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
Development of an LCMS Analytical Method with Applicability to Determination of Trace Level Explosives in Environmental Waters, Cristina I. Veresmortean
The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election, Brandon Vigil
The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City, Michael A. Villanova
Predictors of Lexical Accessibility of Common and Proper Nouns in Older Age: Evidence from the Tip-of-the-Tongue State, Amy Victoria Vogel-Eyny
Emulating the "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis of Fiddle Parodies and Impressions in Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata, Emily Vold Weiss
Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker
Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace
Applying Deep Learning on Financial Sentiment Analysis, Cuiyuan Wang
New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism, Serena Yiai Wang
Nation(s) and Narrative(s) in Forms of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei
How Psychotherapists Practice In the Digital Era, Josh Weinstein
Who Pays? New York State Political Donor Matching with Machine Learning, Annalisa Wilde
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts, Adam Wilson
Enhanced Platinum (II) Drug Delivery for Anti-cancer Therapy, Marek T. Wlodarczyk
What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators, Kathryn Wojtkiewicz
Teaching Choral Music of the African Diaspora in the United States: Toward a “Living Black History”, H. Roz Woll
Progress Narratives in Trans Internationalism: Surveying a Collected Archive of the Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff
Essays on How Cultural Factors Affect the Sentiment and Behavior of Financial Market Participants, Runze Wu
Gay for English: Postcolonial In(queer)ies into Contemporary Hindi Cinema, Hardik R. Yadav
Refugee Higher Education and Participatory Action Research Methods: Lessons Learned from the Field, Hadas Yanay
Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: the Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification, Ye Yang
The Role of Placental Genes on Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay, Maedot A. Yidenk
Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal, Nishant Yonzan
From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution, Mason Youngblood
Contracting in Direct Asset Sales, Xin Yuan
Place Branding as a Mode of Urban Governance and Verticalisation: The Case of Tokyo and New York, Z. Ruya Yuksel
The Hamite Must Die! The Legacy of Colonial Ideology in Rwanda, Awa Princess E. Zadi
Targeting AMPA Receptor Modulation during Early Life Adversity: A Mediator for Threat Associated Memories, Roseanna M. Zanca
Novel Hybrid Resampling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Particle Filters, Xudong Zhang
Essays on Economic Uncertainty and Housing Market in China, Humenghe Zhao
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Essays on Investor Sentiment, Media, and Trading, Changyun Zhou
Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook
Evolution and Development of the Seed Coat in Gymnosperms, Cecilia Zumajo
How Frustration Impacts the Relationship Between Potential for Child Physical Abuse Perpetration and Emotion Processing, Amanda L. Zwilling
Daily Benefits of Leader Dogs in Addition to Medical Treatment For Individuals With Usher Syndrome: A Case Study, Samantha H. Zwolan
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
Symmetric Rigidity for Circle Endomorphisms with Bounded Geometry and Their Dual Maps, John Adamski
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Elucidating the Role of APL-1, the C. elegans Ortholog of the Human Amyloid Precursor Protein, Adanna G. Alexander
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
Glotopolítica de la Desigualdad: Ideologías del Mapudungun y el Español en Chile (2009–2019), Gabriel E. Alvarado Pavez
Generating Entanglement with the Dynamical Lamb Effect, Mirko Amico
Maximum Sound Output Levels of Pediatric Marketed Headphones: The Development of Healthy Listening Habits in Children, Adrienne L. Ammirati
Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation, Drake R. Andersen
The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown, Drake R. Andersen
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
HuR Ubiquitination by BRCA1/BARD1 and Its Role in Controlling Gene Expression During DNA Damage Response, Gamage M. Aruggoda
The Berbers: Constructed Identities by Foreigners on African Soil, Zineb Askaoui
Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk
Pointing the Zinc Finger on Protein Folding: Energetic Investigation into the Role of the Metal-Ion in the Metal-Induced Protein Folding of Zinc Finger Motifs, Inna Bakman-Sanchez
Living in a World of “Stop, Question and Frisk” and “Trespass Enforcement”: Black and Latinx Youth Engaging in Police Reform in New York City, Jeanene Lee Barrett
The Stories We Tell for the Narrative We Need, Ayana Bartholomew
On the Divisor Class Group and Special Units of Multiquadratic Real Fields, John E. Basias
Regulation of a Messenger: Raising oskar, It Takes a Village, Livia V. Bayer
Bones, Burials, and the Riddle of Truth: Reconstructing the Past Through What Has Been Left Behind, Jelena M. Begonja
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Motivation on Cognitive Control, Andrea Benavides
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
New Approaches to Frequent and Incremental Frequent Pattern Mining, Mehmet Bicer
Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe, Sophia A.M. Bishop
Structural and Functional Brain Markers of Trauma-related Symptoms, Glenn Blessington
Spheres of Identity: Theorizing Social Categorization and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice Officials, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice in Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas
Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna
The Argentines of Paris: Theatrical Networks and Assemblages, Stefano Boselli
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Logical Pluralism and Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics, Tai-Danae Bradley
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
Proactive and Reactive Aggression, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Sleep in Adolescents, Allison L. Brasch
Small Molecule Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Marcelo F. Bravo Carranco
Assistive Listening Devices: A Guide, Alexa Brody
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center, Tatiana N. Browne-Kai