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
Desire, Culture, and the Body, Zoey Lavallee
Everyone is Watching: Mastering the Challenge of Caring for Infants at the End of Life While Being Constantly Observed, Deborah A. Lawrence
Spaces of Statecraft: How the Bureaucratic State Was Built on Manhattan’s Sidewalk, Brian J. Lee
Remarkably Ordinary, an Oral History: Examining the Micro Effects of Family Reunification on the Lee Siblings and Their Spouses, Carol Joo Lee
Quid Pro Quo? The SEC Oversight Enforcement and Corporate Lobbying, Daeun Lee
Influence of Demographic, Clinical, and Neuroimaging Variables on Neuropsychological Recovery Trajectories After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Elizabeth J. Leif
Video on Film: Video Essay, Videographic Criticism, and Digital Academic Publishing, Tian Leng
Emergent Photophysics In Diketopyrrolopyrrole Superstructures, Andrew Levine
Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive, Romm Lewkowicz
Topological Classical Wave Systems With Modulations, Interactions, and Higher-order Topological States, Mengyao Li
Iron and Iodine-mediated Reactions, Xiaochen Liu
A Reflection on the Dialectical Relationship of Librarian | Teacher: The Need for Pedagogical Training in Core MLIS Curriculum, Melanie C. Locay
Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes and Classroom Discipline Referral, Nicole L. Lorenzetti
Avocado Mania: The Rise and Costs of Our Obsession with Avocados, Rosa C. Lourentzatos
Black Women in Romance, Vianny C. Lugo Aracena
Study of the Gain-of-Function Mutant p53 and PARP1 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Devon Lundine
Organizational Decision-making in the Age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anh Luong
Spectral Urbanism: Modern Ghost Cities, Rare Earths, and Political Time at the Limits of Materialism, Linsey Ly
A Text Analysis of British Welfare Debates, Emily C. Maanum
Prosody and Intonation in Formosan Languages, Benjamin K. Macaulay
A Difference in Rhythm: John Burroughs as Rhythmanalyst, Jennifer MacDonald
The Impact of Local Demographic Change in the Contemporary United States, Christopher Maggio
In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher
Speech Enhancement Using Speech Synthesis Techniques, Soumi Maiti
Cross-linguistic Morphosyntactic Influence in Bilingual Speakers of Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English, Taryn R. Malcolm
Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova
From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification, Jonathan I. Manczur
Semantic Network Activation Contributes to the Relationship between Mood and Inhibition, James S. Maniscalco
Three Essays on Exchange Rate Models and Their Applications, Azza A. Mansour
Very Two, Very One: Reading as Friendship, Amelia Marini
Using fNIRS to Identify Brain Regions Involved in Emotional Face Processing in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Christian Martinez
El Pueblo Unido: How Threats Increased Latinx Turnout in Arizona’s 2020 General Election, Conner Martinez
Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin
The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children, Evgeniya Maryutina
Role of Protonation State Changes and Hydrogen Bonding Around the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, Divya Matta
Infant Behavioral Speech Discrimination Procedures: A Systematic Review, Allison L. Mazzella
A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum
Points of Reference: Humanities Content for Media Studies, Carolyn A. McDonough
Connecting Communities to Coastal Resilience: Enhancing Sustainability through Public Participation in Salt Marsh Management and Restoration in Suffolk County, NY, Jennifer L. McGivern
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood, Eva C. McGraw
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
The Relationship of Pathological Narcissism to Empathic Functioning, Antonia M. McMaster
Working Memory Task Performance in Children With SLI: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Megan V. McVeety
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities, Sean Miller
Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham
Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico, Sarah Molinari
Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing Madame Bovary, Francesca Montalti
Dream City: Post-Millennials and Millennials Navigate School, Work, and Housing in New York City, Omar Montana
Effects of Working Memory Load on Ensemble versus Individual Object Processing, Clark Moore
Magnetic Resonance Characterization Studies of Sodium and Lithium-based Energy Storage Materials, Daniel J. Morales
Three LC-MS Plant Metabolomics Studies of Hop (Humulus) Species: Wild H. neomexicanus, Drought Stress, and Agricultural Terroir, Taylan Morcol
The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence, Emanuel D. Moss
Art After Dark: Economies of Performance, New York City 1978–1988, Meredith Mowder
Illegitimate Tasks and Performance Outcomes: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Coworker Sharing Illegitimate Tasks Experiences, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi
The Local Accountability Journalism Tracker, Sandy Mui
Essays on Universal Basic Income, Nana Mukbaniani
Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia
Framing the Border: Liminality in the Network Narratives of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal
Development of High-Throughput Methods for Screening Venom Peptides, Tanya Napolitano
Divergent Expectations and Dynamic Price Discovery, Shankar Narayanan
Dating Apps, or, Ghosts in the Viral Affect Machine, Gregory Narr
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Modeling and Analysis of Affiliation Networks with Subsumption, Alexey Nikolaev
The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry, Sean M. Nolan
Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels: Language Contact, Variation, and Change, Chaya R. Nove
Training and Individual Predictors of Attitudes Toward Serious Mental Illness Amongst Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students, Lauren K. O'Connor
Aloof: Black Divas of Refusal, Kwame K. Ocran
Not So Black and White: How Second-Generation Nigerian Americans Decide Whom to Marry, Karen Okigbo
Analysis of Transplantable Photoreceptor Replacement Cell Chemotactic Mechanisms in Retinal Biomimetic Ligand Gradients, Onyekwere Onwumere
The Different Components of Active Shooter Incidents: Examining the Co-occurrence of Offender and Incident Characteristics, Jeffery R. Osborne
“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building with Wynne Greenwood’s Tracy + the Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea
Systematic Review: The Effect of Hearing Aids on Balance and Falls, Natalia Beatriz Pagan-Guadalupe
The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads, Daniel S. Palmer
The Making of Transpacific Video Art, 1966–1988, Haeyun Park
Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community, Alison E. Parks
Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave, Joseph D. Parziale
Examining the Effect of Longstanding Deafness on Health Literacy: A Systematic Review, Sara S. Payami
The U.S.–Mexican War: Visualizing Contested Spaces from Parlor to Battlefield, Erika Pazian
Understanding and Predicting the Distribution of Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest, Andrea Paz Velez
From Rulay to Rules: Perceptions of Prison Life and Reforms in the Dominican Republic’s Traditional and New Prisons, Jennifer Peirce
Displacing the Border: Refugees, Law, and Geography in Turkey, Mert Peksen
Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni
Water-Responsive, Peptide-Based Crystals, Roxana Piotrowska
Nacido en Cuba: Imaginarios del Niño y la Patria, Justo Planas
Experience and Satisfaction with Hearing Aid Services Delivered via Teleaudiology in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Shelby Platia
The Relationship Between Arts Education and Beliefs About Equality and Social Action, Naomi B. Podber
A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco
Synthesis, characterization and applications of peptide-coated nanoparticles, Mina Sadat Poursharifi
Redlining, Neighborhood Decline, and Violence: How Discriminatory Government Policies Created Violent American Inner Cities, Richard Powell
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Emotional Development and Stress Response, Alexandra Pritchett
A Schema-Theoretic Approach to Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century Tonality, Simon K. S. Prosser
Optimizing Communication in Palliative and Hospice Care: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Sherry E. Queen
Improving the Assessment of Practical Judgment Ability in Older Adults, Crystal G. Quinn
Here Time Becomes Space: The Victorian Spatial Imaginary, Jonathan E. Rachmani
The Power of a Sound Mind: Exploring Meditation and Sound Therapies for Treating the Emotional Impact of Tinnitus, Sabeena A. Ramnanan
Circuits Underlying Serotonin Mediated Sex Differences in Fear Learning, Rebecca Ravenelle