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
Computational and Functional Characterization of Terebrid Venom Peptides, Favour T. Achimba
Autoconvocadxs: interpretaciones biopolíticas y psicopolíticas del poder popular, el archivo y la memoria en la cultura popular de Puerto Rico, Jose A. Acosta-Seda
Mapping Memory: Space and the Afterlives of Violence in Iraqi and American Fiction after 2003, Khaled al-Hilli
FBI National Stolen Art File: Lost Artifacts and Missing Data, Allison N. Arnold
Essays on Inheritance: Tax Policies and Household Outcomes, Twisha Asher
Systems Epistemology, Boris Ayala
Replanting Hawthorns: Towards a Diachronic Translation of À la recherche du temps perdu, Gerardo Bandera
Paper Government: How the State Governs Migration Through Extending Rights: A Study of Colombian Immigration Policy, 2016–2024, Andres Besserer Rayas
Metamaterials that Perform Computation Using Light, Aneek Biswas
Nanoparticles for Advancements in Radiopharmaceutical Technologies, Natalie Boykoff
Reimagining Safety and Justice: Experiences of and Resistance to Police Sexual Violence in New York City, Priscilla Bustamante
The Relationship of Tau Hyperphosphorylation with Nuclear Pathology and Oxidative Stress, Robert Candia
Investigating the Role of Phonology and Morphology in the Processing and Acceptability of Bilingual Code-Switching, Daniela Castillo
Revolutionary Governance, Culture, and the Party-State in Postcolonial Guinea: Political Thought and Practice Under Ahmed Sékou Touré, M. Sekani Corbie
Pauline Milk and Bread: Human Industry and Divine Truth in the Jesuit Mission in Japan, Maria I. De La Guardia
Building Blocks of Institutional Resilience: Governance, Crisis Preparedness, and Community Support in Non-Profit Schools, Karyn Elizabeth Delay
Building Fugitive Communities Through Refusal, Angela Dunne
Development of Novel Anti-Cancer Colchicine Analogs: Synthesis and Configurational Studies, Orugbani S. Eli
Mechanistic Studies of Aerobic Photochemistry: Gold Nanoclusters, Nanoparticles, and Solution-Phase Systems, Serah Essang
Distribution of Power in South Asia: Assessing Sino-Indian Conflict Propensity, Fatima Faisal
Build, Freeze, Expedite, Renew: Messages on Housing in the 2025 New York City Mayoral Campaign, Elizabeth A. Foley
Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations? How Mexican Americans Think About U.S. Security Policy, Jesus J. Garcia-Gomez
Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry and the Politics of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato
Visualizing Six Decades of Polish Migration: An Interactive Analytics Approach (1966–2024), Alexandra Gilarowski
Molding the Mosaic: Progressive Coalition Formation in the 2021 New York City Council Elections, Sam Goodson
New Fast Polynomial Root-Finders, Soo Go
The Behavior and Complexation of Technetium Under Conditions Relevant for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Rachel E. Greenberg
Empirical Essays on Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, Ian Stewart Haberman
High-Sensitivity Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Exciton Dynamics in Nanomaterials, Siedah J. Hall
One Olivine Crystal at a Time: Unraveling the Volatile Budget and Timescales of the Deccan Traps Large Igneous Province, Andres Hernandez Nava
Lawyers, Litigation, and the Loosening of Religious Constraints in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, Megan E. Hills
Hammer of Eden: Visualization Software and Cultures of Executive Decision-making, Annie Horner
The Experiences of the Transfer of Learning Path: MSW's Perceptions of Organizational Influences, Alexis Howard
Social Capital and the Spread of Information on Twitter Related to Change in the Criminal Legal System, Sebastian Hoyos-Torres
Online Visual Query System for Real-Time Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Data Explorations with Error Bounds, Xueqi Huang
Development of the Active Participle Denoting Ongoing Aspect in Heritage Speakers of Levantine Arabic in the US, Reem Kanjawi-Faraj
Design of Lithium-Based Battery Electrolyte Compositions for Extreme Operating Conditions Using Alternative Solvents, Co-Solvents and Additives, Michael J. Keating
Chamber Music for Strings in Rational Intonation: Performance Practice and Analysis, Marina Kifferstein
I Wear the Past in the Cold, Cecilia Knaub
A Work on/of Language: Lyric and the Care of the Self, Evan M. Knight
Regional Geography and Tuning Systems of Traditional Georgian Folk Music, Alex Kutubidze
Filling the Gaps: Maiti Nepal and Anti-trafficking Governance in Nepal, Sushmita Lamsal
Postscript: A Digital Inquiry Into Inherited Memory, Alexander Lee
Dumatree: Free Online Education in Bridging the Migrant Digital Divide, Mia Lee
Finding Luis: A Creative Nonfiction Account of Law & Society, Jason M. Leggett
6D Rigid Object Pose Estimation Using Deep Learning, Zhujun Li
Towards Unbordered Worlds: Mutual Aid Amid Border Internalisation in New York City, Holly Maclean
4E-BP1 Differentially Regulates Translation of a Subset of Human mRNAs, Mehreen Mahbub
The Lives of English Catholic Seminarians before Rome, 1598–1609, John Thomas Massey
The Correlation Between Racial Inequality and Rent Stabilization Apartments in New York City, Juan G. Mayancela
Typeface: Machine-Viewing Gentrification on Storefront Imagery in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Alexander McQuilkin
Latino Immigrant and Second-Generation Small Food Business Owners' Survival Strategies in New York City in a Time of Crisis, Ivana Mellers
Unveiling the Impossible: The Intentional Fantastic in Ancient Greek Literature, Alessandra Migliara
Sensing Prehistory: A Framework Reconciling Scientific Modeling and Human Experience Through Affordance Theory, David S. Milley
No Tech for Apartheid Memory: Oral Histories of Google Worker Organizing, Zelda Montes
Culture and Its Discontents: Versions of Matthew Arnold from the 1860s to the 1980s, Jarrett Moran
Maintenance Mode for Digital Dwellers, Maci Morris
The Constant Cause of Friction: Maud Mosher and Gendered Authority in the Indian Service and at Ellis Island, Ella Morton
Foreign Songs, Occitan Voices, and the Guitar in Early Modern France (c. 1570-1650), Ana Beatriz Mujica Lafuente
Too Fast, Too Slow: Girlhood, Temporality, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Film, Alessandra Occhiolini
Public Finance, Private Profit: The Contradictions of Public Resource Capture by Financialized Landlords in North America, Sophie O'Manique
Sugar-Induced Cell Death is a Common Phenomenon in Yeast Mediated by the Production of Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Compounds, Raveena Parbhudayal
Characterization and Advancement of Molluscan Venom Gland Cell Model Systems, James V. Parziale
Somatosensory Cortex Responses to Illusory Touch in a Visual-Tactile Integration Task, Aditi Surendra Pawar
Assessing the Community Impact of Two Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City, Katheryne Pugliese
Courts of New York: A Visual Atlas of the City’s Public Basketball Spaces, Nathaniel Rattner
A Critical Lens on Emotions and Learning: Shame, Loneliness, and Alienation in Community College, Mike Rifino
The Digital Divide in Political Redistricting: AI's Impact on Minority Representation, Jaime Rodriguez
Cognitive Consequences of Job Discrimination: An Investigation of Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Disparities in Neuropsychological Test Performance, Shana S. Samuel
Monosaccharide Binding to Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptor Microarrays, Milan A. Shlain
Diverse Sensory Mechanisms in Bacterial PAS-Containing One-Component Systems, James J. Siclari
Open to the Public(s): Privatized Public Space, Technology, and Aspirational Wealth at Hudson Yards, Troy Simpson
The Radical Political Possibilities of Asexuality and Aromanticism, Kirty Singh
Shielding the State, Shaking the Regime: Military Alliances, Domestic Deterrence, and Internal Conflict, Leo Tamamizu
Role of Long-Range Interactions in Structure and Dynamics of Carbohydrates, Beicer Catalina Tapia Amaya
Knowing Through Making: Weaving a Pedagogy of Love, Embodiment, and Freedom Through Arts-Based Research, Mariatere Tapias
Recognition at Work: How Managerial Acknowledgment Shapes Team-Level Outcomes, Annalissa Thomas
Socialism on Display: State-Sponsored Exhibitions of Art and Visual Culture in Stalinist Poland, 1945–1956, Patryk P. Tomaszewski
The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds, Dhipinder Walia
Local Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Enzymatic Activity Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Function in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Aria R. Walls
Real Language: Cybernetics and Transatlantic Romanticism, Stuart H. Watson Jr
Calcium Zincate Cycling and Failure Mechanisms: Pathways to Commercialization for Grid Scale Energy Storage, Patrick K. Yang
Cecil Taylor, 1950–1976: Theory & Practice in His Own Words, Michelle A. Yom
At the Margins of History, the Body Moves and Knows: Carmen as Myth, Flamenco as a Fugitive Form of Knowledge Transmission, Inmaculada Zanoguera Garcias
Mind the Gap: Morphological Defectivity and Suffixal Competition in Polish, Szymon E. Zuberek
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
