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
Spirometry: For the Winds in Us, Kendall Allison
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Podcast: One to Grow On – Why Black Studies Matter When Working and Living in Black Communities, Celia E. Ceballos
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
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
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
Blurred Borders: Women of Mexican Descents’ Experiences in the US Across Space and Time, Allison LC Das
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
The Warmth of Welcome of Refugees and Migrants in the Western Balkans, Zylfie Demushi
Parvalbumin Interneuron-Oligodendrocyte Interactions in the Infralimbic Cortex Promote Extracellular Plasticity Mechanisms After Safety Learning, Lucy Emma Denholtz
Biophysical Principles Governing HP1a-DNA Condensate Properties: Regulatory Roles of Histone Tails and RNA, Priyasha Deshpande
Parametrization of Formal Norm Compatible Sequences, Joseph DiCapua
A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda, Benjamin J. Diehl
Biophysical Analysis of S100A12 and the Nucleosome Core Particle, Christopher DiForte Jr.
Henry Jones and the 1641 Depositions: Shaping a Crucial Record of Early Modern Ireland, Phelim Dolan
Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude: On Media and the Making of Sense, Andrew Thomas Dunn
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
Craft Schools: Forming American Craft Culture Through Sites of Collective Pedagogy, 1970–1985, Michelle Millar Fisher
Seeing and Sanctioning Structural Unfairness, Grace Flores-Robles
Killer App: Uber, Worker Ownership, and the Materialization of Change, Erik Alexander Forman
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
Revolutionary Love and Rage: Destabilizing Colonialism, White Supremacy, & Transphobia, Valerie Fryer-Davis
Predicting the Dynamics of Complex Networks from Structural Phenomena, George Furbish
Case Disposition and Collaborative Decision-Making Among Drug Court Teams in Chile, Sebastian Galleguillos
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985, Sonja Gandert
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
Memory Interference in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Omar Ghazy
Filmology, Richard N. Gladstein
