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
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
“As Blind Men Learn the Sun”: Towards a Poetics of Queer Mysticism in American Literature, 1860-1960, Bradley M. Nelson
Self-Perceived Cognitive Functioning in Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome: Enhancing Risk Detection in Health Disparity Older Adults, Caroline O. Nester
The Role of Glutamate in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Acquistion and Expression of Conditioned Approach, Rudolf Nisanov
Contemporary World-Novels and their Collective Protagonists, Leonardo Nolé
Living Color: Aesthetic Surfaces and Political Life in Brazil, Samuel E. Novacich
Modeling and Dynamics of Capillary Bridges, Moyosore Odunsi
Working on Stage: Spectacularization of Labor in Contemporary US Theatre, Hansol Oh
Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment, John P. Orellana
Park Use, Urban Environmental Justice, and Place Attachment in Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City, Javier Eduardo Otero Peña
Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
Ordinary Care: Affective Politics of Migration and the Everyday Lives of Syrian Refugees in Istanbul, Yasemin Ozer
Border Confinement and Assistance Markets in Tijuana: Mexican Deportees’ Experiences of Labor and Violence Between Mexico and the United States, Christian Pacheco-Gómez
Prurient Nature: Sex Work and Ethics at the Margins of Finance, Esra S. Padgett
Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey, Zachary Paganini
Parabolic and Non-Parabolic Surfaces with Small or Large End Spaces via Fenchel-Nielsen Parameters, Michael Antony Pandazis
“After being equals, is this the sequel?”: Vivian Fine’s Memoirs of Uliana Rooney as Artistic Commentary on Shifting Reactions to American Women’s Music, Tonia L. Passwater
Harnessing Neural Activity to Prevent Non-Apoptotic Spinal Neurons from Microglial Phagocytosis After Motor System Injury, Jasmine L. Pathan
Design, Fabrication, and Spectroscopy of Photocatalytic Materials in Visible Spectrum, Yamuna Paudel
Cognitive Flexibility and Stability in Bilingual Older Adults, Lia Pazuelo
Uncovering the Mimicry of Online Review Breadth and Depth and its Subsequent Effect on Consumer Responses, Andrea Pelaez Martinez
Intuitionism, Justification Logic, and Doxastic Reasoning, Vincent A. Peluce
Essays on Monopoly Power in Housing Rental Markets, Goncalo Filipe Pessa Figueiredo Costa
