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).
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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 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
The Impact of User Control and Transparency in App Design on Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Mobile App Users, Arwa Alawajy
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
The Rainforest is Burning: Trials and Triumphs Working Towards Conservation in Rural Madagascar, Kathryn Alessi
Essays on Green Finance, Elsa Allman
Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills, Lauren R. Alpert
Mario Levrero: Un estudio fenomenológico de su obra, Sergio Alves
Neuroplasticity of the Corticospinal System: Applications of Neuromodulation-Based Therapies, Alzahraa M. Amer
Is This My Body? A Manual on Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis
Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability, Aparna Anand
Using the Marcus Inverted Region and Artificial Cofactors to Create a Charge Separated State in De Novo Designed Proteins, Eskil ME Andersen
Encoding and Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Native and Non-Native Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise, Reethee Antony
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Microbial-Host Dynamics and the Evolution of Nearshore Diversity in Hippocampus abdominalis, Jimiane L. Ashe
Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique, Miriam L. Atkin
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker
On the Woman Question: A Defense of Alexandra Kollontai against Liberal Critics, Nicole Baltzer
Strategic Default and Moral Hazard in Real Estate: Insights from Machine Learning Applications, Arka Prava Bandyopadhyay
Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939, Sultana Banulescu
Essays on Market Structure, Price-Setting, and Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Standing Trans Before the Law, Kyla Bender-Baird
Caffeine Modulation of Attention and Focus in Task Performance, Claudia R. Berger
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Hierarchical Hyperbolicity of Graph Products and Graph Braid Groups, Daniel James Solomon Berlyne
Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000, Dainy Bernstein
The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space, Daniel Bloch
Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology, Quinn Bolewicki
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
The Art of Listening: A Conversational Approach to Lecture Recitals, Javor Bracic
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Environmental Cues and the Sociospatial Imaginary: An Examination of Spatial Perception and Meaning-Making in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Todd Levon Brown
Europ: Expanded Cinema, Projection and the Film Co-op in Western Europe, 1966–1979, Drew E. Bucilla
Early Emotion Regulation in the Children of Superstorm Sandy, Jessica L. Buthmann
Sartorial Semiotics: Constructs of Gender and Female Sexuality in Post WWII American and European Cinema, Patricia Cabral
The Space Love Maps: A Blackgirl Legend in Three Plots, Loren S. Cahill
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
Mexico’s Northern Border Migrant Attention Plan: A Case Study in Neoliberal Human Rights and Non-Punitive Extraterritorial Spaces of Containment, Anita Michele Cannon
Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat
Skyrmions and Biskyrmions in Magnetic Films, Daniel Capic
Contemporary Human Displacement: A Comparative Analysis of Syria, Yemen, Honduras, and Venezuela, Rav Carlotti
The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Roots of Uneven Development in Brazil, Chris Carlson
Remaking Cinema: Black Hollywood Films, Filmmakers, and Finances, Kiana A. Carrington
Tears, Trauma and Transformation: Central American Mothers' Experiences of Violence, Migration and Family Reunification, Sandra B. Castro
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario
Development and Maintenance of the Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment, Shami Chakrabarti
Mechanism Design and Modeling to Analyze Complex Social Systems for Public Policy, Haripriya Chakraborty
Anticipatory Fear and Psychopathic Traits in Adolescents, Catherine Chan
BC Bound: A Pathway Designed To Support Non-Traditional Students, Fiona J. Chan
The Non-uniformity of Chinese Wh-indefinites through the Lens of Algebraic Structure, Zhuo Chen
Young Women and the Initiation Trajectory of Prescription Opioid Misuse, Rachel Chernick
The C. neoformans Cell Wall: A Scaffold for Virulence, Christine Chrissian
Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018, Emily E. Clark
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman
The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi, Jason Collins
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Characterizing the Brain Dynamics and Eye Movement Behavior of Memory-Guided Saccades: a Preliminary Investigation of Distractor Influence on Memory-Guided Saccades, Angelo V. Colmenero
Exploring the Overlap, Saliency, and Consistency of Environmental Predictors in Crime Hot Spots: A Remote Systematic Social Observation and Case-Control Examination, Nathan T. Connealy
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecules with Selective and Poly-Pharmacological Actions at D1R, D3R and Sigma Receptors, Pierpaolo Cordone
Skin Worlds: Black and Indigenous Science Fiction Theorizing Since the 1970s, Lou Cornum
Optimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will? A Gramscian Analysis of Two New York Police Reform Campaigns, Christian Covington
Dancing Through Time: A Biographical Look on the Evolution of Tap Dance, Jaimie Cranford
Computational Modeling of Water and Proteins in Drug Discovery, Anthony Cruz Balberdy
The Master's Voice: Close Readings of James, James Curley-Egan
Pierce and Pine: Diane di Prima, Mary Norbert Korte, and the Meeting of Matter and Spirit, Iris Cushing
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
Cognitive Changes Caused by LPS-induced Neuroinflammation, Nancy De La Torre
Enquêtes métaphysiques et identitaires dans la littérature policière et la fiction en France et en Afrique du Nord, Iziar De Miguel
When Saeed Betrays Fuad: Laughing at the Mechanized Occupation, Ezgi Demirors
Quantum Transport in Topological Magnets, Haiming Deng
From Object to Icon: The Unpredictable Path to Everlastingness, Donna M. Desideri
Non Ego Laudari Curo: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy, Federico Di Pasqua
The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice, Emily C. Eagen
The Effect of Anticipatory Anxiety on Fear Extinction Learning, Daniela C. Echeverria
Spirits in the Dark: Black Community Education and the Light it Bears, Sydoni A. Ellwood
Coalition and Creativity on the Bridges and Fringes with Immigrant Student-Contributors in Nonprofit Adult Education, Katherine E. Entigar
A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John
Challenges of Repatriation: Asante Artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History, Abdul-Alim Farook
An Evaluation of An Application Designed for the iPad® to Measure Stimulus Overselectivity for Future Use in Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer
Reimagining What it Means to be Black in the United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices that Shape Racial Identities among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher
Indian Classical Music in the New York Metropolitan Area: The Development of a Transnational Ecosystem, Andre Fludd
Prevention in Context: An Examination of Factors Associated with Recent HIV Testing Among Men in New York City, Anthony Freeman
The Politics of Hip Hop: A Political Analysis of Hip Hop’s History and Its Complicated Relationship with Capitalism, Danielle Garcia
The Palestinian’s Venison: John Locke, Colonialism and Liberal Zionism, Benjamin Geier
Prophecy, Emanation, and the Mediterranean Middle Ages, Alberto Gelmi