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 library barcode 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 top-level Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
The Implementation of Empathy in the Animated Television Show “Hey Arnold”, Starnise Johnson
Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects in Multilingual People with Aphasia, Aviva Lerman
Más allá de la comisión de la verdad y reconciliación: Memoria, cuerpo y producción cultural de mujeres en el perú (2005–2013), Otilia M. Mendiolaza
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice, Audrey Abela
'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865, Scott Ackerman
The Critique Became the Counter-Narrative: Planning Manhattan North of the Street Grid, Gail K. Addiss
Environmental Adaptations and Agency: An Ecological Reframing of Design and Implementation Practices for Disability, Jennifer Adler
Zeta Functions of Classical Groups and Class Two Nilpotent Groups, Fikreab Solomon Admasu
Rails to Revolution: Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution, Hector Agredano
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
Death of the Caliphate: Reconfiguring Ali Abd al-Raziq’s Ideas and Legacy, Arooj Alam
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Different Strokes for Different but Reasonable Folks: Comparison of Legally Relevant Observers’ Perceptions of Custody, Fabiana Alceste
Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization, Ashna Ali
Music and Jewish Practice in Contemporary Istanbul: Preserving Heritage, Bending Tradition, Joseph M. Alpar
History of Military Interventions in Political Affairs in Pakistan, Hina Altaf
Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays, Alicia Page Andrzejewski
Stability and Application of the k-core Dynamical Model to Biological Networks, Francesca Beatrice Arese Lucini
Online Learning and Planning for Crowd-aware Service Robot Navigation, Anoop Aroor
Migrant Domestic Labor in the Global South: The Plight of Filipina Domestic Workers in Morocco, Sara Asselman
Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Conflicting Regional Interests, Sabera Azizi
Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile, Ana Baert
The Subject of Jouissance: The Late Lacan and Gender and Queer Theories, Frederic C. Baitinger
Unstitching the Borders: Color, Class and Consumption in Queens, New York, Cassandra R. Barnes
Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra
Cyber-Narrative in Opera: Three Case Studies, Naomi Barrettara
Consumers’ Reactions to Multiple Instances of Negative Publicity: The Role of Publicity Domain Similarity, Berna Basar
Black, Male, and Poor: The Intersection of Social Identities Effects on Special Education Referrals for Emotional Disturbance, Marilyn D. Bassett-Joseph
Staging English Affairs in Early Modern Italy: History, Politics, Drama, Fabio Battista
Runaway: A History of Postwar New York in Four Factories, Andy Battle
The Role of Women in Terrorism, Zeynep Bayar
How Racial Injustice Causes Ignorance, Eric Bayruns
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
The Evolution of Reproductive Complexity in Fishes, Frieda Benun
Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali
Queerness, Witchcraft, and Embodied Presence: Aesthetic Knowings of What a Body Can Do, Megan Bigelow
How Black Lives Matter Has Influenced and Interacted with Global Social Movements, Arelle A. Binning
Mood Choice and Context Availability: A Variationist Approach to the Subjunctive in New York City Spanish, Joanna Birnbaum
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Collapse of the USSR: Soviet Intellectuals and the Idea of the West, Alma Boltirik
A Musician Centered Toolkit for Audiologists, Ava Bonavita
Refugees from Somalia, Burma/Myanmar and Iraq: Navigating New Lives in the US in Post-9/11 Context, Ivona Boroje
Landing Points, Matt Boyle
Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite
Just a Buncha Clowns: Comedic-Anarchy and Racialized Performance in Black Vaudeville, the Chop Suey Circuit, and las Carpas, Michael Shane Breaux
Culture Clubs: Processing Speech by Deriving and Exploiting Linguistic Subcultures, David Guy Brizan
Class Matters: School Affluence and Other Predictors of Attainment for Wealthy and Poor Students, Alison Brockhouse
Post-Synaptic Mechanisms of Early and Late Prepulse Inhibition in the Goldfish, Daniel Bronson
"A War Within a War": Policing Gender and Race in New York City During World War II, Emily Brooks
Memory-Guided Selective Attention: An Instance Theory of Automatic Attentional Control, Nicholaus Paul Brosowsky
Mentality and Fundamentality, Christopher D. Brown
Through the Mouth: An Essay on Appetite and Ecocide, Iemanja Brown
Optical and Collective Properties of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors, Matthew N. Brunetti
Infinity Wars: Post 9/11 Superhero Films and American Empire, Peter J. Bruno
Training as Restructuring: Cases from Entry-Level Healthcare and Manufacturing Workforce Training in Eastern Connecticut, Shelley Buchbinder
Transposon Mutagenesis Facilitates Discovery Of Genotype-Phenotype Associations and Functional Interrogation of the Mycobacterium Kansasii Genome, William C. Budell
The 5-HT1A-R Knockout Mouse as a Model of Later Life Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Sex Differences, Tatyana Budylin
Molecular Analysis of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis from a Specific Retinal Progenitor Population, Diego F. Buenaventura
The Counter-Patriotic Tradition in American Politics: Resistance, Nationhood, and Democracy, Maxwell Burkey
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
Using Transfer Learning in Network Markets, Kai Cai
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
The Effects of Language Background and Foreign Accent on Listening Comprehension, Sita Carraturo
Reimagining the Flute Masterclass: Case Studies Exploring Artistry, Authority, and Embodiment, Sarah Carrier
The Transformation of Women's Roles in Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France: Femininity, Fashion, and Frivolity in Fiction, Christine M. Carter
A New and Unsettling Force: Information Technology, Popular Education and the Movement to End Poverty, Christopher Caruso
You Can’t Eat Altruism: Searching for Workplace Democracy at New York City’s Nonprofits, Celia Castellan
CK2 Negatively Regulates 5-HT4 Receptor Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex and Mediates Depression-like Behaviors, Julia Castello Saval
The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer, Carolyn J. Cei
Italian/Americans and the American Racial System: Contadini to Settler Colonists?, Stephen J. Cerulli
One-Dimensional Excited Random Walk with Unboundedly Many Excitations Per Site, Omar Chakhtoun
‘Its Something You Do Bro’: Language and Identity on a Male Erotic Hypnosis Messageboard, Eric Chambers
The Subject of the Novel: Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, Jin Chang
Mandarin Assessment in Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers, Jennifer A. Chard
MEN SET ON FIRE. Algernon Sidney & John Adams: Remodeling Anglo-American Republicanism, Deborah B. Charnoff
An In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of the Anticancer Potential of Resveratrol and Pterostilbene Against HPV-E6 Positive Cancers, Kaushiki Chatterjee
Recognition by Flickering Components: The Effect of Temporal Modulation on Image Recognition, Alla Chavarga
Working Lives: Artistic Solidarity in Revolutionary Peru (1960–1980), Jose R. Chavarry
Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure, Biwei Chen
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
Employment Duration and Attrition of Federal and State Inspectors General in the United States, Frank Chen
Baroque Pianism: Perspectives on Playing Baroque Keyboard Music on the Piano, with Emphasis on Bach’s Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, Chih-tung Cheng
Sexual Violation, Feminism, and Foucault: Against a Confessional Politics of Truth, Amber M. Chiacchieri
Examining the Effects of a Multi-Component Neurocognitive Intervention for School-Aged Children with Co-Occurring ADHD and Reading Difficulties, Alyssa L. Chimiklis
Eugenics in the 21st Century, Jessica Linn Chin
Humoring Violations: Uncanny Humor in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Christine Choi
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian
Sounds of Alter-destiny and Ikonoklast Panzerist Fabulations, Mette Christiansen
Exhibition Catalog on Rediscovering the Fashion of Hanboks and Kimonos: The Tale of Kisaengs and Geishas, Sylvia Chung
Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: What They Wore and How it Was Made, Wanett I. Clyde