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 2024
Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre, Amir Farjoun
Language Play and Racial Dysphemism in the Marrakchi Language Space, Spencer Fausel
Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame, Daniel L. Feldman
The Effect of Personal Listening Devices on Subjective Hearing Status, Esther Feldman
Dancing in the Heart of the Empire, Talisa Feliciano
The Role of the Infralimbic-Basal Forebrain Pathway in Fear Extinction, Carolina Maria Fernandes Henriques
Looking for a Better Chair: The L Word and Learning How to Sit, Beans Fernandez
Más allá de la crisis y la emergencia: aproximaciones a los movimientos migratorios contemporáneos a través de la traducción y la comedia, Fabiola Fernandez Peer
Examining Book Banning Trends in the U.S., Amanda D. Filchock
A Municipal Modernity: Women, Architecture, and Public Health in Working-Class New York, 1913–1950, Jessica Fletcher
Interviews and Perspectives Among Community Members Working With Undocumented Female Border Crossers in the States Along the United States-Mexico Border, Melissa M. Frasco
Vast Planetary Abstraction: On the Impossible Modernist Epic, Caleb Shao-Ning Fridell
The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency, Maxwell J. Fuerderer
The Animated Cinema of Bruno Bozzetto, Emilia Gambardella
Wuwei Praxis, Zachary L. Gelnaw-Rubin
Faunal Use and Distribution at the Site of Nixtun-Ch'ich', Petén, Guatemala, Jemima Georges
The Effect of Alpha Binaural Beats on Virtual Reality Experiences, Andronikki C. Gerohristodoulos
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Vinyl Triflates and An Investigation of the Synthesis and Reactivity of Activated Alkyltricyclohexylstannanes, Pejman Ghaemimohammadi
Struggles, Aspirations, and Survival Strategies: The Intersectionality of Lived Experiences of Migrant “Integration” into Lisbon, Lais Gomes Duarte
Crime Prediction Using Agent-Based Modeling, Yifei Gong
Sigma_n-correct Forcing Axioms, Benjamin P. Goodman
Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works, Michael A. Granger
Cognitive Reserve in Individuals with Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Progressive Aphasia, Lauren A. Grebe
Adaptations and Transformations: Perceptions of Change in Academic Motivation, Resilience, and COVID-19 Stress, Ella V. Gregorio
The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Yulia Greyman
Cancer in Pajamas: Radio, Podcasts, and the Politics of Free Time in the Digital Age, Daniel Grjonko
Creatively Addressing the Employment Gap: Using Creativity and the Arts to Help Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults Build Skills for Employment, Eliana Rachel Grossman
The For-Profit Immigration Surveillance State: How Surveillance Capitalism Took Over ICE, Maurizio Guerrero
Heterogenous Household Expectations, Consumption Choices and Trust, Justine Guillochon
What the Debate about Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs about Language and Authority, Jalitza Gutierrez
Wrapped Insights: A Data-Driven Approach to Personalizing User Experiences in a Digital Tipping Platform, Hamza Habeeb
Unpacking the Contested State of Public Housing in New York City, Kristen Hackett
Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian?, Andrea M. Harrison
The Migration of South Asians from India to Guyana: The Journey, Struggles in a New Land, Reasons for Changes Over Time and Their Cultivation of a New Culture., Cynthia C. Harry
The Reciprocal Interaction of Musical Performance and Analysis, Gregory Hartmann
Beyond Me: Class, Sexuality, and the Work of the Autobiographical Fragments of Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, and Eileen Myles, Erin E. Heiser
Audiological Evaluation of Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review, Yehudis Hoch
Unconventional Computing With Photonic Oscillator Networks, Mostafa Honari Latifpour
Power and the Press: Reimagining the World by Producing Information Together, Jen Hoyer
A Pearl Ravaged: The Paradox of Haiti and Its Socioeconomic Origins, Isabel Ishibe Exel
The Efficacy of Using Machine Learning Techniques for Identifying and Classifying “Fake News”, Muhammad Islam
Socially Racialized and Statistically Invisible: U.S. Census Recognition of The Middle Eastern and North African Diaspora, Aliana J. Jabbary
Avian Symbionts of Sulawesi: Identifying and Correlating Malaria Parasites and the Microbiome in Communities of Endemic Avian Hosts, Rachael Joakim
Reconciling Macro- and Micro-Levels in the First Movement of Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D Minor, op. 15: A Schenkerian Reading, Alexandra Joan
Choreographing a Journey of Self-Discovery: An Exploration of Dance, Embodied Knowledge, and Identity, Francie Johnson-Sealey
US Theatre and Cosmopolitics: Imperfect Reimagining of US–Asia Relations on Stage Since 1945, Kyungjin Jo
Knowing the Patient as a Person: Social Media Listening and Gadamerian Analysis of Nurses’ Expressions Shared During the COVID-19 Global Health Pandemic, Janusz A. Kaleta
Invisible Hand of Socioeconomic Factors in Rising Trend of Maternal Mortality Rates in the U.S., Disha Kanada
"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh
Examining the Factors that Contribute to the Survival and Resilience of the Al-Shabaab Terrorist Organization, Kevisha R. Kellar
Language, Legitimacy, and the Law: The Social Roots of Legal Obligation, Joshua Keton
Pre-Stimulus Anticipation and Unconscious Fear Learning Disparities in Individuals with Varying Levels of Anxiety, Anastasiya Rumyantseva Kharlamova
Reimagining Haydn’s Seven Last Words for String Quartet: Recasting, Retelling, and Reorchestrating for a Modern Audience, Jeremy J. Kienbaum
The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes, Hunter Kincaid
Socially Safe on Smartphones: How Smartphone Use Reduces Social Risk Taking, Diogo Koch Alves
Exploration of Phenomenological Geospatial Analysis for the Late Archaic in the Esopus Drainage of the Hudson Valley, Glenn Kolyer
Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility and the Politics of Form in Modernist Women's Life Writing, Margot Kotler
Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy, Rebecca S. Krisel
The Early Late Miocene Cessation of Deep and Intermediate Water Circulation through the Central American Seaway, Benjamin Stanley Kwiatkowski
Mandatory ESG Disclosure and Executive Compensation: Evidence from the Europe Union Non-Financial Reporting Directive, Dana LaCondre Nugent
Poison in Marie Laveau’s New Orleans: A Cultural History of Food, Freedom, and White Supremacy, 1718-1946, Madeline Lafuse
Bifurcations and Resultants for Rational Maps and Dynatomic Modular Curves in Positive Characteristic, Colette LaPointe
Mechanistic, Biochemical, and Theoretical Studies of Phototoxicity and Photobluing, Lloyd M. Lapoot
Heteronormativity and Fair Housing: Comparing Housing Opportunities Among Cisgender and Transgender Women, Joseph E. Lara
Antisocial Femininity: Writing the Relational in Isolation, Chelsea K. Largent
In-Work Recovery Among Hybrid Employees: Examining the Relationships Between Stressors, Recovery Experiences, and Strains, Stefanie Larsen
Math Anxiety and Avoidance of Mathematics at The College Level: Undergraduate and Their Sense of Not Belonging in Math Classrooms, Kay C. Lashley
Using Gaussian Processes to Measure M-Dwarf Rotation Periods from Ground-Based Light Curves, Ryan J. Lebron
Israel's Foreign Policy Toward Asia, Eli Lebto
The Cultural Complexity of Immigrants and the Implications for Personality Assessment: Exploring the Role of Frame Switching, Patrick Jay Lee
High MDMX (MDM4) in Mutant p53 Expressing Breast Cancer Cells Activates the CXCL12-CXCR4 Metastasis Signaling Axis, Rusia H. Lee
L'Univers mélancolique de Patrick Modiano, Blondie Natacha Lekemo Ngatchi Epse Pawa
Vestibular Correlates of Cochlear Implantation, Danielle Lewis
When Critics Are Artists: Ekphrasis in Erotic Art Criticism, Joanna A. Ligon
Staying Power: The Struggle for Space and Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Erin E. Lilli
Articulatory Activity of the Tongue, Jaw, and Lips During the Second Passaggio Transition of the Soprano Voice, Richard C. Lissemore
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Metamemory Vary by Task Difficulty, Tiffanie T. Li
Development of Platinum(IV)-Gold(I)-Based Anticancer Agents, Javier E. Lopez-Hernandez
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?: Visualizing Extreme Wealth, William Mahoney Luckman
Who’s Afraid of Employer Sanctions?: Political and Institutional Dynamics of Workplace Enforcement, Michael C. Macher
Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod
Equality, Solidarity, and Exploitation: An Essay on the Philosophical Foundations of Socialism, Callum Zavos MacRae
“Intimacy in the End Means Trouble”: Interracial Relationships in Britain from Interwar to Windrush, Stephanie Makowski
Toolkit for Users of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids, Sabrina Malasarte
Project MapLemon: Peeling Back the Secrets of Queer Writing Through Stylometric Demographic Identification, Theodore D. Manning
Beautiful Resistance: Nonfiction Theatre Rehearsal Processes, Politics, and Prefiguration in War, Ash Marinaccio
Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS, Nicolle Marquez
Sexual Selection and Mate Preference in Astatotilapia Burtoni, Anastasia Martashvili
Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations of “Peau d’Âne” in Contemporary French and English Texts, Amy M. Martin
Discourse Analysis of Ethnonyms for Black Italians on YouTube, Kaithlyn Massiah
Developing Autonomy and Identity on TikTok Among Recently Arrived Latin American Migrants to the United States, Camille D. May