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 2025
Seeing and Sanctioning Structural Unfairness, Grace Flores-Robles
Killer App: Uber, Worker Ownership, and the Materialization of Change, Erik Alexander Forman
A Historical Analysis of Saturday Night Live's Engagement in American Presidential Politics, Isabel Fox
Constructing a Parameterized Stimuli Space Suitable to Induce Controlled Changes in Human and Machine Perceptual Systems, Andrew Frankel
Revolutionary Love and Rage: Destabilizing Colonialism, White Supremacy, & Transphobia, Valerie Fryer-Davis
Predicting the Dynamics of Complex Networks from Structural Phenomena, George Furbish
Case Disposition and Collaborative Decision-Making Among Drug Court Teams in Chile, Sebastian Galleguillos
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985, Sonja Gandert
Modernity and the Promise of Democracy: A Democratic Reading of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Gabriel Garber
Quantified Lives: Data, Bias, and the Cost of Categorization, Colin F. Geraghty
Memory Interference in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Omar Ghazy
Movement Image: Black Freedom in Experimental Film and Video, 1965–1985, Kirsten M. Gill
Charter Schools in New York State: A Primer, Paolo Giovine
Filmology, Richard N. Gladstein
An Interactive Walkthrough of Richard Kostelanetz’s Library, Martin Glick
The Crisis of Safety, Well-being, and Belonging Facing LGBTQ Children: Mad/Crip of Color Critique Towards a Curriculum of Radical Care, Jameson Goetz
Systematics, Biogeography, and Comparative Morphology of Emerald and Tigertail Dragonflies (Anisoptera: Synthemistidae & Corduliidae), Aaron M. Goodman
Agents of Alignment: Political Realignment as Social Movement Strategy, Matthew Miles Goodrich
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Identity and Disagreement, Dana E. Grabelsky
Problems and Paradigms in the Central Sahel of Africa, Georgia Graham
Exploring the Enstatite Chondrites: Modal Abundances, Metamorphic History, and Volatile Challenges, Mabel Gray
Back to the Margins: The Re-Marginalization of Feedback Research in Composition and Rhetoric, Robert A. Greco
The Psychophysiology of Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathic Traits in Youth, Ines Guariguata
Essays on Information and Economic Interaction, Weichao Guo
Category Learning Reorganizes Internal Representations of Visual Artworks, Aishwarya Gurung
Structural Insights into eIF2D’s Mechanism in Translation, Dominique Gutierrez
Woman Naturally is Ambitious: Sarah Josepha Hale, Gender, and Success in Antebellum America, Jeanne G. Gutierrez
Enjoyment in the Classroom: Reciprocal Student-Teacher Dynamics in Israeli Math Education, Yonaton Gutterman
Unifying Comprehension and Competence Through Merge: A New Linking Hypothesis Connecting Electrophysiological Data to Linguistic Intuitions, Kevin Patrck Guzzo
Global Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Migration: An Analysis of Five Immigrant Memoirs, Grace Halvorson
Exploring Guyanese Identity in NYC: A Research Exploration, Shivanie E. Hariram
Picturing Americans: Indigeneities and Modern Visuality (1873-1929), Maria Beatriz Haro Carrion
Embracing Language Diversity: An Exploration of Elementary Teachers' Perception of African American English, Manijeh Hart
Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Patterns of Parasitic Infection in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus imitator), Megan C. Henriquez
Gestoras económicas: Dote, consumo y ahorro en la ficción latinoamericana (1872–1905), Laura Herrera Liendo
Beyond Country: Southern Language and Identity in North Mississippi, Meredith Hilliard
Unveiling the Vital Role of Blue Carbon in Mangroves: Understanding Environmental Influences, Jahnelle Howe
Reproductive Liberation on Ice (?): A Qualitative Exploration of Black Women’s Egg Freezing Experiences, Frances M. Howell
The Power of Music to Empower Health and Wellbeing: In Support of a Music Therapy Discipline at Lehman College, City University of New York, Felicity A. Howlett
Understanding How Genetic Mutations Induce Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Become Cancer Cells, Dennis Huang
From IT-Startups to Tech Giants: How Social Connections Influence Investors’ Perspective on Valuations in the Technology Space, Linmei Huang
Silver-Alloyed CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells on Flexible Stainless-Steel Substrate, Zhi Huang
Banking and the Wider Economy: Essays on Capital and Cross-Border Risks, Morgan Hunt
SLA Evaluation and Composition in Reconfigurable Cloud-Based Services, Michael Iannelli
ChatGPT Didn’t Write This: Evaluating the Impact of LLMs with a Case Study in Grading CUNY Language Immersion Program Student Essays, Benjamin Inbar
From Tarmac to Timetable: A Data-Driven Study of Airline Delay Performance in Nigeria, Kelechi V. Iwuagwu
A Benjaminian Rumination of Grasses and Tomatoes in Contemporary Anatolian Film, Ceren Izci
Navigating Precarity and Pushing for Protections in South Florida's Ride-Hail Sector, Pamela Izvanariu
Making Waves: Comfort Women Justice Movements Across Generations, Julia A. Jacobellis
A Novel Closed Monoidal Structure on the Nucleus of a Profunctor, Samantha K. Jarvis
Survey of the Diagnostic, Rehabilitative, Educational, and Inter-professional Changes in the Profession of Audiology, Leah Joshowitz
Effects of Acidification and Habitat Loss on Coastal Nitrogen Cycling Dynamics, Beryl M. Kahn
Palimpsests of the Mind: Memory, Anamnesis, Temporality, Selin Kalostyan
Staging Labor: Evolving Performance of Work in Post-Reform China, Bindi Kang
Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss, Gagan Kaur
The Elephant (and Donkey) in the Room: The Effects of Political Ideology on Diversity Training Effectiveness, Luke P. Kayga
The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922, Hratch Kestenian
Creative Coding Communities: Exploring the Relationship Between Scratch Use and Child Well-Being, Nikita Khalid
Caedmon Records & The Power of Youth: How Audiobooks Revolutionized Children’s Literature, Faihaa Khan
Before Melville's Masts: Sex in the Age of Sail, Matthew A. Knip
Quantum Entanglement Correlations in the Proton on the Light-Front, Eric Kolbusz
Creating School: Writing and Reading Texts for Children, Carlyn Kolker
Essays on Textual Information and Financial Markets: Evidence from News Sentiment, Corporate Disclosure, and Market Dynamics, Mingyuan Kong
When College is Not Working Out: Obstacles to Community College Completion, Elisabeth Lackner
Menstrual Math: The Price of Bleeding, Gabrielle Langston
Reframing Abstraction in Asian American Art: Race, Identity, and Politics Beyond Representation, 1960–1982, Chaeeun Lee
Challenging Colonial Imaginaries: History, Pedagogy, and Consciousness-Raising in Contemporary France, Deborah Leter
The Impact of Voluntary Disclosure of Customers’ Names on Firm Value, Mu Li
Essays on Bank Liquidity Provision, Jingdan Liu
Essays on ESG Disclosure Policies, Zhuolin Li
Proximity and Partition: Geographies of Childhood, Choice, and Co-Location in New York City Schools, Caroline Loomis
The Georgian of Heritage Speaker Children, Cass Lowry
Understanding Why Individuals Maltreated as Children Do Not Retrospectively Self-Report, Kristin S. Lynch
Spatiotemporal Profile of Thalamic Atrophy and Behavioral Outcomes During the First Year of Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Catherine S. Lyons
Socialist Sensibilities: Film and the Remaking of Egypt, Tamara Maatouk
À la poursuite de Céline à New York, Gabriel Maginier
Non-Perturbative Aspects of Gauge Theories Through a Complex Parametrization, Antonina Maj
Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front, Dario Marcucci
Herejías en la Ciudad Global: legados de tercermundismo, asimilación y desplazamiento urbano en las narrativas literarias contemporáneas latinx y afroportuguesa (2000-2022)., Ricardo Martín Coloma
Re/Inventing Desire: Asexuality as a Tool for Utopian Intimacies, Amaranta Martinez Martinez
On the Ambiguity of Wh-Expressions in Thai, Naparat Meechanyakul
Underlying Mechanisms of Quantum Emission in Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Enrique Alejandro Mejia IV
Between Structure and Agency: Professional Identity Development in Social Work's Neoliberal Transformation, Johan Melchior
China and Russia in Africa: The Case of Togo, Eli J. Messanh
Vital Signs: Tibetan in the Linguistic Landscape of Jackson Heights, Olivia Mignone
The Jamaica Now Leadership Council: A Study of Stakeholder Participation in the Revitalization of Downtown Jamaica, Queens, Melva M. Miller
Consequences of Oxidative DNA Damage: Base-Pair Dissociation, Singlet Oxygenation and DNA-Protein Crosslinking, May Myat Moe
Spin High-Harmonic Generation Through Terahertz Laser-Driven Phonons, Negin Moharrami Allafi
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping Approaches for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Vjay Molino
Let's Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding, Stefano Morello
Counter-Hegemony in the Captive State: Recasting Katrina’s Carceral Legacy through Conjuncture, Joseph S. Muratore
Whose Innovation? Philanthropic and School-Based Visions of High School in the XQ Super School Competition, Brett G. Murphy
Images of Truth: True Doxa in Plato's Republic, Sai Ying Ng
Tracing Reverberations: Vietnamese Refugee Mothers' Adaptations to Complex Structural Forces and Intergenerational Engagements, Kim Khanh Nguyen-Nalpas
