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
No Hair! Don't Care! Resistance and Empowerment of Bald and Low Shaved Black Women, Monica Rivers
Delayed Modulation of Glutamate Receptors by Anti-Epileptic Drugs after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats, Edgar Rodriguez
After Abstract Expressionism: Reconsidering the “Death of Painting” at Midcentury, Natasha Roje
A Comparison of Simulated Schizophrenia in Mental Health Experts and Genuine Schizophrenia in Psychiatric Patients, Amanda Rosinski
Exploring the Effects of Coworker Ostracism on Feedback Inquiry and Voice: The Mediating Role of Proactive Motivation, Ethan G. Rothstein
Motivation of Networking Behavior: A Study of Novel Interventions, Jeremy D. Rothstein
From Poor Campesinos to Tortilla Kings: Mexican Migrant Elites, Yesenia Ruiz
Toward the Black Indian Ocean: Race and the Human Project in the Afro-Asian Imagination, Micheal A. Rumore
Introducing Odysseus: Force, Resistance and Nostos in the Formation of Odysseus’ Character, Haley Ryan
Pilot Study Of The Effects Of Mobile Based Resonant Frequency Breathing On Cognitive Performance In Healthy Young Adults With Elevated Stress, Daniel Saldana
Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency, Jules F. Salomone-Sehr
Orban's Hungary: Lack of Freedoms Becoming The Motivation for Hungarian Emigration, Fanni Sampson
The Problem of Leisure: A Modern History of Work and Idleness, Lea S. Sanchez
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Fate Choice Within Specific Retinal Lineages, Estie Schick
Perceiving the Body: On the Bodily Senses and the Nature of Perception, Fiona C. Schick
Living in Permanent Transience: An Ethnography of Contemporary Alexandria, Alexandra K. Schindler
The Material Culture of Temperature: Measurement, Capital and Semiotics, Scott W. Schwartz
Label Imputation for Homograph Disambiguation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches, Jennifer M. Seale
Extracting Theory from Practice: A Computational Analysis of the Persian Radif, Sepideh Shafiei
A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh, Ahmed Shamim
Estrogen Modulation of VTA Dopamine Neuron Physiology and Behavioral Responsivity to Variable Social Stressors, Mary R. Shanley
Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels, Sally Sharif
The Politics of "Dignity" and the Tunisian Truth Commission: Keywords, Violence, Human Rights, Douaa Sheet
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mexican Return Migration across the Life Course, Mara G. Sheftel
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychological Outcomes of Mobile Guided Resonant Frequency Breathing in Young Adults with Elevated Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Al Amira Safa Shehab
Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel, Michael Shelichach
3D Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification from 3D Range and 2D Color Images, Xiaoke Shen
Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata
Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France, Ruka Shironishi
Acoustic Changes Following Clear Speech Intervention, Polina Shuminsky
Making Space for Unquantifiable Data: Hand-drawn Data Visualization, Eva Sibinga
Contributions of Reward Identity and Time Prediction Errors to Pavlovian Learning, Daniel B. Siegel
A Discursive Geography of Repair: Exploring Regional and National Claims for Reparative Justice in the Caribbean, Zaira S. Simone
Essays on Communication, Shawn M. Simpson
The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange, Aaron Slodounik
The Federalist Papers' Account of Human Nature, Jeffrey P. Smith
Informed Consent: Foundations and Applications, Joanna Smolenski
Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction, Patrick Smyth
Microstructural Characteristics of Deformed Quartz Under Non-Steady-State Conditions, Hamidreza Soleymani
Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France, Anna Soo-Hoo
Alcohol And Its Long-Term Effects On Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review, Talia Sowalsky
Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords, Yulia Spektor
Pedagogy and Love: Preservice Teacher Perspectives, Eleni Stellatos
Factors Associated with Health-Promoting Behaviors of Adult Protective Service Workers and Professionals Who Support Vulnerable Adults, Cynthia Sterling-Fox
Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights and Musical Participation in Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings
Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law, Richard Stillman
The Victims’ Voices: A Routine Activity Approach to Jail and Prison Victimization, Victor St. John
Examining Probation and Judicial Adherence to the NYC Disposition Matrix, Susruta Sudula
Information Justice: The Histories and Futures of Technology and Social Categories, Patrick Sweeney
Intent to Stay, Moral Distress, and Nurse Practice Environment Among Long-Term Care Nurses, Amil Tan
Young People’s Perception of Opportunities to Participate in Democratic Governance, Jennifer Nga Yu Tang
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Self-Assemblies in Nature and Nanotechnology, Phu Khanh Tang
Towards Automated Software Evolution of Data-Intensive Applications, Yiming Tang
Optimization of Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration and Thermomagnetic Power Generation, Anthony N. Tantillo
Understanding the Influence of Zinc on Grain Cadmium Accumulation and Bioaccessibility in Rice, Michael A. Tavarez
Developing Supramolecular Tripeptides with Sequence Tunable Visible Absorbance and Emission, Mona Tayarani Najjaran
Baccio del Bianco at the Court of Spain: Early Modern Scenic Design in Context, Pamela Thielman
Cross-sectional Variation of Stock Options Behavior, Meng Tian
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Laxman Timilsina
The Making of an Avant-gardist: A Study of Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Early Life and Works (1957–1966), Noel Torres-Rivera
Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation, Natalia Tyulina
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking, Nicholas J. Ullrich III
Mother’s Understanding of the Newborn Infant Hearing Screening (NIHS) and the Audiologist’s Role in Healthy Hearing, Chaya T. Ungar
Countersexuality in Times of Neomachismo: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Spanish Performance (1988–2019), Mara I. Valderrama
Tools and Strategies for the Patterning of Bioactive Molecules and Macromolecules, Daniel J. Valles
Diffraction-Based Studies of Magneto- and Baro-Caloric Materials, Steven P. Vallone
Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Brent A. Van Horne
The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Regulating Messenger RNA 3’ End Processing and Controlling Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells, Sophia Varriano
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