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
Efficacy, Acceptance, and Feasibility of Virtual Reality for Chronic Pain Relief in Older Adult Veterans Residing in Long Term Care, Valicia Philibert
Cdc6 is Sequentially Regulated by PP2A-Cdc55, Cdc14, and Sic1 for Origin Licensing in S. cerevisiae, Jasmin Philip
The Zariski-Riemann Space as a Universal Model for the Birational Geometry of a Function Field, Giovan Battista Pignatti Morano di Custoza
Control, Allegiance, and Shame in Male Qing Dynasty Hairstyles, Carolle Pinkerton
The Development of Slurs in Violin Bowing During the Italian Seicento: Printing and Rhetoric, Joan Plana Nadal
The Microscopical Evidence Traces Analysis of Household Dust and Its Statistical Significance as a Definitive Identification Technique, Stephanie Polifroni
Contextualizing Britain’s Holocaust Memorial and Museums: Form, Content, and Politics, Rebecca D. Pollack
Stereotypes, Dehumanization, and Disciplining Disability: Psychological Mechanisms that Fuel the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Alexandra Ponce de Leon-LeBec
The T Visa Process and the Identification of Victims of Human Trafficking, Mandalena Prelashi
Knowledge and Awareness of Hearing Loss by Undergraduate Education Majors, Samantha Presbrey
Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies and Dramatic Narratives in Oliver Knussen’s Variations, Op. 24, Joseph Prestamo
Clustered Protocadherins Ubiquitination and Phosphorylation Regulates Surface Expression, Albert Ptashnik
Operation Lone Star: The Spectacle of Immigration Federalism, Danielle Puretz
Comparing the Environmental and Social Factors of UK and US Firms: A Case for Stringent Disclosure Regulation, Jasmine Pybas
Effects of Redundancy of Multimedia Instruction on Spanish Reading and Listening Skills, Charles Raffaele
From Sesame Street to Beyond: Multi-Domain Discourse Relation Classification with Pretrained BERT, Isaac R. Raff
How Useful Do You Think This Diversity Training Is? The Impact of Training Type and Individual Differences on Pre-Training Perceived Utility of Diversity Training, Nicolette A. Rainone
Heritage Repair: Revisiting Familial and Collective Histories in Filiation Narratives by Dalila Kerchouche, Colombe Schneck and Martine Storti, Rebecca R. Raitses
Slices of the Big Apple: A Visual Explanation and Analysis of the New York City Budget, Joanne Ramadani
Adapting Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Behavioral Research with Coastal Marine Mammals, Eric Angel Ramos
Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War, Jeremy N. Randall
Promoting Play-Based Learning Strategies in the Upper Elementary and Lower Middle School Classroom, Michelle L. Randall
Banarasipan as Revelation: Immanent Utopias in the Performance of Everyday Life, Bhargav Rani
Methods in Reverse Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese, Yuying Ren
The Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective, and Physiological Components of Social Cognition in Esports and Education, Daisy Reyes
Mapping Flood Myths, Ashley Marie Rojas
A Survey Study of Speech-Language Therapists’ Experiences with Teletherapy at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis, Jason A. Rosas
Retrieval Practice Promotes Learning of Turkish as a Foreign Language: A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Study, Maya C. Rose
My Favorite Thing is Monster Theory: Horror Comics and deMONSTRating Difference in Emil Ferris’s "My Favorite Thing is Monsters", Jennifer Rossberg
Removal of Anisotropic Background from Neutral Pion and Tagged Direct Photon–Hadron Correlations of Au+Au 200 GeV Collisions, Zachary Rowan
Pushing Understanding: Curriculum Resources for Digital Pedagogues, M. Rubin
The Music of Sylvano Bussotti and Its Interpretation: Biopolitics, Intersubjectivity, and Modernist Canon Formation, Charles A. Rudig
Past-Futures of Harlem: Black Urban Space at the Limits of Spatial Justice, Dane C. Ruffin
Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature, Sara Rychtarik
Unexpected Arousal Suppresses Memory and Metamemory Predictions During Associative Face-Name Recognition Task, Sameer Sabharwal-Siddiqi
Clarinet and Shadow, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
“The Theory is Not Yet Music”: An Analysis of Pierre Schaeffer’s Etude aux allures, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
The Interaction of Different Primary Producers and Physical and Chemical Dynamics of an Urban Shallow Lake, Majid Sahin
Debts of Displacement: Syrian Refugee Farmworkers at the Lebanese-Syrian Border, China S. Sajadian
Homotextualité réaliste: Cryptosexualité et subculture homosexuelle masculine chez Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Vincent Sallé
Collaborative Learning with a Geometry Video Game: The Role of Elaboration and Game Design in Motivation and Learning, Ethlyn Saltzman
The College Experience Podcast: Connecting Student Services for College Success, Lucila Sanchez
7 preludes for "Music can sleep" for pierrot ensemble, Matthew Sandahl
An Analysis of György Kurtág’s Officium breve in memoriam Andræ Szervánszky for string quartet op. 28, Matthew S. Sandahl
Music Pedagogy in Venezuela’s Plains: Making Space in Alma Llanera, Elaine Sandoval
Girl Friends, Camila Santander
Frontier Wordsworth: An Essay toward “The Idiot Boy”, David L. Sassian
Investigation of Behavioral Responses Including Visual Side Biases to Social Stimuli in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Jennifer R. Savoie
The Euro and Bumps in the Road: Historical Patterns of Nonresident Holdings in Eurozone Bonds, 1980–2018, Michael H. Scarlatos
"A Fallen Woman": The Use of Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Matthew Schneider
Predicting Stress in Russian using Modern Machine-Learning Tools, John Schriner
Hudson Yards: Hybrid Capital's New Home, Massimo D. Scoditti
Approach to Dual Base and Sugar Modification of Adenosine, Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions of Quinazolinones, and a Novel Entry to Carbazolones and Indolones, Dellamol Sebastian
The World is Your Pulpit: A Research-Based Performance on the Broder Singers, Amanda Seigel
Towards a Multi-Polar International System: An Analysis of the BRICS Countries’ Growth as Economic and Political Actors, Damla Senlik
Driven Dipolaritons in Van der Waals Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures: Properties and Applications, Patrick Serafin
Designing the Electrode Geometry and Electrolyte to Enhance the Product Selectivity and Activity in Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction, Samaneh Sharifi Golru
A Solitary Solidarity: Conditions for Attunement in the "Migration Crisis" in Greece, Katherine Sheese
Festivali11: The Long Sixties and Women in Communist Albania, Manjola Shehu
White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988, Matthew T. Sherman
Function of ATM and MSH2 During DNA Repair and Recombination, Emily Sible
Exploring the Boundaries of Queerness from Academia to Activism, Jillian M. (Silvia) Miranda
The International Academy of Language and Culture: The Global (pre)K-12 Charter School Network, Dree-el Simmons
Inheritance: A Memoir, Jennifer Skoog
Marx, Race, Black Radicalism, and Racial Justice, Gregory Slack
Historical Ecology of Norse Greenland: Zooarchaeology and Climate Change Responses, Konrad Smiarowski
Purity, Exclusion, and Political Order in Colombia, Osha Smith-Gittelman
Prime Factors: America’s Prioritization of Literacy over Numeracy and its Relationship to Systemic Inequity, Troy Smith
Stacking the Gamma-ray Sky to Search for Faint Astrophysical Populations, Yuzhe Song
Coded Distributed Function Computation, Pedro J. Soto
Everything to Lose: Extraction, Racism, and Survival on Wet'suwet'en Land, Anne Spice
The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Georgios Spiliotopoulos
Recognition as a Pedagogical Formation: Re-tracing Black Rhetors’ Care-Work in the Field of Writing Studies, Chy L. Sprauve
The Role of Mortality Salience and Social Identity in Police Officers and Students Reporting Misconduct, Anna M. Stenkamp
Democratic Processing of Waste: European Federalism and Decentralized Waste Management in Navarra and Basque Country, Michael Stinavage
The Relative Cost of Codeswitching: An Electrophysiological Study Contrasting Language Switching versus Lexical Predictability, Iris Strangmann
The ARV Treatment Adherence Model: A Qualitative Study on Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment Adherence for People Living with HIV, Danielle Strauss
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