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
Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Conflicting Regional Interests, Sabera Azizi
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
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
Suing for Spanish: Puerto Ricans, Bilingual Voting, and Legal Activism in the 1970s, Ariel Arnau
Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look at Wayne's World, Glam, and the Losers of Rock and Roll, Michelle A. Arp
List, Sample, and Count, Ali Assarpour
Dietary Curcumin Promotes Resilience to Chronic Social Defeat Stress in a Highly Susceptible Mouse Strain, Antonio V. Aubry
Feeling as Knowing: Trans Phenomenology and Epistemic Justice, B. Lee Aultman
Analyzing Housing Demand and Its Role in the U.S. Economy, Irina Ayzenberg
The Role of Oxidative Stress and Signal Transduction in Chemotherapy-Mediated Cognitive Impairment in the Menopause Rat Model, Ciara Bagnall
Contemporary Archaeological Looting: A Criminological Analysis of Italian Tomb Robbers, Marc Balcells Magrans
Functional Interactions of tau, Pin1, p53 and mRNA 3′ Processing Factors in Non-Neuronal Cells, Jorge E. Baquero
Writing with Light: Cameraless Photography and Its Narrative in the 1920s, Karen K. Barber
The Pragmatic Strategy of Main-Clause Omission in Japanese: Its Contrast with Hebrew, and Its Learnability, Maayan Barkan
School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration, Akeem A. Barnes
Exacerbating Inequality: Public Schooling in the Era of Neoliberal Standardization, Johanna Panetti Barnhart
Factors Associated with Household Contacts' Tuberculosis Testing and Evaluation, Elvy G. Barroso
Some Like It Hot: The Effect of Serving Temperature on Perceived Caloric Content and Intent to Purchase Complementary Food, Sara Baskentli
"But the Heart Stays Turkish": Identifications of Immigrants and Boundaries of Belonging in America, Zeynep Selen Bayhan
Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization, Brenden Beck
Parents Frame Childhood for the World to See in Digital Media Postings, Aysenur Benevento
Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art, Elizabeth Sarah Berkowitz
Splendid Disarray: The Music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Nina Berman
Phospholipase D-Dependent mTORC1 Activation by Glutamine, Elyssa Bernfeld
Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971, Debarati Biswas
Describing Doggo-Speak: Features of Doggo Meme Language, Jennifer Bivens
Finding Light in the Caves: Achieving Professional and Personal Bliss on a Journey in Cheeseworld, Mitchell Bleier
The Effect of a Voice Treatment on Facial Expression in Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical and Demographic Predictors, Amanda D. Bono
Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio
Famed Communities: Trojan Origins, Nationalism, and the Question of Europe in Early Modern England, Joseph Bowling
"It's like They're Right There Next to You": Maintaining Girls' Camp Friendships via Mobile Media, Elise Bragard
Investigation of Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Greenhouse Gas Production in the Urban Hudson River Estuary, Brian Alan Brigham
Curcumin Inhibits the IKK:NF-kappa B Pathway in Neural Fear Circuits, Miguel A. Briones
Information Content, Charge Transport Properties, and Computational Capacities of Proteins, Joseph Murphy Brisendine Jr.
Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement, Seon Britton
Educational Relevance as a Motivating Operation for Equivalence Class Formation: Implications for Application, Julia Brodsky
Regulation of the Tubulin Homolog FtsZ in Escherichia coli, Monika S. Buczek
Using Molecular Markers to Trace the Population History of Volant Organisms at Differing Temporal Scales, Noah A. Burg
The Labyrinth and the Cave: Archaic Forms in Art and Architecture of Europe, 1952–1972, Paula Burleigh
A Network Theoretical Approach to Real-World Problems: Application of the K-Core Algorithm to Various Systems, Kate Burleson-Lesser
The Exceptional Case of Plancia Magna: (Re)analyzing the Role of a Roman Benefactress, Barbara F. Caceres-Cerda
The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes
An Experimental Study of the Differences Between "Just" and "Only": NPI Licensing and Modal Scope, Taletha Callahan-Kanik
Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants, Lluvia Camacho Cervantes
Rationality and Efficient Verifiable Computation, Matteo Campanelli
Vowel Production in Down Syndrome: An Ultrasound Study, Micalle Carl
PARP PET Imaging Agents, Brandon Carney
Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll
The Geometry of Pragmatism, Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English, Giacomo Castronovo Jr.
Optimization of CuInxGa1-xSe2 Solar Cells with Post Selenization, Zehra Cevher
The French Revolution in Early American Literature, 1789–1815: Translations, Interpretations, Refractions, Courtney Chatellier
Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities, Melanie D. Chin
Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners, Jiyoung Choi
The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency, Sooran Choi
Sociality and Stress in Female Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa: Behavioral Flexibility and Coping Mechanisms, Shahrina Chowdhury
The Social Construction of Protest: Print Media Coverage of the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Protests in New York City, Kirsten Christiansen
Integration of BMP and Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling Regulates Multiple Homeostatic Functions in Caenorhabditis elegans, James F. Clark
The Inter-Subject Correlation of EEG in Response to Naturalistic Stimuli, Samantha S. Cohen
Noise Levels In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review, Esther Cohn
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Coie Peña
Toward a Science of Morals, Ross Taylor Colebrook
Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole, Alisha M. Collins
Forensic Analysis of Fiber Dyes via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mircea A. Comanescu
A Narrative Approach to Investigating the Contextual Nature of Adolescent Self-Regulation, Kelly Conover
The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography, Brendon E. Cook
The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895, Brendan Cooper
A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists’ Perception of Ethnic Identity Shifts in Immigrant Patients, Ricardo Corbetta
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Leadership Ineffectiveness: The Interactive Effects of Leader Personality, Job Demands, and Job Resources on Ethical Climate and Employee Turnover Intentions, Michelle D. Corman
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography, Melissa Coss Aquino
Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa
Culture Care Needs of Puerto Rican Women Receiving HIV Care from Nurse Practitioners in New York City, Michele Crespo-Fierro