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
The Making of a Bilingual University in the 21st Century, Michael Mena
Transcriptional Mechanisms of Neuroprotection in Excitotoxicity Driven Neurodegeneration in C. elegans, Zelda Z. Mendelowitz
Negative Dialectics in Elliott Carter: Toward an Adornian Aesthetics of Carter's Music, Gregory J. Menillo
Rima, Gregory J. Menillo
A Queens Community Teacher Storytelling Project: A Qualitative Research Study of Five Local Afro-Caribbean and Latina Public School Teachers and Community Teachers in New York City, José Alfredo Menjivar Ortéz
Dietary Regulation of Silent Synapses in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Allison M. Meyers
Screen Time and the Psychological Well-Being of U.S. Teenagers: An Exploratory Re-Analysis of Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Russell Miller
Unraveling the Double-Bind: An Investigation of Black and Latina Women in STEM, Katlyn L. Milless
The Application of Electron Backscatter Diffraction to the Forensic Analysis of Minerals, Tiffany J. Millett
Historical Sisters: Black Feminist Actions Across History and Literary Studies, Jazz A. Milligan
The Storytelling Cure: Medicine and Narrative from Galen to Shahrazad and Rousseau, Ryan A. Milov-Cordoba
Shame On You: The 2018 Senate Race and Gendered Language on Facebook and Twitter, Heather A. Mir
The Local Lifting Problem for Curves with Quaternion Actions, George Mitchell
A Pilot Feasibility Trial of Mindfulness and Modification Therapy for Males Who Use Aggression, Jenny Mitchell
Essays on Social Mobility and Distribution, Luis A. Monroy Gómez Franco
Emotion in Plato's Trial of Socrates, Thomas W. Moody
Scientific Development of an Integrated Workflow for Latent Print, Questioned Document, and DNA Processing of Paper Evidence, Ashley Morgan
Mechanism of Tau Propagation: Putative Therapeutic Approaches, Viktoriya Morozova
Janus v. AFSCME, Revisited, Benjamin Derek Morse
Natural Striatal Signaling Dynamics During Food Approach, Devry Mourra
Essays on Labor Economics, Gabriel Movsesyan
Tablets as a Vehicle for Imprisoned People’s Digital Connection with Loved Ones, Andrea Mufarreh
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility in Education, Ercio A. Munoz Saavedra
Aging on Parole: An Empirical Analysis of Reentry, Reintegration, and Life Satisfaction, Angela Silletti Murolo
Molecular Mechanisms of microRNA-1205 in Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Michelle K. Naidoo
Connections Between Atmospheric Blocking, General Circulation, and Weather Extremes in a Hierarchy of Models and Various Climates, Veeshan Narinesingh
Pervasive Nonarbitrariness: Meaning from Form in Natural Language, David J. Neely
Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers, Andrea Negret
The Differential Effects of Acoustic Discriminations on Operant Learning Performance and Neurogenesis in Male and Female Zebra Finches, Kristena L. Newman
An Analysis of the Friendship Paradox and Derived Sampling Methods, Yitzchak Novick
A Machine Learning Approach to Text-Based Sarcasm Detection, Lara I. Novic
From Perfect Victims to Collateral Damage: How Nigerian Women are Implicated in and Impacted by Contemporary French Anti-Trafficking Policies and Discourse, Oladunni Patricia Oduyemi
The Intersection of Prose and Poetics in Apollonius’ Argonautica, Stephen B. Ogumah
Incomplete Neutralization in Articulatory Phonology, Sejin Oh
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease: Targeting Toll-Like Receptor Signaling and a Multi-Target Approach, Giovanni Oliveros
Covert Determiners in Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences, William Oliver
Water-based Lead Generation, Brian Olson
Educated There, But Employed Here: The Unique Experiences of Internationally Educated Nurses, Nnenna Onuoha
Essays in Development Macroeconomics, Miguel Orozco Vazquez
LGBTQIA+ Individuals’ Encounters with Police: Contextual Factors, Help-Seeking, and Service Needs, Max Osborn
"Queering" Age-Friendly New York City, Austin G. Oswald
Workforce Diversity and Health Equity: The Role of Schools of Public Health, Adashima Oyo
No Excuses Yet No Solutions: The Inherent Anti-Blackness of the No-Excuses Charter School Model, Tshala A. Pajibo
When the Elite Control Public Education: A Critical Inquiry on Charter Schools, Marisela Palafox
Deception Detection Across Domains, Languages and Modalities, Subhadarshi Panda
Mirar, tocar, sentir: Gestos contravisuales en la fotografía contemporánea de Centroamérica, el Caribe y sus diásporas en los EE. UU., Cristina E. Pardo Porto
A House of One’s Own: Challenges and Re-Definitions of Female Subjectivity and Domestic Space in Italian Women Writers from the 1950s to the Early 2000s, Nicole Paronzini
A Guide to Pharmacology for Audiologists, Lauren E. Pasko
Effects of Telesimulation on the Health Literacy Knowledge, Confidence and Application of Nursing Students, Susan Patton
Oxytocin, a Lover and a Fighter: Maternal Trauma Exposure and Mother-Child Coregulation, Patricia M. Pehme
Cultivation, Conflict, and Consumption: Food Systems in Syria, 1920–1946, Sara Pekow
Efficacy, Acceptance, and Feasibility of Virtual Reality for Chronic Pain Relief in Older Adult Veterans Residing in Long Term Care, Valicia Philibert
Cdc6 is Sequentially Regulated by PP2A-Cdc55, Cdc14, and Sic1 for Origin Licensing in S. cerevisiae, Jasmin Philip
The Zariski-Riemann Space as a Universal Model for the Birational Geometry of a Function Field, Giovan Battista Pignatti Morano di Custoza
Control, Allegiance, and Shame in Male Qing Dynasty Hairstyles, Carolle Pinkerton
The Development of Slurs in Violin Bowing During the Italian Seicento: Printing and Rhetoric, Joan Plana Nadal
The Microscopical Evidence Traces Analysis of Household Dust and Its Statistical Significance as a Definitive Identification Technique, Stephanie Polifroni
Contextualizing Britain’s Holocaust Memorial and Museums: Form, Content, and Politics, Rebecca D. Pollack
Stereotypes, Dehumanization, and Disciplining Disability: Psychological Mechanisms that Fuel the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Alexandra Ponce de Leon-LeBec
The T Visa Process and the Identification of Victims of Human Trafficking, Mandalena Prelashi
Knowledge and Awareness of Hearing Loss by Undergraduate Education Majors, Samantha Presbrey
Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies and Dramatic Narratives in Oliver Knussen’s Variations, Op. 24, Joseph Prestamo
Clustered Protocadherins Ubiquitination and Phosphorylation Regulates Surface Expression, Albert Ptashnik
Operation Lone Star: The Spectacle of Immigration Federalism, Danielle Puretz
Comparing the Environmental and Social Factors of UK and US Firms: A Case for Stringent Disclosure Regulation, Jasmine Pybas
Effects of Redundancy of Multimedia Instruction on Spanish Reading and Listening Skills, Charles Raffaele
From Sesame Street to Beyond: Multi-Domain Discourse Relation Classification with Pretrained BERT, Isaac R. Raff
How Useful Do You Think This Diversity Training Is? The Impact of Training Type and Individual Differences on Pre-Training Perceived Utility of Diversity Training, Nicolette A. Rainone
Heritage Repair: Revisiting Familial and Collective Histories in Filiation Narratives by Dalila Kerchouche, Colombe Schneck and Martine Storti, Rebecca R. Raitses
Slices of the Big Apple: A Visual Explanation and Analysis of the New York City Budget, Joanne Ramadani
Adapting Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Behavioral Research with Coastal Marine Mammals, Eric Angel Ramos
Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War, Jeremy N. Randall
Promoting Play-Based Learning Strategies in the Upper Elementary and Lower Middle School Classroom, Michelle L. Randall
Banarasipan as Revelation: Immanent Utopias in the Performance of Everyday Life, Bhargav Rani
Methods in Reverse Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese, Yuying Ren
The Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective, and Physiological Components of Social Cognition in Esports and Education, Daisy Reyes
Mapping Flood Myths, Ashley Marie Rojas
A Survey Study of Speech-Language Therapists’ Experiences with Teletherapy at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis, Jason A. Rosas
Retrieval Practice Promotes Learning of Turkish as a Foreign Language: A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Study, Maya C. Rose
My Favorite Thing is Monster Theory: Horror Comics and deMONSTRating Difference in Emil Ferris’s "My Favorite Thing is Monsters", Jennifer Rossberg
Removal of Anisotropic Background from Neutral Pion and Tagged Direct Photon–Hadron Correlations of Au+Au 200 GeV Collisions, Zachary Rowan
Pushing Understanding: Curriculum Resources for Digital Pedagogues, M. Rubin
The Music of Sylvano Bussotti and Its Interpretation: Biopolitics, Intersubjectivity, and Modernist Canon Formation, Charles A. Rudig
Past-Futures of Harlem: Black Urban Space at the Limits of Spatial Justice, Dane C. Ruffin
Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature, Sara Rychtarik
Unexpected Arousal Suppresses Memory and Metamemory Predictions During Associative Face-Name Recognition Task, Sameer Sabharwal-Siddiqi
Clarinet and Shadow, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
“The Theory is Not Yet Music”: An Analysis of Pierre Schaeffer’s Etude aux allures, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
The Interaction of Different Primary Producers and Physical and Chemical Dynamics of an Urban Shallow Lake, Majid Sahin
Debts of Displacement: Syrian Refugee Farmworkers at the Lebanese-Syrian Border, China S. Sajadian
Homotextualité réaliste: Cryptosexualité et subculture homosexuelle masculine chez Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Vincent Sallé
Collaborative Learning with a Geometry Video Game: The Role of Elaboration and Game Design in Motivation and Learning, Ethlyn Saltzman
The College Experience Podcast: Connecting Student Services for College Success, Lucila Sanchez
