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
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
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
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
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
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky
3D Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification from 3D Range and 2D Color Images, Xiaoke Shen
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
Symmetric Rigidity for Circle Endomorphisms with Bounded Geometry and Their Dual Maps, John Adamski
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Elucidating the Role of APL-1, the C. elegans Ortholog of the Human Amyloid Precursor Protein, Adanna G. Alexander
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
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
Generating Entanglement with the Dynamical Lamb Effect, Mirko Amico
Maximum Sound Output Levels of Pediatric Marketed Headphones: The Development of Healthy Listening Habits in Children, Adrienne L. Ammirati
Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation, Drake R. Andersen
The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown, Drake R. Andersen
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
HuR Ubiquitination by BRCA1/BARD1 and Its Role in Controlling Gene Expression During DNA Damage Response, Gamage M. Aruggoda
The Berbers: Constructed Identities by Foreigners on African Soil, Zineb Askaoui
Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk
Pointing the Zinc Finger on Protein Folding: Energetic Investigation into the Role of the Metal-Ion in the Metal-Induced Protein Folding of Zinc Finger Motifs, Inna Bakman-Sanchez
Living in a World of “Stop, Question and Frisk” and “Trespass Enforcement”: Black and Latinx Youth Engaging in Police Reform in New York City, Jeanene Lee Barrett
The Stories We Tell for the Narrative We Need, Ayana Bartholomew
On the Divisor Class Group and Special Units of Multiquadratic Real Fields, John E. Basias
Regulation of a Messenger: Raising oskar, It Takes a Village, Livia V. Bayer
Bones, Burials, and the Riddle of Truth: Reconstructing the Past Through What Has Been Left Behind, Jelena M. Begonja
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Motivation on Cognitive Control, Andrea Benavides
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
New Approaches to Frequent and Incremental Frequent Pattern Mining, Mehmet Bicer
Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe, Sophia A.M. Bishop
Structural and Functional Brain Markers of Trauma-related Symptoms, Glenn Blessington
Spheres of Identity: Theorizing Social Categorization and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice Officials, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice in Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas
Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna
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
At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics, Tai-Danae Bradley
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
Proactive and Reactive Aggression, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Sleep in Adolescents, Allison L. Brasch
Small Molecule Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Marcelo F. Bravo Carranco
Assistive Listening Devices: A Guide, Alexa Brody
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center, Tatiana N. Browne-Kai
Psychoanalytic Determinates of the Love/Work Balance in a Cohort of African-American Men, Joseph Ellison Brown
Development of an ABA Tool Kit for Audiologists to Increase Hearing Aid Wear Time in Individuals with Autism, Lindsay Brown
Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer
The Women that No One Wanted to See: The Duality of the Women within the Holocaust, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono
Proton Pumping Mechanism in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Xiuhong Cai
Investigating the Modulatory Effect of Expectations on Memory Retrieval During Sentence Comprehension, Luca Campanelli
Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders, Emily Campbell
Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell
Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, and Pedagogy in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur
Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell
Slavery and Confederate Military Strategy and Policy, 1860–1865, David M. Campmier
“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich, William J. Camponovo
Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere
Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
Topics of The Sky: Ashbery's Involving Search for The Poem, Tom M. Carlson
All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw, Matthew K. Carter
Identifying Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Construct Under-Representation as Support of External Evidence of Validity, Jennifer Case
“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar
Apocalipsis cultural e imaginación política: el caso de Madrid en el periodo entre crisis (2008–2020), Natalia Castro Picón
Tonal Adaptation of Loanwords in Mandarin: Phonology and Beyond, Zhuting Chang
Essays on Anomalies in International Equity Markets, Xiao Cheng