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 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
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
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
Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen
Spectral Sequences for Almost Complex Manifolds, Qian Chen
The Functional Role of the Anterior Insular Cortex in Cognitive Control, Yu Chen
The Transcription Factor ATF5 Protects Cortical Neurons from Toxicity Induced by Prostaglandin J2, Fanny Cheung
Tamalin/GRAS-1 Connects Glutamate Receptor Activity to the Insulin/IGF Signaling Cascade to Regulate Neuroprotection in a Nematode Model of Excitotoxicity, Ayesha Chowdhury
Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation, Christopher Clarke
Tracking Keywords in American Studies, Thomas Cleary
Exploring Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Plea Bargain Decisions, Melanie Close
Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation, Jaime Shearn Coan
Transcription Initiation and Termination of Chemically Synthesized Small RNA Expression Vectors, Jose Cobo
Corporeal Analysis: The Performing Body as Analytic Site, Laura Cocks
Dangerous Exhibitions: Erotic Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law, Elena Cohen
Through the Back Door: Proteins Escape Cells without Conventional Permission, Michael J. Cohen
“From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart”: Liturgy and Embodiment in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Brigid J. Coleridge
International Influence on the Development and Reception of Cello Playing in England, 1870–1930: Robert Hausmann, Auguste Van Biene, and Guilhermina Suggia, Hannah E. Collins
The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress., Mary Collins
Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making, Connor Concannon
A Plan for Democratic Public Schooling, Diana Concepcion
Cracks in the Bathroom Stall: A Discourse Analysis on Transgender Bathroom Usage at Garden Spot High School, Kirsten D. Corneilson
Integrating Affect Perception Tasks from the New York Emotion Battery into a Comprehensive Measure of Neuropsychological Change across the Lifespan, Melinda A. Cornwell
Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado