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.
Dissertations
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
Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix, Nikolina Nedeljkov
Between Speech & Song: Clarifying the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Sara M. Paar
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler
TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries, Michael N. Scharf
“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
The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice, Jennifer Stock
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939, Kalle Westerling
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
Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog, Steven R. Butler
Ecomusicology: back to the roots of sound/music and environmental sustainability, Tiffany Challe
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio
Gentle Introduction Resource, James Anderson Laird Evans
Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation, Liam S. Geron
Bass in Your Face: A Case-Study Exploration of Networked Culture, Samantha Phyllis Kretmar
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering
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
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan