Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators in the Urban North During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache
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
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
A Qualitative NMR and Histological Analysis of Adipocere Formation in Different Aqueous Environments using Sus Scrofa Models, Mia M. Sorrentino
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
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
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
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
Approaches For Identifying And Characterizing Microplastics In Biosolids Using Density Separation And µFTIR Spectroscopy, Nicole L. Velasquez Polania
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
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
Archives of Memory: The Iraqi Maqam in Narrative, Nostalgia, and the City, Farah Zahra
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
“We” Listen to Algorithms: How Cultural Identity Influences Acceptance of Algorithmic Recommendations, Yuanyuan Zhang
The Effects of Irrelevant Parameters in Language Acquisition, Yukun Zhang
Theses from 2024
Hairry Potter World: Are gel and oil the sorcerers magic to altering external cocaine and BE concentrations in hair, Esther Abady
Essays on Empirical Economics, Dorian Abreu
The Effects of Environmental Changes on the Biodiversity and Macroecological Patterns of Bird Assemblages in the United States, Marlen Acosta Alamo
la VIDA: Towards a Motivated Goal Reasoning Agent, Ursula Addison
Using Machine Learning Methods to Predict Academic Success in College, Kamilia Adil
What Exactly Does Identity Have to do with Teaching? Exploring the Connection Between a Teacher's Racialized Identity and their Teacher Identity, Lizette Aguilar
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Re-Envisioning Electric Railway Power Systems in Dense Urban Regions, Rohama Ahmad
Lost in the Times of Yesterday and Other Stories, Anes Ahmed
Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics: Assessing Recreational Marijuana Laws, Dragos Ailoae
Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases, Zainab T. Akande
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Ege Aksu
Optimizing the Protein Yield of the Collagen Mimetic Peptide: Col108, Fahmida Akter
The Menstrual Cycle in Psychotherapy: Interventions, Therapist Engagement, and Blind Spots, Rozita Alaluf
Optogenetic Induction of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress as a Potential Model to Study Non-Hereditary ALS, Samia Alam
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Challenges in Arabic Speech Recognition, Enas Albasiri
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos
Towards a New Role of Mitochondrial Hydrogen Peroxide in Synaptic Function, Cliyahnelle Z. Alexander
A Praxis of Radical Collectivity: Centering Justice and the Poetics of Racialized Progressive Leadership, Alisa Algava
The Mailroom, Davis Alianiello
Rebetiko in NYC: New Ideas of Greek Diaspora, Mihalis Alisandratos
Analysis of Victim/Villain Narratives Presented Under Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Frameworks: The Kosovo Case, Kristi Allaj
Development of a rapid method for PFAS detection and quantitation in human hair, Justin M. Allen
Policing With A Double-Edged Sword: The Associations Between Neighborhood Deprivation, Coping & Substance Use Among Black & Latiné Families, Neil M. Allicock
Evaluating Differences in Expression of Neuroticism in Individual Homed Cats and Feral Cat Colonies Across Varying Degrees of Human Settlement, Sophie Ambrosino
