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 2022
The Neighborhood Stories Indexing Project, Elena Abou Mrad
Neurocardiovascular Instability (NCVI) Risk as a Predictor of Cognitive Function in the Long Life Family Study, Rebecca Abraham
Monolingual Versus Bilingual Use of Context to Facilitate Speech Recognition in Background Noise: A Systematic Review, Rachel Abucasis
Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin
The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici
The Effects of Syrian Refugees on Jordanians’ Political Attitudes, Suna Buse Agkoc
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing Models, Somayeh Ahmadi
Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t: The Poetics of Flicker, Sara Akant
A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography, Fidan Akinci
Genomic Insights into Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution and Evolution-inspired Strategies to Combat Pathogen Diversity, Saymon Akther
Role of Metals in Human Immune System: Study of Metal-Dependent Structural Changes of S100A12 Protein, Aleksey Aleshintsev
A Diagnostic Pocket Guide For Audiologists: Outer, Middle, and Inner Ear Disorders and Chronic Diseases, Ashley Andino
The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Validating Students’ Proficiency in Mathematics, Alexander Avdeev
La voz obrera en Chile (1879-1937): lenguaje y escritura de la clase trabajadora chilena en el proceso de construcción nacional, Tania A. Aviles Vergara
Representation Learning for Chemical Activity Predictions, Mohamed S. Ayed
North of the Grid: The Black Experience of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes
Public Policy and the Business Life Cycle, Hugo Barreca
Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness, Lynne Beckenstein
Usability of Health-related Websites by Filipino-American Adults and Nursing Informatics Experts, Kathleen Begonia
Histone Post-translational Modification Dysregulation Contributes to Toxicity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Proteinopathy Models, Seth A. Bennett
American Intervention in the "New World Order", Julie N. Benson
Exploring the Effectiveness of Multiple-Exemplar Training for Visual Analysis of AB-Design Graphs, Verena S. Bethke
Understanding the Proton Transport in Non-Aqueous Histidine-Based Nanostructures, Jiang Bian
Legislating Against Liberties: Congress and the Constitution in the Aftermath of War, Harry Blain
The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development, and Modernity in Zanzibar, Caitlyn Bolton
Thickened Surfaces, Checkerboard Surfaces, and Quantum Link Invariants, Joseph W. Boninger
Faith Community Nurse Self-Care: A Qualitative Study, Linda Bradley
Fostering College Students’ Fact-Checking Skills: Three Studies Assessing Lateral Reading Instruction in a General Education Course, Jessica E. Brodsky
Strategies Anti-Racist Supervisors Use to Disrupt Racism in Social Work Practice, Sarah Ross Bussey
Falling Forward: The Governance of School Reform, Race, and the Contest for a Dignified Future in Newark, N.J., Claire Cahen
Drift Net: The Social and Political Agency of the Migratory Text, Chris Campanioni
Pop/Art: The Birth of Underground Music and the British Art School, 1960–1980, Andrew Cappetta
The Effects of Near-Threshold Color Manipulation on Perceptual Decision-Making and Confidence Report, Trevor Caruso
Strength and Vulnerability in Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel for Cello and Marimba: An Analysis through Performance and Composition, Andrea Casarrubios
Diet and Nutrition of Lemurs in the Lean Season, Santiago Cassalett
Molecular Mechanism of Rapamycin Resistance in Cancer Cells, Sohag Chakraborty
Novel Strategies For Glutamate Clearance in the Glia-Deprived Synaptic Hub of C. elegans, Joyce Chan
Just Between You and Me: Private Financial Transactions Signal Communal Traits and Enhance Others’ Willingness to Cooperate, Lennay Chapman
Structural and Biochemical Investigations of the Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteriophage Lambda and Escherichia coli, Jillian D. Chase
Disrepair, Displacement and Distress: Finding Housing Stories Through Data Visualizations, Jennifer Cheng
Essays in Macroeconomic Policy, Meng-Ting Chen
Blockchain: Key Principles, Nadezda Chikurova
Sunbelt Schooling: Publics and Politics of Education Advocacy in Phoenix, Arizona, Matthew Chrisler
Audiologists' Perspectives on Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Rachael L. Cleary
Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution, Davide Giuseppe Colasanto
Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies, Beth A. Cooper
Property in Pieces: Land, Oil and Uncertainty in a Mexican Ejido, Margaret Cruz
Data for Power: A Visual Tool for Organizing Unions, Shay Culpepper
Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames
Investigating Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials as a Novel Biosignature for Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Elizabeth R. Davis
Charge Transport and Spin Dynamics of Color Centers in Diamond, Damon Daw
A Case for Comprehensive Work-Based Learning and Career Education for New York City’s Public High School Students, Jacqueline De La Cruz
Brujas of Yesterday, their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Collective Behavior of Dissipatively-Coupled Photonic Oscillator Networks, Jiajie Ding
Clowning with Identity: Embodied Selves and Others in Comedy's Gendered Character Performances, Allison Douglass
cVEMP Frequency Tuning in Adults Aged 60 and Above: A Systematic Review, Kiersten P. Dudman
Essays in Monetary and Macroprudential Policies, Mikheil Dvalishvili
Individual Differences in Coping with Large Multimodal Conflicts in a Spatial Orientation Paradigm, Cassandra J. Engstrom
Reducing Fear Overgeneralization with Safety Learning: Attention Bias as a Moderator, Boyang Fan
Biomimetic and Medical Applications of Hollow Nanoscale Structures, Justin Fang
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and School Climate with a Sociocultural Narrative Inquiry Approach, Isabella Fante
Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, Alaina Claire Feldman
Exploring Social Identity Threat and Safety Cues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Cisgender Women in OB/GYN Care, Rachel Fikslin
Disposizione Scenica per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra: An Insight into Verdi’s Sense of Drama and a Valuable Tool for Contemporary Performance, Giordana Rubria Fiori
On the Bathysphere Logbooks, Brad Fox
Modelling and Forecasting Methods in Financial Economics, Shuo Gao
Liquidity Commonality with Factor Models, Ernesto Garcia III
American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George
Gobernar es Prever: Health Management Self-Efficacy Among a National Sample of Latinx Adults, Giselle Gerardi
Staging Retro-Perspectives: Performing Age, Memory/loss, and Queer Desire in the Later Works of Split Britches (2009–2020), Benjamin Gillespie
Diversion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Nonprofit Organization, Leah E. Glass
The Silent Holocaust and Other Myths: The Jewish Body and Intermarriage in the Fiction of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Samuel Gold
A History of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, 1975–2015, Clarisa Gonzalez
A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612), Julian Gonzalez de Leon Heiblum
Because They Think They Can: A Memoir in History, Sarah Goodyear
“She Too ‘Omanish’”: Young Black Women’s Sexuality and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Ishan Elizabeth Gordon-Ugarte
Cooperation or Competition with China: Interest Groups and US Policy on Climate Change, Lucia G. Green-Weiskel
Pupil Responses to Emotional Images and Relations with Alexithymic and Autistic Traits, Margaret Grinshtein
A Study of the Punishment of Crimes by US Federal Legislators from 1798 to 2016, Kenneth J. Grossberger
Effects of Chronic Stress on Safety Processing and Physiology in the Medial Prefrontal-Amygdala-Basal Forebrain Circuit, Itamar S. Grunfeld
Elucidating Mechanisms of Biofluorescence and Bioluminescence in Marine Organisms, Andrew M. Guarnaccia
A Multilevel Analysis of Political Risk, Marlon J. Guzman Valdera
The Cop in Your Head: Criminal Justice Education, Liberalism, and the Carceral State, Nicole Haiber
K-12 Digital Pedagogy: An Open Educational Resource Designed to Build a Community of Practitioners, Kelly Hammond
After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s, Maya Harakawa
Testing an Overtraining Protocol for Fear Learning in Humans, Gordon M. Haskell
Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence, David Hatten
Acculturation Patterns in Childhood/Adolescence, Cultural Stress in Young Adulthood, and Exploring the Moderating Role of Skin Tone Among Puerto Rican Youth in Two Contexts, Marjorine Henriquez-Castillo
Symmetries, Zero Modes and Light Transport in Non-Hermitian Photonics, Jose David Hernandez Rivero
The Life and Legacy of Edwin Greenlaw: “Teacher and Scholar”, Mykelin Higham
Lactating Justice: Constructing a Society Economically Focused on Optimizing Health through Human Lactation, Shadley Hobour
Conservation, Comparative Genomics and Species Delimitation of the Reindeer Lichens (Cladonia), Jordan R. Hoffman
Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data, Yuchen Hou
Cultural Predicaments: Neorealism in The Netherlands, 1927–1945, Stephanie Huber