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 2023
Neo-Nazi Postmodern: Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual Neue Rechte, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989, Esther E. Adaire
Writing the Unwritten: Politicians, Celebrities and Activists on Lebanese Twitter, May Ahmar
International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Param S. Ajmera
Writing as Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari
Entextualización del Discurso Político en Colombia. Análisis Glotopolítico Del Proceso de Escritura de la Constitución de 1991, Jorge Luis Alvis-Castro
Phantom Shootings, Allan Ambris
Conservative and Cultural Clashes with Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Bryan Z. Anderson
Extinction of Threat Memory via Reconsolidation Interference: A Behavioral Intervention Meta-Analysis, Chris M. Andrae
Unsung Heroines in Black and White: Sixties Girl Groups as Sonic Rock Rebellion, Hilarie Ashton
There’s No Space in History: Affiliation, Eros and Colonial Entanglements in North American Nuclear Poetry, 1945-Present, Marguerite Daisy Atterbury
It Has Always Been the “Business Model”: Racism and Sexism in Creative Arts Therapy Higher Education, Yasmine J. Awais
Social Capital, Social Support, and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Ghana and South Africa: The Moderating Role of Country, Paul K. Ayernor
Witnessing Climate Change in the United States Virgin Islands: Emotional Responses and Calls for Action, Thomas Bane
The Myth of Measure in American Poetry, Joshua M. Barber
Searching for Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women of Color Feminisms, Art, and Archiving, Wendy S. Barrales
The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917, Theodore W. Barrow
Older Adults in the Great Recession: Labor Force Transitions, Perceived Workplace Ageism and Life Satisfaction, Duygu Başaran Şahin
Examining Factors Related to Tobacco Treatment Engagement Among Tobacco Dependent Black/African American; Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients: An Analysis of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Tobacco Treatment Program, Gleneara E. Bates-Pappas
Is Gifted Education and Its Program a Brand?, Farzana Begum
Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women, Kavya Beheraj
Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Crates, Jordan Bell
music lessons, Cecilia-Rose Louise Bender
One-Loop Corrections to Dihadron Production in DIS at Small x, Filip Bergabo
Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Troponoid-Based Chemical Probes, Alex Berkowitz
Stokes Vector Modulation of Optical Signals; Coherence, Noise, and Digital Signal Processing, Mario Bnyamin
Type of Glossing Affects Cognitive Load and Retrieval of Meaning During L2 Reading, Camilo Andrés Bonilla Carvajal
An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino
Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: Provider Perspectives, Elisabeth Brodbeck
Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories, Donald V. Brown Jr
Quantifying Separability in Limit Groups, Keino Brown
An Explicit Construction of Sheaves in Context, Tyler A. Bryson
Beam-Based Target Alignment for Mu2e, Helenka Casler
Unlocking Potential: The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities, Navena F. Chaitoo
Agreement in Languages that Do Not Agree: The Processing of Accented Speech in Chinese-English bilinguals, Stanley Chen
Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi
Play Makes Perfect: An Exploration of Game and Play Elements in Composition and Performance, Gabrielle Chou
Salty: A Diffractive Inquiry of Visceral Knowing and Embodied Aesthetics, Mei Ling Chua
Performance Modeling for Network Anomaly Detection and Sensor Networks, Jie Chu
Chromatic Dissensus: An Otherwise Archive of Natural Dyes, 1700–1856, Luke Church
TGF-b Signaling Mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans Response to Bacterial Pathogens, Emma J. Ciccarelli
Examining the Effect of Talker Familiarity Using Familiar and Unfamiliar Talkers on Noise-Vocoded Speech Perception in Normal-Hearing Listeners: A Training Study, Daria N. Collins
Factors Associated With the Life Satisfaction of Gay and Bisexual Men and Their Variation by Race, Robert G. Considine
Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers, Lenore Costello
Understanding the Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-Term Memory, Kelly Cotton
The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona
Identity, Access, and Equity: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of Mathematics Identity and Socialization in Pre-service Teachers, Ashley Renaire Davis
Lasting Inequalities: Gender Earnings Inequality Across Generations, Periods and Countries, Juliana de Castro Galvao
Allowed to Stay: An Exploration of DHS New Guidelines to Dismiss Certain Immigration Cases, Jazmin E. De La Cruz Sanchez
Motor Milestone Acquisition and Sleep-Related Learning and Development in Infancy, Aaron DeMasi
Evidence-Based Practice in the Management of Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Rivka Deutsch
Second Generation Phenyloxadiazolyl Methyl Sulfones for Thiol-Specific Bioconjugations, Guillaume Dewaele-Le Roi
Educating the Diaspora: In Search of Liberatory Educational Experiences, Daicy Diaz-Granados
Investigating Key Risk Factors Across Violent and Non-violent Extremists in the United States, Leevia Dillon
John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech
Emancipatory and Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations of Enslaved Labor in US and Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
Extremism in America: Explaining Variations in Ideologically Motivated Fatal Violence, Celinet Duran
How the U.S. Mainstream Media Perpetuates Cis White Masculine Hegemony, Yelena Dzhanova
"A Decorator in the Best Sense": Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, the Fabric Curtain Partition, and the Articulation of the German Modern Interior, Marianne E. Eggler-Gerozissis
“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens, Damele Elliott-Hubbard
Etiology of Injustice, Susan Erck
Social Impacts of Robotics on the Labor and Employment Market, Kelvin Espinal
The Devil Is in the Details: Witchcraft Materiality and Systems of Belief in Early Modern France, Ryan Evelyn
Association Strength between Concepts as the Origin of the "Foreign Language Effect", Emilia Ezrina
The Impact of Overseas Study Experiences on Chinese Students’ Attitudes Toward the United States, Xufeng Fang
Genetic Determinants Involved in Acquisition of Iron in the Opportunistic Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus, Manal F. Farhat
The Punitive Laboratory of Neoliberalism: A Cross-national Examination, Beth A. Fera
A Stronger Strong Schottky Lemma for Euclidean Buildings, Michael E. Ferguson
Beyond The Songs on The Vistula: Chopin and Poland, a Mythical Construction, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Nieto
Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence, Yesenny Fernandez
An Offer You Cannot Refuse: Understanding the Elusive Construct of "Voluntary" Plea Decisions, Melanie B. Fessinger
Evolutions in Suicide Bombing: Exploring the Relationship Between the Tactic and Its Application by Non-state Armed Groups Across Various Conflict Zones Over Time, David E. Firester
Beat Construal, Tempo, Metric Dissonance, and Transgressing the Groove in Heavy Metal, Drew Fleming
Language And Conjuncture in Populist Strategy: Podemos And Contemporary Spanish Political Thought, Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Hands. Words. Mirrors. A letter to my mother., Iliana Emilia García
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Social Identities and Campus Belonging as Predictors of Flourishing Among College Students, Christine Gilchrist
“Delicious Libation”: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888, Caroline L. Gillaspie
Political Theatre After Occupy: Participation, Interpellation, and the Search for New Subjectivities in the Theatre, Andrew J. Goldberg
The Landscape of Daughterhood: A Redefinition, Sarah Goldstone
The Effect of Race on Housing Stratification Among Latinos, Julia T. Gomez
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Staying, Flowing, Resounding: Children's Interactions and Space-Based Attachments on a Manu'a Island, Mariapaola Gritti
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023, Anna S. Harb
Metabolic Reprogramming in KRAS-driven Cancer Cells, Ahmet Hatipoglu
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Finding Autonomy Under the Russian Bear: Explaining Central Asia’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Hitch
Public Privacy and Info-Liberal Authoritarianism, Christopher Hongach
Babel, Daniel Horowitz