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
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
Glotopolítica de la Desigualdad: Ideologías del Mapudungun y el Español en Chile (2009–2019), Gabriel E. Alvarado Pavez
HuR Ubiquitination by BRCA1/BARD1 and Its Role in Controlling Gene Expression During DNA Damage Response, Gamage M. Aruggoda
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe, Sophia A.M. Bishop
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond
The Argentines of Paris: Theatrical Networks and Assemblages, Stefano Boselli
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Logical Pluralism and Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer
Investigating the Modulatory Effect of Expectations on Memory Retrieval During Sentence Comprehension, Luca Campanelli
Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell
Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell
Identifying Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Construct Under-Representation as Support of External Evidence of Validity, Jennifer Case
Tonal Adaptation of Loanwords in Mandarin: Phonology and Beyond, Zhuting Chang
Essays on Anomalies in International Equity Markets, Xiao Cheng
Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen
The Transcription Factor ATF5 Protects Cortical Neurons from Toxicity Induced by Prostaglandin J2, Fanny Cheung
Tamalin/GRAS-1 Connects Glutamate Receptor Activity to the Insulin/IGF Signaling Cascade to Regulate Neuroprotection in a Nematode Model of Excitotoxicity, Ayesha Chowdhury
Transcription Initiation and Termination of Chemically Synthesized Small RNA Expression Vectors, Jose Cobo
Through the Back Door: Proteins Escape Cells without Conventional Permission, Michael J. Cohen
International Influence on the Development and Reception of Cello Playing in England, 1870–1930: Robert Hausmann, Auguste Van Biene, and Guilhermina Suggia, Hannah E. Collins
The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress., Mary Collins
African American Existential Heroes: Narrative Struggles for Authenticity, Michael Cotto
An Affective Events Theory Analysis of Conflict Perception Emergence, Michael J. Covell
Responses of North American Birds to Recent Climate Change: Effects of Distributional Changes on Migration Distances, Community Structure and Biodiversity Patterns, Shannon R. Curley
Asians Applying for Postsecondary Success: Students, Schools, and Socioeconomic Status, Avery M.D. Davis
Speech Motor Control in Younger and Older Adults: The Effect of Age and Individual Differences on Speech Error Production, Katherine M. Dawson
The Cinematic Treatment of Tableaux Vivants in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, Sheikh Deen
II-VI Type-II Quantum Dot Superlattices for Novel Applications, Vasilios Deligiannakis
The Police and the State, Brandon del Pozo
Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies, Taylor Dietrich
Afectos en la Novela Española Contemporánea: Tematización de la Tercera Guerra de los Balcanes y Construcción del "Otro", Isabel Dominguez Seoane
In and Out of Character: Socratic Mimēsis, Mateo Duque
Metaethical Intentionalism and the Intersubjectivity of Morals, Kyle Ferguson
Legend Has It: Tracking the Research Trope in Supernatural Horror Film Franchises, Deirdre M. Flood
Leveraging Antibodies for Positron Emission Tomography and Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Cancer, Kimberly C. Fung
A Teacher Educator's Narrative Journey into Mindfulness, Al-Karim H. Gangji
Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism and The Early Writing of James Joyce, Erin Garrow
Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing, Hussein M. Ghaly
A Critical Analysis of the Projection of Historical Narratives of the Indian Tribal People in "Our Past III", Sudhashree Girmohanta
Familismo, FAFSA, and Sallie Mae: A Study of Second Generation Latinx Student Loan Debt, Jasmine Gonsalez
Performing NYC Latinidades: Building a Diasporic Home at Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Oriana E. Gonzales
Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Potentially Tumor Targeting Analogues of the Tetrahydrofuran Containing Acetogenins, Patricia Gonzalez Periche
“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton, Valerie Gritsch
Binaural: Trauma and Disability Representation in Cinema, Joshua Grossberg
Essays on the Application of the Machine Learning Methods in Finance and Policy Evaluation, Olga Guska
Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda, and the Tea Trade in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880–1914, Leila Anne Harris
From One Period to the Next... : Menstruation and the Psychoanalytic Process of Working through to the Feminine, Loryn L. Hatch
The Language of Exploitation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of How Employers Use Bilingualism in New York City Job Ads, Guadalupe R. Hernandez
In Support of Abstraction: Physical Interiority Beyond Postmodern Dance, Irene Hultman Monti
American Novels Amidst the Rise of New Media: Emergent Publics and Forms, Sarah Ruth Jacobs
PARP1-Targeted Radiotherapies, Stephen Jannetti
The Implementation of Empathy in the Animated Television Show “Hey Arnold”, Starnise Johnson
The Cortico-Motoneuronal System in the PlexinA1 Knock-Out Mouse: Sculpting the Motor Response and Activity-Dependent Plasticity, John Kalambogias
The Picturesque and Its Decay: The Travel Writing and Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley, Gabrielle Kappes
Out of Home: Social Class in Women’s Writing, 1950–2016, Lisa M. Karakaya
Robust Neural Machine Translation, Abdul Rafae Khan
Lo visible, lo invisible y lo imaginable: Neoliberalismo y ciudad en las producciones culturales de posguerra en Centroamérica, Maria A. Leon Umana
Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects in Multilingual People with Aphasia, Aviva Lerman
Feminist Theology and the Fantastic in Jewish Poetics and Children's Literature (1960s–Present), Meira S. Levinson
Ethical Validity: An Ethical Validity Claim for Discourse Ethics, Jamie B. Lindsay
Shock, Stimulus, and Upheaval: The Great Recession, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Mayoral Coalitions in Brooklyn, NY 2009–2013, Charles Linsmeier
Essays on Social Connectedness, Institutional Behavior, and Market Predictability, Yan Li
Blocking Visual Awareness with Continuous Flash Suppression Prevents Cognitive Control, Jonathan LoVoi
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
Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others, Sasha M. Miller
Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain, Kathryn N. Moss
The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film, Victoria Napolitano
Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Nano-Coatings: Study of Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Properties and Applications, Illya Nayshevsky
Density Functional Theory Study of Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Films, Pradip R. Niraula
Unpaid Care Work and Civic Engagement: A Review of Literature Suggesting Unpaid Care Work as Civic Engagement, William Novello
On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities, Isaac Overcast
Advanced Computational Methodologies to Study Binding Free Energies of Biomolecular Complexes, Rajat Kumar Pal
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Exploring Vicarious Resilience among Practitioners Working with Clients Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events, Adam Reynolds
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
A Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Connection Between Gender and Discipline in Grades Pre-K–8, Nicole Salazar