Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
bugs, birds, blue: Queer Ecologies of Embodiment, Kinship, and Survival, Celeste B. Newcomb
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
The Limits of Economic Sanctions: Why Western Efforts Did Not Fully Economically Isolate Russia After 2022 Invasion of Ukraine, Jonibek Oblokulov
The Orchard (Excerpt), ELAINA OBRIEN
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
The Ick Factor: Explaining the Term Through Lenses of Sexual Disgust and Avoidant Attachment Style, Maxum O'Halloran
Urban Sacred Grove: A Visioning for Collective Care, Preservation, Environmental Justice, and Resilience, Oluwadara A. Ojugbele
Wellness by Design: Leadership and Learning Practices for Well-Being in Arts Management, Ashleigh Olander
The Role of Halina in Indecent, Grace Olinksi
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
On the Treatment of Animals: Animalier Art and Animal Welfare in France Between 1840 and 1890, Anna Orton Hatzis
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
Empathetic Objects: Reflections on Beauty and Brokenness, Madeleine Parsons
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
Suburban Afterlife, Gianna Pecorella
Science, Fiction, James Nick Peelor
Food Insecurity in Acute Cancer Care, Tatanisha K. Peets
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
Sleep Deprivation Changes Social Behavior in African Cichlid Fish (Astatotilapia burtoni), Bryan M. Perez Valverde
A Simulation to Compare Models for a Longitudinal Ordinal Response with a Multilevel Cross-Classified Data Structure, Rachel S. Perlin
From Guyana to Queens: The Formation of the Indo-Guyanese Ethnoburb in New York City, 1970-1990, Lianne R. Persaud
Optional Freedom: The Idea of Voluntary Slavery in Antebellum Law and Literature, Vinh T. Pham
A mixed methods approach to understanding factors contributing to the reduction of childhood sexual violence: A case study of Eswatini, Amanda J. Pierz
Every Night We Tell This Story: Remembering, Remaking, and Re-Remembering Paula Vogel's Indecent, Sam Plattus
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
Pigeons, Satellites and Angels: Industrial Agriculture, Digital Technologies, and Financial Investments in Brazil, Ana Flavia Pulsini Louzada Badue
Imagination and the Self: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Study, Qianyi Qin
Dangerous Motherhood: Maternal Mortality and Anti-Abortion Legislation in the 19th Century, Kevin Quirolo
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
In Their Own Words: Why First-Generation Minority Students Take on Leadership Roles at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Suzette Ramsundar Ed.D
Queer Sandwich, Anam Rani
Courts of New York: A Visual Atlas of the City’s Public Basketball Spaces, Nathaniel Rattner
In Spite of and Because, Katherine Raudenbush
Considering Numerical Relativity for Upgrades in McFACTS Merger Dynamics, Shawn K. Ray
Private Equity, State Enforcement, and Arbitration Outcomes Under the No Surprises Act: Evidence from Air Ambulance Disputes, Peter Readman
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
Engineering Wave Phenomena in Hyperbolic Materials, Enrico Maria Renzi
SEC-SAXS and SANS analyses of the talin•vinculin complex, Gilbert Reyes
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 Fine Arts Program for No. 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, Paul Richert-Garcia
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
Monitoring Biodiversity Growth in an Oyster Reef Restoration: Understanding How Oyster Reef Life Cycle May Impact Biodiversity., Gabriel A. Roses
A Temporary Stay, Safin J. Rouf
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
A Molecular Framework for Multiexciton Photochemistry: One- and Two-Electron Transfer in Singlet Fission Chromophores, Bernardo Arturo Salcido Santacruz
