Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2016
Export / Import: The Promotion of Contemporary Italian Art in the United States, 1935–1969, Raffaele Bedarida
Critical Youth Participatory Action Research to Reimagine Environmental Education with Youth in Urban Environments, Marissa E. Bellino
Maternal History of Neglect, Mind-Mindedness, and The Cycle of Neglect, Karin N. Belser
The Modernity of Tradition: Abraham Shalom Yahuda on Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", Ilan M. Benattar
Genres of Feminist Lives: Autobiography, Archives, and Community, 1970-1983, Meredith A. Benjamin
Computerized Classification of Surface Spikes in Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopic Reconstructions of Viruses, Younes Benkarroum
Empowerment from Within: Supporting Palestinian Women’s Struggle Against Violence, Ortal Bensky
Successful Regional Integration in the European Union through Vision and Planning, Joshua Berliner
Novel Electrolytes for Use in New and Improved Batteries: An NMR Study, Marc B. Berman
Patient and Family Engagement in Addressing Hospital Patient Safety Concerns: Experiences, Attitudes and Patient Safety Engagement Comfort Levels of Recently Hospitalized Patients, Catherine M. Besthoff
Homeless Hotels in New York: Who Benefits from the Industry’s Side Business?, Suman Bhattacharyya
Bully Victimization, Depression, and the Role of Protective Factors among College-Age LGBTQ Students, Theresa E. Bhoopsingh
Tuning into Toxins and Channels: The Characterizations of Tv1 and a Human Cardiac Sodium Channel Voltage-Sensor Domain, Mohammed H. Bhuiyan
Ten Etudes for Solo Cello by Sofia Gubaidulina, Julia A. Biber
Assessing Higher- and Lower-Order Processing in Children With and Without ADHD: A Prospective Longitudinal Study, Adina T. Bitton
Extracting Indigeneity: Oil, Environment and Self-Determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), James J. A. Blair
Toilet Talk, Michael Blake
This Species of Property: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1619-1783, John N. Blanton
"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays, Sara Remedios Bloom
Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene, Scott Adam Blumenthal
Art as Display, Frank M. Boardman
Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India, Natascia Boeri
Still Here: Life in a New York Garment Factory, Veronika Bondarenko
Social Isolation, Social and Emotional Loneliness, and Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties in Older Adults with Hearing Loss, Yuliya Borik
Declining City, Born-Again Citadel: Faith-Based Organizations and the Reconstitution of Inequality in Postindustrial America, Michael J. Boyle
Digital Photography as Experience Artifact, Ryan V. Brennan
How A New York Native American Community Was Polluted For Decades, Tola Brennan
"Follow the Bodies": (Re)Materializing Difference in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Briana Grace Brickley
Death Priming in Investigations: The Effects on Worldview Threat, Out-Group Derogation, and Stereotyping, Laure Brimbal
Lucumi and the Children of Cotton: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Mapping of a Black Atlantic Politics of Religion, Akissi M. Britton
Wandering in Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
Edwin Fischer and Bach Performance Practice of the Weimar Republic, Bradley V. Brookshire
The Lived Experience of Aging Black Women with Diabetes Nurse-Person Relationships, Deidra G. Brown
The Emergence of the Bird in Andean Paracas Art. c. 900 BCE - 200 CE, Mary B. Brown
Suppression of High Transverse Momentum Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at 200 GeV Nucleon-Nucleon Center of Mass Energy, Jason B. Bryslawskyj
Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos D. Burgos
Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog, Steven R. Butler
Ecological Transitions of U.S. Elementary School Students: Their Short– and Long–Term Educational Outlooks, Anthony Buttaro Jr.
The Discursive Functioning of Knowledge Claims in Research Studies on Children’s Conceptual Knowledge of Number, Patrick D. Byers
The Politics of Middle Class Decline and Growth in Industrialized Democracies, 1980 to 2010, Young-hwan Byun
Alien, Illegal, Undocumented: Labeling, Context, and Worldview in the Immigration Debate and in the Lives of Undocumented Youth, David A. Caicedo
Metabolic Profiling and Polymer Formation of Gene Silenced Potato Periderms, Qing Cai
United in Political Solidarity: How Multicultural Endorsement and Group Identity Inspire Intergroup Political Solidarity Among Members of Lower Status Groups, Justine Calcagno
Why we still need to worry about bees, Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Virtue’s Web: The Virtue of Empathic Attunement and the Need for a Relational Foundation, Georgina D. Campelia
Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings, Joel A. Capellan
Musical and Dramatic Roles of the Chorus in Hugo Weisgall’s "Esther", Michael A. Capobianco IV
US small arms to Syrian Rebels, Roberto Capocelli
Does Permissiveness Mediate the Relationship between Sexual Identity Exploration and Sexual Behavior?, Kailani Capote
The New Pornography: The Rise of Fanfic, Kelly Caputo
Observational Assessment of Empathy in Parent-Child Verbal Exchanges and Their Influence on Child Behavior, Patty Carambot
Negotiating and Navigating Invisible Food Deserts: An Exploratory Study on Foodways of Adults on the Autism Spectrum, JungJa Park Cardoso
Remembering Time, Jonathan Carey
She Voices Them: Evidence of Black Feminism in Black Women’s Harlem Renaissance Literature, Danielle Carr
The Words and Worlds of Disability: Discourses on Disablement Within the Situated Practices of Service Providers, Enitza C. Carril
YouTube As A Net"work": A Media Analysis of the YouTube Beauty Community, Barbara Casabianca
Not on the Menu, Kathryn Casteel and Zameena Mejia
Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Childhood and Criminal Justice System Involvement in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Pilot Results Among Puerto Rican Youth, Marjorine Castillo
Drug Trafficking and the Presidential Family in Venezuela: The Narco Nephews, Daniela Castro
Assessing Social Protection Arrangements in Angola and Mozambique, Andre Cavaller Guzzi
Transmission of Focused Picosecond Light Pulse through Multimode Fibers, Yin Cen
Broken: How New York Systems Fail Vulnerable Youth and Send Them to Sex Work, Megan Cerullo
Mad Men of Letters: Advertising, Masculinity, and the American Postmodern Novel, Jennifer Chancellor
Millets from the Margins: Value, Knowledge and the Subaltern Practice of Biodiversity in Uttarakhand, India, Priya R. Chandrasekaran
Social Cognitive Processes in the Priming of Mental Illness Stereotypes by the Media, Ginny Chan
Left of Maidan: Self-Organization and the Ukrainian State on the Edge of Europe, Emily S. Channell-Justice
Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure?, Stanley Chen
Tuning Topological Surface States by Charge Transfer, Zhiyi Chen
Security Districts in New Orleans, Kara Chin and Emily Siegel
Instagram and the Human (Mis)Connection, Johanna Chisholm
Examining Victimization in South Korea 1993-2010: A Comparative Application of Ecological Theories of Crime, Jisun Choi
Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" to "Unauthorized Immigration" in Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho
A Study of the Impact of Interaction Mechanisms and Population Diversity in Evolutionary Multiagent Systems, Sadat U. Chowdhury
On the Syntax/Semantics of Korean Nominal Particles, Han-Byul Chung
Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications and the Poetics of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio
NYC Dances, Camila Cibils
Headhunting: Evaluating the Disruptive Capacity of Leadership Decapitation on Terrorist Organizations, Ted Clemens IV
The Objects of a Catastrophe, Roman Cochet
Ethnicity Matters: Implications for Understanding and Acting upon Disparities in Health Affecting Black Men in the United States, Helen V. S. Cole
Imaginary Subjects: Fiction-Writing Instruction in America, 1826 - 1897, Paul Collins
Student Perspectives on Meaningful Adult Relationships in a Transfer School, Susan E. Collins
An Analysis of Canine Processing of Stimulus Compounds Varying in Light and Sound Intensity, Katherine O. Compitus
India's Dalit Moment, Gabriel Kenneth Carroll Conlon
Socio-Economic Inequalities, Academic Failure, and Institutional Interventions: What CUNY Is Doing To Help Its High Risk Populations, Cynthia Constant
How Do Open Educational Resources (OERs) Impact Students? A Qualitative Study at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Cailean Cooney
Exploring the Uses of Cultural Funds of Knowledge Among Ethnic Minority Immigrant College Students in Their Constructions of Learning Identities Within a Collaborative Photovoice Project, Stacey Jennell Cooper
Claiming Time: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith on Freedom and Futurity, Jennifer Corby
Ya Me Voy (I’m Leaving Now), Lindsey Cordero Camp
"LANGUAGE PREFERENCE AND COGNITIVE AVAILABILITY OF SEXUAL IDENTITY IN GAY JAPANESE BILINGUALS: AN ANALYSIS OF HABITUAL USE OF LINGUISTIC CATEGORIES", Sebastian Cordoba
Roots on the Record, joaquin p. cotler
Roots and Repercussions of Romantic Feeling: Sensation and Affect in the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Mary K. Cotter
The Hardest Thing Is To Know, Shante Cozier
A Portrait of the Artist as Sisyphus, Jared N. Crane
Ceasing to Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers and Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun
Curing Violence: Prescriptions for Justice and Peace in Colombia, Marissa Crawford
Head to Head with Concussions in Youth Football, Setrige Crawford and Michelle Simon
Transitors, Sarah B. Crofts
Saving: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Potential in the United States, Risa Cromer
Interstate Alliances of the Fourth-Century BCE Greek World: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Nicholas D. Cross