Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2026
A Molecular Framework for Multiexciton Photochemistry: One- and Two-Electron Transfer in Singlet Fission Chromophores, Bernardo Arturo Salcido Santacruz
Cognitive Consequences of Job Discrimination: An Investigation of Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Disparities in Neuropsychological Test Performance, Shana S. Samuel
Alcohol Use and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression: Evaluating Bias, Effect Modification, and Population-Level Intervention Effects in a U.S. Nationwide Cohort, Jenna Sanborn, Denis Nash, McKaylee Robertson, Angela Parcesepe, and Zachary Shahn
Migrant Justice through Collective Liberation: Contemporary Intersectional Theorizing, Organizing, and Dreaming, Sonia A. Sanchez Carmen
Heirloomed: An Italian-American Daughter Weaving Past and Present, Catherine Santino
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
The I Need More Time Machine, Suzanne L. Schulz
Matters of the Flesh, Celeste Scott
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
The Knock That Never Leaves, Alvin Seenauth
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
Sonic Rupture and Embodied Politics: Reconfiguring the Aesthetic Regime in the Syrian Uprising, Lynn Shabani
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
Genetic Screen for Regulators of POL4, a DNA Repair Polymerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pasang Dolma Sherpa
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
Now or Nowhere: Apocalypse from Below and the Invention of Utopia in Early Modern Political Thought, O. L. Silverman
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
Facsimiles, Russell Soh
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
HUMANIST ABSTRACTIONS: ZILIA SÁNCHEZ’S FORMS OF SYMBOLISM AND THE REFRAMING OF THE PICTURE PLANE, Sydney Srnka
Molecular Biophysics of Mammalian and Fungal Macromolecular Assemblies, Michael L. Stawski
Catalyst, David Steck
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
Civil War Memory In New York City, 1861-1902, Kevin J. Sugrue
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
“One Object Yields Both Grief and Joy”: Death in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613), Valeria Suprunova
Model-Theoretic Arguments in Philosophy, Peter Susanszky
The Impact of Gun Control Policies on Firearm-Related Deaths: A Two Decade State-by-Year Analysis, Rabana Tajrin
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
Understanding Workplace Psychological Safety Among Latina Professionals: An Exploration of Intersectional Experiences, Michal Tapia
Knowing Through Making: Weaving a Pedagogy of Love, Embodiment, and Freedom Through Arts-Based Research, Mariatere Tapias
Voices from the Noise: Experiments and Considerations on Radio as Musical Instrument, Justin Taveras
In (and Out of) Situ, Daniel Tepper
Some Equivalence Statements Are Metaphors, Malik A. Terry
Advance Care Planning in Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Khanh H. Thai
Enabling ASL Digital Communication Under Poor Internet Access, Swann Thantsin
Water and Wall, Amara Thomas
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
The Effect of Inbound Tourism on Consumer Prices in Japan, Serenity E. Thompson
Vulnerability to Climate-Related Health Hazards: Understanding through a spatial demographic lens, Jenna F. Tipaldo
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
The Earth Holds What I Cannot, Satabdi Tripathy
Narrative Disorders: 'Poetics of Unreason' and the Limits of the War Story in Lebanese Postwar Fiction, Melissa Trujillo
Talking Climate: Does Peer Anxiety Amplify or Alleviate Climate Change Worries?, Emma Tupone
The Role of Otto in Indecent by Paula Vogel, Ben Turchiarelli
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
Sonic Inheritance: My Journey to Sranan Through Memory, Lineage, and Composition, Dionne Van Den Berg
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
The Economics of Modern Basketball Fandom, Holden Velasco
Figures of the Jeune Fille in Postwar French Cinema: Libertine Ingenues, Lolitas, and Creatures from Caroline Chérie to Monika, Nina Verneret
Voyager, Ben K. Voss
The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds, Dhipinder Walia
Vibrational Bodies and The Sovereignty of Their Cymatic Kisses, Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales
Local Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Enzymatic Activity Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Function in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Aria R. Walls
Enhanced and Confused: The High Price of Partnership In American Theater, Brandan Walsh
Risk Assessment and Sentencing Bias: The Role of Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health, Lily A. Walsh
"I Love You Just as Much": Emotional Valence and Composition in Owners' Narratives About Dogs and Cats, Xinru Wang
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
Medusa, Myths and Mascarons, Claire Weaver-Zeman
"Men I Knew", Thomas Mar Wee
Analyzing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center Using Computational Tools, Rongmei Wei
Granted, Emily Weissman
The Effect of Extending In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students on College Enrollment and Tuition Pricing, Dongxin Weng
Acoustic to Electronic: Multidimensional Musical Explorations, Kanenar Wen
Beyond "Bad Apples": Political Identity, Moral Interpretation, and Institutional Response to Abuse, Laura Werner
Sentential Structures in Alexander Scriabin's Op. 8 Etudes, John Paul West
A Hot Topic: Congressional Polarization and Climate Change, Mercedes R.P. Wilby
