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 2018
Organic Photochemistry: Remote Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates via a Heterogeneous Approach, Niluksha Walalawela Abeykoon
Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree
How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Anti-Proliferative Effects of Garcinia Fruits in Breast Cancer Cells, Harini Anandhi Senthilkumar
Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton
Contemporary Archaeological Looting: A Criminological Analysis of Italian Tomb Robbers, Marc Balcells Magrans
Functional Interactions of tau, Pin1, p53 and mRNA 3′ Processing Factors in Non-Neuronal Cells, Jorge E. Baquero
Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art, Elizabeth Sarah Berkowitz
Splendid Disarray: The Music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Nina Berman
Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio
Information Content, Charge Transport Properties, and Computational Capacities of Proteins, Joseph Murphy Brisendine Jr.
Educational Relevance as a Motivating Operation for Equivalence Class Formation: Implications for Application, Julia Brodsky
The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes
PARP PET Imaging Agents, Brandon Carney
Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Social Capital and Analyst Forecasts, Jing Dai
MicroRNA 1207-3P in Prostate Cancer, Dibash Das
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices, Emily Goldsmith
A Discourse of True and False: An Analysis of the Publications of the AFL-CIO Between 1955-1965 as Archived in the Tamiment Library, John J. Gorham Jr.
The Development of Affect and Defense in Childhood and Adolescence, Kari Gray
A Comparison of the Effects of Various Feedback Presentations on Typing Accuracy and Speed, Julieanne Guadalupe
Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the Same 'Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Luis Guzman Valerio
Musicking, Discourse, and Identity in Participatory Media Fandom, Aya Esther Hayashi
Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers
Women’s Suffrage in American Art: Recovering Forgotten Contexts, 1900-1920, Elsie Y. Heung
Powerhouse Chihuahua: Electricity, Water, and the State in the Long Mexican Revolution, Jonathan Hill Jr
“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry
Vision-based Assistive Indoor Localization, Feng Hu
Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain
The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim
Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
Cynic and Epicurean Parrhesia in Horace's Epodes 5 & 6: Appropriating a Parallel Philosophical Debate For Poetic Purposes, Kent Klymenko
Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash
The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment to Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Effects of Structural and Electronic Disorder in Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 Thin Films, Inna Korzhovska
EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Status, Power, and Apologies: How Status and Power Shape the Willingness to Apologize and the Perception of Victims, Louis Lipani
Social Influences on Songbird Behavior: From Song Learning to Motion Coordination, Iva Ljubičić
Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo
Deconstructing City Hall Park: The Development and Archaeology of the Common, Alyssa Loorya
Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla
Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek
"Betwixt the World Destroyed and World Restored": Subjectivity and Paradisal Recovery in John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma
Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-competency Regarding Individualized Developmental Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Patricia Macho
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Economics, Politics and the Environment, Ron Mandelbaum
Neonatal Stimulation of PKC Epsilon Signaling Normalizes Fragile X-Associated Deficits in PVN Oxytocin Expression and Later-Life Social and Anxiety Behavior, Alexandra E. Marsillo
The Dictators’ Dilemma: Repression or Concessions in the Face of Resistance, Chris Massaro
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith
Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel
Impact of Neurodevelopmental Genes on the Trajectory of ADHD Severity: A Pilot Study, Agnieszka Mlodnicka
Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
Bacterial LPS at the Immune Modulating Component in Juzen-taiho-to, Diego Montenegro
Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women, Philanthropy, and Italian State-Building, 1850-1890, Diana Moore
Multimodal Depression Detection: An Investigation of Features and Fusion Techniques for Automated Systems, Michelle Renee Morales
Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications to Macroeconomics and International Finance, Hiroshi Morita
Collaborative Appearance-Based Place Recognition and Improving Place Recognition Using Detection of Dynamic Objects, Juan Pablo Munoz
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History, Brendan Murphy
Biological Signatures of Emotion Regulation in Children, Sarah Myruski
Managing Ambiguity: Nurses Caring for the Mother of a Stillborn Baby, Natasha J. Nurse
Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato, Nathan Oglesby
Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada., Aleksín H. Ortega
Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment, Spiridon Papanikolaou
The Way We Dream Now: History, Theory, and LGBTQ Memoir in America, Megan Paslawski
Essays on the Economics of Driving and Health, Jessica Lynn Peck
The Phenomenon of Match-Fixing in Soccer: A Plague Without a Cure?, Nikolaos Petropoulos
The Therapeutic Potential of Natural Products from Vaccinium Berries for Viral and Lung Diseases Through an Improved LC-MS-Based Chemometric Approach, Vanya I. Petrova
Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Kartik Pilar
Validity Testing of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey (GGNPS), Alexandra Plavskin
Military Citizenship in the Post-9/11 Homefront, Estefania Ponti
Relating Justification Logic Modality and Type Theory in Curry–Howard Fashion, Konstantinos Pouliasis
Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz, Juana M. Ramos
The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen