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
Longitudinal Changes of Regional Myelin Water Fraction during First Year after Moderate-to-Severe Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury, Likowsky L. Desir
Astor Piazzolla's Cinco piezas para guitarra: A Performer's Guide to the "Unwritten", Federico J. Díaz Páez
Piecewise Linear Manifold Clustering, Artyom Diky
Non Ego Laudari Curo: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy, Federico Di Pasqua
Don't Sell Them Short, There's More to Bacterial Natural Products Than Antibiotics, Alison Clare Domzalski
Differentiability of the Liouville Map via Geodesic Currents, Xinlong Dong
Evaluation of the Potential of Automated SEM-EDS Analysis for the Discrimination of Inorganic Soil Particles, Anna S. Duggar
Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music, Michèle Duguay
The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice, Emily C. Eagen
The Effect of Anticipatory Anxiety on Fear Extinction Learning, Daniela C. Echeverria
Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary, Lindsey Eckenroth
Dual Control of One Component Signaling: Mechanistic and Structural Insights Into EL222 Active States, Uthama Phani R. Edupuganti
An Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Research Literacy, Milushka M. Elbulok-Charcape
Spirits in the Dark: Black Community Education and the Light it Bears, Sydoni A. Ellwood
Coalition and Creativity on the Bridges and Fringes with Immigrant Student-Contributors in Nonprofit Adult Education, Katherine E. Entigar
A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John
Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Europium Based Perovskite Oxide Nanoparticles, Nasim Farahmand
Challenges of Repatriation: Asante Artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History, Abdul-Alim Farook
Climbing The Mountain When There Is No Mountain To Climb: Pragmatism and the Reconstruction of Moral Philosophy, Ryan Marshall Felder
An Evaluation of An Application Designed for the iPad® to Measure Stimulus Overselectivity for Future Use in Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer
Reimagining What it Means to be Black in the United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices that Shape Racial Identities among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher
Indian Classical Music in the New York Metropolitan Area: The Development of a Transnational Ecosystem, Andre Fludd
Adversarial Training for Skill Learning in a Mobile Robot, Todd W. Flyr
The Association of Demographics, Social and Personal/Family Characteristics with Treatment Utilization Among Young Adults with Opioid Use Disorder in the United States, Marva L. Frederick
Climate Change and the Ancestors: Rain, Gender and Politics in an African Water Catchment, Jessie Fredlund
Prevention in Context: An Examination of Factors Associated with Recent HIV Testing Among Men in New York City, Anthony Freeman
The Politics of Hip Hop: A Political Analysis of Hip Hop’s History and Its Complicated Relationship with Capitalism, Danielle Garcia
Pictorial Communication, Nada Gatalo
The Palestinian’s Venison: John Locke, Colonialism and Liberal Zionism, Benjamin Geier
Prophecy, Emanation, and the Mediterranean Middle Ages, Alberto Gelmi
For the Love of Inner Voices: Miriam Gideon, Orchestration, and Fortunato, Whitney E. George
Princess Maleine, Whitney E. George
Synthetic and Biological Studies on Benzazepine Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Rajan Giri
The Influence of Evidence-Based Sex Discrimination Policies on Women’s Perceptions of Organizational Climate, Sexism, and Identity Safety, Maya A. Godbole
Health-Illness Transition Experiences Among Patients with Pancreatic Cancer, Jessica Goldberg
Efficiency of the Acoustic Change Complex for Various Stimulus Presentation Strategies in Infants, Lisa Goldin
Dota 2 Hero Selection Analysis, Zhan Gong
Improving the Accuracy of Juror Self-Reports of Bias During Rehabilitative Voir Dire, Natalie Gordon
Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Lagoon Salt Marsh in Davenport, California, Mark D. Gormley
When Is a Sandwich Too Much? A Critical Look at Teenage Parenthood and Its Impact on the Lives of Their Parents, Shirley P. Grant
Machine Learning Classification of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Versus Healthy Controls Using Arterial Spin Labeled Perfusion MRI, Vanessa I. Grass
Unthinkable Conditions: Affect and Environment in Romanticism and Speculative Fiction, Amelia Z. Greene
El Chapo's Trial as Legitimation of the War on Drugs: A Neoliberal Mechanism of Social Control and Imperial Intervention, Maurizio Guerrero
Plotting on the Plot in Hispaniola: A 16th Century (Dis)continuous Black Land Story and the Insistent Unsettling Crisis of the New World, Allison Marie Guess
Functional Connectivity Changes in the Default Mode Network in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Emily J. Haight
Direct Recruitment of eIF4GI and/DAP5 to the 5' UTR of a Subset of Human mRNA Drives Their Cap-independent Translation, Solomon A. Haizel
Further Toward Minor Literatures, Aaron Hammes
The Second Kashmir (Informational) War of 1965, Navdip Hans
School Recess and Changes to Children's Play Opportunities in New York City, Keyonna Hayes
Traces of Absence: How the Trauma of the Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Kidnapped Children Affair Is Present in Photographs and Home Movies, Natalie Haziza
Learn Biologically Meaningful Representation with Transfer Learning, Di He
The Psychological Allure of Alford: Why Innocents Plead Guilty, Johanna Hellgren
(In)Hospitable Modernity: Hospitality and Its Discontents (1920–1953), Daniel A. Hengel
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
