Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks, Cristina Onea
Essays on Educational Policies, Mehlika Ozsoy
Characterizing Malaria Infections in Caribbean Lizards: Parasite Niche Expansion & Host Response, Sarah J. Pangburn
Examining Relatability, Alexia Papigiotis
The Spontaneous Flora of New York City; and Systematics of Larix (Pinaceae), Lydia T. Paradiso
How Argentina Won the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup: A Data Story, Aniruddha Parthasarathy
Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury, Vaidehi Hemkumar Patel
Comparing Campaigns to End the Subminimum Wage with a Multiple Streams Approach, Chris Peraino
Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse, Jeremiah Perez-Torres
Excitons and Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Materials Heterostructures - Applications as Qubits, Time Crystals, and Superfluids, Gabriel Pimenta Martins
Exotic and Familiar: Constructing Martinique, 1763–1902, Remi D. Poindexter
Hope by a Thousand Cuts: Fashion Ethics from Cutting Fabric to Cutting a Fashion Film, Sarah G. Porterfield
Body of Work: Wax as Medium in Art and Science in Enlightenment Bologna, Kristen Pou
American Utopia: The Evolution of David Byrne’s Viewpoint of America from 1977 to Present, Morgan A. Prince
Elucidating the Roles of Eukaryotic Initiation Factors Involved in DAP5 Mediated Translation, Jacob NK Quartey
Mad at the System: The Mental Health Act UK: Power and Control of Racialized Women, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar
Crafting Sovereignty: Race, Ancestral Memory, and Contemporary Art in Peru, 1970–1990, Horacio Ramos Cerna
A Loose Index of Dead Ends, Noa Raviv
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
It is not her fault she didn’t know Mary had a lamb, Samer Ridikkuluz
Moving the Needle: The Policy of Change on Syringe Access, New York City and State, 1988–2023, Joyce Rivera
Medicare Advantage Dominance in Puerto Rico’s Healthcare System: Exploring its Financial Landscape, Marketing Strategies and Quality Measures using the Commercial Determinants of Health Framework, Sergio Andrés Rivera-Rodríguez
Wielding the Border: A Genealogy of U.S.-Mexico Bordering Practices and the Purposes They Serve, Nicholas J. Rodrigo
Belonging Against the Odds: Exploring Restorative Justice Practices as Pathways to Foster Belonging in New York City Transfer Schools, Miguel Rodriguez
Burn, Deborah Rolf
Cueing Motions in a String Quartet, An Exploratory Study of Motion Trajectories, Maren Rothfritz
Writing Architecture: Space and Structure in Edith Wharton, Yael Hameiri Sainsaux
Decades of Division: Analyzing Hate Crimes in the USA (1991–2022), Sangeeth Sajan Baby
The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, Golnaz Salehkarimi
Final Report: An Overview of the Communications Intern Position at WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), Hannah P. Salzer
Essays in Public Economics, Zachary Santamaria
Unpacking the Orders, Leonard J. Santos
The Evolution of the Electrical Market: A Texas Journey, David A. Sastre Perez
Reproductive Nation: Cold War Fantasies and German Unification, Yanara Schmacks
Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators in the Urban North During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache
Overturning of Roe v. Wade as a Mega-Threat: Effects on Women’s Identity Fusion and Disidentification in the Workplace, Shivani Shah
Speculative Networks: From Political Protest to the Neoliberal Market in Feminist Video Art in the US, 1970-85, Helena Shaskevich
Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Understanding the Experiences of Black Males in CUNY’s NYC Men Teach, Fatima Sherif
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
How Eye See, Now I See, Michael Anthony Simon
The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Play Behavior of Juvenile Rats, Rebecca S. Smart
"The Flesh of the Facts": Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness, Carli Snyder
With Other Men: Love, Narrative, and Belonging Among Same-Sex Attracted Men in New Orleans, Davine A. Sorapuru-Mitchell
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
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 Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Perspectives of Play Advocates on Children’s Unstructured Play in Turkey, Bengi Sullu
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
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
Inherited Wounds: Generational Trauma in Postcolonial Film and Narrative Fiction of the Global South, Sabrina Testi Melgarejo
Decoding the Plant Metabolome: A Metabolomics Approach to Guereza (Colobus guereza) Feeding Ecology in Kibale National Park, Uganda, Emma Grace Thurau
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
Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Descendant Students' Attitudes Towards Mental Healthcare, Imani Tucker
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
Improving Low-Resource Translation with Finite State Grammars, Nicholas J. Uva
The Ethnobotany and Pharmacology of Medicinal Plants for Caribbean Women’s Health, Ella Thomas Vardeman
Environmental Enrichment Reduces Cue-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin-Seeking Following Prolonged Use and Reverses Region-Specific Heroin-Induced Neuroadaptations, Apoorva Vashisht
The U.S. Grand Strategy Toward the Pacific Islands, Angela Vasovic
The Last Stand of Angraecum: Biogeographic and Evolutionary History of Darwin's Muses, Simon Verlynde
Mental health concerns, resilience, and quality of life among family caregivers of hospitalized lung cancer patients in a lower-middle income country, Thinh Toan Vu, Victoria Khanh Ngo, Sasha Fleary, and Glen Johnson
My Wings Are Not Broken: Black Males, Carcerality, and Education, Crystal M. Welch-Scott
No Place Like Home: Dyke Dramas and/as Queer Feminist Worldmaking, Janet Werther
The Role of Secondary and Tertiary Structure in the Cap-Independent Translation of FGF-9 and HIF-1-alpha, Amanda Michelle Whittaker
Development of recommendations for the future of telehealth use among sexual and gender minorities (SGM), Jeffrey A. Wilhite, Christian Grov, Karmen Williams, and Lisa Altshuler
3BB: Loss and Remembrance in the Anthropocene, Amanda J. Woolsey
The Role of Confined Hydration and Water Reorganization in Molecular Binding, Joe Z. Wu
Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading Yoshino ki, Miaoling Xue
Beyond the Sum: A Network Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Behavioral Outcomes in Justice-Involved Youth, Jennifer Yang
Expression and Transcriptional Regulation of APL-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans APP Ortholog, Ji-Sup Yang
You are not a good photographer, Byungsuk Yoon
Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence, Chunyu Yuan
Streaming Instabilities in Class 0/I Disks, Shirin Gul Zaidi
Nurturing the Student Voice and Its Creative Power in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Research With Students on Emotion, Imagination, and Understanding., Luis Adolfo Zambrano
Structures of Feeling: Zoe Leonard and the Photographic Archive, Anika Zempleni
