This collection contains doctoral dissertations and master's capstone projects that include a substantive online or digital component to the work. The Graduate Center Library preserves these related digital projects using methods outlined on our Depositing Digital Work guide. Format guidelines for documenting digital projects for deposit were implemented in May 2018. The MA Program in Liberal Studies added a capstone project option in 2015; prior to that, all graduating students deposited their work under the "thesis" category.
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.
Capstone Projects
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel
Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman
K-12 Education, Pedagogy and Student Achievement, Genevieve Johnson
Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Assembly and Association: Mapping the Development of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Columbia County, NY, Christopher L. Meatto
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
DH Box: A Virtual Computer Lab in the Cloud, Stephen Zweibel
Dissertations
MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People and the Proprietary Ecology of Everyday Data, Gregory Thomas Donovan
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Vanishing Leaves: A Study of Walt Whitman Through Location-Based Mobile Technologies, Jesse A. Merandy
The Making of Knowledge-Makers in Composition: A Distant Reading of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype, Rondi Silva
A Derivation of the Tonal Hierarchy from Basic Perceptual Processes, David Smey
The Importance of Bioacoustics for Dolphin Welfare: Soundscape Characterization with Implications for Management, Heather Ruth Spence
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Taking the Venereal out of Venereal Disease: The Public Health Campaign Against Syphilis, 1934-1945, Erin Wuebker
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719-1809, Heather Zuber
Theses
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
Gentle Introduction Resource, James Anderson Laird Evans
The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive, Jonathan Conrad Maxwell
The Journal Of Mother Studies: A Peer Reviewed, International, Interdisciplinary, Open-Acess, Digital Humanities Hybrid Project, Martha Joy Rose
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan