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 2022
Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives, Queenie T. Sukhadia
How Marlon T. Riggs Queered the Documentary Form, Anthony M. Sweeney
Colonial Education: Puerto Ricans and the Carlisle Indian School, Progenitors of the Mythic Identity, Melissa Swinea
Data-Centric Machine Learning for Speech and Audio, Ali Raza Syed
Credible Messengers: An Exploratory Analysis of What Makes Them "Credible", Jason Szkola
Nurse Practitioners' Adjustment to the Hospitalist Position: A Grounded Theory Study, Donna Tanzi
The Value of NFTs, Angelina Tham
The Impact of Cannabis Use on Neuropsychological and Neural Biomarkers of Treatment Response in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Melanie B. Thies
The Economic and Demographic Dynamics of Pretrial Justice, Christopher Thomas
SSRI-Induced Emotional Blunting: A Study of Cognitive Changes in Pharmaceutically Treated Depression, Carly Tocco
Elements of Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology: A Spatial Analysis of Homicides in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, David J. Topel
Building the Revolution: Ideology, Affect and Gender in Bolivarian Caracas, Andreina I. Torres A.
Examining the Linguistic Ideology "Throaty Sounds Are Bad for Performers": The History of Negative Attitudes Towards Glottal Stops and Laryngealization in English, Dayle M. Towarnicky
Understanding Coastal and Inland Hydrometeorological Hazards Produced by Extratropical and Tropical Cyclones along the East Coast of the United States, Katherine Towey
Identifying, Evaluating and Applying Importance Maps for Speech, Viet Anh Trinh
The Persistence of Exclusion in Developmental Math Courses in Community Colleges: The Search for Equity and Justice in Math Education, Dora P. Trujillo
Gospels of (Anti)Inequality: The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People’s Campaign and Capitol Ministries, Jonathan Peter Tschudy
The Lost and Forgotten Plants: French Botanical Networks in Provincial and Colonial France (1760–1825), Sophie R. Tunney
"Secession's Moving Foundation": Fugitive Slave Rendition and the Politics of American Slavery, Evan Turiano
“In lucem latine locutionis”: The Hagiography of Aelred of Rievaulx, Chad Turner
Maternal Wellness: Self, Matrescence, Obstetric Violence, and Self-Care, Vanessa V. Vales-Lewis
The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811–1945, Luisa Valle
España rarita: performances festivas en tiempos queer (2008–2020), Daniel Valtueña Martínez
Asymptotic Classes, Pseudofinite Cardinality and Dimension, Alexander Van Abel
Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Our Health, Kathia Vargas Feliz
On the Cryptographic Deniability of the Signal Protocol, Nihal Vatandas
Surveilling the Fat Disidencia: Policing the Bodies of Plus-Size Black Women on Instagram, Daniela V. Verdejo Salazar
Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in the Colombian Countryside, Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
Peru's Fishmeal Industry: Its Societal and Environmental Impact, Angel Vizurraga
CPTED and the City: The Impact of Privately Owned Public Spaces on Crime in Manhattan, Julia von Ferber
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Daily Diary Investigation of Appraisals of Illegitimate Tasks, Danielle Robyn Wald
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease: Prostaglandin D2 Signaling and Its Human Polymorphisms as Well as a Polypharmacological Approach, Charles H. Wallace
Navigating the Multiple Streams: The Strategic Use of Sunset Provisions, David F. Wall
Financial Openness and Economic Growth, Doo Kyun Wang
High Water-Responsiveness of Peptidoglycan and its Water-Responsive Mechanism, Haozhen Wang
The Separation of Charm and Bottom Decays Measured in p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV, Zhiyan Wang
Globalism and Identity in Taiwanese Contemporary Art, 1978–2009, Chu-Chiun Wei
Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity, Christopher Weimer
Teaching Siblings to Encourage and Praise Play: Supporting Interactions When One Sibling has Autism, Holly R. Weisberg
Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment, Andreas Weise
Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939, Kalle Westerling
Countertransference and the Patient's Experience: Exploring How Engagement with Affect is Related to Short-Term Psychotherapy Outcomes, Ariel R. Westerman
Genetic Impacts of Deforestation on Mouse Lemurs, Darice Westphal
Sound Minds: Women’s Novels, Vibrational Experience, and the Listening Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Elizabeth Weybright
The Impact of Focused Attention and Opening Monitoring Meditation Styles on Attention, Jennifer Wheary
Navigating Their Way In: Non-Hispanic West Indians’ Class of Admission and Neighborhood Settlement, Kenisha J.A. White
Genetic Circadian Mosaics and the Clock Network’s Contributions to Sleep, Lukasz Widziszewski
Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English, Brynne E. Wilkinson
Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
"It Was Handed to Them": The Origins of Targeted Delivery and the Spirit of Nanomedicine, Marzena Woinska
BiTRDF: Extending RDF for BiTemporal Data, Di Wu
The Visionary Mode in Anglophone Modernist Fiction, Wei Wu
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Epistemic Value of Moral Ambiguity, Jordan Wylie
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Non-GAAP Reporting, Ryan H. Wynne
Essays on Spillover Effects Across U.S and China, Zhuo Xi
Linguistic Abstractions in Children’s Very Early Utterances, Qihui Xu
Role of Nuclear Lamins in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells, Camila Yattah
Essays in Asset Pricing, Muhammed Yonac
Bondholders’ Influence on Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Capital Expenditure Forecasts as a Firm’s Commitment, Sae Young Yoon
Tracing the Trajectory: Exploring the Origins, Iterations, and Impacts of the Muslim Travel Ban, Dalia Yousef
“The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s, Anna Zeemont
Distributed Partitioning and Processing of Large Spatial Datasets, Ayman I. Zeidan
Essays on Federalism and Local Finance in China, Jiakai Zhang
Development of Optical Nanomaterial for Enhanced Cerenkov Imaging, Qize Zhang
Application of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymers in Synthesis of Silica and Organosilica Nanomaterials, Shu Zhang
Understanding Species Interactions and Their Impacts in Restored Communities, Jennifer Zhu
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition, Josefine Ziebell
The Behavioral and Gene Expression Effects of Loss or Exhaustion of Sonic Hedgehog from Dopamine Neurons, Dustin R. Zuelke
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
The Tale of Two Countrysides: The Shaping of Landscapes in Hispania and Spanish Latin America, Andrew R. Abrams
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Developing Dynamical Probes of Quantum Spin Liquids Inspired by Techniques from Spintronics, Joshua Aftergood
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Telehealth Caregiver Training: Treating Food Selectivity without Extinction, Christina M. Alaimo
The Impact of User Control and Transparency in App Design on Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Mobile App Users, Arwa Alawajy
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
The Rainforest is Burning: Trials and Triumphs Working Towards Conservation in Rural Madagascar, Kathryn Alessi
The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet, Vicente Alexim
Essays on Green Finance, Elsa Allman
Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills, Lauren R. Alpert
Mario Levrero: Un estudio fenomenológico de su obra, Sergio Alves
Neuroplasticity of the Corticospinal System: Applications of Neuromodulation-Based Therapies, Alzahraa M. Amer
Is This My Body? A Manual on Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis
Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability, Aparna Anand
Using the Marcus Inverted Region and Artificial Cofactors to Create a Charge Separated State in De Novo Designed Proteins, Eskil ME Andersen
Encoding and Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Native and Non-Native Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise, Reethee Antony
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): Postfeminist Beauty Messaging and Resistant Media Texts, Margarita Artoglou
Microbial-Host Dynamics and the Evolution of Nearshore Diversity in Hippocampus abdominalis, Jimiane L. Ashe
Writing Not Writing: Transdisciplinary Poetics, Institutional Critique, Miriam L. Atkin
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker