Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2026
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
BULLYING, EARLY SEXUAL DEBUT, AND SEXUAL HEALTH BEHAVIORS AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN NEW YORK CITY, Valentina I. 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
Financing Global Health Governance: The World Health Organization, the WHO Foundation, and the Shifting Landscape of Development Financing, Johanny O. Reyes
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
Ferroptosis is Activated During Malaria-Associated Acute Kidney Injury (MAKI), Alexandra V. Roberts
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
Tiny Samples, Big Impact: Detecting Prenatal Alcohol Exposure using Phosphatidylethanol in Dried Blood Spots by LC–MS/MS, Stephanie V. Rodriguez
Chemical Variability in the Unregulated Opioid Supply in the South Bronx, Yeireline Rodriguez
Adversarial Robustness of Perceptual Hashing Systems: A Unified Security Evaluation Framework, Avijit Roy
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
The Evolution of Conservative Foreign Policy: From Neoconservatism to American First Nationalism, William G. Rybka
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
Development and Optimization of a Rapid and Comprehensive Drug Screening Method in Urine by LC-MS/MS, Avani Seelall
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
War Photography & The Limits of Empathy, Andrea Shi
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
Thomas Mann’s Unbound Bodies: A Formal Analysis of Disease in The Magic Mountain, Julia Shi
Reproductive decision-making under constraint: A mixed-methods assessment of structural barriers to reproductive freedom in the post-Dobbs United States, Lauren J. Shiman
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
Can a Systems Thinking Approach Facilitate the Seamless Transfer of Credits? A Qualitative Case Study Exploring the Collaboration Between a Community College and a Senior College, Wendy Small-Taylor
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
Four Directions Home: Decolonization, Mobilization, Healing and Transformation -- An Exploratory Study of Traditional Food Projects in North American Indigenous Communities, Stephanie S. StPierre
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
The Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitical Expansion and Institutional Instability in the DRC and Sri Lanka, Saki Tanjo
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
Advance Care Planning in Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Khanh H. Thai
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
A Meta-Analysis on Joinder Effects: Do They All Have the Same Magnitude?, Amelia M. Tisk
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
Disaster Risk Management during Climate Emergencies in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, Rosleny Ubinas
Museomics, Systematics, and Environmental Detection of Odonata, Rhema C. Uche Dike
Behavioral Cues, Acoustic Cues, and Working Memory in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) During a Behavioral Innovation Task, Raymond John Van Steyn
Exploring the Effect of Babble Background Noise on Learning New Patterns in an Artificial Accent of English in Monolingual and Bilingual Young Adults, Mariana Vasilita
Figures of the Jeune Fille in Postwar French Cinema: Libertine Ingenues, Lolitas, and Creatures from Caroline Chérie to Monika, Nina Verneret
The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds, Dhipinder Walia
Local Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Enzymatic Activity Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Function in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Aria R. Walls
Calculated Risks: The Power of Predictive Risk Models to Regulate Families of Color, Ashleigh Washington
Real Language: Cybernetics and Transatlantic Romanticism, Stuart H. Watson Jr
The Effect of Extending In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students on College Enrollment and Tuition Pricing, Dongxin Weng
A Hot Topic: Congressional Polarization and Climate Change, Mercedes R.P. Wilby
From Beneath the Press: On Black Feminist Archival Belonging and Permanence, Explored Through the Brixton Black Women’s Group, Maya Williams
No Reply: The Exclusus Amator Through Ancient and Modern Love Poetry, Ayla Wing
Protein Allostery Probed by Ligands Across Sites, Virgil A. Woods
The Effect of Medical Aid in Dying on Health Outcomes and Risky Behavior of the Elderly, Jacky Wu
Financial Disclosure Scriptability and Price Laziness, Wen Xie
Calcium Zincate Cycling and Failure Mechanisms: Pathways to Commercialization for Grid Scale Energy Storage, Patrick K. Yang
Cecil Taylor, 1950–1976: Theory & Practice in His Own Words, Michelle A. Yom
At the Margins of History, the Body Moves and Knows: Carmen as Myth, Flamenco as a Fugitive Form of Knowledge Transmission, Inmaculada Zanoguera Garcias
Mind the Gap: Morphological Defectivity and Suffixal Competition in Polish, Szymon E. Zuberek
“Strangers in My Home:” The Entangled Distribution of Political Aisthesis in Bangladesh, Muhammad Nabil Zuberi
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
Stolen Moments: Jazz and the Opportunity to Capture Hip Hop Fans, Fahiym Abdul-Wasi
CFD Modeling and Simulation of Natural Circulation in Helium- Cooled Very High Temperature Reactors, Mohammad Sakib U. Abrar
