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
Essays on Communication, Shawn M. Simpson
The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange, Aaron Slodounik
The Federalist Papers' Account of Human Nature, Jeffrey P. Smith
Informed Consent: Foundations and Applications, Joanna Smolenski
Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction, Patrick Smyth
Microstructural Characteristics of Deformed Quartz Under Non-Steady-State Conditions, Hamidreza Soleymani
Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France, Anna Soo-Hoo
Alcohol And Its Long-Term Effects On Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review, Talia Sowalsky
Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords, Yulia Spektor
Pedagogy and Love: Preservice Teacher Perspectives, Eleni Stellatos
Factors Associated with Health-Promoting Behaviors of Adult Protective Service Workers and Professionals Who Support Vulnerable Adults, Cynthia Sterling-Fox
Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights and Musical Participation in Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings
Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law, Richard Stillman
The Victims’ Voices: A Routine Activity Approach to Jail and Prison Victimization, Victor St. John
Examining Probation and Judicial Adherence to the NYC Disposition Matrix, Susruta Sudula
Information Justice: The Histories and Futures of Technology and Social Categories, Patrick Sweeney
Intent to Stay, Moral Distress, and Nurse Practice Environment Among Long-Term Care Nurses, Amil Tan
Young People’s Perception of Opportunities to Participate in Democratic Governance, Jennifer Nga Yu Tang
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Self-Assemblies in Nature and Nanotechnology, Phu Khanh Tang
Towards Automated Software Evolution of Data-Intensive Applications, Yiming Tang
Optimization of Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration and Thermomagnetic Power Generation, Anthony N. Tantillo
Understanding the Influence of Zinc on Grain Cadmium Accumulation and Bioaccessibility in Rice, Michael A. Tavarez
Developing Supramolecular Tripeptides with Sequence Tunable Visible Absorbance and Emission, Mona Tayarani Najjaran
Baccio del Bianco at the Court of Spain: Early Modern Scenic Design in Context, Pamela Thielman
Cross-sectional Variation of Stock Options Behavior, Meng Tian
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Laxman Timilsina
The Making of an Avant-gardist: A Study of Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Early Life and Works (1957–1966), Noel Torres-Rivera
Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation, Natalia Tyulina
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking, Nicholas J. Ullrich III
Mother’s Understanding of the Newborn Infant Hearing Screening (NIHS) and the Audiologist’s Role in Healthy Hearing, Chaya T. Ungar
Countersexuality in Times of Neomachismo: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Spanish Performance (1988–2019), Mara I. Valderrama
Tools and Strategies for the Patterning of Bioactive Molecules and Macromolecules, Daniel J. Valles
Diffraction-Based Studies of Magneto- and Baro-Caloric Materials, Steven P. Vallone
Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Brent A. Van Horne
The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Regulating Messenger RNA 3’ End Processing and Controlling Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells, Sophia Varriano
Development of an LCMS Analytical Method with Applicability to Determination of Trace Level Explosives in Environmental Waters, Cristina I. Veresmortean
The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election, Brandon Vigil
The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City, Michael A. Villanova
Predictors of Lexical Accessibility of Common and Proper Nouns in Older Age: Evidence from the Tip-of-the-Tongue State, Amy Victoria Vogel-Eyny
Emulating the "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis of Fiddle Parodies and Impressions in Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata, Emily Vold Weiss
Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker
Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace
Applying Deep Learning on Financial Sentiment Analysis, Cuiyuan Wang
New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism, Serena Yiai Wang
Nation(s) and Narrative(s) in Forms of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei
How Psychotherapists Practice In the Digital Era, Josh Weinstein
Who Pays? New York State Political Donor Matching with Machine Learning, Annalisa Wilde
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts, Adam Wilson
Enhanced Platinum (II) Drug Delivery for Anti-cancer Therapy, Marek T. Wlodarczyk
What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators, Kathryn Wojtkiewicz
Teaching Choral Music of the African Diaspora in the United States: Toward a “Living Black History”, H. Roz Woll
Progress Narratives in Trans Internationalism: Surveying a Collected Archive of the Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff
Essays on How Cultural Factors Affect the Sentiment and Behavior of Financial Market Participants, Runze Wu
Gay for English: Postcolonial In(queer)ies into Contemporary Hindi Cinema, Hardik R. Yadav
Refugee Higher Education and Participatory Action Research Methods: Lessons Learned from the Field, Hadas Yanay
Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: the Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification, Ye Yang
The Role of Placental Genes on Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay, Maedot A. Yidenk
Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal, Nishant Yonzan
From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution, Mason Youngblood
Contracting in Direct Asset Sales, Xin Yuan
Place Branding as a Mode of Urban Governance and Verticalisation: The Case of Tokyo and New York, Z. Ruya Yuksel
The Hamite Must Die! The Legacy of Colonial Ideology in Rwanda, Awa Princess E. Zadi
Targeting AMPA Receptor Modulation during Early Life Adversity: A Mediator for Threat Associated Memories, Roseanna M. Zanca
Novel Hybrid Resampling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Particle Filters, Xudong Zhang
Essays on Economic Uncertainty and Housing Market in China, Humenghe Zhao
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Essays on Investor Sentiment, Media, and Trading, Changyun Zhou
Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook
Evolution and Development of the Seed Coat in Gymnosperms, Cecilia Zumajo
How Frustration Impacts the Relationship Between Potential for Child Physical Abuse Perpetration and Emotion Processing, Amanda L. Zwilling
Daily Benefits of Leader Dogs in Addition to Medical Treatment For Individuals With Usher Syndrome: A Case Study, Samantha H. Zwolan
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
Symmetric Rigidity for Circle Endomorphisms with Bounded Geometry and Their Dual Maps, John Adamski
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Elucidating the Role of APL-1, the C. elegans Ortholog of the Human Amyloid Precursor Protein, Adanna G. Alexander
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
Glotopolítica de la Desigualdad: Ideologías del Mapudungun y el Español en Chile (2009–2019), Gabriel E. Alvarado Pavez
Generating Entanglement with the Dynamical Lamb Effect, Mirko Amico
Maximum Sound Output Levels of Pediatric Marketed Headphones: The Development of Healthy Listening Habits in Children, Adrienne L. Ammirati
Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation, Drake R. Andersen
The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown, Drake R. Andersen
