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 2025
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
The Influence of Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Curriculum Content on Career Interests for Social Work Students, Sabretta G. Alford
Taming Biological Complexity Through the Use of Symmetries, Luis A. Álvarez-García
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
Mineral Landscapes: British Art and Extraction, 1937–1975, Tobah Aukland-Peck
Novel Alchemical Methodologies for Modeling Molecular Binding, Solmaz Azimi
Studies on the Synthesis, Function, and Properties of Troponoids, John-Charles A. Baucom
Development of Soil Survey Methods for Urban Areas, Kohinoor Begum
Investigating DNA Damage Caused by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species via Guided-Ion-Beam Scattering and Computational Techniques, Jonathan Benny
Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists, Stephon J. Boatwright
Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner
American Realists and Magic Realists: MoMA’s 1943 Wartime Show, Viviana Bucarelli
Guaqueras and Campesinas in Western Boyacá, Colombia, María F. Buitrago
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
Correlations Between Song Popularity and Their Audio Features Using Machine Learning, Rong Chen
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
Jamaica in the Olympics: The Rise of Usain Bolt, Micaiah Davis
Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980, Janine DeFeo
Ética del cuidado y solidaridad feminista en la producción literaria y fílmica de mujeres en Perú, Guatemala y El Salvador, 1994–2019, Rocio del Pilar Del Aguila Gracey
Biophysical Principles Governing HP1a-DNA Condensate Properties: Regulatory Roles of Histone Tails and RNA, Priyasha Deshpande
Henry Jones and the 1641 Depositions: Shaping a Crucial Record of Early Modern Ireland, Phelim Dolan
An ERP Study of Attentional Blink and Inhibition of Return, Caesar Ekya
Destabilizing the Nuyorican: Rivera’s Women and Nuyorican Cinema, Judith R. Escalona
Vote for the CCRB in 2025: A Data Visualization Analysis of Police Oversight Under Three Mayoral Administrations, Thomas Fagin
A Meta-Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Treatment Programs: The Role of Risk-Need-Responsivity in Treatment Effectiveness, Irina Fanarraga
American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy, Todd Fine
A Historical Analysis of Saturday Night Live's Engagement in American Presidential Politics, Isabel Fox
Constructing a Parameterized Stimuli Space Suitable to Induce Controlled Changes in Human and Machine Perceptual Systems, Andrew Frankel
Predicting the Dynamics of Complex Networks from Structural Phenomena, George Furbish
Modernity and the Promise of Democracy: A Democratic Reading of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Gabriel Garber
Quantified Lives: Data, Bias, and the Cost of Categorization, Colin F. Geraghty
Filmology, Richard N. Gladstein
Back to the Margins: The Re-Marginalization of Feedback Research in Composition and Rhetoric, Robert A. Greco
The Psychophysiology of Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathic Traits in Youth, Ines Guariguata
Category Learning Reorganizes Internal Representations of Visual Artworks, Aishwarya Gurung
Structural Insights into eIF2D’s Mechanism in Translation, Dominique Gutierrez
Woman Naturally is Ambitious: Sarah Josepha Hale, Gender, and Success in Antebellum America, Jeanne G. Gutierrez
Unifying Comprehension and Competence Through Merge: A New Linking Hypothesis Connecting Electrophysiological Data to Linguistic Intuitions, Kevin Patrck Guzzo
Embracing Language Diversity: An Exploration of Elementary Teachers' Perception of African American English, Manijeh Hart
The Power of Music to Empower Health and Wellbeing: In Support of a Music Therapy Discipline at Lehman College, City University of New York, Felicity A. Howlett
From IT-Startups to Tech Giants: How Social Connections Influence Investors’ Perspective on Valuations in the Technology Space, Linmei Huang
Banking and the Wider Economy: Essays on Capital and Cross-Border Risks, Morgan Hunt
ChatGPT Didn’t Write This: Evaluating the Impact of LLMs with a Case Study in Grading CUNY Language Immersion Program Student Essays, Benjamin Inbar
A Benjaminian Rumination of Grasses and Tomatoes in Contemporary Anatolian Film, Ceren Izci
Navigating Precarity and Pushing for Protections in South Florida's Ride-Hail Sector, Pamela Izvanariu
Making Waves: Comfort Women Justice Movements Across Generations, Julia A. Jacobellis
Palimpsests of the Mind: Memory, Anamnesis, Temporality, Selin Kalostyan
The Elephant (and Donkey) in the Room: The Effects of Political Ideology on Diversity Training Effectiveness, Luke P. Kayga
Caedmon Records & The Power of Youth: How Audiobooks Revolutionized Children’s Literature, Faihaa Khan
Creating School: Writing and Reading Texts for Children, Carlyn Kolker
When College is Not Working Out: Obstacles to Community College Completion, Elisabeth Lackner
À la poursuite de Céline à New York, Gabriel Maginier
Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front, Dario Marcucci
On the Ambiguity of Wh-Expressions in Thai, Naparat Meechanyakul
Underlying Mechanisms of Quantum Emission in Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Enrique Alejandro Mejia IV
The Jamaica Now Leadership Council: A Study of Stakeholder Participation in the Revitalization of Downtown Jamaica, Queens, Melva M. Miller
Consequences of Oxidative DNA Damage: Base-Pair Dissociation, Singlet Oxygenation and DNA-Protein Crosslinking, May Myat Moe
Spin High-Harmonic Generation Through Terahertz Laser-Driven Phonons, Negin Moharrami Allafi
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping Approaches for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Vjay Molino
Whose Innovation? Philanthropic and School-Based Visions of High School in the XQ Super School Competition, Brett G. Murphy
Images of Truth: True Doxa in Plato's Republic, Sai Ying Ng
Tracing Reverberations: Vietnamese Refugee Mothers' Adaptations to Complex Structural Forces and Intergenerational Engagements, Kim Khanh Nguyen-Nalpas
Toward More Intelligible Simultaneous Multi-channel Speech Enhancement and Recognition, Zhaoheng Ni
Freedom Dreams of Young Black Boys: A Qualitative Study Among Black Male Elementary School Learners, Lamar Ok
Characterizing Malaria Infections in Caribbean Lizards: Parasite Niche Expansion & Host Response, Sarah J. Pangburn
The Spontaneous Flora of New York City; and Systematics of Larix (Pinaceae), Lydia T. Paradiso
Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury, Vaidehi Hemkumar Patel
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
Cueing Motions in a String Quartet, An Exploratory Study of Motion Trajectories, Maren Rothfritz
Decades of Division: Analyzing Hate Crimes in the USA (1991–2022), Sangeeth Sajan Baby
The Evolution of the Electrical Market: A Texas Journey, David A. Sastre Perez
Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators in the Urban North During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache
Speculative Networks: From Political Protest to the Neoliberal Market in Feminist Video Art in the US, 1970-85, Helena Shaskevich
Quantifying Educational Impacts Under the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Era, Matthew T. Stanton
Quantifying the Individual Bilingual Experience Through a Lens of Language Dominance, LeeAnn Stover
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
The Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Perspectives of Play Advocates on Children’s Unstructured Play in Turkey, Bengi Sullu
The Alphaproteobacterial General Stress Response: Investigating Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Regulatory Mechanisms, Danielle Swingle
Visualizing the Rise of American Women's Soccer, Hoi Wah Tang
Essays on the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks, Rubaiyat Tasnim
Inherited Wounds: Generational Trauma in Postcolonial Film and Narrative Fiction of the Global South, Sabrina Testi Melgarejo
Differential Mechanisms of Access in Working Memory: Comparing Global and Selective Retrieval, Jade M. Turbides
Lishmah: An Exploration of Syntactic Ambiguity and Biblical Exegesis Through the Jewish Calendar Year, Shani Tzoref
Improving Low-Resource Translation with Finite State Grammars, Nicholas J. Uva
The U.S. Grand Strategy Toward the Pacific Islands, Angela Vasovic
The Last Stand of Angraecum: Biogeographic and Evolutionary History of Darwin's Muses, Simon Verlynde
My Wings Are Not Broken: Black Males, Carcerality, and Education, Crystal M. Welch-Scott
