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 2019
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Conflicting Regional Interests, Sabera Azizi
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
Refugees from Somalia, Burma/Myanmar and Iraq: Navigating New Lives in the US in Post-9/11 Context, Ivona Boroje
Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite
Culture Clubs: Processing Speech by Deriving and Exploiting Linguistic Subcultures, David Guy Brizan
Post-Synaptic Mechanisms of Early and Late Prepulse Inhibition in the Goldfish, Daniel Bronson
Molecular Analysis of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis from a Specific Retinal Progenitor Population, Diego F. Buenaventura
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
CK2 Negatively Regulates 5-HT4 Receptor Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex and Mediates Depression-like Behaviors, Julia Castello Saval
One-Dimensional Excited Random Walk with Unboundedly Many Excitations Per Site, Omar Chakhtoun
The Subject of the Novel: Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, Jin Chang
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
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833, Michael Crowder
Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum, Noah R. Cypher
A Study of Factors Influencing Hiring Decisions in the Context of Ban the Box Policies, Ronald F. Day
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
Just Borders: The Foundations of Immigration Policy, Cody Fenwick
The Music in His Words: The Art of Sound and Folk in Louis Armstrong’s Manuscript for Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup
Neighborhood Ecology and Recidivism: A Case Study in NYC, Sarah Picard Fritsche
Reversing borrón y cuenta nueva: The Curative Power of Family Memory in the Novels of Loida Maritza Perez and Nelly Rosario, Ivonne Gonzalez
Private Funding of the United Nations, Consequence and Future of the World Intergovernmental Organization, Kossi H. Hator
Between the Living and the Dead, Laura Henriksen
Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins
The Post-9/11 LGBTQ Human Rights Struggle in Egypt, Donna K. Huaman
Magnetic Resonance Studies of Free Radicals Generation and their Impact in Different Polymers, Sunita Humagain
Characterization of Immunomodulatory Microbial Factors in Medicinal Plants, Kriti Kalpana
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
Performing Desire in Times Square: Sailors, Hustlers and Masculinity, Kel R. Karpinski
Integrating the Effects of Biotic Interactions into Models of Species Distributions, Jamie M. Kass
A Defense of Pure Connectionism, Alex B. Kiefer
The Shape of Knowledge: The Postwar American Poet's Library, with Diane di Prima and Charles Olson, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
A Meta-Analysis of Information Processing Measures of Intelligence, Performance, and Group Score Differences, Elliott C. Larson
Structural Studies on Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Activation of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase, Kwangwoon Lee
Reverse the Curse: Colonialist Legacies of the Magic Poem, Karen E. Lepri
Intimate Partner Violence Among Expectant Adolescent Couples: Psychological and Relational Predictors and Sexual Risk, Jessica Lewis
Sylvia Plath and "the bigger things": War, History, and Modernism at Midcentury, Reagan Lothes
A Narrative Inquiry of Associate Degree Nursing Students' Stories About Their Experience of Academic Misconduct, Bridget Anne Maley
Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks
Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction, Rosemery Membreno
The "I" of the Artist-Curator, Natalie Musteata
Quantum Uncertainty Reduction (QUR) Theory of Attended Access and Phenomenal Consciousness, Anatoly V. Nichvoloda
The Right to Run: Decoding Sexism Against Women Politicians and Fighting for a New Paradigm for Intersectional Left Feminists, Charlene A. Obernauer
Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States and Nepal: A Comparative Study, Abin Ojha
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities, Francesca Petronio
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Identification and Characterization of Barrier Insulator Activity in the T-Cell Receptor alpha Locus Control Region, Gayathri Devi Raghupathy
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping in Computer Aided Drug Design, Steven Ramsey
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder
Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition between al Qaeda and ISIS, Hristo Voynov
Frontiers of Conditional Logic, Yale Weiss
Emergent Critical Properties in Liquid-Gas Transition and Single Dislocations in Solid He4, Max Yarmolinsky
Bisthioether Stapled Peptides Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Gene Repression, Gan Zhang
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Organic Photochemistry: Remote Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates via a Heterogeneous Approach, Niluksha Walalawela Abeykoon
Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree
To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison
Service Quality Assessment for Cloud-based Distributed Data Services, Arun Adiththan
How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal
Buying Time: Consuming Urban Pasts in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Dory Agazarian
El tango y la cultura popular en la reciente narrativa argentina, Monica A. Agrest
Differences in the Role of Acculturation on the Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Asian Subgroups, Khadijah Ahmad
The Exegetical Function of the Conductus in MS Egerton 2615, Dongmyung Ahn
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed Modifications of Nucleosides, Synthesis of Hippadine, and Deuterated 1,2,3-Triazoles, Hari K. Akula
The Lived Experience of Traumatic Amputation for Haitian Adults, Margarett Alexandre
Galois Groups of Differential Equations and Representing Algebraic Sets, Eli Amzallag
Anti-Proliferative Effects of Garcinia Fruits in Breast Cancer Cells, Harini Anandhi Senthilkumar
Hierarchical Meta-Analysis: A Simulation Study Comparing Classical Random Effects and Fully Bayesian Methods, Nancy R. Andiloro
Personality Recognition For Deception Detection, Guozhen An
Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton