Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
The Many Sides of Social Capital: How Social Capital Is Related to Entrepreneurship?, Vivian M. Williams
I Crawled Out from the Palimpsest Crater, Jessica Willittes
The Impact of Fluorescent Light on Shelter Dog Behavior (Canis lupus familiaris), Kristiina J. Wilson
Corporate Reputations Measured and in Practice: How Can Corporations Stay Authentic to Their Positive External Depictions, Internally?, Valeene Wilson
Exploring relationships between dog training approaches and aggression, fear, and dog-owner relationship, Janee Wise
"It Was Handed to Them": The Origins of Targeted Delivery and the Spirit of Nanomedicine, Marzena Woinska
Examining the Relationship Between Criminal Careers and Criminal Expertise in Serial and Single Homicide Offenders, Emily Woisin
UNESCO, Heritage Preservation, and Photography: Balthazar Korab’s “North Yemen: Land and Buildings” and Mario Cresci’s Matera: Immagini e documenti, Sarah M. Wolberg
life, man, Diane Wong
Fairness Doesn't Have to Be Egalitarian: Evidence From Bargaining Games, Kevin Wong
BiTRDF: Extending RDF for BiTemporal Data, Di Wu
The Visionary Mode in Anglophone Modernist Fiction, Wei Wu
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Epistemic Value of Moral Ambiguity, Jordan Wylie
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Non-GAAP Reporting, Ryan H. Wynne
Experimenting with History: Confronting the Archive through Poetry and the Historical Graphic Novel, Gerina Xhiherri
Essays on Spillover Effects Across U.S and China, Zhuo Xi
Linguistic Abstractions in Children’s Very Early Utterances, Qihui Xu
trees and trees and trees in me, Areum Yang
Role of Nuclear Lamins in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells, Camila Yattah
Stigma Towards Offenders Diagnosed with Mental Illness, Christina N. Yocca
Essays in Asset Pricing, Muhammed Yonac
Bondholders’ Influence on Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Capital Expenditure Forecasts as a Firm’s Commitment, Sae Young Yoon
Tracing the Trajectory: Exploring the Origins, Iterations, and Impacts of the Muslim Travel Ban, Dalia Yousef
Analysis of the influence of cryptocurrency regulation on levels of financial literacy, Kieran C. Yuen
Quantification of Phosphatidylethanol in Whole Blood and Dried Blood Spots by LC-MS/MS, Elizabeth Yulianto
Design and Control of Quasi-direct Drive Actuation for Lightweight and Versatile Wearable Robots, Shuangyue Yu
Reclaiming South Asian Beauty, Rizwana Zafer
Prevalence of Non-self DNA on Three Different Sebaceous Skin Locations, Jan Kirstine Zamora
“The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s, Anna Zeemont
Distributed Partitioning and Processing of Large Spatial Datasets, Ayman I. Zeidan
Gender-Typing and Sports: The Perception of Gender for Group and Individual Sports Among College Students and Adults, Nicki Zenker
Essays on Federalism and Local Finance in China, Jiakai Zhang
Development of Optical Nanomaterial for Enhanced Cerenkov Imaging, Qize Zhang
Application of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymers in Synthesis of Silica and Organosilica Nanomaterials, Shu Zhang
Ternary Flow Simulation Based on The Conservative Phase Field Lattice Boltzmann Method, Chunheng Zhao
Understanding Species Interactions and Their Impacts in Restored Communities, Jennifer Zhu
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition, Josefine Ziebell
If you live in New York City, you’re (probably) at risk of flooding. Here’s what to do about it. Digging into the information needed to live in NYC as the climate changes, Christine A. Zirneklis
A Tool-Supported Metamodel for Program BugFix Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering, Manal Zneit
The Behavioral and Gene Expression Effects of Loss or Exhaustion of Sonic Hedgehog from Dopamine Neurons, Dustin R. Zuelke
Hard Places, Garrett Zuercher
Inducing Empathy in Jurors in a Capital Penalty Phase Trial: An Examination of how to Reduce Jurors' Death Sentence Decisions, Klaudia Zuraw
Accuracy, Precision, and Efficiency: Comparing Mapping Techniques in Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala, Gabriela Zygadlo
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
The Tale of Two Countrysides: The Shaping of Landscapes in Hispania and Spanish Latin America, Andrew R. Abrams
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Investigating Social Preferences in a High Fission-Fusion Society of Black and White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Variegata), Patricia A. Adamo
Examining the Recovery of the MTA in NYC, Angel Adegbesan
Plastic Recycling Is Inefficient and Expensive, Clark S. Adomaitis
GOES-R Supervised Machine Learning, Ronald Adomako
Developing Dynamical Probes of Quantum Spin Liquids Inspired by Techniques from Spintronics, Joshua Aftergood
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Cross-pollinating music: the past, present and future of genre-blending experimental musicians, Vanessa Ague
Coordinated Control for DC Energy Hubs Involving DERs, EVs, and Subway Systems, Rohama Ahmad
Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults, Rabiya Ahmed
The Impact of Select Buses on Taxi Ridership in NYC, Sara Ahmed
Blockchain-based Architecture for Secured Cyberattack Signatures and Features Distribution, Oluwaseyi J. Ajayi
Telehealth Caregiver Training: Treating Food Selectivity without Extinction, Christina M. Alaimo
The Impact of User Control and Transparency in App Design on Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Mobile App Users, Arwa Alawajy
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
The Rainforest is Burning: Trials and Triumphs Working Towards Conservation in Rural Madagascar, Kathryn Alessi
The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet, Vicente Alexim
Cocaine, Cocaethylene and Ethanol in Postmortem Blood Submitted to the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Jada T. Alexis
Essays on Green Finance, Elsa Allman
Do heat vulnerable neighborhoods in New York City experience disproportionate power outages?, Gabrielle Alper
Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills, Lauren R. Alpert
Be Coming - Transcendence Born from the Concrete, Kathryn Alter
El color de la pasión, Pablo Alvarez
Mario Levrero: Un estudio fenomenológico de su obra, Sergio Alves
Neuroplasticity of the Corticospinal System: Applications of Neuromodulation-Based Therapies, Alzahraa M. Amer
Is This My Body? A Manual on Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis
Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability, Aparna Anand
Using the Marcus Inverted Region and Artificial Cofactors to Create a Charge Separated State in De Novo Designed Proteins, Eskil ME Andersen
Effects of Improper Ammunition Storage, Victoria S. Andre
The Effect of the FRESH Program on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in NYC, Haido Andrianos
Encoding and Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Native and Non-Native Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise, Reethee Antony
A sculpir qui cose divine: The Spiritual Non-Finito in Michelangelo's Pietà, Kaitlin Arbusto
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): Postfeminist Beauty Messaging and Resistant Media Texts, Margarita Artoglou
Microbial-Host Dynamics and the Evolution of Nearshore Diversity in Hippocampus abdominalis, Jimiane L. Ashe
Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique, Miriam L. Atkin
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
In Order to Escort Her, Kimberly Baglieri
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker
On the Woman Question: A Defense of Alexandra Kollontai against Liberal Critics, Nicole Baltzer
Strategic Default and Moral Hazard in Real Estate: Insights from Machine Learning Applications, Arka Prava Bandyopadhyay
Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939, Sultana Banulescu
“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home, Zahra Banyamerian
Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras
A Conceptual Replication to Investigate the Hostile Priming Effect, Charlotte Basch
Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias
Essays on Market Structure, Price-Setting, and Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer