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 2019
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, Sofia Oviedo
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
Getting at the Surface: A Promoter and Coding Sequence Characterization of an Odorant Receptor, Irena G. Parvanova
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take X-4, Barbara T. Paulus
Changing the Narrative: Building a Conceptual Framework for Advocating Representation in History Textbooks, Valerie Paul
Illicit Psychoactive Medication Use: Experiences of Medicalization and Normalization, Mark Pawson
Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric and Multiferroic Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxide Materials and Nanocomposites, Frederick A. Pearsall
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
Transfigurations of the News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
Structure and Function of Dopamine in the Inner Ear and Auditory Efferent System of a Vocal Fish, Jonathan T. Perelmuter
Neurogenesis is Altered Between and Across Brain Regions After Neurodegeneration and Injury, Alice Perez
Chamber Music, Cyclic Form, and the Ideal of the Absolute in French Music and Literature, 1890–1918, Naomi Perley
The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Cancer Killing Effect of Interleukin-24, Leah Eshanie Persaud
Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities, Francesca Petronio
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
Johann Nauwach's Teütscher Villanellen: A Critical Performance Edition with Performance Practice Commentary, Christopher Pfund
The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s, Audrey Phillips
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
Diet, Inflammation, Gut Microbiome, and Mental Health, Ashley R. Polokowski
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Some Non-Human Languages of Thought, Nicolas J. Porot
Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries, Amir Hosein Pourjavady
The Woman We Don’t Want to Be: The Anti-Heroine in American Women’s Modernisms, Madison Priest
Control of Light-Matter Interactions via Nanostructured Photonic Materials, Nicholas Proscia
To See Again: Vision And Revelation in American Poetics, Emily C. Raabe
How We Act Together, Matthew Rachar
Identification and Characterization of Barrier Insulator Activity in the T-Cell Receptor alpha Locus Control Region, Gayathri Devi Raghupathy
Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West, Berglind H. Ragnarsdóttir
Analyzing Prosody with Legendre Polynomial Coefficients, Rachel Rakov
Preparation of Enantioenriched Alkyltin Species and their Application in Stereospecific Transformations, Glenn O. Ralph
Dios en carne: Rastafari and the Embodiment of Spiritual Blackness in Puerto Rico, Omar Ramadan-Santiago
Abrupt Climate Transitions, Christine J. Ramadhin
Does Ethnic Identity, In-group Preference, and Acculturation Protect Latinas with a History of Interpersonal Trauma From Developing Symptoms of PTSD?, Evelyn M. Ramirez
The Iconography of the Gold and Silver Coinage of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, Nisha N. Ramracha
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping in Computer Aided Drug Design, Steven Ramsey
CUNY Will Be Free!: Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Compositions, Literatures, and Studies at the City College of New York and in New York City, 1960–1980, Conor Tomás Reed
Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States, Shirley Reid
Hermeneutics: A Literary Interpretive Art, David A. Reitman
Externalities of CDS Trading: The Effect on Industry Peer Firms’ Cost of Debt, Sunqian Ren
Who Owned Waterloo? Wellington’s Veterans and the Battle for Relevance, Luke A. L. Reynolds
Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System, Whitney Richards-Calathes
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder
Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco
Black Amerinquen, Kayla Marie Rodriguez
Exploring Political Action and Socialization through Group Improvisation within the Music of Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew, Marcel Rominger
Una enunciación intersticial: la poética del destierro de Carlos de Rokha, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1928–1933, Lauren Rosati
Caring for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Melanie Rosenthal
The Ethics of Perception in Transatlantic Romantic Poetry, Charles W. Rowe
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and U.S. Musical Theatre, Phoebe Rumsey
Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Roy Adaptation Modes Scale (RAMS) to Measure Coping and Adaptation, Sandra A. Russo
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen
Probing the Gelation Phenomena in Molecular and Seed-Based Gels, Malick Samateh
On Different Parametrizations of Feynman Integrals, Ray Daniel Sameshima
Mindfulness in Medicine: Modified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program among Future Doctors, Virtue Sankoh
Towards a Mathematical Model of Motility Using Dictyostelium discoideum: Proteins and Geometric Features that Regulate Bleb-Based Motility, Zully Santiago
Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed
Intention and Interpretation in Law, Cosim J. Sayid
Signals in the Black Stack / GEOMEtyr Design Manual, Jason T. Scaglione
TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries, Michael N. Scharf
Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World, Amy B. Schiller
The Practice of Mainland Chinese Students Adopting English Names and Its Motivations, T. Leo Schmitt
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani
Swedish Migration Politics: Have the Sweden Democrats Taken Over the Political Agenda?, Sofia Sedergren
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Corinne Ann Settecase-Wu
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Words Are Found Responsible: Poetry's Jurisdiction and the Transformation of Equal Rights, Talia Shalev
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Minor Forms, Dismantled Norms: Mediums of Modernism in Pakistan, Gemma Sharpe
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
The Implementation Fidelity of the Family Finding Intervention through the Lens of Permanency Specialists, Liat L. Shklarski
Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle, Oren Shmuel
Analysis of a Group of Automorphisms of a Free Group as a Platform for Conjugacy-Based Group Cryptography, Pavel Shostak
Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
The Untapped Potential of Ethnic Community Networks: Urban Resiliency and the Chinese Commuter Van System in New York City, Alexandra Diane Smith
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982, Gillian Sneed
Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers
Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Investigating the Feasibility of Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.): An Innovated and Practical Intervention to Enhance Police Mindfulness and Resilience, Stephanie B. Stern