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
The Neighborhood Stories Indexing Project, Elena Abou Mrad
El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside, Valeria Alderete
Phantom Shootings, Allan Ambris
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Validating Students’ Proficiency in Mathematics, Alexander Avdeev
North of the Grid: The Black Experience of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes
Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women, Kavya Beheraj
A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting the Onset of Type II Diabetes in a Sample of Pima Indian Women, Meriem Benarbia
Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology, Quinn Bolewicki
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer, Carolyn J. Cei
Disrepair, Displacement and Distress: Finding Housing Stories Through Data Visualizations, Jennifer Cheng
Blockchain: Key Principles, Nadezda Chikurova
Tracking Keywords in American Studies, Thomas Cleary
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
The Clothing Left Behind: A Collection of Stories, Grace Coleman
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman
Data for Power: A Visual Tool for Organizing Unions, Shay Culpepper
Brujas of Yesterday, their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Spirits in the Dark: Black Community Education and the Light it Bears, Sydoni A. Ellwood
A Repository of Books by Women from the Arab World Translated to English, Nadia El Mouldi
Social Impacts of Robotics on the Labor and Employment Market, Kelvin Espinal
Challenges of Repatriation: Asante Artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History, Abdul-Alim Farook
Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence, Yesenny Fernandez
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel
Fair World 64: A Text-Based Game of the 1964–1965 World's Fair, Christofer R. Gass
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
A Data Exploration of Jeopardy! from 1984 to the Present, Brian S. Hamilton
K-12 Digital Pedagogy: An Open Educational Resource Designed to Build a Community of Practitioners, Kelly Hammond
A Parade of Identities: Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in Three New York City Cultural Parades, Julia M. Herrera-Moreno
Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman
Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona, Min Huh
Secret and Divine Signs: A Cinematic Ode to the Art of Cruising, Terrence T. Hunt
Navigating Through World’s Military Spending Data with Scroll-Event Driven Visualization, Hong Beom Hur
Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: A Constructed Autobiography of Identity, Jana Jarosz
K-12 Education, Pedagogy and Student Achievement, Genevieve Johnson
Happiness and Policy Implications: A Sociological View, Sarah M. Kahl
An Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Economic Recession Prediction, Sheridan Kamal
Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor
The Zine Union Catalog, Lauren S. Kehoe and Jenna Freedman
Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Analyzing Relationships with Machine Learning, Oscar Ko
Visualizing TEDx Events: Ten Years of “Ideas Worth Spreading”, Antonios Liamis
Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld
Heating Fire Incidents in New York City, Merissa K. Lissade
Avocado Mania: The Rise and Costs of Our Obsession with Avocados, Rosa C. Lourentzatos
Black Women in Romance, Vianny C. Lugo Aracena
A Text Analysis of British Welfare Debates, Emily C. Maanum
NYC vs. Covid-19: The Human and Financial Resources Deployed to Fight the Most Expensive Health Emergency in History in NYC during the Year 2020, Elmer A. Maldonado Ramirez
Points of Reference: Humanities Content for Media Studies, Carolyn A. McDonough
Assembly and Association: Mapping the Development of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Columbia County, NY, Christopher L. Meatto
Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott
The Local Accountability Journalism Tracker, Sandy Mui
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study on an Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S., Sokhnagade B. Ndiaye
English Learners In NYC, Raquel Neris
The Threats of Sea Level Rise: An Eco-Geopolitical Visual Analysis, Jorge L. Nowell-Enriquez
Existentialmd.com: Building Towards an Embodied Internet Aesthetic, Natasha Ochshorn
Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019, Dax Oliver
“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy, Maritha Pocorni-Humphries
DH in Prison, Sabina Pringle
Slices of the Big Apple: A Visual Explanation and Analysis of the New York City Budget, Joanne Ramadani
Promoting Play-Based Learning Strategies in the Upper Elementary and Lower Middle School Classroom, Michelle L. Randall
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
Mapping Flood Myths, Ashley Marie Rojas
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
The College Experience Podcast: Connecting Student Services for College Success, Lucila Sanchez
Making Space for Unquantifiable Data: Hand-drawn Data Visualization, Eva Sibinga
No More False Heavens: In the Wake of Campus Sexual Violence, Destry Sibley
The International Academy of Language and Culture: The Global (pre)K-12 Charter School Network, Dree-el Simmons
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
The Value of NFTs, Angelina Tham
Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Our Health, Kathia Vargas Feliz
Tandem 2.0: Image and Text Data Generation Application, Christopher J. Vitale
Peru's Fishmeal Industry: Its Societal and Environmental Impact, Angel Vizurraga
Rethinking Gaming & Representation Within Digital Pedagogy: An Instructor’s Guide, Anthony Wheeler
Who Pays? New York State Political Donor Matching with Machine Learning, Annalisa Wilde
Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
Accessibility Across the Curriculum: An OER Website on Accessibility, Amy Wolfe
Stand-up Comedy Visualized, Berna Yenidogan
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition, Josefine Ziebell
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
Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People and the Proprietary Ecology of Everyday Data, Gregory Thomas Donovan
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
On The Free and G-Saturated Weight Monoids of Smooth Affine Spherical Varieties For G=SL(n), Won Geun Kim
A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood
Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary, Fiona Hsiao Yen Lee
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Literacies of Bilingual Youth: A Profile of Bilingual Academic, Social, and TXT Literacies, Michelle A. McSweeney
