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
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
7 preludes for "Music can sleep" for pierrot ensemble, Matthew Sandahl
An Analysis of György Kurtág’s Officium breve in memoriam Andræ Szervánszky for string quartet op. 28, Matthew S. Sandahl
Music Pedagogy in Venezuela’s Plains: Making Space in Alma Llanera, Elaine Sandoval
Girl Friends, Camila Santander
Frontier Wordsworth: An Essay toward “The Idiot Boy”, David L. Sassian
Investigation of Behavioral Responses Including Visual Side Biases to Social Stimuli in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Jennifer R. Savoie
The Euro and Bumps in the Road: Historical Patterns of Nonresident Holdings in Eurozone Bonds, 1980–2018, Michael H. Scarlatos
"A Fallen Woman": The Use of Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Matthew Schneider
Predicting Stress in Russian using Modern Machine-Learning Tools, John Schriner
Hudson Yards: Hybrid Capital's New Home, Massimo D. Scoditti
Approach to Dual Base and Sugar Modification of Adenosine, Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions of Quinazolinones, and a Novel Entry to Carbazolones and Indolones, Dellamol Sebastian
The World is Your Pulpit: A Research-Based Performance on the Broder Singers, Amanda Seigel
Towards a Multi-Polar International System: An Analysis of the BRICS Countries’ Growth as Economic and Political Actors, Damla Senlik
Driven Dipolaritons in Van der Waals Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures: Properties and Applications, Patrick Serafin
Designing the Electrode Geometry and Electrolyte to Enhance the Product Selectivity and Activity in Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction, Samaneh Sharifi Golru
A Solitary Solidarity: Conditions for Attunement in the "Migration Crisis" in Greece, Katherine Sheese
Festivali11: The Long Sixties and Women in Communist Albania, Manjola Shehu
White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988, Matthew T. Sherman
Function of ATM and MSH2 During DNA Repair and Recombination, Emily Sible
Exploring the Boundaries of Queerness from Academia to Activism, Jillian M. (Silvia) Miranda
The International Academy of Language and Culture: The Global (pre)K-12 Charter School Network, Dree-el Simmons
Inheritance: A Memoir, Jennifer Skoog
Marx, Race, Black Radicalism, and Racial Justice, Gregory Slack
Historical Ecology of Norse Greenland: Zooarchaeology and Climate Change Responses, Konrad Smiarowski
Purity, Exclusion, and Political Order in Colombia, Osha Smith-Gittelman
Prime Factors: America’s Prioritization of Literacy over Numeracy and its Relationship to Systemic Inequity, Troy Smith
Stacking the Gamma-ray Sky to Search for Faint Astrophysical Populations, Yuzhe Song
Coded Distributed Function Computation, Pedro J. Soto
Everything to Lose: Extraction, Racism, and Survival on Wet'suwet'en Land, Anne Spice
The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Georgios Spiliotopoulos
Recognition as a Pedagogical Formation: Re-tracing Black Rhetors’ Care-Work in the Field of Writing Studies, Chy L. Sprauve
The Role of Mortality Salience and Social Identity in Police Officers and Students Reporting Misconduct, Anna M. Stenkamp
Democratic Processing of Waste: European Federalism and Decentralized Waste Management in Navarra and Basque Country, Michael Stinavage
The Relative Cost of Codeswitching: An Electrophysiological Study Contrasting Language Switching versus Lexical Predictability, Iris Strangmann
The ARV Treatment Adherence Model: A Qualitative Study on Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment Adherence for People Living with HIV, Danielle Strauss
Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives, Queenie T. Sukhadia
How Marlon T. Riggs Queered the Documentary Form, Anthony M. Sweeney
Colonial Education: Puerto Ricans and the Carlisle Indian School, Progenitors of the Mythic Identity, Melissa Swinea
Data-Centric Machine Learning for Speech and Audio, Ali Raza Syed
Credible Messengers: An Exploratory Analysis of What Makes Them "Credible", Jason Szkola
Nurse Practitioners' Adjustment to the Hospitalist Position: A Grounded Theory Study, Donna Tanzi
The Value of NFTs, Angelina Tham
The Impact of Cannabis Use on Neuropsychological and Neural Biomarkers of Treatment Response in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Melanie B. Thies
The Economic and Demographic Dynamics of Pretrial Justice, Christopher Thomas
SSRI-Induced Emotional Blunting: A Study of Cognitive Changes in Pharmaceutically Treated Depression, Carly Tocco
Elements of Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology: A Spatial Analysis of Homicides in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, David J. Topel
Building the Revolution: Ideology, Affect and Gender in Bolivarian Caracas, Andreina I. Torres A.
Examining the Linguistic Ideology "Throaty Sounds Are Bad for Performers": The History of Negative Attitudes Towards Glottal Stops and Laryngealization in English, Dayle M. Towarnicky
Understanding Coastal and Inland Hydrometeorological Hazards Produced by Extratropical and Tropical Cyclones along the East Coast of the United States, Katherine Towey
Identifying, Evaluating and Applying Importance Maps for Speech, Viet Anh Trinh
The Persistence of Exclusion in Developmental Math Courses in Community Colleges: The Search for Equity and Justice in Math Education, Dora P. Trujillo
Gospels of (Anti)Inequality: The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People’s Campaign and Capitol Ministries, Jonathan Peter Tschudy
The Lost and Forgotten Plants: French Botanical Networks in Provincial and Colonial France (1760–1825), Sophie R. Tunney
"Secession's Moving Foundation": Fugitive Slave Rendition and the Politics of American Slavery, Evan Turiano
“In lucem latine locutionis”: The Hagiography of Aelred of Rievaulx, Chad Turner
Maternal Wellness: Self, Matrescence, Obstetric Violence, and Self-Care, Vanessa V. Vales-Lewis
The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811–1945, Luisa Valle
España rarita: performances festivas en tiempos queer (2008–2020), Daniel Valtueña Martínez
Asymptotic Classes, Pseudofinite Cardinality and Dimension, Alexander Van Abel
Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Our Health, Kathia Vargas Feliz
On the Cryptographic Deniability of the Signal Protocol, Nihal Vatandas
Surveilling the Fat Disidencia: Policing the Bodies of Plus-Size Black Women on Instagram, Daniela V. Verdejo Salazar
Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in the Colombian Countryside, Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
Peru's Fishmeal Industry: Its Societal and Environmental Impact, Angel Vizurraga
CPTED and the City: The Impact of Privately Owned Public Spaces on Crime in Manhattan, Julia von Ferber
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Daily Diary Investigation of Appraisals of Illegitimate Tasks, Danielle Robyn Wald
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease: Prostaglandin D2 Signaling and Its Human Polymorphisms as Well as a Polypharmacological Approach, Charles H. Wallace
Navigating the Multiple Streams: The Strategic Use of Sunset Provisions, David F. Wall
Financial Openness and Economic Growth, Doo Kyun Wang
High Water-Responsiveness of Peptidoglycan and its Water-Responsive Mechanism, Haozhen Wang
The Separation of Charm and Bottom Decays Measured in p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV, Zhiyan Wang
Globalism and Identity in Taiwanese Contemporary Art, 1978–2009, Chu-Chiun Wei
Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity, Christopher Weimer
Teaching Siblings to Encourage and Praise Play: Supporting Interactions When One Sibling has Autism, Holly R. Weisberg
Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment, Andreas Weise
Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939, Kalle Westerling
Countertransference and the Patient's Experience: Exploring How Engagement with Affect is Related to Short-Term Psychotherapy Outcomes, Ariel R. Westerman
Genetic Impacts of Deforestation on Mouse Lemurs, Darice Westphal
Sound Minds: Women’s Novels, Vibrational Experience, and the Listening Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Elizabeth Weybright
The Impact of Focused Attention and Opening Monitoring Meditation Styles on Attention, Jennifer Wheary
Navigating Their Way In: Non-Hispanic West Indians’ Class of Admission and Neighborhood Settlement, Kenisha J.A. White
Genetic Circadian Mosaics and the Clock Network’s Contributions to Sleep, Lukasz Widziszewski
Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English, Brynne E. Wilkinson
Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
