Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2026
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
Bimodal-Bilingual Advantage: Neural Patterns of ASL Interpreters During Narrative Encoding, Gina F. Piersanti Gioe
A mixed methods approach to understanding factors contributing to the reduction of childhood sexual violence: A case study of Eswatini, Amanda J. Pierz
New York City Women’s Experiences with Perinatal Depression Inquiries, Diagnosis, and Treatment Initiation, Caterina Pisciotta
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
Graduate Student Retention: Examining Why Master’s Students Leave and What Motivates Their Return in a Large Public University System, Sonja Prophete
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
Nāgasvaram Ensemble Music in Contemporary South India: Perspectives of Revival, Rajeswari Ranganathan
Queer Sandwich, Anam Rani
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Organic Materials in Strong Light–Matter Interaction and Terahertz Optics, Kamyar Rashidi
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
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
Variability In Eligibility And Outcomes: A Cross-Comparison Of New York City Mental Health Courts, Caitlin Sanders
Heirloomed: An Italian-American Daughter Weaving Past and Present, Catherine Santino
The Networks of Early U.S. Fiber Art, 1949-69, Analisa Sato
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
Individual Intellectual Humility as a Predictor of Perceived Information Sharing and Perceived Shared Leadership, Mary Beth Schroeder
The I Need More Time Machine, Suzanne L. Schulz
Syntactic Connectivity Across "Islands" in Shupamem, Hagay Schurr
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
A Study of Bengali Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion, Arundhati Sengupta
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
