of Local Demographic Change in the Contemporary United States, Christopher Maggio

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Dream City: Post-Millennials and Millennials Navigate School, Work, and Housing in New York City, Omar Montana

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Dating Apps, or, Ghosts in the Viral Affect Machine, Gregory Narr

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Not So Black and White: How Second-Generation Nigerian Americans Decide Whom to Marry, Karen Okigbo

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mexican Return Migration across the Life Course, Mara G. Sheftel

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Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata

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Characteristics of Non-Residential (Commuter) Colleges and Factors Affecting Bachelor’s Degree Completion in a Non-Residential College, Sangdong Tak

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Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker

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Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook

Dissertations from 2020

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Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell

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Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell

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Raising Haiti: The Transmission of Ethnic Culture Across Generations, Vadricka Y. Etienne

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Learning to Fail? Student Experiences in Remedial Mathematics in Community Colleges, Margaret P. Fay

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A Re-evaluation of the Hyper-selectivity Perspective: The Case of Second-Generation Filipinos, Brenda B. Gambol Gavigan

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Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico, Isabel Gil Everaert

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Going Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, Anna Gjika

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Making Muslim Americans: Parenting Practices, Parochial Schools, and the Transmission of Faith Across Generations in Metropolitan Detroit, Rebecca Karam

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The Life and Death of Mambo: Culture and Consumption in New York's Salsa Dance Scene, Carmela Muzio Dormani

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Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile, Pilar Ortiz

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Is the South (Still) America’s Sacrifice Zone? A Regional Analysis of Toxic Emissions, 1987–2017, Tanesha A. Thomas

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Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle-Class Families “Outsource” Secondary Education to the United States, Siqi Tu

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Paper, Places, and Familias: Tracing the Social Mobility of Mexicans in New York, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa

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Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation, Anna Zhelnina

Dissertations from 2019

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Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali

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Restoring Solidarity: "Accountability" in Radical Leftist Subcultures, Sarah M. Hanks

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Same-Sex Union Formation and Dissolution in the United States and Europe, Eric Ketcham

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Everyday Violence: Catcalling and LGBTQ-Directed Aggression in the Public Sphere, Simone A. Kolysh

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Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim

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Illicit Psychoactive Medication Use: Experiences of Medicalization and Normalization, Mark Pawson

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Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West, Berglind H. Ragnarsdóttir

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Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin

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Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh

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Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor, Tommy Wu

Dissertations from 2018

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"But the Heart Stays Turkish": Identifications of Immigrants and Boundaries of Belonging in America, Zeynep Selen Bayhan

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Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization, Brenden Beck

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"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank

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Highly Skilled Immigration in the United States in An Age of Globalization: An Institutional and Agency Approach, Marcela F. González

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Gendering Flexicurity: The Effects of Flexicurity on Gender Equality, Szu-Ying Ho

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Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby

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The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker

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Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek

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There’s Nothing Here: Tenure, Attachment, and Changing Perceptions in Gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sara Martucci

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Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry, Andrew McKinney

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The Structurally Adjusted School: School Restructuring and Youth Political Incorporation in Suburban America, Erin Michaels

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The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle

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Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States, Sara Salman

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Electric Light: Automating the Carceral State During the Quantification of Everything, R. Joshua Scannell

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Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano

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The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen

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Caught Between the State, the Market, and Civil Society: The Divergent Paths of Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Seeking to Make Social Change in China, Wenjuan Zheng

Dissertations from 2017

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Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons for Housing and Labor, Marnie F. Brady

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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women, Kuan-Yi Chen

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"Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime": Liberal Carceral Logics and the Reproduction of Settler Colonial Violence in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land

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The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation, Daniel Douglas

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The Queer Allure of Digital Sociality, Benjamin Parrish Haber

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Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to the Home Country, Sou Hyun Jang

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The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa

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Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss

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Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran

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Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler

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Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera