Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Essays on Empirical Economics, Dorian Abreu
What Exactly Does Identity Have to do with Teaching? Exploring the Connection Between a Teacher's Racialized Identity and their Teacher Identity, Lizette Aguilar
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Re-Envisioning Electric Railway Power Systems in Dense Urban Regions, Rohama Ahmad
Lost in the Times of Yesterday and Other Stories, Anes Ahmed
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Ege Aksu
The Menstrual Cycle in Psychotherapy: Interventions, Therapist Engagement, and Blind Spots, Rozita Alaluf
Optogenetic Induction of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress as a Potential Model to Study Non-Hereditary ALS, Samia Alam
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Challenges in Arabic Speech Recognition, Enas Albasiri
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos
Towards a New Role of Mitochondrial Hydrogen Peroxide in Synaptic Function, Cliyahnelle Z. Alexander
The Mailroom, Davis Alianiello
Rebetiko in NYC: New Ideas of Greek Diaspora, Mihalis Alisandratos
Analysis of Victim/Villain Narratives Presented Under Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Frameworks: The Kosovo Case, Kristi Allaj
Evaluating Differences in Expression of Neuroticism in Individual Homed Cats and Feral Cat Colonies Across Varying Degrees of Human Settlement, Sophie Ambrosino
Seeing Safety in Red: Expressions of Interpersonal Gratitude Affects Conservatives’ Political Attitudes in the United States, Kyle M. Anderson
Learning from One’s Own Errors vs from Observing Other People's Errors: Ego Engagement vs Ego Threat, Viktoriya Andreevskaya
Road Gives Way: Transiting Indigenous Reconnection, Rosalind Aparicio-Ramírez
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
Proud Men, Jacob Appet
Synthesis And Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) and Suzuki Polycondensation (SPC), Hamid Ardolic Jr.
Evolution of the Extant and Fossil Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae), Julia L. Arenson
Frankly, I Thought the Emptiness in Me Would Take Shape as Better Music, Jesse Arnholz
Place-Conscious vs. Place-Bound, Julie Avetisyan
Development of the Hearing Emotion/Activity Restrictions on Teenagers (Heart), Robin G. Axelrod
Strengthening U.S. Jail Systems’ Response to Infectious Diseases: An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Erinn Bacchus
Recognizing Elder Abuse in Mongolia: Experiences of Family Physicians, Ariunsanaa Bagaajav
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
Motherhood in Crisis: A Qualitative Study of First-Time Mothers Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Tamzin M. Baker
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
Hypotheticals, Sophia Bannister
Parasympathethic Nervous Activity and Social Exclusion in Borderline Personality Disorder, Rebecca E. Barnes
Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist
Analyzing the Enduring White Reception of Raisin in the Sun: Defining and Reexamining the “Universal” Label, Kayla J. Baur
Counter-Archives in Digital Spaces, Patricia Belen
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Fragmentation and Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha
Load Reduction Leadership: A Cognitive Load Theory-Based Framework Differentiating Performance Patterns in NYC Schools, Kristopher C. Bertoglio
The Redemption of History: Poetics and Politics in the Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino
Integrating In Vitro and In Silico Approaches to Gain Insight into the Mechanism of Amyloid Fibrillogenesis, Marvin M. Bilog
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Enantioenriched Secondary Alkyltricyclohexyltin Nucleophiles, Meruyert Binayeva
Papering over Colonial Legacies: Chinoiserie, Chinese Wallpaper, and Exotic Obfuscation at Harewood House, Carolyn J. Bishop
Resilience, Resistance, and Nation-Building Among Internally Displaced Persons: Kites as a Means of Transcending Displacement, Michelle Black
Expanding the Corpus of Vocalized Hebrew Text: Compiling an Unvocalized Text Corpus and Building an Online Interface for Vocalization Annotation, Rachel Shanblatt Bloch
Diaspora Documentation of West Albay Bikol, Nhia Borja
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
Imaging Markers of Future Neurodegeneration Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Daniel Brennan
Examining Visual Processing of Hierarchical Figures through Behavioral Measures and Pupillometry in Relation to Autistic Traits in Adults, Chloe Brittenham
A Journey to a Black Woman’s (Read Black Girl’s) Joy and Her Story of Coming Home, Brittany Lauren Brock
Questionable Intelligence: Secrecy and Espionage in Richard Nixon’s Life, Maayan Brodsky
The Four Seasons: Integrating the Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
Assessing Job Vulnerability and Employment Growth in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Prudence P. Brou
Effect of Magnetic Draping on Satellite Galaxies in Clusters, Vanessa Brown
“Back from Cuba with Machetes and Cameras” Feminist Contour Lines through the Venceremos Brigade: 1969-1971 and Today, Nicolette Bull
Will This Make You Happy, Tanya Bush
Alianzas Antimodernas: Estudios del Cine Español del Proceso 15M, Pedro Cabello del Moral
Chaucer’s Contradictory Representations of Fourteenth Century Knighthood in The Canterbury Tales, Nicholas Cabrera
Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art, Caitlin Cacciatore
'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
Thinking Sculpturally: The Implications of Sculptural Space in the work of Charles Ray, AD Canter
"This Other Way": Photography at Black Mountain College, Kyle Canter
Turning Movements into Markets: How Corporations Co-Opt Cultural Values for Profit, Anthony J. Capote
Twenty Years of Community-Based College Success: Oral Histories from Practitioners, Partners, and Peer Mentors Supporting City University of New York (CUNY) Students, Benjamin J. Carey
Depression In African American Males And The Mental Health Stigma, Deanna Carrington
Witnessing Eyewitness Coercion and Familiarity Affects Defense Attorneys’ Evaluations of Trial Prospects, Jason Carty
A Taste for the Distasteful: The Aesthetics of Gore in the Giallo and Horror Films of Mario Bava, Thais Casado Bignardi-Engstrom
Ghost Bikes of Queens, Brianna Caszatt
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
Swallow Your Medicine: Marisol’s Saca la Lengua from the Peace Portfolio II, A. E. Chapman
Pricks and Pills, Anna A. Charles
A Candidate Needs Approach to Job Advertisements, Yuliya M. Cheban-Gore
Identifying Graduate Students’ Instructional Strategies and Approaches Towards Teaching Employable Skills, Elizabeth S. Che
Unveiling Iolanta: Blindness in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Nafset Chenib
Budget Capping Health Care: Its Impact on Health, Susan Chen
The Routes, Wei-Ta Chen
Ripe Spoils, Yan Cynthia Chen
The Sound of Complicity: Fascism, Colonialism, and Music in Novels, Michele Chinitz
Back To The Office: US Employee Reluctance And Re-Engagement Strategies, Khin Thaw Ta Chit
Feeble Transmitters, Indranil Choudhury
Placemaking and Placewashing in Manhattan's Chinatown: Capitalist vs. Community Interests, Mary Chu
Evaluating Climate Sentiment in SEC 10-K Filings: S&P 50 Companies, Ruby Chu
A Comparison of Temporary Threshold Shifts in Dentists, Hygienists, and Dental Assistants, Sabina E. Ciaccio
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
In My Softest & Most Liberatory Dreams: Reflections on Holding Complexity & Decentering Whiteness, Richard C. Clark
Mechanistic and Engineering Studies of LOV Photoreceptors in Yeast, Matthew M. Cleere