As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Dissertations from 2024

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Evolution of the Extant and Fossil Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae), Julia L. Arenson

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Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist

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Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, and the Coercive Pair Bond in a Primate Multilevel Society, Katarina D. Evans

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Dancing in the Heart of the Empire, Talisa Feliciano

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Faunal Use and Distribution at the Site of Nixtun-Ch'ich', Petén, Guatemala, Jemima Georges

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Struggles, Aspirations, and Survival Strategies: The Intersectionality of Lived Experiences of Migrant “Integration” into Lisbon, Lais Gomes Duarte

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Exploration of Phenomenological Geospatial Analysis for the Late Archaic in the Esopus Drainage of the Hudson Valley, Glenn Kolyer

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Identification of Mandibular and Maxillary Molars of Old World Monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics, Eric John Mazelis

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Future Land, Futures Lost: Planning the Crisis on the Louisiana Coast, Sheehan Moore

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‘Coca Mestiza’: Small Farmers, Multiculturalism, and the War on Drugs in Colombia, Miryam Nacimento

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Living Color: Aesthetic Surfaces and Political Life in Brazil, Samuel E. Novacich

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Ordinary Care: Affective Politics of Migration and the Everyday Lives of Syrian Refugees in Istanbul, Yasemin Ozer

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Border Confinement and Assistance Markets in Tijuana: Mexican Deportees’ Experiences of Labor and Violence Between Mexico and the United States, Christian Pacheco-Gómez

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Prurient Nature: Sex Work and Ethics at the Margins of Finance, Esra S. Padgett

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Cuerpos Manchados: Rethinking Racial Difference Through the Grotesque Birthmark, Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

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Containerization of Seafarers in the International Shipping Industry: Contemporary Seamanship, Maritime Social Infrastructures, and Mobility Politics of Global Logistics, Liang Wu

Dissertations from 2023

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Redrawing the Contours of Care: Ethical Commitments and Gendered Politics in the Work of Government Psychological Counsellors in Sri Lanka, Nadia Augustyniak

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Extraction, Property, and Rights in Southeastern Arabian Seascapes c.1820–present, Scott Erich

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Audible Futures: Scenes of Sonic Encounter in Cold War Kurdistan, 1923–2023, Nicholas S. Glastonbury

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Staying, Flowing, Resounding: Children's Interactions and Space-Based Attachments on a Manu'a Island, Mariapaola Gritti

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Icons in Lyari: Resonance, Visibility, and Global Blackness in an Indian Ocean Port Town, Zehra Husain

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Gendered Care Work and State Ambivalence: Disaster Recovery and Puerto Rican Displacement in New York City, Lisa Jahn

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The Making of Counter-Insurgent Geographies in Post-Revolutionary Cairo, Baltaga and Maslaha at Bulaq Abule’lla, Omnia Khalil

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A Race-Police Regime: NYPD Technology and Urban Governance in New York City, Elliott Liu

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Birthing, Nursing, and Grieving: An Anthropological Archaeology of Healing Shrines in North Lebanon, Sarah Mady

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Environmental Drivers of Dispersal in Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), Amanda Mancini

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The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982, Sergio G. Palencia Frener

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Between Two Messiahs: An Ethnography of Settler-Colonizers in the West Bank, Amir Reicher

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Reimagining the Inner Ear: A Morphometric Modeling Approach for Establishing Shape Change in the Evolution of the Human Otolith System, Christopher M. Smith

Dissertations from 2022

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El Poder de las Tierras Estatales: Conflictos de propiedad, formaciones estatales y la construcción de los Llanos en Colombia, Julio Arias Vanegas

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The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development, and Modernity in Zanzibar, Caitlyn Bolton

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Diet and Nutrition of Lemurs in the Lean Season, Santiago Cassalett

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Sunbelt Schooling: Publics and Politics of Education Advocacy in Phoenix, Arizona, Matthew Chrisler

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Consciousness, Culture, and Comradeship: Narratives of South African Exile and Anti-Apartheid Activism in West Berlin, Claudia R. Crowie

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Teaching Revolution: Women Primary School Teachers, Race, and Social Reproduction in Cuba, Angela M. Crumdy

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Property in Pieces: Land, Oil and Uncertainty in a Mexican Ejido, Margaret Cruz

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The Cultural Battle Against the Dollar: Struggles over Hoarding and Democracy in the Twilight of Argentina's Soy Boom, Charles Dolph

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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC, Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot

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The Politics of Feminist Citizenship: Violence, Law, and Affect in Post-Revolution Tunisia, Ola Galal

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American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George

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“She Too ‘Omanish’”: Young Black Women’s Sexuality and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Ishan Elizabeth Gordon-Ugarte

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Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria, Stephanie Victoria Love

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All Aboard the Abortion Pill Train: Activism, Medicine, and Reproductive Technologies in the Republic of Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey

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The Making of a Bilingual University in the 21st Century, Michael Mena

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Past-Futures of Harlem: Black Urban Space at the Limits of Spatial Justice, Dane C. Ruffin

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Debts of Displacement: Syrian Refugee Farmworkers at the Lebanese-Syrian Border, China S. Sajadian

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Historical Ecology of Norse Greenland: Zooarchaeology and Climate Change Responses, Konrad Smiarowski

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Everything to Lose: Extraction, Racism, and Survival on Wet'suwet'en Land, Anne Spice

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Building the Revolution: Ideology, Affect and Gender in Bolivarian Caracas, Andreina I. Torres A.

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Genetic Impacts of Deforestation on Mouse Lemurs, Darice Westphal

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Landscape, Settlement, and Community: The Natural, Human, and Sacred Geography of Classic Maya Civilization in West-Central Guatemala, Marc A. Wolf

Dissertations from 2021

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Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles, Christopher J. Baum

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Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken

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Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat

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Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario

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Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus, Emily J. Curtin

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Climate Change and the Ancestors: Rain, Gender and Politics in an African Water Catchment, Jessie Fredlund

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Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive, Romm Lewkowicz

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Spectral Urbanism: Modern Ghost Cities, Rare Earths, and Political Time at the Limits of Materialism, Linsey Ly

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Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico, Sarah Molinari

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The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence, Emanuel D. Moss

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Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal

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Mobile Practices and the Production and Curation of Pottery: A View from the Ancient Southern Russian Steppe Using Portable Methods of Investigation, Nicole A. Rose

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From Poor Campesinos to Tortilla Kings: Mexican Migrant Elites, Yesenia Ruiz

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Living in Permanent Transience: An Ethnography of Contemporary Alexandria, Alexandra K. Schindler

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The Material Culture of Temperature: Measurement, Capital and Semiotics, Scott W. Schwartz

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The Politics of "Dignity" and the Tunisian Truth Commission: Keywords, Violence, Human Rights, Douaa Sheet

Dissertations from 2020

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Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer

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Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere

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The Afterlives of Government Documents: Information Labor, Archival Power, and the Visibility of U.S. Human Rights Violations in the “War on Terror”, Rachel Daniell

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Reclaiming Indiana: The Politics of Crisis Amid the Failures of Liberal Capitalist Modernity, Chris Grove

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“The Gifts of Enemies”: The Acteal Massacre, Sociedad Civil Las Abejas and Mexico’s Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional and Humanitarian and Development Aid During the Low-Intensity War, 1997–1999, Maria R. Hart

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Climbing Performance and Ecology in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas, Elaine E. Kozma

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“Prepare for Death and Follow Me:” An Archaeological Survey of the Historic Period Cemeteries of New York City, Elizabeth D. Meade

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The Infrastructure of Politics: Participatory Urbanism, Professional Strategies, and the Production of the Built Environment in Post-Revolution Cairo, Claire Panetta

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Many Forms of Black Death: Coal Extraction, Transnational Activism and the Value of Life in Colombia, Oscar H. Pedraza Vargas

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The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh

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Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health, Margarite J. Whitten

Dissertations from 2019

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Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra

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A New and Unsettling Force: Information Technology, Popular Education and the Movement to End Poverty, Christopher Caruso

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Oldowan Tool Behaviors Through Time on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya, Emma M. Finestone

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Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland, Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar

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Recolonizing Security: An Anthropology of the War on Terror in Kenya, Zoltan Gluck

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Commmunity, Ecology, and Modernity: Faunal Analysis of Skútustaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland, Megan Hicks

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Waiting: History, Fear, and Healing in Ballynafeigh / the Upper Ormeau Road of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Molly J. Hurley-Depret

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Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe: Civic Nation-Building Discourse in Kazakhstan and Russia, Nathan P. Jones

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The Functional Morphology of Ingestion in the Platyrrhine Sclerocarpic Harvesters (Platyrrhini, Primates), Zachary Stoffel Klukkert

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Sedimenting Territory: A Political Geology of Oil, Earth, and Spatial Politics in Turkey, Zeynep Oguz

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Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit

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Dios en carne: Rastafari and the Embodiment of Spiritual Blackness in Puerto Rico, Omar Ramadan-Santiago

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The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer

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Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori

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War and Peace in American Seduction: Seduction Communities, Heterosexual Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy in New York City, Anders Wallace

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School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb

Dissertations from 2018

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Sociality and Stress in Female Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa: Behavioral Flexibility and Coping Mechanisms, Shahrina Chowdhury

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Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury

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Influence of the Silk Road Trade on the Craniofacial Morphology of Populations in Central Asia, Ayesha Yasmeen Hinedi

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Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain

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The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim

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"When We Demand Our Share of This World”: Struggles for Space, New Possibilities of Planning, and Municipalist Politics in Mumbai, Malav J. Kanuga