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 2023
Synthesis of Fluoroorganics and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Building Blocks, Wei Wei
“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold
Multi-Target Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS) Against B-Cell Specific Antigens Expressed in a Single Lymphoma Cell Population, Nicole B. Williams
The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological, Eric Dean Wilson
An Affective Technology of Heimat: Whiteness, Nation Building and Social Media in Germany, Friederike Windel
Body Check: Transgressive Body Politics of Gina Pane, Orlan, and Deborah De Robertis, Avant-Garde Performance Artists in France, 1960s–Present, Patricia Anne Winter
Germanic Latin Lyric Diction: Regional Variations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, James A. Worley
Numbered, Weighed, Divided: Revolution and/as Apocalypse in the Modern Liberal Tradition, Asher J. Wycoff
Targeting HIF/Coregulator Complexes in Cancer: Characterizing Fragile Fold and Inhibitor Binding Sites of ARNT, Xingjian Xu
Capital Structure Decision and Separating Risk from Optionality, Yang Xu
Ejercicios de sí: escritura, cuerpo y deporte en el Cono Sur (1964–2019), Pablo Yankelevich
Stand-up Comedy Visualized, Berna Yenidogan
Ornamentalism: Costuming and the Portrayal of the Chinese Woman in Film, 20th-21st Century, Andrea Yepez
Effects of Genes and Gene-Environment Interactions on Work-Family Conflict and Enrichment, Peter Yu
The Rent Is Too Damn High:the Spatial and Longitudinal Dimensions of Housing Affordability, Kasey Zapatka
Understanding the Impact of Incentive-Driven Changes in Hospital and Physician Practice Styles, Ke Zeng
Optimization and Application of Graph Neural Networks, Shuo Zhang
Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji, Wen Zhang
Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing for Compute-intensive Application, Xiaojie Zhang
Revealing The Three-Dimensional Magnetic Texture with Machine Learning Models, Shihua Zhao
Kinetics of Photochemical and Mechanochemical Organic Reactions on Surface, Yerzhan Zholdassov
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
Electron Transport in Quantum Systems with Interaction, Sara Abedi
The Neighborhood Stories Indexing Project, Elena Abou Mrad
Neurocardiovascular Instability (NCVI) Risk as a Predictor of Cognitive Function in the Long Life Family Study, Rebecca Abraham
Decolonizing Genderqueer: An Inquiry into the Gender Binary, Resistance, and Imperialistic Social Categories, Lauren E. Abruzzo
Monolingual Versus Bilingual Use of Context to Facilitate Speech Recognition in Background Noise: A Systematic Review, Rachel Abucasis
Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin
The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici
Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers and Bankers in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee
The Effects of Syrian Refugees on Jordanians’ Political Attitudes, Suna Buse Agkoc
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing Models, Somayeh Ahmadi
Investigating Young Adult Cancer Survivors' Perspectives on their Future and Interpersonal Relationships, Zeba N. Ahmad
Once There Was and Once There Wasn’t: The Poetics of Flicker, Sara Akant
A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography, Fidan Akinci
Genomic Insights into Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution and Evolution-inspired Strategies to Combat Pathogen Diversity, Saymon Akther
El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside, Valeria Alderete
Intelligence Testing in the New (Langu)age: Effects of Item-Type and Assessment Medium Features on Fluid Intelligence Test Linguistic Group Score Differences, Paige R. Alenick
Role of Metals in Human Immune System: Study of Metal-Dependent Structural Changes of S100A12 Protein, Aleksey Aleshintsev
La voz de Los Sures: Etnografía glotopolítica del activismo comunitario, Lara Maria Alonso Pinero
Virtual Reality Supplement to the Peers Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with ASD, Kevin Ambrose
Close-Quarters Antagonism: The New Left Within and Against the War on Poverty, Andrew S. Anastasi
A Diagnostic Pocket Guide For Audiologists: Outer, Middle, and Inner Ear Disorders and Chronic Diseases, Ashley Andino
Macroeconomic Adjustments of Global Convergence: Real Exchange Rate Response of Asia-Pacific Growth, Kumarappan Annamalai
Determining the Roles of the Oligomerization and C-terminal Domains in Mutant p53 Gain-of-Function Activities, George K. Annor
The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
Past Actions and Expertise: How States Infer Enemy Intentions, Yu Aoki
The Rise of a New Machine: Dominican Political Mobilization and Incorporation in New York City from 1991 to the Present, Fernando Aquino
Destination ICAIC: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Documentary Film and the Image of the Cuban 1960s, Gabriel Arce-Riocabo Rollins
El Poder de las Tierras Estatales: Conflictos de propiedad, formaciones estatales y la construcción de los Llanos en Colombia, Julio Arias Vanegas
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Validating Students’ Proficiency in Mathematics, Alexander Avdeev
Serial Position Effect Profiles and Their Neuroanatomical Correlates: Predictors of Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease, Isabelle K. Avildsen
La voz obrera en Chile (1879-1937): lenguaje y escritura de la clase trabajadora chilena en el proceso de construcción nacional, Tania A. Aviles Vergara
Role of the G Protein Beta Gamma Subunits in Serotonin Transporter Dynamics, Nora Awadallah
Representation Learning for Chemical Activity Predictions, Mohamed S. Ayed
Exploring Social and Emotional Functioning in Emerging Adult Survivors of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sara Babad
Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen, Christian P. Bagrow
The Social Construction of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Raya Balabanova
Neither Invisible, nor Silenced: The India-Maghreb Connections in Female-Authored Cinema, Chandra Balkaran
North of the Grid: The Black Experience of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes
Public Policy and the Business Life Cycle, Hugo Barreca
Essays on Machine Learning Methods in Economics, Mani Bayani
Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness, Lynne Beckenstein
Brave New Wombs: Hysterectomy, Gender, and Stratified Reproduction, Andréa Becker
Usability of Health-related Websites by Filipino-American Adults and Nursing Informatics Experts, Kathleen Begonia
Analyzing the Linguistic Features of Standardized Math Items: A Text Mining Approach, Magdalen A. Beiting-Parrish
Play: A Normative Theory of Agency and Culture, Maxaie Belmont
A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting the Onset of Type II Diabetes in a Sample of Pima Indian Women, Meriem Benarbia
Histone Post-translational Modification Dysregulation Contributes to Toxicity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Proteinopathy Models, Seth A. Bennett
American Intervention in the "New World Order", Julie N. Benson
Exploring the Effectiveness of Multiple-Exemplar Training for Visual Analysis of AB-Design Graphs, Verena S. Bethke
NMR Characterization of Novel Materials for Battery Electrolyte Applications, Sahana Bhattacharyya
Understanding the Proton Transport in Non-Aqueous Histidine-Based Nanostructures, Jiang Bian
Visible Light Photocatalysis of Organic Reactions in H2O, Sankarsan Biswas
Legislating Against Liberties: Congress and the Constitution in the Aftermath of War, Harry Blain
The Moral Economy of Ordinary Belarussians and a Critical Examination and Re-Evaluation of the 2020 Post-Electoral Uprising, Geoffrey Blank
The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development, and Modernity in Zanzibar, Caitlyn Bolton
Thickened Surfaces, Checkerboard Surfaces, and Quantum Link Invariants, Joseph W. Boninger
Faith Community Nurse Self-Care: A Qualitative Study, Linda Bradley
Recovering Authenticity: Care, Conversation and Value, Shannon M. Brick
Fostering College Students’ Fact-Checking Skills: Three Studies Assessing Lateral Reading Instruction in a General Education Course, Jessica E. Brodsky
Control of Nonlinear Properties of van der Waals Materials, Rezlind Bushati
Strategies Anti-Racist Supervisors Use to Disrupt Racism in Social Work Practice, Sarah Ross Bussey
Epistemic Priors, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Humor, Paul Butterfield
Falling Forward: The Governance of School Reform, Race, and the Contest for a Dignified Future in Newark, N.J., Claire Cahen
Drift Net: The Social and Political Agency of the Migratory Text, Chris Campanioni
The Impossible Situation? Impasse as Psychotherapeutic Paralysis, Possibility, and Progress, Leo Cancelmo
Pop/Art: The Birth of Underground Music and the British Art School, 1960–1980, Andrew Cappetta
The Effects of Near-Threshold Color Manipulation on Perceptual Decision-Making and Confidence Report, Trevor Caruso
Strength and Vulnerability in Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel for Cello and Marimba: An Analysis through Performance and Composition, Andrea Casarrubios
Diet and Nutrition of Lemurs in the Lean Season, Santiago Cassalett
Free Improvisation Pedagogy: An Arts Based Research Approach to Promoting Student Agency And Embracing Difference, Nicholas Catino
Molecular Mechanism of Rapamycin Resistance in Cancer Cells, Sohag Chakraborty
