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
Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism and The Early Writing of James Joyce, Erin Garrow
Fair World 64: A Text-Based Game of the 1964–1965 World's Fair, Christofer R. Gass
Unclonable Secret Keys, Marios Georgiou
Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing, Hussein M. Ghaly
Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico, Isabel Gil Everaert
A Critical Analysis of the Projection of Historical Narratives of the Indian Tribal People in "Our Past III", Sudhashree Girmohanta
Quadratic Packing Polynomials on Sectors of R2, Kaare S. Gjaldbaek
Going Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, Anna Gjika
An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship to "the Other" in the Historiography of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer
The Cognitive Thalamus: Source Analysis of Scene Working Memory Delay Activity, Bernard A. Gomes
The Guinea-Bissau Constitutional Reform Debate, Watson Aila Gomes
Evaluating Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperatures, In Situ Observations, and Coral Symbioses in Southwestern Puerto Rico, Andrea Michelle Gomez
Inclinaciones del yo: Aproximaciones desde el afecto y la vulnerabilidad a la literatura y el cine autobiográficos de la España en Crisis (2008–2019), Salvador Gómez Barranco
Familismo, FAFSA, and Sallie Mae: A Study of Second Generation Latinx Student Loan Debt, Jasmine Gonsalez
Descriptive Inhumanism: Description and Decolonial Aesthetics, Marcos Gonsalez
Understanding Atmospheres Across the Stellar-Substellar Boundary, Eileen C. Gonzales
Performing NYC Latinidades: Building a Diasporic Home at Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Oriana E. Gonzales
Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation, Selenid M. Gonzalez-Frey
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil? On the Interpersonal Effects of Boredom Expression, Manuel F. Gonzalez
Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Potentially Tumor Targeting Analogues of the Tetrahydrofuran Containing Acetogenins, Patricia Gonzalez Periche
Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France, Sam Goodson
Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival, 1962–1992, Christopher T. Green
Grassroots Tales: Journeys of Inward Healing and Outward Movement Building – “A story of youth development and healing”, Andrew Cory Greene
And Ain’t I a Man: An Examination of Violence Against African-American Men by Caucasian Men in the United States, Bryan L. Greene
Mobile Cognitive Training for the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression in Young Adults: A Double-Blind, Randomized Pilot Study with Active Control, Alice Grinberg
“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton, Valerie Gritsch
Binaural: Trauma and Disability Representation in Cinema, Joshua Grossberg
Reclaiming Indiana: The Politics of Crisis Amid the Failures of Liberal Capitalist Modernity, Chris Grove
Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Lisa Gueldenzopf
Fiscal and Monetary Policies and Stock Market, Ilhami Gunduz
Essays on the Application of the Machine Learning Methods in Finance and Policy Evaluation, Olga Guska
Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Exhibiting Israeli Art, 1939–1965, Chelsea Haines
Facilitators and Barriers for Home Health Aides Detecting and Reporting Elder Abuse in New York City, Agnieszka K. Halarewicz
A Data Exploration of Jeopardy! from 1984 to the Present, Brian S. Hamilton
Did the Muslim Ban Cause Islamophobia? Institutional versus Individual Prejudice, Emma Handte
Mission Adrift: The Impact of Managerialism on Graduate Social Work Education, Carolyn Hanesworth
Oxytocin Receptor and MicroRNA-198/c-MET Signaling as Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer, Trisheena Harricharran
Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda, and the Tea Trade in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880–1914, Leila Anne Harris
DNA Damage Recognition and UvrB Loading by UvrA within the Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway, Silas Hartley
From One Period to the Next... : Menstruation and the Psychoanalytic Process of Working through to the Feminine, Loryn L. Hatch
The Role of Mentalized Affectivity in Romantic Love and Relationship Satisfaction, Camilla P. Hegsted
Devising Complicité: Devised Theatre, Neoliberal Funding Pressures, and the Evolution of Théâtre de Complicité, Joseph Anthony Heissan Jr.
Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store, Samuel M. Hellmann
Examining the Effects of Reflection on Professional Identity Development in Community College Preservice Teachers, Delia Hernandez
The Language of Exploitation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of How Employers Use Bilingualism in New York City Job Ads, Guadalupe R. Hernandez
La obra dramatica de Lope de Vega: Temas y motivos neoestoicos, Rosa M. Herrera-Rodriguez
Behavioral Outcomes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Cochlear Implants, Patricia K. Herz
Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households, Maritza G. Hiciano Ramos
The Grammatical Systems of Attentionworthiness: Positional Signals and Invariant Meanings in Spanish Word Order, Eduardo Ho-Fernández
Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation for a Gradient Parameter Space, Katherine Howitt
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Migratory and Immune-Evasion Properties of Circulating Tumor Cells, Jeannette A. Huaman
In Support of Abstraction: Physical Interiority Beyond Postmodern Dance, Irene Hultman Monti
A Semi-Automated Approach to Medical Image Segmentation using Conditional Random Field Inference, Yu-chi Hu
Overcoming Challenges in the Assessment and Treatment of Problem Behavior in Adults with Autism, Julia A. Iannaccone
Modeling Where it Matters: Redesigning Mathematics Education with Adolescent Girls of Color, Kara L. Imm
Hebrew as a Gendered Language and an Oppressive Mechanism against Women in the Israeli Society, Rotem Itzhaky
Misuse of Social Behavior in Down Syndrome: Caregiver Conducted Functional Analysis, Sally M. Izquierdo
American Novels Amidst the Rise of New Media: Emergent Publics and Forms, Sarah Ruth Jacobs
Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy, Patrick C. James
PARP1-Targeted Radiotherapies, Stephen Jannetti
Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel, Huber David Jaramillo Gil
Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches, Katherine Jensen
A Glance at the Mirror: Ensemble Perception of Symmetry, Gene Jerskey
The Implementation of Empathy in the Animated Television Show “Hey Arnold”, Starnise Johnson
Thoughts of Becoming: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh, Humayun Kabir
The Cortico-Motoneuronal System in the PlexinA1 Knock-Out Mouse: Sculpting the Motor Response and Activity-Dependent Plasticity, John Kalambogias
Wave Propagation in Random and Topological Media, Yuhao Kang
Small-x QCD Calculations with a Biased Ensemble, Gary Kapilevich
The Picturesque and Its Decay: The Travel Writing and Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley, Gabrielle Kappes
Out of Home: Social Class in Women’s Writing, 1950–2016, Lisa M. Karakaya
Yours Sincerely, Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Letter Writing, Jojo S. Karlin
Essays on Corporate Sustainability, Aditya Malateesh Kashikar
The Zine Union Catalog, Lauren S. Kehoe and Jenna Freedman
Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy, Sean M. Kennedy
Robust Neural Machine Translation, Abdul Rafae Khan
Protein Phosphatase 2A Suppresses Spindle Elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Shoily P. Khondker
The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis, Catherine King
Factors Predicting Sustainability: A Correlational Study of One Multi-Site Program, Meredith L. King Jensen
Mashing through the Conventions: Convergence of Popular and Classical Music in the Works of The Piano Guys, Alina Kiryayeva
Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Adverse Trauma Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood, Olena Kleshchova
The Impact of a Single Session of Mindfulness Meditation on the Attentional Blink in Non-Meditators, Arielle L. Klopsis
Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Unconscious and Illusory Touch Perception, Lua Koenig
Changes in Tinnitus Perception Following Cochlear Implantation and Hearing Aid Use, Corinne L. Kohan
The Twilight of the Absolute: Russian Symbolism and the Romantic Project, Evgeniya A. Koroleva
Genderlects in Social Media, Alina Korovatskaya
Climbing Performance and Ecology in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas, Elaine E. Kozma
An Eco-Political Theory of Territory, Jonathan Kwan
Who Governs the Sea? An Analysis of the Regime Complex in International Shipping, Brent Landon