Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
A Politics of Boundlessness, Fernando Orellana
Imagining Africa: An Analysis of Tropes and Motifs in Turn of the Century Black Music, Shane Ortale
Burdern of Chronic Health Conditions and Healthcare Utilization among Mobile Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Elizabeth M. Ortiz
A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz
Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein’s Repurposing of Feminine Domestic Language through the Lens of Bakhtinian Heteroglossia and Dialogic Theory, Samantha Ortiz
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements, Jason W. Ostrowe
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, Sofia Oviedo
Tomb of the Unknown Marxist, Anna Ozbek
Population Movement and State Building: A Case Study of Migratory Policies in Italy, Julia Pagnamenta
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Judging Facial Expressions of Emotion: Effects of Gender, Raine Palladino
Electrochemical properties of crystalline polymorphs of MnO2 in aluminum and zinc metal batteries, Subhadip Pal
Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
The Effect of Perceived Corruption on Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries in the European Union: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey III, Ivana Pancurakova
Getting at the Surface: A Promoter and Coding Sequence Characterization of an Odorant Receptor, Irena G. Parvanova
The MTA Tried To Improve Outer Borough Bus Service, But They've Only Made It Worse, Adwait Patil
Towards Improving Accuracy and Interpretability of Deep Learning based on Satellite Image Classification, Yamile Patino Vargas
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take X-4, Barbara T. Paulus
Changing the Narrative: Building a Conceptual Framework for Advocating Representation in History Textbooks, Valerie Paul
Illicit Psychoactive Medication Use: Experiences of Medicalization and Normalization, Mark Pawson
Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric and Multiferroic Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxide Materials and Nanocomposites, Frederick A. Pearsall
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
Transfigurations of the News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Collective Behavior of Drosophila Melanogaster Neural Progenitor and Imaginal Disc Cells within Controlled Microenvironments, Caroline D. Pena
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
Structure and Function of Dopamine in the Inner Ear and Auditory Efferent System of a Vocal Fish, Jonathan T. Perelmuter
Neurogenesis is Altered Between and Across Brain Regions After Neurodegeneration and Injury, Alice Perez
Chamber Music, Cyclic Form, and the Ideal of the Absolute in French Music and Literature, 1890–1918, Naomi Perley
Analysis of Third Premolar Flange Length in Male African Papionin Taxa: An Investigation of Possible Dental Differences Between Parapapio and Papio, Amrita D. Persaud
The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Cancer Killing Effect of Interleukin-24, Leah Eshanie Persaud
Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities, Francesca Petronio
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
Johann Nauwach's Teütscher Villanellen: A Critical Performance Edition with Performance Practice Commentary, Christopher Pfund
The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s, Audrey Phillips
A Humanitarian Lens: The World War II-Era Photo Books of Thérèse Bonney and David Seymour, Jane H. Pierce
Comparison of gold extraction yields by cyanide treatment vs. bioleaching procedure, Yilman Steven Pineda
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
Diet, Inflammation, Gut Microbiome, and Mental Health, Ashley R. Polokowski
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Some Non-Human Languages of Thought, Nicolas J. Porot
Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries, Amir Hosein Pourjavady
Ransomware is Quietly Devastating American Healthcare Facilities, Benjamin Powers
Aesthetic Perception of Urban Spaces: New York, Timur Pozhidaev
As the hourly minimum wage moves toward $15 across New York State, some say the fight for a decent living is far from over., Barbara Prempeh
The Woman We Don’t Want to Be: The Anti-Heroine in American Women’s Modernisms, Madison Priest
Control of Light-Matter Interactions via Nanostructured Photonic Materials, Nicholas Proscia
Dangerous drivers still on city streets despite thousands of speeding tickets, Liam Quigley
To See Again: Vision And Revelation in American Poetics, Emily C. Raabe
How We Act Together, Matthew Rachar
Identification and Characterization of Barrier Insulator Activity in the T-Cell Receptor alpha Locus Control Region, Gayathri Devi Raghupathy
Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West, Berglind H. Ragnarsdóttir
New York State's Landfill Problem, Olivia Raimonde and Chris Polansky
The Forensic Analysis of Skin-Safe Stamp Pad Inks, Swetha Rajagopal
Analyzing Prosody with Legendre Polynomial Coefficients, Rachel Rakov
Preparation of Enantioenriched Alkyltin Species and their Application in Stereospecific Transformations, Glenn O. Ralph
Dios en carne: Rastafari and the Embodiment of Spiritual Blackness in Puerto Rico, Omar Ramadan-Santiago
Abrupt Climate Transitions, Christine J. Ramadhin
Evaluation of a novel DNA collection matrix designed to improve recovery of touch DNA from non-porous surfaces, Eric Ramirez
Does Ethnic Identity, In-group Preference, and Acculturation Protect Latinas with a History of Interpersonal Trauma From Developing Symptoms of PTSD?, Evelyn M. Ramirez
The Iconography of the Gold and Silver Coinage of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, Nisha N. Ramracha
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping in Computer Aided Drug Design, Steven Ramsey
Fragmented Ornament: An Analysis of Print Reproductions of Medieval Ornament and Decoration during the Gothic Revival, Allison M. Ransom
Effect of hypoxia on spontaneous neural activity in the cortex of neonate mouse pups, Krithikka Ravi Ms
Effect of hypoxia on spontaneous neural activity in the cortex of neonate mouse pups, Krithikka Ravi Ms
A Dynamic Risk Management Framework for Water and Environmental Sustainability, Arun Ravindranath
Capitalism as Readymade: 5.5 Case Studies, Nathan S. Rayman
The Quality of XBRL Structured Financial Statements: An Empirical Examination of Custom Tags, Aidana Razhap kyzy
CUNY Will Be Free!: Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Compositions, Literatures, and Studies at the City College of New York and in New York City, 1960–1980, Conor Tomás Reed
Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States, Shirley Reid
Cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin contribute to onset of chemobrain by altering epigenetic factors DNMT1, DNMT3A, Tet1, Mecp2, and CBP, Joshua Reiser
Hermeneutics: A Literary Interpretive Art, David A. Reitman
Pressure, temperature, and stress conditions of Southern Alpine Fault (New Zealand) mylonites, Jake T. Reitman
Do Psychopathic Traits Influence Distractibility by Empathy-Eliciting Pictures?, Priya M. Reji
Between Time, Evan Remick
Externalities of CDS Trading: The Effect on Industry Peer Firms’ Cost of Debt, Sunqian Ren
Who Owned Waterloo? Wellington’s Veterans and the Battle for Relevance, Luke A. L. Reynolds
Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System, Whitney Richards-Calathes
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder
Dirty Water: The Newburgh Water Crisis, Shantal Riley
From Muhammed to The JobUp: Engaging Malemployed Immigrants Through Journalism, Tiziana Rinaldi
GETTING OUT: BRUCE BRYANT’S CLIMB TO REDEMPTION INSIDE PRISON, Rachel M. Rippetoe and Sean Sanders-Mills
A Smartphone App Survey to Encourage Sustainable and Healthy Travel Mode Choices, Paul Rivers
Linguistic Features of False Confessions and Confessions Not in Dispute: A Corpus Analysis, Lucrezia Rizzelli
Putting a Face to Cancer, Lenn Robbins
Warped Gates, Christopher Roberson
TRENDS IN THE TIMELINESS OF HIV DIAGNOSIS AND ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT INITIATION BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE “TREAT ALL” RECOMMENDATION – NEW YORK CITY, 2006 - 2015, McKaylee Robertson
Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco
Adult and juvenile rats differentially express mPFC GluA2 following traumatic memory retrieval, Edgar Rodriguez
Black Amerinquen, Kayla Marie Rodriguez
WANDA AND ME: THE CONTINUOUS RISE OF PUERTO RICO'S GREATEST PYRAMID SCHEMER, Natalia Rodriguez Medina
Development of Multiplex PCR Assay as a basis for Predicting Pigment Related Features, Stephanie A. Rodriguez
Exploring Political Action and Socialization through Group Improvisation within the Music of Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew, Marcel Rominger