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 2021
The Effects of Multisensory Imagery on Vocabulary Learning, Lawrence A. Herman
Childhood ADHD, Impulsivity, and Alcohol-Related Impairment Among Diverse College Students, Mariely Hernandez
Auto®Ficción Latinx de Nueva York (1999–2020), Jacqueline Herranz Brooks
Situational Awareness, Maeve Higgins
A Lasting Impression: Higher Education’s Effects on Mass Polarization in the US, Bradley Highfield
Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans and Objects in the European Middle Ages, Debra L. Hilborn-Davis
Autobiographical Narratives of Sexual Violation: Trauma, Genre, and the Politics of Telling, Sarah M. Hildebrand
Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973–1988, Liz Hirsch
Why Fight Nature? A Biography of the Early Life of Ida Rosenthal, Sierra B. Holt
A Host of People in Detroit: Forging a Twenty-First Century Ensemble in the Deindustrial City, Jacob Hooker
An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Infant Sleep: How We Study It, What It Means for Other Areas of Development, and Where Methodological Creativity Can Take Us, Melissa Noel Horger
Clifford Harmonics, Samuel L. Hosmer
Wave Excitation and Dynamics in Disordered Systems, Yiming Huang
Producing Movement Space in New York City's Solidarity Economy, Lauren Taylor Hudson
Essays on Behavioral Finance and Household Finance, Chih-Ching Hung
The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond, Kashema Hutchinson
Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future, Emese Ilyes
The Structural and Functional Role of Photosensing in RGS-LOV Proteins, Zaynab Jaber
Efficient Protocols for Multi-Party Computation, Tahereh Jafarikhah
The American Symphony Orchestra Today: Problems in Community, Diversity, and Representation, Hilary Slade Jansen
The Impact of Information Presentation Format on User Purchase Decision-Making, Muhammad Jawad
The Role of Perceived Warmth and Competence in Civil Trials with Corporate Litigants, Alexander C. Jay
Learning Deep Visual Features from Limited Labeled Data, Longlong Jing
Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, Alexandra Johnson
Perceived Health Status, Adherence to Disease Modifying Therapy and Religious Coping in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis, Marcia P. Jones George
The Online Impossible Anagram Task: Development and Testing of a Novel Online Cheating Paradigm, Emily Joseph
Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Juwon Jun
Essays on Financial Economics and Insurance, Andreas Kakolyris
The Grid Elegies, Pamela A. Kallimanis
An Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Economic Recession Prediction, Sheridan Kamal
Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property, Sharisse Kanet
Synthesis and Evaluation of C-10 Nitrogenated Aporphine Alkaloids at Serotonin and Dopamine Receptors, Anupam Karki
Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature, Christina Katopodis
Linear and Non Linear Properties of Two-Dimensional Exciton-Polaritons, Mandeep Khatoniar
A Unified Approach to M Dwarf Ages, Rocio Kiman
Predicting Stock Price Movements Using Sentiment and Subjectivity Analyses, Andrew Kirby
Dramaturgies of Intellectual Property Law in Read-Write Theatre, Andrew Kircher
Metareasoning, Opportunistic Exploration, and Explanations for Autonomous Indoor Navigation, Raj Korpan
Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?, Sarah L. Kostecki
Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera
Representing the Derivative of Trace of Holonomy, Jeffrey Peter Kroll
Apathy and Brain Atrophy During the First Year of Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Study, Gulnaz Kudoiarova
Genomic and Ecological Dimensions of Malagasy Reptile and Amphibian Biodiversity, Arianna L. Kuhn
Logics of Resource and Justification, Hirohiko Kushida
Dealer Networks in Over-The-Counter (OTC) Financial Markets, Richmond Kyei-Fordjour
The Effect of Psilocybin on Personality, Ravital LaBua
Some Notes On Birds: Language and Attention in the Age of Social Media, Aimee Lamoureux
Covid, Immigrant Nonprofits, and Online Services: A Case Study of an ESOL Program in Queens, Sabrina Lara
Desire, Culture, and the Body, Zoey Lavallee
Everyone is Watching: Mastering the Challenge of Caring for Infants at the End of Life While Being Constantly Observed, Deborah A. Lawrence
Spaces of Statecraft: How the Bureaucratic State Was Built on Manhattan’s Sidewalk, Brian J. Lee
Remarkably Ordinary, an Oral History: Examining the Micro Effects of Family Reunification on the Lee Siblings and Their Spouses, Carol Joo Lee
Quid Pro Quo? The SEC Oversight Enforcement and Corporate Lobbying, Daeun Lee
Influence of Demographic, Clinical, and Neuroimaging Variables on Neuropsychological Recovery Trajectories After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Elizabeth J. Leif
Video on Film: Video Essay, Videographic Criticism, and Digital Academic Publishing, Tian Leng
Emergent Photophysics In Diketopyrrolopyrrole Superstructures, Andrew Levine
Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive, Romm Lewkowicz
Topological Classical Wave Systems With Modulations, Interactions, and Higher-order Topological States, Mengyao Li
Iron and Iodine-mediated Reactions, Xiaochen Liu
A Reflection on the Dialectical Relationship of Librarian | Teacher: The Need for Pedagogical Training in Core MLIS Curriculum, Melanie C. Locay
Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes and Classroom Discipline Referral, Nicole L. Lorenzetti
Avocado Mania: The Rise and Costs of Our Obsession with Avocados, Rosa C. Lourentzatos
Black Women in Romance, Vianny C. Lugo Aracena
Study of the Gain-of-Function Mutant p53 and PARP1 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Devon Lundine
Organizational Decision-making in the Age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anh Luong
Spectral Urbanism: Modern Ghost Cities, Rare Earths, and Political Time at the Limits of Materialism, Linsey Ly
A Text Analysis of British Welfare Debates, Emily C. Maanum
Prosody and Intonation in Formosan Languages, Benjamin K. Macaulay
A Difference in Rhythm: John Burroughs as Rhythmanalyst, Jennifer MacDonald
The Impact of Local Demographic Change in the Contemporary United States, Christopher Maggio
In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher
Speech Enhancement Using Speech Synthesis Techniques, Soumi Maiti
Cross-linguistic Morphosyntactic Influence in Bilingual Speakers of Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English, Taryn R. Malcolm
Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova
From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification, Jonathan I. Manczur
Semantic Network Activation Contributes to the Relationship between Mood and Inhibition, James S. Maniscalco
Three Essays on Exchange Rate Models and Their Applications, Azza A. Mansour
Very Two, Very One: Reading as Friendship, Amelia Marini
Using fNIRS to Identify Brain Regions Involved in Emotional Face Processing in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Christian Martinez
El Pueblo Unido: How Threats Increased Latinx Turnout in Arizona’s 2020 General Election, Conner Martinez
Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin
The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children, Evgeniya Maryutina
Role of Protonation State Changes and Hydrogen Bonding Around the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, Divya Matta
Infant Behavioral Speech Discrimination Procedures: A Systematic Review, Allison L. Mazzella
A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum
Points of Reference: Humanities Content for Media Studies, Carolyn A. McDonough
Connecting Communities to Coastal Resilience: Enhancing Sustainability through Public Participation in Salt Marsh Management and Restoration in Suffolk County, NY, Jennifer L. McGivern
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood, Eva C. McGraw
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
The Relationship of Pathological Narcissism to Empathic Functioning, Antonia M. McMaster
Working Memory Task Performance in Children With SLI: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Megan V. McVeety
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
