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).
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 Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects by Program page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
The Tale of Two Countrysides: The Shaping of Landscapes in Hispania and Spanish Latin America, Andrew R. Abrams
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
Developing Dynamical Probes of Quantum Spin Liquids Inspired by Techniques from Spintronics, Joshua Aftergood
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Telehealth Caregiver Training: Treating Food Selectivity without Extinction, Christina M. Alaimo
The Impact of User Control and Transparency in App Design on Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Mobile App Users, Arwa Alawajy
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
The Rainforest is Burning: Trials and Triumphs Working Towards Conservation in Rural Madagascar, Kathryn Alessi
The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet, Vicente Alexim
Essays on Green Finance, Elsa Allman
Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills, Lauren R. Alpert
Mario Levrero: Un estudio fenomenológico de su obra, Sergio Alves
Neuroplasticity of the Corticospinal System: Applications of Neuromodulation-Based Therapies, Alzahraa M. Amer
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
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): Postfeminist Beauty Messaging and Resistant Media Texts, Margarita Artoglou
Microbial-Host Dynamics and the Evolution of Nearshore Diversity in Hippocampus abdominalis, Jimiane L. Ashe
Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique, Miriam L. Atkin
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker
On the Woman Question: A Defense of Alexandra Kollontai against Liberal Critics, Nicole Baltzer
Strategic Default and Moral Hazard in Real Estate: Insights from Machine Learning Applications, Arka Prava Bandyopadhyay
Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939, Sultana Banulescu
Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras
Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias
Essays on Market Structure, Price-Setting, and Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer
Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles, Christopher J. Baum
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
Immigration Lawmaking, 1950–1986: Cold War Politics and Double-Edged Reforms, Benjamin Becker
Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Standing Trans Before the Law, Kyla Bender-Baird
Barriers and Bridges to Intimacy: A Constellation of Same-Sex Female Couples’ Experiences, Struggles and Strengths, Jenna K. Bennett
Collective Intention and Class Consciousness, Aaron T. Bentley
Caffeine Modulation of Attention and Focus in Task Performance, Claudia R. Berger
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Hierarchical Hyperbolicity of Graph Products and Graph Braid Groups, Daniel James Solomon Berlyne
Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000, Dainy Bernstein
Vertebrate Scavenger Diversity and Ecosystem Services Along An Elevational Gradient in Central Nepal, Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
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
Food-as-Medicine: An Everyday Strategy of Health, Rachel Rebecca Bogan
Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology, Quinn Bolewicki
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
Quod Inane Vocamus: Lucretius’ Void in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Carlo Bottone
Evaluating the Role of Gender in Dementia-Related Language Deficiencies, Kelsey Bourque
The Art of Listening: A Conversational Approach to Lecture Recitals, Javor Bracic
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Environmental Cues and the Sociospatial Imaginary: An Examination of Spatial Perception and Meaning-Making in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Todd Levon Brown
Europ: Expanded Cinema, Projection and the Film Co-op in Western Europe, 1966–1979, Drew E. Bucilla
The Effects of Constant and Descending Criterion-Level Frequencies on Skill Acquisition Outcomes, Anna Budd
Early Emotion Regulation in the Children of Superstorm Sandy, Jessica L. Buthmann
Sartorial Semiotics: Constructs of Gender and Female Sexuality in Post WWII American and European Cinema, Patricia Cabral
The Space Love Maps: A Blackgirl Legend in Three Plots, Loren S. Cahill
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
Navigating Ocha: LGBT Practitioners' Participation and Navigation of Lucumí, Carlos M. Camacho
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
Skyrmions and Biskyrmions in Magnetic Films, Daniel Capic
The Influence of Prosecutorial Overcharging on Defendant and Defense Attorney Plea Decision Making: Documenting and Debiasing the Anchoring Effect, Stephanie Aurora Cardenas
Contemporary Human Displacement: A Comparative Analysis of Syria, Yemen, Honduras, and Venezuela, Rav Carlotti
The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Roots of Uneven Development in Brazil, Chris Carlson
Nuances in Bottom-Up Interpretations: Colombia's and Guatemala's Radically Different Approaches to Transitional Justice, Chelsea L. Carrick
Remaking Cinema: Black Hollywood Films, Filmmakers, and Finances, Kiana A. Carrington
Disrupting Paradise: A Pan-Caribbean Film Series, Dessane L. Cassell
Tears, Trauma and Transformation: Central American Mothers' Experiences of Violence, Migration and Family Reunification, Sandra B. Castro
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
Detecting Stance on Covid-19 Vaccine in a Polarized Media, Rodica Ceslov
Development and Maintenance of the Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment, Shami Chakrabarti
Mechanism Design and Modeling to Analyze Complex Social Systems for Public Policy, Haripriya Chakraborty
Anticipatory Fear and Psychopathic Traits in Adolescents, Catherine Chan
BC Bound: A Pathway Designed To Support Non-Traditional Students, Fiona J. Chan
“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era, Lidia A. Chang
Desde el fuego que en mí arde: Performance, literatura y cine afro-latinoamericano producidos por mujeres afrodescendientes en Perú, Cuba y Brasil (1960–2000), Elena Ekatherina Chavez Goycochea
Solving Multiple Inference in Graphical Models, Cong Chen
Machine Learning and Solvation Theory for Drug Discovery, Lieyang Chen
Investigation of Notch Signaling in Cone Fate Specification in Vertebrate Retina, Xueqing Chen
The Non-uniformity of Chinese Wh-indefinites through the Lens of Algebraic Structure, Zhuo Chen
Young Women and the Initiation Trajectory of Prescription Opioid Misuse, Rachel Chernick
Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei Capricci for Solo Violin: Analysis and Performance Guide, Caroline Eva Chin
The C. neoformans Cell Wall: A Scaffold for Virulence, Christine Chrissian
Positioning the 1913 Paterson Silk Workers’ Strike within a Dialectical Framework, Raymond Adam Ciafarone Jr.
Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018, Emily E. Clark
Suicidality as a Discourse of Safety in the Queer Youth Movement, Robert M. Cleary
The Clothing Left Behind: A Collection of Stories, Grace Coleman
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman