Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2026
Theatrical Agency in the Constitution of Logical Space, Esther Marveta Neff
Conceptual Learning of “Do Something Different” and Working Memory in the Fancy Rat (Rattus norvegicus domestica), Melissa J. Nelson Slater
Race and the Enduring Logic of Exclusion in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1882–2025, Kejda Nikollaj
Revolutionary Petunias in the Hallways: Adultification, Identity, and Black Girls’ High School Experiences, Renee Niles
Too Fast, Too Slow: Girlhood, Temporality, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Film, Alessandra Occhiolini
Wageless by Design: Dependency in U.S. Visa Regimes, Cristina Ochoa Echeverri
Joy Beyond the World, Poignant as Grief: Fantasy as a Literature of Continuance, Natasha Ochshorn
Analysis of Attraction Sounds for Black Tipped (Carcharhinus melanopterus) and White Tipped (Triaenodon obesus) Reef Sharks, Sarah M. O'Connor - Filippelli
Algorithmic Problems in Automorphic Orbits of Free Groups, Siobhan B. O'Connor
Urban Sacred Grove: A Visioning for Collective Care, Preservation, Environmental Justice, and Resilience, Oluwadara A. Ojugbele
Managing Multi-Channel Service Operations, Omer Berk Olmez
An Absolute Manner of Seeing: Flaubert, 1848, and the Development of Modernist Style, Nicholas Olson
Public Finance, Private Profit: The Contradictions of Public Resource Capture by Financialized Landlords in North America, Sophie O'Manique
Mapping Nucleosome Stability: Linking Oncogenic Structural Alterations to Long-Range Allosteric Communication, Augustine C. Onyema
"Who Am I? Who Are We? What Are We Going to Do About It?": Testimonios of Latinx Social Justice High School Alumni, William Salomon Orellana
Goddess in a Trash Can: Religious Ritual Disposal in New York City Public Parks, Zoe Oro-Hahn
The Maghrebi Silk Road: A Medieval Exploration, Malak Ouammou
New Age Spirituality in Post-Secular Turkey: Navigating Secular Sensibilities and Class Privilege, Zeynep Ozbarlas
Essays on Health and Immigration Policy, Selen Ozdogan
Exploring Police Decision-Making on COVID-19 Vaccination: A Moral Panic Framework Analysis of Two Pivotal Points of the Pandemic, Jill Paccione Frometa
The Perceptual Gap: How Voters See the Ideological World, Javier Padilla
Sugar-Induced Cell Death Is a Common Phenomenon in Yeast Mediated by the Production of Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Compounds, Raveena Parbhudayal
Tejiendo Conocimientos: Pláticas, Testimonios, and the Pedagogies of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Teachers in New York City, Veronica I. Paredes
The Soviet New Wave: A Comparative Analysis, Katarina Parks
"Catching Up": Christian Walker's Critical Lens, Noam Parness
Characterization and Advancement of Molluscan Venom Gland Cell Model Systems, James V. Parziale
Computational Insights into Nucleosome Dynamics in Epigenetics Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Rutika Patel
The Impact of Multi-Brand Promotions on Visual Distinctiveness and Consumer Choice, Melanie Isabel Paul Austin
Somatosensory Cortex Responses to Illusory Touch in a Visual-Tactile Integration Task, Aditi Surendra Pawar
Analytical Approaches for Analyzing Microplastics Using Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and Accelerated Solvent Extraction, Manuel G. Peña Benavides
G&P2P: A Multi-Source Approach to Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion, Chun-Yi Peng
Undoing Ableism: The Dramaturgy of Relaxed Performance and the Making of Neurodivergent Bodies, Hui Peng
A Simulation to Compare Models for a Longitudinal Ordinal Response with a Multilevel Cross-Classified Data Structure, Rachel S. Perlin
A mixed methods approach to understanding factors contributing to the reduction of childhood sexual violence: A case study of Eswatini, Amanda J. Pierz
Good Mothers: Black Disabled Mothers & The Family Policing System, Siobhan Pokorney
Hanne Darboven: Bismarckzeit (Bismarck Time), Lindsey J. Poremba
"The Very Milk and Sperm of Kindness": Democratic Pleasures and Echoes of Intimacy in Moby-Dick and Absalom, Absalom!, Nicholas Profeta
Assessing the Community Impact of Two Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City, Katheryne Pugliese
Imagination and the Self: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Study, Qianyi Qin
The Savage Constitution, Nandini Ramachandran
Supramolecular Assembly in Short Peptide Systems for Selective Metabolite Recognition and Drug Nanoencapsulation, Maithreyi Ramakrishnan
Adaptable Psychopathic Traits: Military and Para-Military Organizations, Mariana Ramirez
Identifying Textual Predictors of Early Termination in Clinical Trials in Medicine: An Explainable Machine-Learning Study, Rohan Ramnarain
Courts of New York: A Visual Atlas of the City’s Public Basketball Spaces, Nathaniel Rattner
Considering Numerical Relativity for Upgrades in McFACTS Merger Dynamics, Shawn K. Ray
Gramsci’s ‘Democratic Philosopher’ and the Concept’s Foundations in Marxian Social Ontology, Eli Recht-Appel
Vestigial Choreographies: Climate Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, Alexandra A. Rego
New York State Excelsior Scholarship Program: A Post-Implementation Analysis of Student Success, Eligibility, and Indebtedness – An Intersectional Study of Black and White Female Students, Marcus I. Richardson
A Critical Lens on Emotions and Learning: Shame, Loneliness, and Alienation in Community College, Mike Rifino
The First Five: Reimagining Early Puerto Rican Women Novelists, Adrianna Rios
Surviving Staten Island: Black Women’s Narratives of Resilience, Motherwork, and Embodied Trauma, Jazmin Rivera
Interpreting Novel Metaphors - A Test of the Perspective Identification View of Metaphor Comprehension, Symmetra J. Roane
Design, Testing And Controls For Air Source Heat Pump System In Cold Climates Using Natural & Conventional Refrigerants, S M Abdur Rob
The Digital Divide in Political Redistricting: AI's Impact on Minority Representation, Jaime Rodriguez
Structural Characterization of Peptide Nanoaggregates at Varying Concentrations and Their Impact on Cellular Responses, Malika Rozmetova
Semi-Peripheral Whiteness in a Global City: Central and Eastern European Women in Dubai, Hana Rubenstein
One Stone's Journey, Satoko Saito
I Know You Are Watching, Camilo Salas Kusulas
Cognitive Consequences of Job Discrimination: An Investigation of Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Disparities in Neuropsychological Test Performance, Shana S. Samuel
Migrant Justice through Collective Liberation: Contemporary Intersectional Theorizing, Organizing, and Dreaming, Sonia A. Sanchez Carmen
Erosion and Accretion: Mobilities of Sand, People, and Memory at Queer Riis Beach, Jah Elyse Sayers
Trans-cyber Cinema: Digital Embodiment in Science-fiction Films, Sophia R. Schrock
Radiotheranostics for Gynecological Pathologies, Joni Sebastiano
Temporal Integration in Music and Aesthetic Judgments: Assessing Musical Taste Through a Transformer-Based Approach, Sophia M. Senderak
Kanak-Ish Misfits: Queer Imaginaries, Racialized Borders, and the Politics of Care in Berlin, Germany, Faruk Seref
To “Guess-timate” or G-Estimate: Understanding and Applying G-Estimation of Structural Nested Mean Models to Estimate Complex Treatment Effects in Public Health and Health Policy, Meghana G. Shamsunder
Dynamic Structure of Vinculin and Talin in Cell-Cell Adhesion and Cell-Matrix Adhesion, Bright Chen Hao Shi
The Other Sodomites: A History of Racial Queerness, Paris Shih
A Comparison of Manufacturers’ Claims of Attenuation Rates in Non-Custom Earplugs, Skyler M. Shipley
Monosaccharide Binding to Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptor Microarrays, Milan A. Shlain
Diverse Sensory Mechanisms in Bacterial PAS-Containing One-Component Systems, James J. Siclari
Open to the Public(s): Privatized Public Space, Technology, and Aspirational Wealth at Hudson Yards, Troy Simpson
The Radical Political Possibilities of Asexuality and Aromanticism, Kirty Singh
An Analysis of Bartmann Jugs in New York State, Reuben E. Slater
The New York City Fields of Calcio Libero: Where Protagonists Activate Counter-Hegemony, Olivia Soderini
Unfreezing Language: A Decolonial Reframing of Translanguaging Pedagogies in English as a New Language & Dual Language Bilingual Education Settings, Cristian R. Solorza
Integrating Medication Abortion in Primary Care Settings: An Implementation Science Study, Silpa Srinivasulu
Molecular Biophysics of Mammalian and Fungal Macromolecular Assemblies, Michael L. Stawski
Precarious Status, Essential Work: Migrant Labor, Social Reproduction, And the Politics of Regularization in Covid Quebec, Jessie Lauren Stein
Identifying Helium Emission-Line Stars with the Condor Array Telescope, Julia Stewart
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
Productive Information Calls, Mengtian Sui
Beyond Spectacle: The Children’s Protection Society and the Politics of Childcare in Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945), Melis Sulos Akyelli
Essays in Corporate Finance and Mortgage Finance, Rui Sun
Shielding the State, Shaking the Regime: Military Alliances, Domestic Deterrence, and Internal Conflict, Leo Tamamizu
Role of Long-Range Interactions in Structure and Dynamics of Carbohydrates, Beicer Catalina Tapia Amaya
Knowing Through Making: Weaving a Pedagogy of Love, Embodiment, and Freedom Through Arts-Based Research, Mariatere Tapias
Recognition at Work: How Managerial Acknowledgment Shapes Team-Level Outcomes, Annalissa Thomas
Building on Rented Land: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women’s Digital Homeplace-Building on TikTok, Monica Thompson
Green Revitalization: Evaluating the Impact of Citywide Park Redesign and Renovation on the Health of Low-Income Communities in New York City, Rachel L. Thompson
Aging Drives Selective Vulnerability of Dopamine–Glutamate Projections to the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Weakening Dopamine Release and Novelty Discrimination, Jacquelyn N. Tomaio
Socialism on Display: State-Sponsored Exhibitions of Art and Visual Culture in Stalinist Poland, 1945–1956, Patryk P. Tomaszewski
Reexamining the Croton Aqueduct: A Ward-Level Microhistorical Analysis of Infrastructure and Cholera Mortality in 1849 New York City, Alexandria R. Toothman
Narrative Disorders: 'Poetics of Unreason' and the Limits of the War Story in Lebanese Postwar Fiction, Melissa Trujillo
