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 2021
On the Woman Question: A Defense of Alexandra Kollontai against Liberal Critics, Nicole Baltzer
Strategic Default and Moral Hazard in Real Estate: Insights from Machine Learning Applications, Arka Prava Bandyopadhyay
Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939, Sultana Banulescu
Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras
Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias
Essays on Market Structure, Price-Setting, and Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer
Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles, Christopher J. Baum
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Immigration Lawmaking, 1950–1986: Cold War Politics and Double-Edged Reforms, Benjamin Becker
Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Standing Trans Before the Law, Kyla Bender-Baird
Barriers and Bridges to Intimacy: A Constellation of Same-Sex Female Couples’ Experiences, Struggles and Strengths, Jenna K. Bennett
Collective Intention and Class Consciousness, Aaron T. Bentley
Caffeine Modulation of Attention and Focus in Task Performance, Claudia R. Berger
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Hierarchical Hyperbolicity of Graph Products and Graph Braid Groups, Daniel James Solomon Berlyne
Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000, Dainy Bernstein
Vertebrate Scavenger Diversity and Ecosystem Services Along An Elevational Gradient in Central Nepal, Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space, Daniel Bloch
Food-as-Medicine: An Everyday Strategy of Health, Rachel Rebecca Bogan
Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology, Quinn Bolewicki
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
Quod Inane Vocamus: Lucretius’ Void in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Carlo Bottone
Evaluating the Role of Gender in Dementia-Related Language Deficiencies, Kelsey Bourque
The Art of Listening: A Conversational Approach to Lecture Recitals, Javor Bracic
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Environmental Cues and the Sociospatial Imaginary: An Examination of Spatial Perception and Meaning-Making in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Todd Levon Brown
Europ: Expanded Cinema, Projection and the Film Co-op in Western Europe, 1966–1979, Drew E. Bucilla
The Effects of Constant and Descending Criterion-Level Frequencies on Skill Acquisition Outcomes, Anna Budd
Early Emotion Regulation in the Children of Superstorm Sandy, Jessica L. Buthmann
Sartorial Semiotics: Constructs of Gender and Female Sexuality in Post WWII American and European Cinema, Patricia Cabral
The Space Love Maps: A Blackgirl Legend in Three Plots, Loren S. Cahill
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
Navigating Ocha: LGBT Practitioners' Participation and Navigation of Lucumí, Carlos M. Camacho
Mexico’s Northern Border Migrant Attention Plan: A Case Study in Neoliberal Human Rights and Non-Punitive Extraterritorial Spaces of Containment, Anita Michele Cannon
Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat
Skyrmions and Biskyrmions in Magnetic Films, Daniel Capic
The Influence of Prosecutorial Overcharging on Defendant and Defense Attorney Plea Decision Making: Documenting and Debiasing the Anchoring Effect, Stephanie Aurora Cardenas
Contemporary Human Displacement: A Comparative Analysis of Syria, Yemen, Honduras, and Venezuela, Rav Carlotti
The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Roots of Uneven Development in Brazil, Chris Carlson
Nuances in Bottom-Up Interpretations: Colombia's and Guatemala's Radically Different Approaches to Transitional Justice, Chelsea L. Carrick
Remaking Cinema: Black Hollywood Films, Filmmakers, and Finances, Kiana A. Carrington
Disrupting Paradise: A Pan-Caribbean Film Series, Dessane L. Cassell
Tears, Trauma and Transformation: Central American Mothers' Experiences of Violence, Migration and Family Reunification, Sandra B. Castro
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario
Detecting Stance on Covid-19 Vaccine in a Polarized Media, Rodica Ceslov
Development and Maintenance of the Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment, Shami Chakrabarti
Mechanism Design and Modeling to Analyze Complex Social Systems for Public Policy, Haripriya Chakraborty
Anticipatory Fear and Psychopathic Traits in Adolescents, Catherine Chan
BC Bound: A Pathway Designed To Support Non-Traditional Students, Fiona J. Chan
“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era, Lidia A. Chang
Desde el fuego que en mí arde: Performance, literatura y cine afro-latinoamericano producidos por mujeres afrodescendientes en Perú, Cuba y Brasil (1960–2000), Elena Ekatherina Chavez Goycochea
Solving Multiple Inference in Graphical Models, Cong Chen
Machine Learning and Solvation Theory for Drug Discovery, Lieyang Chen
Investigation of Notch Signaling in Cone Fate Specification in Vertebrate Retina, Xueqing Chen
The Non-uniformity of Chinese Wh-indefinites through the Lens of Algebraic Structure, Zhuo Chen
Young Women and the Initiation Trajectory of Prescription Opioid Misuse, Rachel Chernick
Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei Capricci for Solo Violin: Analysis and Performance Guide, Caroline Eva Chin
The C. neoformans Cell Wall: A Scaffold for Virulence, Christine Chrissian
Positioning the 1913 Paterson Silk Workers’ Strike within a Dialectical Framework, Raymond Adam Ciafarone Jr.
Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018, Emily E. Clark
Suicidality as a Discourse of Safety in the Queer Youth Movement, Robert M. Cleary
The Clothing Left Behind: A Collection of Stories, Grace Coleman
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman
The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi, Jason Collins
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Characterizing the Brain Dynamics and Eye Movement Behavior of Memory-Guided Saccades: a Preliminary Investigation of Distractor Influence on Memory-Guided Saccades, Angelo V. Colmenero
Exploring the Overlap, Saliency, and Consistency of Environmental Predictors in Crime Hot Spots: A Remote Systematic Social Observation and Case-Control Examination, Nathan T. Connealy
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecules with Selective and Poly-Pharmacological Actions at D1R, D3R and Sigma Receptors, Pierpaolo Cordone
Skin Worlds: Black and Indigenous Science Fiction Theorizing Since the 1970s, Lou Cornum
Optimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will? A Gramscian Analysis of Two New York Police Reform Campaigns, Christian Covington
Connect or Protect: The Impact of Ghosting on Potential Partner Perception and Pursuit, Maureen Coyle
Dancing Through Time: A Biographical Look on the Evolution of Tap Dance, Jaimie Cranford
Computational Modeling of Water and Proteins in Drug Discovery, Anthony Cruz Balberdy
The Master's Voice: Close Readings of James, James Curley-Egan
Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus, Emily J. Curtin
Pierce and Pine: Diane di Prima, Mary Norbert Korte, and the Meeting of Matter and Spirit, Iris Cushing
A Geometric Model for Real and Complex Differential K-theory, Matthew T. Cushman
Food Restriction and Body Image Distortion in Pregnant Mothers: Outcomes for Exposed Children, Kathryn M. Dana
Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis, Veronica Maria da Rosa Guimaraes
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
Cognitive Changes Caused by LPS-induced Neuroinflammation, Nancy De La Torre
Enquêtes métaphysiques et identitaires dans la littérature policière et la fiction en France et en Afrique du Nord, Iziar De Miguel
When Saeed Betrays Fuad: Laughing at the Mechanized Occupation, Ezgi Demirors
Quantum Transport in Topological Magnets, Haiming Deng
From Object to Icon: The Unpredictable Path to Everlastingness, Donna M. Desideri
Longitudinal Changes of Regional Myelin Water Fraction during First Year after Moderate-to-Severe Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury, Likowsky L. Desir
Astor Piazzolla's Cinco piezas para guitarra: A Performer's Guide to the "Unwritten", Federico J. Díaz Páez
Piecewise Linear Manifold Clustering, Artyom Diky
Non Ego Laudari Curo: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy, Federico Di Pasqua
Don't Sell Them Short, There's More to Bacterial Natural Products Than Antibiotics, Alison Clare Domzalski