Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study, Carol Brathwaite
Assessing Behavioral Syndromes in Captive Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens) Using an Ethological Approach, Tyler C. Bray
Pockets of Proximity, Christian Breed
The Struggle to Re-establish Anglo Superiority in American Modernism and its Collapse into American Tragedy, Jeff Brelvi
The Second Pen, Nicholas D. Brennan
“A Desperate Pioneerism:” Laura Márquez’s Art and Social Engagement in 1960s Paraguay, Susan Breyer
The Role of Socioeconomic Context in the Association Between Educational Attainment and Morbidity and Mortality, Jennifer Brite
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Semantic Attention: Effects of Modality, Lexicality and Semantic Content, David Britton
African American Male Veterans’ Illness Representation and Reported Self-Management Practices of High Blood Pressure, Tammie Brodie
Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology, Sharmaine Browne
Expanding Intersectionality Praxis: Informing Culturally-Responsive Programming for Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Young Men, Justin T. Brown
New York's Daily Foster Care Reimbursements, Mariah Brown
A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975), Megan Brown
Richard Wright's and Chester Himes's Treatment of the Concept of Emerging Black Masculinity in the 20th Century, Peter M. Brown
Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown
Evil and the Ontological Disproof, Carl J. Brownson III
Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program for the Naturalization of Metaphysics, Amanda Bryant
Three Essays on Fiscal Policy, Sinem Buber Singh
INTERTIDAL, Alta Buden
What Bitcoin Is, and How It Can Change Commerce, Jeffrey Bukhari
The Transnational Guqin Revival in Flushing, New York, TYLER L. BURBA
Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?, Chelsie Burchett
Light and Space, Lindsay M. Burke
The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke
Dictatorship Across Borders: How Brazil Influenced the Chilean Coup d’état of 1973, Mila Burns Nascimento
The Unspoken Truth, Cherese Butler
Great Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century: The Ukrainian Example, Oksana Byeha
The Fat Female Bodies of Saturday Night Live: Uncovering the Normative Cultural Power of a Countercultural Comedy Institution, Katharine Cacace
Metronomic Irregularity: Investigating Eva Hesse's Sculpture Through Dance, Anna R. Cahn
Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration, and the Women Who Remained Behind, 1880-1914, Victoria Calabrese
Walking as Ontological Shifter: Thoughts in the Key of Life, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo
Morphogenesis and Growth Driven by Selection of Dynamical Properties, Yuri Cantor
Open Works: Between the Programmed and the Free, Art in Italy 1962 to 1972, Lindsay A. Caplan
A Necessary Lens: The History of Privacy in the United States 1890-1999, Lawrence Cappello
Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003, Tatiana Carayannis
By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising, Maria L. Carreon
Peer Rejection and Emotion Development: The Role of Peer Rejection and Coming Out on Emotional Health among Gay and Bisexual Men, Joseph A. Carter
Domestic Cat Ethology: Evaluating Social Media for Data Collection, Patricia Casey
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
Capturing the Attention of Caregivers: Variability in Infant Vocalizations, Catharine A. Castelluccio de Diesbach
The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals, Mirela Cengher
You'll be home by when?, Rebecca Centeno
Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners, Marie L. Cerat
"La Dolce Vita" Today: Fashion and Media, Nicola Certo
Aspects of Quantifier Float in Thai, Khanin Chaiphet
Electoral System Effects: Institutions and Context or New and Old Democracies, Helen Chang
Barometric Reading, SU JUNG CHANG
Some Metric Properties of the Teichmüller Space of a Closed Set in the Riemann Sphere, Nishan Chatterjee
Can Implicit Post-Event Information Influence Explicit Eyewitness Memory?, Hang Sze Chau
Lengua y violencias en Colombia: Discursos sobre patrimonio lingüístico (1991-2010), Carolina Chaves-O'Flynn
Examination of the Dark Triad and its Association with Antisocial Behavior and Cheating in Undergraduates, Rebecca Cheiffetz
Chloride and Proton Binding in the E. coli 2Cl¯:1H+ CLC Exchanger, Catherine Chenal
Wave Propagation Inside Random Media, Xiaojun Cheng
Political Exiles Reckon with Rising China and a Lost Cause, Han Chen
Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women, Kuan-Yi Chen
As if by Magic: Unleashing Critical and Expressive Voices Through a Rhetoric of "This/And" in First-Year Composition, Nolan Chessman
Tattoo for Life and Afterlife, Kimberly Chin
A Tale of Two Tasks: Comparing Steady-state Visually Evoked Potentials with the Dot Probe as Measures of the Anxiety-Related Threat Bias, Aqib J. Chowdhury
“On soulless feet we cross the floor...” The Illusion of Control in Grim Fandango and Virtual Spaces, Christina Cicchetti
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for Li-Ion Batteries, Lisa Cirrincione
Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror, Erin Liat Claridge
I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal, Marci M. Clark
The Realities of Family Court and Child Abuse, Whitney Clegg
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Constructions of New England Identity and Place in American Music, 1885-1935, Jacob A. Cohen
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Thule Iron Use in the Pre-contact Arctic, Eileen Colligan
Preventing Sexual Violence Where It Most Often Occurs: An Investigation of the Situational and Structural Components of Child Sexual Abuse in Residential Settings, Nicole Colombino
The Breath Seekers: Race, Riots, and Public Space in Harlem, 1900-1935, Allyson Compton
Everything I thought I was supposed to do, Jeff Conefry
Women’s Sexual Fantasies in Context: The Emotional Content of Sexual Fantasies, Psychological and Interpersonal Distress, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships, Sarah Constantine
for(years<28), Ricardo A. Contreras Jr
Detrás de la industria de heroína del Bronx, la sede central del tráfico en el noreste, Monica Cordero, Constanza Gallardo, Maria Camila Montañez, and Joaquín Torres
The Deprivatization of Art: Dan Graham as an Art Worker, Jordana Cotilletta
A Normative Account of Political Representation, Kenneth R. Courtney
A Charitable Scheme: William Smith, Michael Schlatter, and the German Free Schools, Daniel M. Crown
Automatically Guilty: Associations Between Evidence and Guilt, William E. Crozier IV
Liberal Translations: Secular Concepts, Law, and Religion in Colonial Egypt, Jeffrey Culang
The Effects of Social Power Bases Within Varying Organizational Cultures, Ayanna Cummings
The Problem of Illusion in the Phenomenology of Claude Romano, Joseph Cutolo
Nature, the New Rx, Christina Dabney
Digital Anti-Forensics: An Implementation and Examination, Stephanie Dachs
Hazmat Storage Near NYC Waterways Endangers Communities, Brett E. Dahlberg and Nicole Acevedo
Tattoos and Criminal Behavior: An examination of the relationship between body art and crime, Daniel D. Dajani
Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York, Gordon A. Dale
A Case Study of the impact of the -NY-SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program Act on Public College enrollment, Mekaj T. Daniel Ms.
William Bolcom’s "Twelve New Etudes" (1988): Theoretical and Interpretative Analysis, Ran Dank
Is Issa Amro the Palestinian Gandhi?, Micah Danney
Racial Microaggressions and Health Status: The Moderating Effect of Emotion Regulation, Kristin C. Davidoff
Impressive Failures: Mavericks of Film Authorship and the Impossibility of Success in Hollywood, Tom S. Davies
Imagining Basic Income as an International and Domestic Remedy to Wealth Inequality, Christian A. Davis
Hair is The Root of a Revolution: How Black Women Are Embracing Their Identity With Hair, Shanel Dawson
Education Is Transformation: The Impact of Attitudes, Robert DeCaul
La Symbolique païenne dans l'oeuvre de René Depestre, Wilson Decembre
Effects of Defendant Group Status and Inclusion of a Lesser Charge on Participant-Juror Verdict Preferences, Brittany DeCesare