Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
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).
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 Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects by Program page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Competitive and Noncompetitive Credit Assignment to Reward Cues in the Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex, Mihwa Kang
"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh
Examining the Factors that Contribute to the Survival and Resilience of the Al-Shabaab Terrorist Organization, Kevisha R. Kellar
Perceptual Expectation, Rebecca Keller
Language, Legitimacy, and the Law: The Social Roots of Legal Obligation, Joshua Keton
Advanced Predictive Analytics on Financial Donations to Nonprofit Organizations, Fhamida Keya
Contesting 'Black,' Negotiating 'Asian’: Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean Identities in New York City and Toronto, Cristine S. Khan
Pre-Stimulus Anticipation and Unconscious Fear Learning Disparities in Individuals with Varying Levels of Anxiety, Anastasiya Rumyantseva Kharlamova
Reimagining Haydn’s Seven Last Words for String Quartet: Recasting, Retelling, and Reorchestrating for a Modern Audience, Jeremy J. Kienbaum
The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes, Hunter Kincaid
Supporting Social Equity Through Informal Spaces on an Urban Campus, Eve B. Klein
Socially Safe on Smartphones: How Smartphone Use Reduces Social Risk Taking, Diogo Koch Alves
Exploration of Phenomenological Geospatial Analysis for the Late Archaic in the Esopus Drainage of the Hudson Valley, Glenn Kolyer
Autophagy and Meiotic Fidelity in C. elegans, Kaitlin E. Kosinski
Brain Injury and Psychosocial Trauma: Outcomes Among Justice-Involved Individuals, Mahathi D. Kosuri
Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility and the Politics of Form in Modernist Women's Life Writing, Margot Kotler
Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy, Rebecca S. Krisel
The Early Late Miocene Cessation of Deep and Intermediate Water Circulation through the Central American Seaway, Benjamin Stanley Kwiatkowski
Mandatory ESG Disclosure and Executive Compensation: Evidence from the Europe Union Non-Financial Reporting Directive, Dana LaCondre Nugent
Poison in Marie Laveau’s New Orleans: A Cultural History of Food, Freedom, and White Supremacy, 1718-1946, Madeline Lafuse
Bifurcations and Resultants for Rational Maps and Dynatomic Modular Curves in Positive Characteristic, Colette LaPointe
Mechanistic, Biochemical, and Theoretical Studies of Phototoxicity and Photobluing, Lloyd M. Lapoot
Heteronormativity and Fair Housing: Comparing Housing Opportunities Among Cisgender and Transgender Women, Joseph E. Lara
Antisocial Femininity: Writing the Relational in Isolation, Chelsea K. Largent
In-Work Recovery Among Hybrid Employees: Examining the Relationships Between Stressors, Recovery Experiences, and Strains, Stefanie Larsen
Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914, Jessica Larson
Math Anxiety and Avoidance of Mathematics at The College Level: Undergraduate and Their Sense of Not Belonging in Math Classrooms, Kay C. Lashley
Using Gaussian Processes to Measure M-Dwarf Rotation Periods from Ground-Based Light Curves, Ryan J. Lebron
Israel's Foreign Policy Toward Asia, Eli Lebto
The Cultural Complexity of Immigrants and the Implications for Personality Assessment: Exploring the Role of Frame Switching, Patrick Jay Lee
High MDMX (MDM4) in Mutant p53 Expressing Breast Cancer Cells Activates the CXCL12-CXCR4 Metastasis Signaling Axis, Rusia H. Lee
L'Univers mélancolique de Patrick Modiano, Blondie Natacha Lekemo Ngatchi Epse Pawa
Vestibular Correlates of Cochlear Implantation, Danielle Lewis
When Critics Are Artists: Ekphrasis in Erotic Art Criticism, Joanna A. Ligon
Staying Power: The Struggle for Space and Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Erin E. Lilli
Health Behaviors and Physical Health Among Young Adults with Varying Psychometric Schizotypy, Christopher Liong
Articulatory Activity of the Tongue, Jaw, and Lips During the Second Passaggio Transition of the Soprano Voice, Richard C. Lissemore
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Metamemory Vary by Task Difficulty, Tiffanie T. Li
Exploring the Correlation Between Google Trends and Crime Statistics: A Focus on Motor Vehicle Theft in the United States, Yu-Hsuan Liu
Between Mirrors: Comparative Visions of Uncanny Doubles, Emma R. Lloyd
Development of Platinum(IV)-Gold(I)-Based Anticancer Agents, Javier E. Lopez-Hernandez
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?: Visualizing Extreme Wealth, William Mahoney Luckman
Complicity, Eliana Luxemburg-Peck
Who’s Afraid of Employer Sanctions?: Political and Institutional Dynamics of Workplace Enforcement, Michael C. Macher
Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod
Equality, Solidarity, and Exploitation: An Essay on the Philosophical Foundations of Socialism, Callum Zavos MacRae
“Intimacy in the End Means Trouble”: Interracial Relationships in Britain from Interwar to Windrush, Stephanie Makowski
Toolkit for Users of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids, Sabrina Malasarte
Project MapLemon: Peeling Back the Secrets of Queer Writing Through Stylometric Demographic Identification, Theodore D. Manning
Beautiful Resistance: Nonfiction Theatre Rehearsal Processes, Politics, and Prefiguration in War, Ash Marinaccio
Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Ptolemy Varieties of Knots and Surface Bundles, Michael R. Marinelli
Just Transitions: Critical Exploration of Environmental Policy and Decision-Making Through the Lens of Lived Stories, Mariya Marinova
Unpacking Normative Change: The United Nations at its 60th Anniversary, Giovanna Marques Kuele
Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS, Nicolle Marquez
Sexual Selection and Mate Preference in Astatotilapia Burtoni, Anastasia Martashvili
Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations of “Peau d’Âne” in Contemporary French and English Texts, Amy M. Martin
Discourse Analysis of Ethnonyms for Black Italians on YouTube, Kaithlyn Massiah
Developing Autonomy and Identity on TikTok Among Recently Arrived Latin American Migrants to the United States, Camille D. May
Identification of Mandibular and Maxillary Molars of Old World Monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics, Eric John Mazelis
Best Practices for Healthcare Providers When Communicating with Individuals with Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review, Ashley McCaig
Social Workers Working with Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: The Influence of Trauma Work on the Social Worker’s Intimate Relationships, Claire T. McCue
Making and Unmaking Multiethnic Black Neighborhoods: Immigration, Race, and Gentrification in New York and Paris, Maura McGee
Making Sense of Making Parole in New York, Alexandra McGlinchy
Consciousness and Physicalism, Brian McGowan
Relationship Interventions for Autistic Children and their Non-Autistic Siblings, Susan Vanessa McHugh
Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976, Douglas A. Medina
Toward Otherworlding the Teaching-Learning of Psychology With Community College Students, Francisco Medina
Flanker Task Performance in Young and Older Adults: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Fatima Medrano
Applying an Intersectional and Multi-Systemic Level Approach to ADEI Institutional Assessments in Social Work Higher Education, Diana A. Melendez
Free Will and Meaningful Action: Expressions of the Self, Alex J. Mendez
Integration of Field- and Space-Based Observations Toward Assessing Drivers of Biogeochemical Variability Across Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems, Alana B. Menendez
Helpful Intentions? Impact of Intentionality on Children's Memory for Forensically-Relevant Information, Ella P. Merriwether
Musical Semiotics in Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit (2010–2016), Scott A. Miller
String Quartet, Scott A. Miller
Higher Diffeology Theory, Emilio Minichiello
Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left, Lydia Mokdessi
Design and Characterization of De Novo Photoactivated Charge Separating Proteins, Paul M. Molinaro
Variability in Associations Among Seabirds and Marine Mammals: Causes and Consequences, Samantha A. Monier
Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought, Pedro Monque
Future Land, Futures Lost: Planning the Crisis on the Louisiana Coast, Sheehan Moore
Defying Normativity: Reclaiming a Narrative of Queer Resistance in Young Adult Literature, Christopher Morabito
Me and Mathematics: “Doing What You’re Talking About”: In Dialogue with My Family, Eden Morris
Failure to Mourn: Challenges to the Work of Mourning in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature, Mattia Mossali
Inadvertent Exit: Divorce in the Haredi Community, Miriam R. Moster
The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Lauren Moton
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza
"A Spirit of Disobedience": Black Women Freedom Runners and the Collective Practice of Abolition, Delice Mugabo
‘Coca Mestiza’: Small Farmers, Multiculturalism, and the War on Drugs in Colombia, Miryam Nacimento
Explicit Composition Identities for Higher Composition Laws in the Quadratic Case, Ajith A. Nair
Effects of BRCA1-Mediated Ubiquitination of HuR on RNA Metabolism in Breast Cancer, Devorah Mincha Natelson
Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking, Christopher Naubert
Interplay of Magnetic Impurities and Superconductivity in Topological Materials, Didier Ndengeyintwali
