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 2020
Psychoanalytic Determinates of the Love/Work Balance in a Cohort of African-American Men, Joseph Ellison Brown
Development of an ABA Tool Kit for Audiologists to Increase Hearing Aid Wear Time in Individuals with Autism, Lindsay Brown
Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer
The Women that No One Wanted to See: The Duality of the Women within the Holocaust, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono
Proton Pumping Mechanism in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Xiuhong Cai
Investigating the Modulatory Effect of Expectations on Memory Retrieval During Sentence Comprehension, Luca Campanelli
Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders, Emily Campbell
Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell
Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, and Pedagogy in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur
Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell
Slavery and Confederate Military Strategy and Policy, 1860–1865, David M. Campmier
“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich, William J. Camponovo
Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere
Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
Topics of The Sky: Ashbery's Involving Search for The Poem, Tom M. Carlson
All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw, Matthew K. Carter
Identifying Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Construct Under-Representation as Support of External Evidence of Validity, Jennifer Case
“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar
Apocalipsis cultural e imaginación política: el caso de Madrid en el periodo entre crisis (2008–2020), Natalia Castro Picón
Tonal Adaptation of Loanwords in Mandarin: Phonology and Beyond, Zhuting Chang
Essays on Anomalies in International Equity Markets, Xiao Cheng
Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen
Spectral Sequences for Almost Complex Manifolds, Qian Chen
The Functional Role of the Anterior Insular Cortex in Cognitive Control, Yu Chen
The Transcription Factor ATF5 Protects Cortical Neurons from Toxicity Induced by Prostaglandin J2, Fanny Cheung
Tamalin/GRAS-1 Connects Glutamate Receptor Activity to the Insulin/IGF Signaling Cascade to Regulate Neuroprotection in a Nematode Model of Excitotoxicity, Ayesha Chowdhury
Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation, Christopher Clarke
Tracking Keywords in American Studies, Thomas Cleary
Exploring Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Plea Bargain Decisions, Melanie Close
Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation, Jaime Shearn Coan
Transcription Initiation and Termination of Chemically Synthesized Small RNA Expression Vectors, Jose Cobo
Corporeal Analysis: The Performing Body as Analytic Site, Laura Cocks
Dangerous Exhibitions: Erotic Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law, Elena Cohen
Through the Back Door: Proteins Escape Cells without Conventional Permission, Michael J. Cohen
“From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart”: Liturgy and Embodiment in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Brigid J. Coleridge
International Influence on the Development and Reception of Cello Playing in England, 1870–1930: Robert Hausmann, Auguste Van Biene, and Guilhermina Suggia, Hannah E. Collins
The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress., Mary Collins
Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making, Connor Concannon
A Plan for Democratic Public Schooling, Diana Concepcion
Cracks in the Bathroom Stall: A Discourse Analysis on Transgender Bathroom Usage at Garden Spot High School, Kirsten D. Corneilson
Integrating Affect Perception Tasks from the New York Emotion Battery into a Comprehensive Measure of Neuropsychological Change across the Lifespan, Melinda A. Cornwell
Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado
Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness, AnaMaria Correa
African American Existential Heroes: Narrative Struggles for Authenticity, Michael Cotto
An Affective Events Theory Analysis of Conflict Perception Emergence, Michael J. Covell
Thrown off Course: School Suspension and Its Consequences for Students’ Educational Trajectories and Outcomes, Celina Cuevas
Linear and Non-Linear Elastic Constants of Crystalline Materials from First-Principles Calculations, David Cuffari
Applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Macroeconomic and Financial Forecasting, Andi Cupallari
Responses of North American Birds to Recent Climate Change: Effects of Distributional Changes on Migration Distances, Community Structure and Biodiversity Patterns, Shannon R. Curley
Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals, Christina N. Dadurian
Narcissus and Beauty: A Renaissance of Paterian Aesthetics, Amir Dagan
Political Culture in the Cities of the Northern Black Sea Region in the "Long Hellenistic Age", Emyr Dakin
Intra-familial Microaggressions, Object Relations, and Racial Identity Formation in Multiracial Individuals, Ashley Danies
Asians Applying for Postsecondary Success: Students, Schools, and Socioeconomic Status, Avery M.D. Davis
Informing on Crop Water-Use, Stress, and Growth with Integrated Satellite Remote Sensing and Modeling, Aaron Davitt
Speech Motor Control in Younger and Older Adults: The Effect of Age and Individual Differences on Speech Error Production, Katherine M. Dawson
Role of Influence in Complex Networks, Nur Dean
The Cinematic Treatment of Tableaux Vivants in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, Sheikh Deen
Revisiting Juchitán: Witnessing an Indigenous Mexico Within the Latin American Archive, Michelle G. de la Cruz
II-VI Type-II Quantum Dot Superlattices for Novel Applications, Vasilios Deligiannakis
The Police and the State, Brandon del Pozo
Developmental Predictors of Adolescent Mental Health Stigma and a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of "Ending the Silence" in New York city, Joseph S. DeLuca
Legitimizing Violence at the European Border: Gendered Misrepresentations at Sea and the Vulnerable Other, Michela Demelas
Three Essays on Natural Rates, Huseyin U. Demir
Essays on the Education Production Function, Daniel Dench
Red Sea, White Tides, and Blue Horizons, John P. Devine
Doing Discipline Different: Evaluating the Implementation of Restorative Justice as An Alternative to Punitive Discipline in New York City Public Schools, Virginia Diaz-Mendoza
Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies, Taylor Dietrich
Speech Outcomes and Hearing Preservation in Adults with Hybrid Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Victoria J. Dillon
Positioning and Repositioning: Transnational Identity (Re) Construction and (Re) Negotiation by American-Senegalese Children, Aminata Diop
Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment Options, Amanda C. Dominguez
Afectos en la Novela Española Contemporánea: Tematización de la Tercera Guerra de los Balcanes y Construcción del "Otro", Isabel Dominguez Seoane
In and Out of Character: Socratic Mimēsis, Mateo Duque
Ujamaa Policies and Women Gender Issues of Land Tenure in Tanzania, Nasa S. Edgar
Job Satisfaction Among Peer Support Staff in Mental Health Treatment and Recovery-Oriented Settings, Jonathan P. Edwards
Applying a Systems Approach to the Legacy of Lead in Soil, Sara Perl Egendorf
Do Criminal and Successful (Non-Institutionalized) Psychopaths Differ on Internal, Environmental, and Contextual Characteristics?, Ahmed E. Enaitalla
British Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Natural Education, Catherine S. Engh
The Temporal Dynamics of Ensemble Perception, Michael L. Epstein
Taking It to Heart: Trauma and Cardiovascular Risk in Court-Involved People of Color, Tanya Erazo
Raising Haiti: The Transmission of Ethnic Culture Across Generations, Vadricka Y. Etienne
Extra-Legal Information Transfer During Eyewitness Identification, Andrew J. Evelo
Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Christina E. Farella
The Art of Opacity: Guy de Cointet in L.A., Media Farzin
A New Method in Subjective Tinnitus Management: The Use of a Nutraceutical Formulation to Improve Patient Outcomes, Jade Faulkner
Learning to Fail? Student Experiences in Remedial Mathematics in Community Colleges, Margaret P. Fay
Metaethical Intentionalism and the Intersubjectivity of Morals, Kyle Ferguson
Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students, Lo Ferguson
Using Brief Session Duration During Functional Analysis to Inform the Treatment of Problem Behavior in 13 Consecutive Cases, Theresa Fiani
Black Parental Involvement in a Suburban School District, Walter L. Fields
Afro-Americano: The Transracialization of the African-American Spanish Speaker, John M. Flanagan
Legend Has It: Tracking the Research Trope in Supernatural Horror Film Franchises, Deirdre M. Flood
Political Fictions: Black Feminist Novels of Slavery and the Narrative of the American Left, Elizabeth A. Foley