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 [email protected].
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 2026
Her Person and Body: Selling Sex in Working-Class New York, 1896–1918, Deena Ecker
Ligand-Guided Selection and Biochemical Characterization of DNA Aptamers Against the Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptors, Agbor Otu Egbe Vydaline
Development of Novel Anti-Cancer Colchicine Analogs: Synthesis and Configurational Studies, Orugbani S. Eli
The Emergence, Maintenance, and Diversity of Strains in Microbial Pathogen Populations, Brandon P. Ely
Circulation of Theatre and Performance in the Colonial/Republican Transitional Era: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, and Valparaíso, 1783–1849, Fabian Escalona San Martin
Mechanistic Studies of Aerobic Photochemistry: Gold Nanoclusters, Nanoparticles, and Solution-Phase Systems, Serah Essang
Film History Through a Tech-Critical Lens, Dylan Ewing
Characterizing Galaxy Cluster Gamma-Ray Emission, Thyra J. Eysselinck
Distribution of Power in South Asia: Assessing Sino-Indian Conflict Propensity, Fatima Faisal
Gremlin Theory: A Film Art of Joe Dante, Frank Falisi
Skipping Town: An Examination of Fugitive Travel Patterns, Flight Duration, and "Journey-From-Crime", Shun Q. Feng
Scrolling Through Stress: Physiological Stress Recovery Shapes Risk for Problematic Social Media Use in Young Adults with Depressive Symptoms, Abigail Findley
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: Doctrine, Implementation, Cannibalization, Noah S. Fischer
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Microglia-Mediated Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease, Anna Flury
Build, Freeze, Expedite, Renew: Messages on Housing in the 2025 New York City Mayoral Campaign, Elizabeth A. Foley
The Forgotten Workforce: Housing Affordability, Political Behavior, and the Missing Middle in New York City, Nate French
Resistencias interseccionales contra la violencia neoliberal: producción cultural sobre movimientos de mujeres, indígenas y hombres jóvenes en México (2006–2018), Luis Escamilla Frias
Optimizing Nanoparticle Quality and Function in Applied Research, Angela M. Fried
The Politics of Comparisons: Constitutionalism and Democracy in Switzerland and the United States, 1760–1920, Alexander P. Gambaccini
Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations? How Mexican Americans Think About U.S. Security Policy, Jesus J. Garcia-Gomez
How to Search for the Engram: Optogenetics and Network Dynamics, Claudia Garcia Jou
Object (Im)permanence: Toward a Hauntology of the Violin, Pala Garcia
Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry and the Politics of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato
Visualizing Six Decades of Polish Migration: An Interactive Analytics Approach (1966–2024), Alexandra Gilarowski
The Protective Role of Positive Parent-Child Interaction in Mitigating Neurodevelopmental Risks Associated With Preterm Birth, Christine L. Ginalis
Opportunities for Learning Through Object Exploration During Early Physical Therapy: Physical Therapists’ and Caregivers’ Assistance and Interference Behaviors, Michele Goncalves Maia
Pedagogy of Care: Exploring Climate Justice Frameworks in CUNY Undergraduate Courses, Ismerlyn Gonzalez
Molding the Mosaic: Progressive Coalition Formation in the 2021 New York City Council Elections, Sam Goodson
New Fast Polynomial Root-Finders, Soo Go
An Inferential Analysis of Lexical Networks, Christopher D. Gravelle
The Behavior and Complexation of Technetium Under Conditions Relevant for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Rachel E. Greenberg
Possibilities of Being: Black Women's Storytelling as Archival Undoing, Dasharah Green
Allyship and Affect: Qualitative Investigations into Social Transformation, Michael Lucinda Jane Greer
Catalytic Synthesis of Protoberberine Alkaloids and Their Evaluation as Selective Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Ashok Reddy Gudipally
Essays on Behavioral Aspects of Retail Operations, Ceren Gultekin
Empirical Essays on Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, Ian Stewart Haberman
Measuring Islamic Republic Propaganda in Western Media Coverage of Iran: A Computational Framework, Leila Habibi
High-Sensitivity Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Exciton Dynamics in Nanomaterials, Siedah J. Hall
Buttressing Britain’s Financial Rise: Anglo-Dutch Brokers in Eighteenth-Century London, Jiwon Han
Distinguishing Between Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Role of Childhood Maltreatment, Catherine Harris
Curated Spaces: Cognition by Design, Sydney Harvey
Cognitive-Affective and Somatic Depressive Symptom Domains Related to Psychological Mechanisms and Sociodemographic Factors, Danielle B. Hazeltine
The Desire of Strict Souls: The Poetry, Criticism, and Letters of Paul Valéry and Wallace Stevens, Michael Healy
Teaching Third Graders to Read Multisyllable Words: Segmentation Versus Whole Word Reading, Jolie D. Heath
Fleshing Out the Modern Allegory: An Examination of Modernism's Corporeal Limits, Abigail R. Hebert
A Cat in the House: An Expert Consensus, Owner Survey, and Ethological Inquiry into Cat-Human Play, Julie Hecht
Conga Santiaguera: A Century of Innovation and Competition, Nick Herman
One Olivine Crystal at a Time: Unraveling the Volatile Budget and Timescales of the Deccan Traps Large Igneous Province, Andres Hernandez Nava
The Birth of Kigeki: A Critical Biography of Soganoya Gorō, the Japanese Prewar “King of Comedy”, Kei Hibino
Lawyers, Litigation, and the Loosening of Religious Constraints in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, Megan E. Hills
Motivational Circuit Atrophy and Apathy After Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study, Ruthie Hoffman
“With Eyes on Me, and Regulated”: Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Laura Hooberman
The Hope Dionysos (After Augustus): A Post-Actian Reading of Dionysian Imagery, Jane Horman
Hammer of Eden: Visualization Software and Cultures of Executive Decision-making, Annie Horner
The Experiences of the Transfer of Learning Path: MSW's Perceptions of Organizational Influences, Alexis Howard
Social Capital and the Spread of Information on Twitter Related to Change in the Criminal Legal System, Sebastian Hoyos-Torres
Essays in Strategic Communication, Bohan Huang
Online Visual Query System for Real-Time Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Data Explorations with Error Bounds, Xueqi Huang
Highs and Lows of Consciousness: Political Thought in Postwar American Feminism and Beyond, Zoë Hu
Enhancing Singlet Oxygen Generation Through Polymer Supported Photosensitizer Systems, Hasanuwan B. Ihalagedara
Treating the Nation: Public Health and Disease in the Making of Rural Iraq, Rebecca Irvine
Lingual Articulatory Configuration of Japanese Devoiced Vowels, Rion Iwasaki
An Ecological Approach to School Climate, Safety, And Space: Accounts From Educators, Architects, And Guidelines, Mahnaz Izadi
Profiling Nucleolin Phosphorylation during DNA Damage Response and Cell Cycle Arrest, Hanjun Jeon
1D Crust-Magnetosphere Coupling Model for Magnetars, Kennedy M. Jeter
Cavity Optomechanics via Mechanically Induced Coupling of Optical Modes, Satyam S. Jha
Symphonies that "Sing": Reevaluating Voices and Vocality in Mahler's Early Symphonies, Erin M. Johnston
Access Denied: Financial Aid Inequalities and the Economic Impact on DACA Students, Teresa D. Jordan
Optical Spectroscopic and Quantum Electronic Properties of ZnCdSe/ZnCdMgSe Heterostructures and Pyrylium Salts, Ahamed Jubair
Identification of Key Regulators Driving Metastatic Osteosarcoma, Okkeun Jung
Anxiety After Subjectivity: The Forms of Anxiety in Jean Laplanche and Sirāt, Jodie Kahan
Functional Analysis of the Fission Yeast Nuclear Basket Protein Nup211, Domenick Kamel
Development of the Active Participle Denoting Ongoing Aspect in Heritage Speakers of Levantine Arabic in the US, Reem Kanjawi-Faraj
Design of Lithium-Based Battery Electrolyte Compositions for Extreme Operating Conditions Using Alternative Solvents, Co-Solvents and Additives, Michael J. Keating
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Risk Profiles and Health Literacy among South Asian Seniors, Sandra A. Kennedy
Chamber Music for Strings in Rational Intonation: Performance Practice and Analysis, Marina Kifferstein
Dancing in Circles: Bon Dance as Performance of the Past, Travis Robb Kim
An Atlas of Relations: The Middle East and Northern Europe Through the Eyes of the Traveler from the Tenth Century through the Early Eighteenth Century, Alexandra Enderle Kinney
Of Fever High and Parts That Swell: “Wellness” in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Medicine, Anastasia Kirtiklis
Discovery of Newly Resolved Filament and Extraplanar Gas in M33 with the Local Group L-Band Survey, Emma Taylor Kleiner
I Wear the Past in the Cold, Cecilia Knaub
A Work on/of Language: Lyric and the Care of the Self, Evan M. Knight
Some Results on Intersections and Entropy, Axel Kodat
Towards Identifying Fear and Safety Network States Across Sex, Rhonda Kolaric
Studies in the Efficient Market Hypothesis, Technical Analysis, and Return Autocorrelation, Lingyi Kong
Behind the Score: The Influence of Neighborhood Policy Contexts on New York Regents Exam Performance Across New York City Public High Schools, Philip J. Kovacevic
Mesoscopic Scaling of Microwave Transmittance and Disorder-Induced Alignment, Israel Kurtz
Regional Geography and Tuning Systems of Traditional Georgian Folk Music, Alex Kutubidze
Essays on the Economics of Aging: Structural and Machine Learning Approaches, Alexander S. Kwon
Applying High-Sensitivity Ultrafast Spectroscopy Techniques to Extract Optoelectronic Properties of Optical Energy Conversion Heterostructures, Anton Kyrylenko
Filling the Gaps: Maiti Nepal and Anti-trafficking Governance in Nepal, Sushmita Lamsal
Intergenerational Transmission of Occupations and Skills, Swapnil Landge
The Role of Temperament in Criminal Trajectories: Development, Stability, and Predictive Power Across the Life Course, Joshua A. Lang
Who Is Invited To The National Family? A Brazilian Autoethnography Of Being A Woman Under The U.S. O-3 Visa, Bruna Lauermann
Reducing the Complexity of the Experimental Design Attenuates Trait-Level Effects in Threat Safety Discrimination Learning, Justin M. Lazzarino
Postscript: A Digital Inquiry Into Inherited Memory, Alexander Lee
