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).
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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
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
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
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
Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra
Consumers’ Reactions to Multiple Instances of Negative Publicity: The Role of Publicity Domain Similarity, Berna Basar
The Role of Women in Terrorism, Zeynep Bayar
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
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
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
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
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
Mentality and Fundamentality, Christopher D. Brown
Training as Restructuring: Cases from Entry-Level Healthcare and Manufacturing Workforce Training in Eastern Connecticut, Shelley Buchbinder
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 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
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
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
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
Sexual Violation, Feminism, and Foucault: Against a Confessional Politics of Truth, Amber M. Chiacchieri
Humoring Violations: Uncanny Humor in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Christine Choi
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian
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
Imagined Futures: Feminist Science Studies in an Era of Climate Change Denial, Emily K. Crandall
Testimonios in Liminal Spaces: Puerto Rican Women Living in Extended-Stay and Shelter Hotels in New York City After Hurricane Maria, Jessica Crespo
"He Who is Conscious of the Bright but Keeps to the Dark": The Fame and Legacy of Jack Kerouac, Regina Crotser
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
Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System, Muhammad Dalhatu
The Body and Its Signifiers: Bodily Depictions in Niccolò de’ Conti and Odorico da Pordenone, Antonella Dalla Torre
Relational Processes in Support-Related Communication Among Young Adults with Cancer, Kathleen Darabos
A Study of Factors Influencing Hiring Decisions in the Context of Ban the Box Policies, Ronald F. Day
The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio
Revisiting Juchitán: Witnessing an Indigenous Mexico Within the Latin American Archive, Michelle G. de la Cruz
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
Control of Energy Transfer and Molecular Energetics using Photonic Nanostructures, Rahul Deshmukh
Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz
Internal Displacement in the United States: A Result of Climate Change and U.S. Policy, Ahmad T. Diop
The Past is Never Dead: Amorphous Time in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Anthony E. Dominguez
Youth Voice and the Promise and Peril of Affirmative Governmentality: An Analysis of New York City’s Borough Student Advisory Councils, Hillary R. Donnell
Broadway Bodies: Casting, Stigma, and Difference in Broadway Musicals Since "A Chorus Line" (1975), Ryan Donovan
A Credible Fear: The Politics of Gang Violence in the Northern Triangle, Jane E. Dowd
Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four, LeiLani Dowell
Contested Development: A Poor People's Movement for a Better Los Angeles, 1960–2018, Deshonay R. Dozier
Reclaiming the Musical Burlesque: A Reconstruction of the 1855 Musical Score to John Brougham’s Po-Ca-Hon-Tas: Or, The Gentle Savage, Christopher Drobny
A Living Experience of Feeling Listened To: A Parsesciencing Inquiry, Teodora Duarte-Quilao
Refusing White Privacy, Olivia Dunbar
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value, John Dyck
Assessment of Third Wave Therapy Assumptions about the Relation between Emotional Schemas and Psychoemotional Functioning, Emily Rachel Edwards
Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer, Benelita Elie
İbne, Gey, Lubunya: A Queer Critique of LGBTI+ Discourses in the New Cinema of Turkey, Azmi Mert Erdem
Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992, Nadiah Rivera Fellah
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
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel