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
Conservation, Comparative Genomics and Species Delimitation of the Reindeer Lichens (Cladonia), Jordan R. Hoffman
Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data, Yuchen Hou
Antisocial Behavior and Callous Unemotional Traits in Youth: A Biosocial Approach, Yong Lin Huang
Cultural Predicaments: Neorealism in The Netherlands, 1927–1945, Stephanie Huber
Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics, Susana Huidobro
Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration of the Emergence of Learning, Laurie Hurson
An Overview and Assessment of the Editorial Assistant Position at Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amy M. Iafrate
Armored Feelings: Romantic Love, Sexual Consent, and Gender-based Violence in French First World War Narratives (1914–1956), Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo
Unraveling the Geographies of the U.S. Public Education System: An Analysis of Scale, Segregation, and Hegemony, Olivia Ildefonso
La literatura al gobierno: José de la Riva-Agüero y Luis Alberto Sánchez en la modernización civilista (1905–1928), Alexis V. Iparraguirre Castro
Time and Power: The Will to Temporalize in Digital Culture, Talha Issevenler
Sensitized Photooxidation of Prenylated Compounds: Mechanisms of Downstream Dark Effects and Phototoxicity Priming, Shakeela Jabeen
"You Can't Be Shakespeare and You Can't Be Joyce": Lou Reed, Modernism, and Mass Production, Daniel C. Jacobson
Caribbean Immigrant Parents and Elementary School Choice in New York City, Keshia T. James
Genetic Determinants of Carotenoid Pigmentation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Mycobacterium kansasii, Niklas Janisch
Nunc Pauperis Agri: Rural Fantasy and Economic Reality in the Elegies of Tibullus, Victoria Elizabeth Jansson
NMR Study of Materials for Energy Storage Devices, Nishani K. Jayakody
Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama, Ja Young Jeon
Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Green Gentrification in The Resilience Paradigm, Brooklyn 2010–2020, Rose Jimenez
El ascendiente latinoamericano en la literatura euskaldun: “realismo mágico”, “literatura mundial” y la emergencia del campo literario vasco, Gustavo Jimenez Vaquero
Narcommunication: The Messaging, Marketing, and Murder of Organized Crime, Philip L. Johnson
Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis, Matthew Kadish
Creating an Interactive Virtual-Reality Game as a Method for Vestibular Rehabilitation, Jessica Kaganskiy
Happiness and Policy Implications: A Sociological View, Sarah M. Kahl
Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia, Max W. Kaplan
Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900, Olga Zaferatos Karras
Influence Level Prediction on Social Media through Multi-Task and Sociolinguistic User Characteristics Modeling, Denys Katerenchuk
Is Less More? Examining the Effects of Predictor Method Factors on Mobile SJT Scores and Test-Taker Reactions, Anne E. Kato
Factors Affecting Nurses’ Intention to Leave Their Primary Nursing Position, Scott P. Kaye
Measuring Alignment Between Components of an Educational System: An Extension of Porter’s Alignment Index, Joe Kazemi
The Impact of Personal Resources, Job Resources and Job Demands on Nurse Engagement, Michael J. Kern
Using Protonation Microstates and Hydrogen Bond Networks to Track Proton Transfer Pathways in Complex I, Umesh Khaniya
Assembling the African City: Music Streets and Associational Life in Dakar's Médina, Brendan Kibbee
Necessity, Essence and Analyticity: Toward an Analytic Essentialist Account of Necessity, Dongwoo Kim
Microaggressions, Imposter Phenomenon, and People of Color: A Quantitative Analysis, Rukiya King
The Effects of False Heartbeat Feedback on Moral Judgment, Scott Koenig
Prenatal Choline Supplementation During Maternal Obesity Alters Offspring Response to Western Diets, Hunter W. Korsmo
Humoring the Third Republic: Le Rire in French Politics and Popular Culture, 1894–1918, Andrew C. Kotick
A Bird’s Eye View: Large-Scale Tonal Structures in Robert Schumann’s Four Song Cycles (op. 42, 24, 39, and 48), Peter Kramer
Isolation and Characterization of Fluorescent Proteins and Small Molecules from Marine Vertebrates, Sara Rose Krivoshik
Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age, Michael Krondl
Time-to-Degree: Bachelor’s Degree Completion for Latine First-Year and Transfer Students, Robert E. Kunicki
Examining the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationship Between Stress and Ethical Decision Making, Irina Kuzmich
Interpreting Jean Coulthard's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963): A Pianist's Perspective, Jocelyn Lai
The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, Chelsea Lane
The Messiness Within: Personal Essays on Peeling Back the Facade, Chava Pearl Lansky
Essays on Housing and Macroeconomics, Pablo Lara Hinojos
The Campaign to End U.S. War-Making in Yemen: Strategies of Congressional Advocacy, 2015–2020, Zachary Laub
Who Taught You to Hate Yourself: Disentangling My Black Identity from White Christian Doctrine, Patrice Lorna Lebron
Unsuk Chin’s Hyper-Sheng: Sonic and Structural Development in Šu for Sheng and Orchestra, Hyun-Kyung Lee
The Bright and Dark Sides of Upward Social Comparison: Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Hiding Directed at High Performers, Soohyun (Ashley) Lee
Fragmentation and Fabulation: Reflexivity and the New Black Documentary, Joanna Lehan
Symmetry-Inspired Analysis of Biological Networks, Ian Leifer
Climate Change and Corporate Behaviors, Lei Lei
Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative Project with Vietnamese American Youth, Khanh Le
Robert Rosen and Relational System Theory: An Overview, James Lennox
Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives, Desmond W. Leung
“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception, Ki Ki Leung
Elucidation of Gene Essentiality and Genetic Determinants of Intrinsic p-Aminosalicylic Acid Resistance in Mycobacterium Kansasii, Keith J. Levendosky
Narrative Side-Stepping: Disability Beyond the Narratology of Normalcy, Christian Lewis
Nursing and Interprofessional Relationships on a Labor and Delivery Unit: Ethnography, Tricia A. Lewis
"Thus Much for Politicks": American Women, Diplomacy, and the Aftermath of the American Revolution, Miriam Liebman
Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld
A Qualitative Exploration of Discourses in Fan Community, /r/boyslove, Jessica Lin
Heating Fire Incidents in New York City, Merissa K. Lissade
Essays on Futures Market and Machine Learning, Jonathan J. Lopez Camara
Engineering Rare-Earth Based Color Centers in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Quantum and Nanoscale Applications, Gabriel I. López-Morales
Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria, Stephanie Victoria Love
Maurice Scève avant la Délie (1535–1544). Une étude des genres mineurs à l’origine d’une nouvelle esthétique poétique, Elizaveta Lyulekina
Expressivism and its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory and Practice from History to Here and Now, Sasha A. Maceira
Problematic Social Media Use, Social Comparison, and Defeat: An Intensive Longitudinal Investigation, Natalia Macrynikola
Optical Studies of Wide Bandgap Photonic Materials, Nikesh Maharjan
NYC vs. Covid-19: The Human and Financial Resources Deployed to Fight the Most Expensive Health Emergency in History in NYC during the Year 2020, Elmer A. Maldonado Ramirez
Voice, Arabness, and the Vocal Talent Competition Arab Idol, Insia Malik
Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed N1 Modifications of Inosine and 2'-Deoxyinosine and N-Directed Remote Aroylation of C6-Aryl Purine Nucleosides, Casina Malinchak
Equitable Assessment for Elementary Dual-Language Learners, Joliette Mandel
Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial–Carceral City’s Attempt to Eliminate the “Mexican Problem”, Amy A. Martinez
Terror en el Orinoco: Formas del espanto animal y vegetal en la historia natural de José Gumilla, Roberto E. Martinez Bachrich
When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez
Indigenous Mexicans in New York City: Immigrant Integration, Language Use, and Identity Formation, Leslie A. Martino-Velez
Anomalous Self-Experiences and Aberrant Salience in Schizotypy, Victoria Martin
The Politics of Media Freedom, Kyong Mazzaro
All Aboard the Abortion Pill Train: Activism, Medicine, and Reproductive Technologies in the Republic of Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey
Discrimination, Psychological Well-Being, and Racial Importance in U.S. Native-Born and Caribbean Black Americans, Jaime E. McCaw
Actual Causation: Apt Causal Models and Causal Relativism, Jennifer R. McDonald
A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Robin McGinty
Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Development of Urban Forests, Gisselle A. Mejía
Cochlear Implant Evaluations of Spanish-Speaking Adults, Mariana Mejia Turnbull
Perceptions of Economic Vulnerability and Public Opinion in the United States: A Theoretical, Historical, and Quantitative Approach, Cody R. Melcher
Witness-Authenticated Key Exchange, Kelsey G. Melissaris
Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott
