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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating School: Writing and Reading Texts for Children, Carlyn Kolker
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 ESG Disclosure Policies, Zhuolin Li
Spatiotemporal Profile of Thalamic Atrophy and Behavioral Outcomes During the First Year of Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Catherine S. Lyons
À la poursuite de Céline à New York, Gabriel Maginier
Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front, Dario Marcucci
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
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
Love and Power: Narrative Resistance in the Contemporary Literature and Film of the Americas, Tania Nicolaou
Toward More Intelligible Simultaneous Multi-channel Speech Enhancement and Recognition, Zhaoheng Ni
Freedom Dreams of Young Black Boys: A Qualitative Study Among Black Male Elementary School Learners, Lamar Ok
Stereotype Engineering, Ian Olasov
Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks, Cristina Onea
Essays on Educational Policies, Mehlika Ozsoy
Characterizing Malaria Infections in Caribbean Lizards: Parasite Niche Expansion & Host Response, Sarah J. Pangburn
Examining Relatability, Alexia Papigiotis
The Spontaneous Flora of New York City; and Systematics of Larix (Pinaceae), Lydia T. Paradiso
How Argentina Won the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup: A Data Story, Aniruddha Parthasarathy
Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury, Vaidehi Hemkumar Patel
Comparing Campaigns to End the Subminimum Wage with a Multiple Streams Approach, Chris Peraino
Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse, Jeremiah Perez-Torres
Excitons and Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Materials Heterostructures - Applications as Qubits, Time Crystals, and Superfluids, Gabriel Pimenta Martins
Exotic and Familiar: Constructing Martinique, 1763–1902, Remi D. Poindexter
Hope by a Thousand Cuts: Fashion Ethics from Cutting Fabric to Cutting a Fashion Film, Sarah G. Porterfield
American Utopia: The Evolution of David Byrne’s Viewpoint of America from 1977 to Present, Morgan A. Prince
Elucidating the Roles of Eukaryotic Initiation Factors Involved in DAP5 Mediated Translation, Jacob NK Quartey
Mad at the System: The Mental Health Act UK: Power and Control of Racialized Women, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar
Crafting Sovereignty: Race, Ancestral Memory, and Contemporary Art in Peru, 1970–1990, Horacio Ramos Cerna
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
Moving the Needle: The Policy of Change on Syringe Access, New York City and State, 1988–2023, Joyce Rivera
Wielding the Border: A Genealogy of U.S.-Mexico Bordering Practices and the Purposes They Serve, Nicholas J. Rodrigo
Belonging Against the Odds: Exploring Restorative Justice Practices as Pathways to Foster Belonging in New York City Transfer Schools, Miguel Rodriguez
Cueing Motions in a String Quartet, An Exploratory Study of Motion Trajectories, Maren Rothfritz
Writing Architecture: Space and Structure in Edith Wharton, Yael Hameiri Sainsaux
Decades of Division: Analyzing Hate Crimes in the USA (1991–2022), Sangeeth Sajan Baby
The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, Golnaz Salehkarimi
Final Report: An Overview of the Communications Intern Position at WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), Hannah P. Salzer
Essays in Public Economics, Zachary Santamaria
Unpacking the Orders, Leonard J. Santos
The Evolution of the Electrical Market: A Texas Journey, David A. Sastre Perez
Reproductive Nation: Cold War Fantasies and German Unification, Yanara Schmacks
