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 2019
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Conflicting Regional Interests, Sabera Azizi
Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile, Ana Baert
Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
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
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
Molecular Analysis of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis from a Specific Retinal Progenitor Population, Diego F. Buenaventura
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
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
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
Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure, Biwei Chen
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
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
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
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
Broadway Bodies: Casting, Stigma, and Difference in Broadway Musicals Since "A Chorus Line" (1975), Ryan Donovan
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer, Benelita Elie
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
Neighborhood Ecology and Recidivism: A Case Study in NYC, Sarah Picard Fritsche
Presidential Power: Assessing the Unitary Executive as the Strongest Determinant of Presidential Success, Maxwell J. Fuerderer
Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Iodine-124 Labeled Nucleoside Analogs as Pet Imaging Agents to Predict Response to Gemcitabine Therapy, Kishore Kumar Gangangari
Who Needs Blame?: Answerability Without Expressed Blame, Sarah Gokhale
Reversing borrón y cuenta nueva: The Curative Power of Family Memory in the Novels of Loida Maritza Perez and Nelly Rosario, Ivonne Gonzalez
Private Funding of the United Nations, Consequence and Future of the World Intergovernmental Organization, Kossi H. Hator
Why is the Black Population of Central Brooklyn, the Mecca of Black NYC, Diminishing?, Jamell N.A. Henderson
Between the Living and the Dead, Laura Henriksen
A Parade of Identities: Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in Three New York City Cultural Parades, Julia M. Herrera-Moreno
Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement, Devin A. Heyward
Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman
Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins
The Post-9/11 LGBTQ Human Rights Struggle in Egypt, Donna K. Huaman
Magnetic Resonance Studies of Free Radicals Generation and their Impact in Different Polymers, Sunita Humagain
Characterization of Immunomodulatory Microbial Factors in Medicinal Plants, Kriti Kalpana
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
Performing Desire in Times Square: Sailors, Hustlers and Masculinity, Kel R. Karpinski
Integrating the Effects of Biotic Interactions into Models of Species Distributions, Jamie M. Kass
A Defense of Pure Connectionism, Alex B. Kiefer
The Equal Right to Sing: The American Zeitgeist and Its Implications for Music Education, YoungEun Kim
The Shape of Knowledge: The Postwar American Poet's Library, with Diane di Prima and Charles Olson, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
A Meta-Analysis of Information Processing Measures of Intelligence, Performance, and Group Score Differences, Elliott C. Larson
Structural Studies on Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Activation of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase, Kwangwoon Lee
Reverse the Curse: Colonialist Legacies of the Magic Poem, Karen E. Lepri
Intimate Partner Violence Among Expectant Adolescent Couples: Psychological and Relational Predictors and Sexual Risk, Jessica Lewis
A Purely Defeasible Argumentation Framework, Zimi Li
Sylvia Plath and "the bigger things": War, History, and Modernism at Midcentury, Reagan Lothes
A Narrative Inquiry of Associate Degree Nursing Students' Stories About Their Experience of Academic Misconduct, Bridget Anne Maley
Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks
Magic Performances: Rituals and Practice in Italian Theatre and Culture, 1520–1650, Erika Mazzer
Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction, Rosemery Membreno
The Urban Domestic: Homosocial Domesticity, Literature, And Culture in 19th and 20th Century New York City, Krystyna Michael
Coordination, Collaboration, and Delegation in EU Migration Management, Nicholas R. Micinski
La vigencia de lo r/Real: la memoria traumática y el relato policial postdictatorial en Argentina y Chile, 1996–2015, Jelena Mihailovic
Articulation of the Japanese Moraic Nasal: Place of Articulation, Assimilation, and L2 Transfer, Ai Mizoguchi
The "I" of the Artist-Curator, Natalie Musteata
Chemotaxonomy of Theobroma and Herrania (Malvaceae) and Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) species, Adam Negrin
Quantum Uncertainty Reduction (QUR) Theory of Attended Access and Phenomenal Consciousness, Anatoly V. Nichvoloda
Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton
The Right to Run: Decoding Sexism Against Women Politicians and Fighting for a New Paradigm for Intersectional Left Feminists, Charlene A. Obernauer
Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States and Nepal: A Comparative Study, Abin Ojha
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities, Francesca Petronio
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Control of Light-Matter Interactions via Nanostructured Photonic Materials, Nicholas Proscia
Identification and Characterization of Barrier Insulator Activity in the T-Cell Receptor alpha Locus Control Region, Gayathri Devi Raghupathy
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping in Computer Aided Drug Design, Steven Ramsey
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder