Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
Reproductive Nation: Cold War Fantasies and German Unification, Yanara Schmacks
Inhibitory Control in Asian Elephants, Gillian Schmitt
City Council Bill to Decrypt Police Radio Has a Surprising Winner — Citizen App, Mikella Schuetter, Kennedy Sessions, and Marina Samuel
The Salience of Function Words in Implicit Statistical Linguistic Learning: An ERP Investigation, Daniel M. Schwartz
Asian-American Literature and the Family Saga: Cyclical Histories of Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation, Molly Schwarz
Characterization of Epigenetic Changes in Adult OPCs Identifies TET2 as a Key Regulator of Their Epitranscriptome, Ipek Selcen
Developing A Global, Multi-decadal (1983-2017) Convection Tracking Database Utilizing ISCCP HXG Data, Yuliya Selevich
Realistik Heaven, Alexa H. Senan
Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators in the Urban North During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache
HALT Under Threat Why Legislators Must Demand Compliance Before Change A Playbook for Action, VANDA SEWARD
Counterinsurgency and Endogenous Statebuilding in Northwestern Pakistan, Sehar Sarah Sikander Shah
Overturning of Roe v. Wade as a Mega-Threat: Effects on Women’s Identity Fusion and Disidentification in the Workplace, Shivani Shah
For 600,000 New Yorkers, Toxins are In Their Tap Water: A New York Focus analysis of state inspection data shows key toxins are in public water systems from Long Island to the Adirondacks, posing risks for cancers and other diseases. Millions are being spent to fix problems, but even well-planned efforts have faced delays. Poorer towns wonder if they can afford to fix the problem., Shuchi Shah, Hayden Betts, Aurora Martinez, and Rebecca McCray
From Sequence to Allostery: How Amino Acid Differences Rewire Coupled Conformational Heterogeneity in the PTP Enzyme Family, Shivani Sharma
Text-Based Propaganda Detection, Vivek Sharma
Speculative Networks: From Political Protest to the Neoliberal Market in Feminist Video Art in the US, 1970-85, Helena Shaskevich
False Virtues and Fragile Honor: The Weight of Reputation in Shakespeare’s Works, Amanda Sheps
Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Understanding the Experiences of Black Males in CUNY’s NYC Men Teach, Fatima Sherif
House Meeting - A Play With Music, Levi J. Shrader
Drone Strikes In Pakistan, muhammad shumail
THE PATIENT AND PROVIDER EXPERIENCE OF THE PELVIC EXAM: EXPLORING COMMUNICATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE, Saskia Z. Shuman
Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation, Destry Sibley
Audiologic Management of Individuals with Advanced Cochlear Otosclerosis: A Systematic Review, Sophie Silvermintz
NYC FALLS BEHIND IN CLIMATE RESOURCES FOR PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM MOMS, Jada Simon
How Eye See, Now I See, Michael Anthony Simon
Flooding, Not Just a Rain Problem, Annisha Singh
Love Amid the Rage: Feminist Affect in Women's Life-Writing, Genesis Siverio
The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Play Behavior of Juvenile Rats, Rebecca S. Smart
The Logic of Car Accidents and Other Digestive Processes, Rosalie G.L. Smith
"The Flesh of the Facts": Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness, Carli Snyder
The Effect of TBI on Working Memory and Anxiety in Rats, Mariola Sobolewska
The Trust Equation: Users, Companies, and Safety in the Online Dating World, Hayley Solomon
Death by a Thousand Cuts, Usha Sookai
With Other Men: Love, Narrative, and Belonging Among Same-Sex Attracted Men in New Orleans, Davine A. Sorapuru-Mitchell
A Qualitative NMR and Histological Analysis of Adipocere Formation in Different Aqueous Environments using Sus Scrofa Models, Mia M. Sorrentino
Reduce, Replace, Reframe: How Civil Society Organizations Build Resilience in the Face of Financial and Political Pressures, Merrill Sovner
Path Dependency and the Politics of U.S. Health Reform, Sophia Spadafore
Black Incarcerated Veterans and VA Service Access, Kimona S. Spencer
The Long Arm of the Law: The Far-Reaching Effects of the Carceral State on Families, Madison Squiers
Nonlinear Physics of Parity-Broken Fluids, Sudheesh Srivastava
Serious Music with Bea Witkin: An Upper West Side Audio Walk, Megan Hattie Stahl
Quantifying Educational Impacts Under the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Era, Matthew T. Stanton
Evaluating heat mitigation by urban canopy in New York City’s public housing developments, Otillia Steadman
Repurposing Atractylenolide III, a Natural Anti-Inflammatory Compound, for Alzheimer’s Disease, Angela M. Steele
Deflecting Voyeurism: Elizabeth Keckley’s Indictment of Capitalism and Rejection of the Exploitative White Gaze, Laura Steel
Detecting Sonic Hedgehog Expression in the Adult Mouse Brain Using a Gene Expression Tracer, Kendra Stephens-Jones
Curiosities, Natalie Stern
Aligning Novice Special Educators Classroom Practices, Mentoring Support, and Needs with DisCrit Classroom Ecology, Kaitlyn Stillwagon
The Role of Parent Psychiatric Symptoms in the Intergenerational Continuity of Child Neglect: A Prospective Examination, Cody D. Stitzel
Leadership Perceptions of Funds of Knowledge in Alternative Secondary Education, Sara Stone
Quantifying the Individual Bilingual Experience Through a Lens of Language Dominance, LeeAnn Stover
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
The Automation of Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence and Commercial Artists in North Brooklyn, Devin Sudweeks
Illicit Blocks of Ethnic Enclaves: Asian Migrant Sex Work in the Ethnic Neighborhoods of New York City and Los Angeles, Brittany Y. Suh
Protein Stability Retention Under Harsh Conditions, Kaylen Su
The Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Perspectives of Play Advocates on Children’s Unstructured Play in Turkey, Bengi Sullu
Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project, Matthew G. Summers
Boeing Turns It Around, How A Change In Leadership Impacted An Industry, Fenix Suriel
Post-Authoritarian Agonism: Performing Agony and Citizenship in Contemporary Indonesia, Yoseph Joned Suryatmoko Ndaruhadi
The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After the Khmer Rouge, Sokunthary Svay
The Alphaproteobacterial General Stress Response: Investigating Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Regulatory Mechanisms, Danielle Swingle
Mameloshen | Mothertongue, Kallie Swyer
Inherited Fervor: Maternal Archive, Maria Angela Talavera Tejeda
Visualizing the Rise of American Women's Soccer, Hoi Wah Tang
Activism within the Music and Recorded Sound Archive, Julius Tanner
Art as Resistance: Challenging Colonial Legacies Through the Eyes of South Asian Diasporic Women, Sofina Tanni
Essays on the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks, Rubaiyat Tasnim
“Bottom Nature”: Embodying History in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, Yasmin Tehrani
Origin and Maintenance of the Andean Bird Fauna, Elkin A. Tenorio
Aquí y Ahora A Dance Tribute to Gustavo Cerati and the Expression of Hispanic Immigrant Identity in New York City, Karina Terán
Mechanistic Insights into the Neuroprotective Effects of the Antidepressant Agomelatine in Alzheimer's Disease, Grace Terry
Inherited Wounds: Generational Trauma in Postcolonial Film and Narrative Fiction of the Global South, Sabrina Testi Melgarejo
Critical Race Theory Pedagogy of Black American Horror Television in Lovecraft Country and Them, Yosra Thabet
Voice as Dual Striving: Spiritual Resonance and Psychological Negotiation in South Indian Musical Practices, Ramya Thiyagarajan
Bread and Circuses, Rosie thomas
Hemispheres of Faith: Mapping the Global Journey of an Ivory Rosary Bead at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary M. Thompson
Decoding the Plant Metabolome: A Metabolomics Approach to Guereza (Colobus guereza) Feeding Ecology in Kibale National Park, Uganda, Emma Grace Thurau
Early Childhood Educators Around the City Struggle with Delayed Payments from the City, Shenal F. Tissera
The Dynamics of Feedback: Investigating Source, Processing, and Student Engagement Across Contexts, Ligia Tomazin
Records in Space, Anthony Torrano
Guardians of the Iranian Revolution: Clerical Authority, Bonyads, and the IRGC in Iran's Economic Landscape, Chase M. Toscano
The Invisible Hand of Networked Repression, Thuy Anh Tran
Aesthetics and Hidden Orientalism in Chicago's Nickerson Mansion, Julie Treumann
Imagined Empires: Roman and Chinese Constructions of One Another in Antiquity, Elizabeth S. Tsang
Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Descendant Students' Attitudes Towards Mental Healthcare, Imani Tucker
Design and Lab Implementation of an Air Source Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump, Geoffrey Turbeville
Differential Mechanisms of Access in Working Memory: Comparing Global and Selective Retrieval, Jade M. Turbides
Lishmah: An Exploration of Syntactic Ambiguity and Biblical Exegesis Through the Jewish Calendar Year, Shani Tzoref
Beyond the Model Minority: South Asian New Yorkers Confront Poverty, MIZUKI UCHIYAMA
Understanding Hearing Loss in Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Maialen Ugarteburu Azcarate
Behavioral Responses to the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap and Its Closure, Selene Urbatsch
The Sonic Hedgehog Effector Smoothened Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Activity, Physiology, and Striatum-Dependent Behaviors, Santiago Uribe-Cano
Improving Low-Resource Translation with Finite State Grammars, Nicholas J. Uva
