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).
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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 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
Is This My Body? A Manual on Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis
Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability, Aparna Anand
Using the Marcus Inverted Region and Artificial Cofactors to Create a Charge Separated State in De Novo Designed Proteins, Eskil ME Andersen
Encoding and Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Native and Non-Native Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise, Reethee Antony
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Caffeine Modulation of Attention and Focus in Task Performance, Claudia R. Berger
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space, Daniel Bloch
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
Mexico’s Northern Border Migrant Attention Plan: A Case Study in Neoliberal Human Rights and Non-Punitive Extraterritorial Spaces of Containment, Anita Michele Cannon
Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario
Development and Maintenance of the Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment, Shami Chakrabarti
BC Bound: A Pathway Designed To Support Non-Traditional Students, Fiona J. Chan
The Non-uniformity of Chinese Wh-indefinites through the Lens of Algebraic Structure, Zhuo Chen
The C. neoformans Cell Wall: A Scaffold for Virulence, Christine Chrissian
Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018, Emily E. Clark
The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi, Jason Collins
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecules with Selective and Poly-Pharmacological Actions at D1R, D3R and Sigma Receptors, Pierpaolo Cordone
Dancing Through Time: A Biographical Look on the Evolution of Tap Dance, Jaimie Cranford
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
Cognitive Changes Caused by LPS-induced Neuroinflammation, Nancy De La Torre
From Object to Icon: The Unpredictable Path to Everlastingness, Donna M. Desideri
Non Ego Laudari Curo: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy, Federico Di Pasqua
The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice, Emily C. Eagen
A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John
An Evaluation of An Application Designed for the iPad® to Measure Stimulus Overselectivity for Future Use in Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer
Reimagining What it Means to be Black in the United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices that Shape Racial Identities among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher
Prevention in Context: An Examination of Factors Associated with Recent HIV Testing Among Men in New York City, Anthony Freeman
The Politics of Hip Hop: A Political Analysis of Hip Hop’s History and Its Complicated Relationship with Capitalism, Danielle Garcia
Synthetic and Biological Studies on Benzazepine Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Rajan Giri
When Is a Sandwich Too Much? A Critical Look at Teenage Parenthood and Its Impact on the Lives of Their Parents, Shirley P. Grant
El Chapo's Trial as Legitimation of the War on Drugs: A Neoliberal Mechanism of Social Control and Imperial Intervention, Maurizio Guerrero
Direct Recruitment of eIF4GI and/DAP5 to the 5' UTR of a Subset of Human mRNA Drives Their Cap-independent Translation, Solomon A. Haizel
The Second Kashmir (Informational) War of 1965, Navdip Hans
School Recess and Changes to Children's Play Opportunities in New York City, Keyonna Hayes
The Effects of Multisensory Imagery on Vocabulary Learning, Lawrence A. Herman
Auto®Ficción Latinx de Nueva York (1999–2020), Jacqueline Herranz Brooks
Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans and Objects in the European Middle Ages, Debra L. Hilborn-Davis
Producing Movement Space in New York City's Solidarity Economy, Lauren Taylor Hudson
The American Symphony Orchestra Today: Problems in Community, Diversity, and Representation, Hilary Slade Jansen
The Role of Perceived Warmth and Competence in Civil Trials with Corporate Litigants, Alexander C. Jay
Essays on Financial Economics and Insurance, Andreas Kakolyris
Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property, Sharisse Kanet
Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature, Christina Katopodis
Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera
Dealer Networks in Over-The-Counter (OTC) Financial Markets, Richmond Kyei-Fordjour
Spaces of Statecraft: How the Bureaucratic State Was Built on Manhattan’s Sidewalk, Brian J. Lee
Influence of Demographic, Clinical, and Neuroimaging Variables on Neuropsychological Recovery Trajectories After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Elizabeth J. Leif
Video on Film: Video Essay, Videographic Criticism, and Digital Academic Publishing, Tian Leng
Emergent Photophyiscs In Diketopyrrolopyrrole Superstructures, Andrew Levine
A Reflection on the Dialectical Relationship of Librarian | Teacher: The Need for Pedagogical Training in Core MLIS Curriculum, Melanie C. Locay
Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes and Classroom Discipline Referral, Nicole L. Lorenzetti
Prosody and Intonation in Formosan Languages, Benjamin K. Macaulay
In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher
Speech Enhancement Using Speech Synthesis Techniques, Soumi Maiti
Role of Protonation State Changes and Hydrogen Bonding Around the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, Divya Matta
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities, Sean Miller
Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing Madame Bovary, Francesca Montalti
Art After Dark: Economies of Performance, New York City 1978–1988, Meredith Mowder
Illegitimate Tasks and Performance Outcomes: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Coworker Sharing Illegitimate Tasks Experiences, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi
Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia
Framing the Border: Liminality in the Network Narratives of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Modeling and Analysis of Affiliation Networks with Subsumption, Alexey Nikolaev
The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry, Sean M. Nolan
The Different Components of Active Shooter Incidents: Examining the Co-occurrence of Offender and Incident Characteristics, Jeffery R. Osborne
“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building with Wynne Greenwood’s Tracy + the Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea
The Making of Transpacific Video Art, 1966–1988, Haeyun Park
Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave, Joseph D. Parziale
A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Optimizing Communication in Palliative and Hospice Care: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Sherry E. Queen
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
Third Harmonic Generation: A Method for Visualizing Myelin in the Murine Cerebral Cortex, Michael Redlich
The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky
Exploring the Effects of Coworker Ostracism on Feedback Inquiry and Voice: The Mediating Role of Proactive Motivation, Ethan G. Rothstein
Introducing Odysseus: Force, Resistance and Nostos in the Formation of Odysseus’ Character, Haley Ryan
Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency, Jules F. Salomone-Sehr
The Material Culture of Temperature: Measurement, Capital and Semiotics, Scott W. Schwartz