Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
As of 2014, all Graduate Center dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are posted to Academic Works. Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. All pre-2014 dissertations and doctoral capstone projects are available to the CUNY community via our Retrospective Dissertations, 1965-2013 database (CUNY Login required).
Some pre-2014 works have been added to this collection at the author's request. If you graduated before 2014 and would like to add your own GC dissertation, or for information about changing your embargo settings, please email deposit@gc.cuny.edu.
Dissertations, theses, and capstone projects are listed by year below. To browse by program, go to the Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects by Program page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2026
Sensing Prehistory: A Framework Reconciling Scientific Modeling and Human Experience Through Affordance Theory, David S. Milley
Socialism on Display: State-Sponsored Exhibitions of Art and Visual Culture in Stalinist Poland, 1945–1956, Patryk P. Tomaszewski
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
Stolen Moments: Jazz and the Opportunity to Capture Hip Hop Fans, Fahiym Abdul-Wasi
Mechanisms of Sleep Regulation in Drosophila melanogaster, Anfal A. Abuhilal
Structural Characterization of a Tarantula Toxin and its Interactions with Lipid Bilayers and Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels, Krishnakoli Adhikary
Synchronizing Work and Teaching Practices with the Spatial DNA of Distributed Work and Learning, Manju Aishwarya Adikesavan
Beauty Comes with a Price: But How Much Is It Worth It, Fabliha Afia
Judicial Reasonings & Decision-Making: An Observational Study of Judges and Court Actors in Post-Criminal Justice Reform Detention Hearings in New Jersey during COVID-19, Diba Ahmadirouzbahani
Galois Deformation Rings and Modularity in the Residually Reducible Case, Geoffrey Akers
The Influence of Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Curriculum Content on Career Interests for Social Work Students, Sabretta G. Alford
Spirometry: For the Winds in Us, Kendall Allison
“Al-Rafiq Qabla Al-Tariq”: Nasij Al-Ma’iyyah Acompañamiento by and for Immigrant Multilingual Multicultural Youth, Orubba Almansouri
The Architecture of Exclusion: Disability, Race, and the History of New York City’s 600 Schools, Francine Almash
The Language of Development: A Case Study Analysis of Climate Development in Central America, Alexandra Altomare
Taming Biological Complexity Through the Use of Symmetries, Luis A. Álvarez-García
Socioendocrinology of a Coercive Primate: Correlates of Takeovers and Glucocorticoids in Wild Female and Male Hamadryas Baboons, Alexis L. Amann-Lancer
Does Treatment Setting in ATI Matter? An Examination of Completion Rates and the Role of Violent Charges Among Individuals with Co-occurring Disorders, George J. Anderson
Neural Mechanisms of Context-Sensitive Behavior in the Adult Male Zebra Finch, Katherine L. Anderson
Risk, Uncertainty, and Doubt: Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Judgment, Maria-Irene Angelidis
The Evolution and Reproduction of Andean Miconia (Melastomataceae), Juan Angulo
Shifting Semantic Activation via Context: A Study of Aging and Semantic Network Dynamics in Word Production, Katarina Antolovic
The Undocumented Underclass: How New York City Restaurants Maintain Superexploitation, John C. Antush
Reclaiming Ancestral Lands: The Indigenous Peoples of Colombian Amazonia after the Rubber Boom, Oscar Aponte
Iranian (Persian)-Francophone Women in Diaspora and the Literature of Exile Reconstructing Self Through Writing, Maunia Arbabi
Distress, Desire, and Care: Young Adults and Suicidality in Rural India, Varnica Arora
Sex-Specific and Regional Analysis of Heart Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Insights from the UC Irvine Public Heart Disease Datasets (Cleveland and Long Beach), Jonathan Asanjarani
Bio-Derived Organic Electrodes for Aluminum and Lithium-Ion Batteries: Design, Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies, Harrison Y. Asare
Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy for Studying Photocatalytic Processes at Nanoscale, Gaukhar Askarova
Mineral Landscapes: British Art and Extraction, 1937–1975, Tobah Aukland-Peck
Investigating the Role of Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1) Gene in Riluzole-Induced Apoptosis in Osteosarcoma, Syeda Maryam Azeem
Novel Alchemical Methodologies for Modeling Molecular Binding, Solmaz Azimi
American Becomings: Ontology as Critique in the Nineteenth Century, Austin J. Bailey
When Avatars Go to School: The Effect of Virtual Reality on Learning and Error Correction, Lauren Barack
Manny the Barber: Transitioning the Neurodivergent from High School to Workplace, Julia Barlas
The Reimagined Past: Investigating Generational Trauma Through Visual Semiotics and Visual Autoethnography of Recreated Family Photographs, Josephine A. Barnett
Multi-Document Graph Visualizer: Bridging Computational Text Analysis and Interactive Visualization for Large-Scale Text Corpora, Atilio Barreda II
Studies on the Synthesis, Function, and Properties of Troponoids, John-Charles A. Baucom
Development of Soil Survey Methods for Urban Areas, Kohinoor Begum
The Density Distribution of the Material Around Betelgeuse, Iman Behbehani
Alerted and Anxious? The Effects of Mobile Crime Alerts on Perceptions of Personal and Public Safety, Amanda C. Benjamin
Investigating DNA Damage Caused by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species via Guided-Ion-Beam Scattering and Computational Techniques, Jonathan Benny
A History of Immaturity, Felix Bernstein
Double Exposure: Motherhood and Filmmaking, Eddy Berzak
Investigation of Motor Neuronal and Circuit Level Mechanistic Determinants of Spinal Excitability Following CST Injury, Thelma Bethea
Localization of Music in Perceived Motion in Cochlear Implant Users, Madeleine Beyer
Computability Theoretic Aspects of Profinite Groups and Models of Presburger Arithmetic, Jason Block
Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists, Stephon J. Boatwright
Disturbance and Diversity: Lichens in Changing Landscapes, Laura Boggess
Transmedial Econarratology: Environment and the Subject of Science Fiction, Joseph R. Boisvere
Nature et relations dans la littérature caribéenne francophone de fin du XXe siècle et contemporaine, Louise Bonastre-Fajardo
The Heartbreaks of an American Communist, Maks Bondarenko
Choreographies of Care: Disability and Relationality in Performance, Kiera Bono
Fast Transients from Magnetic Disks Around Non-Spinning Collapsar Black Holes, Justin A. Bopp
Modeling Depressive Patterns in Italian Discourse: Insights from Natural Language Processing, Annapia Borraccino
Energy Conversion Materials: Computational Design of Electrocatalysts Toward Sustainable Energy Applications, Courtney M. Brea
Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner
“Faithful German Servants” or “Good Polish Citizens”? Violence, the Village Head, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, 1918–1944, Miranda Brethour
Self-Reported Audiological and Vestibular Symptoms Associated with Lyme Disease, Daniella A. Bryan
American Realists and Magic Realists: MoMA’s 1943 Wartime Show, Viviana Bucarelli
The Sub-Syllabic Symphonies Of Self-Learning: How Do Zebra Finches Sing Them?, Abiesha Abiola Budiman
Prerogative in Common: On the Emancipatory Potential of Radical Mutuality Amid Sovereign Decisionism, Matthew Builes
Guaqueras and Campesinas in Western Boyacá, Colombia, María F. Buitrago
Breaking Out of Burnout: Leveraging Informal Learning to Encourage Needs Satisfaction to Reduce Employee Burnout, Kaitlin Busse
Speaking from the Underground: Notes on Lois Elaine Griffith & the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Aesthetic, Joseph Anthony Cáceres
CUNY in the News: A History of Reporting on the Humanities at the City University of New York, Jacqueline R. Cahill
Single Mother Poverty in a Global City, Gregory Cala
Leveraging Stellar Chemistry for a Global View into the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets, Emily Calamari
Navigating Climate Action: The River as Teacher for Eco-Literacy, Educational Regeneration and Creative Participation, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
The Double Victimization of Black Women at the Crossroads of Oppression, Carmerina Carrero
The Right to Regret: Regulating the Body Through Specters of Regret, Alysha Casnellie
The Unholy Matrimony: Russia and Violent Non-State Actors, Justin Castro
Towards Automated Evolution of Imperative Deep Learning Programs, Tatiana Castro-Vélez
The Interaction of Multilingualism and Depressed Mood on Cognitive Set-Shifting, Annalise Caviasco
Podcast: One to Grow On – Why Black Studies Matter When Working and Living in Black Communities, Celia E. Ceballos
An Interpolating Regime for the Extreme Values of a Random Zeta Model, Christine K. Chang
The Giants of Coercion: Major Powers and the Mobilization of Global Sanctions Coalitions, Louis Charbonneau
East Asian and “Extraordinary”: Intersecting Racial and Musical Identities in the Classical Music Solo Career, Audrey Chen
Correlations Between Song Popularity and Their Audio Features Using Machine Learning, Rong Chen
Essays on Capital Structure and Ownership Structure, Yiqin Chen
The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca, Anna Chichi
Alle or Elle: Automatic Speech Recognition on Louisiana French, Emily Chiu
Placemaking and Belonging in Brooklyn: Bushwick City Farms, Marisa Cigliano
Low-Resource Ecoacoustic Audio Classification, Enis Berk Coban
Los intelectuales, las palabras y el poder presidencial: Descolonización, nacionalismo y cholificación en las izquierdas contemporáneas de Bolivia, Perú y México, Cesar Augusto Coca Vargas
The Material Folklore of Occult Zines, Jacqueline G. Coffey
The Origins of German Industrialization: The Transition to Capitalism in Prussian Agriculture, Daniel C. Colligan
Hacer el Canto: Tracing Entanglements of Vocality and Interspecies Knowledge in the Imitative Practices of Costa Rican Naturalist Guides, Charles P. Colwell
Quasi una fantasia for flute, oboe, and violoncello [2019–25], Charles P. Colwell
Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward, Nicole Cote
Micro-Computed Tomography Unveils New Plesiadapiform Cranial Morphology: Implications for Early Primate Evolution, Jordan Crowell
Interspecies Responsivity in Early Modern Drama and Animal Performances, Taylor C. Culbert
