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 2020
The Cinematic Treatment of Tableaux Vivants in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, Sheikh Deen
Revisiting Juchitán: Witnessing an Indigenous Mexico Within the Latin American Archive, Michelle G. de la Cruz
II-VI Type-II Quantum Dot Superlattices for Novel Applications, Vasilios Deligiannakis
The Police and the State, Brandon del Pozo
Developmental Predictors of Adolescent Mental Health Stigma and a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of "Ending the Silence" in New York city, Joseph S. DeLuca
Legitimizing Violence at the European Border: Gendered Misrepresentations at Sea and the Vulnerable Other, Michela Demelas
Three Essays on Natural Rates, Huseyin U. Demir
Essays on the Education Production Function, Daniel Dench
Red Sea, White Tides, and Blue Horizons, John P. Devine
Doing Discipline Different: Evaluating the Implementation of Restorative Justice as An Alternative to Punitive Discipline in New York City Public Schools, Virginia Diaz-Mendoza
Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies, Taylor Dietrich
Speech Outcomes and Hearing Preservation in Adults with Hybrid Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Victoria J. Dillon
Positioning and Repositioning: Transnational Identity (Re) Construction and (Re) Negotiation by American-Senegalese Children, Aminata Diop
Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment Options, Amanda C. Dominguez
Afectos en la Novela Española Contemporánea: Tematización de la Tercera Guerra de los Balcanes y Construcción del "Otro", Isabel Dominguez Seoane
In and Out of Character: Socratic Mimēsis, Mateo Duque
Ujamaa Policies and Women Gender Issues of Land Tenure in Tanzania, Nasa S. Edgar
Job Satisfaction Among Peer Support Staff in Mental Health Treatment and Recovery-Oriented Settings, Jonathan P. Edwards
Applying a Systems Approach to the Legacy of Lead in Soil, Sara Perl Egendorf
Do Criminal and Successful (Non-Institutionalized) Psychopaths Differ on Internal, Environmental, and Contextual Characteristics?, Ahmed E. Enaitalla
British Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Natural Education, Catherine S. Engh
The Temporal Dynamics of Ensemble Perception, Michael L. Epstein
Taking It to Heart: Trauma and Cardiovascular Risk in Court-Involved People of Color, Tanya Erazo
Raising Haiti: The Transmission of Ethnic Culture Across Generations, Vadricka Y. Etienne
Extra-Legal Information Transfer During Eyewitness Identification, Andrew J. Evelo
Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Christina E. Farella
The Art of Opacity: Guy de Cointet in L.A., Media Farzin
A New Method in Subjective Tinnitus Management: The Use of a Nutraceutical Formulation to Improve Patient Outcomes, Jade Faulkner
Learning to Fail? Student Experiences in Remedial Mathematics in Community Colleges, Margaret P. Fay
Metaethical Intentionalism and the Intersubjectivity of Morals, Kyle Ferguson
Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students, Lo Ferguson
Using Brief Session Duration During Functional Analysis to Inform the Treatment of Problem Behavior in 13 Consecutive Cases, Theresa Fiani
Black Parental Involvement in a Suburban School District, Walter L. Fields
Afro-Americano: The Transracialization of the African-American Spanish Speaker, John M. Flanagan
Legend Has It: Tracking the Research Trope in Supernatural Horror Film Franchises, Deirdre M. Flood
Political Fictions: Black Feminist Novels of Slavery and the Narrative of the American Left, Elizabeth A. Foley
Rehabilitative Movement Approaches and Dance Interventions in Parkinson’s Disease, Cecilia Fontanesi
The Modes of Intervention in Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room, Daniel Fox
Eating the Heart of Weetigo World: Decolonial Imaginaries in the Stories of Louise Erdrich and Tomson Highway, Rebecca Lynne Fullan
Leveraging Antibodies for Positron Emission Tomography and Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Cancer, Kimberly C. Fung
Returning to Imaginative Literary Texts in the Composition Classroom: A Case Study of Greek Literature and Their Potential in First-Year Writing, Esther M. Gabay
Coltrane Plays the Blues: Multi-Level Coherence and Stylistic Tendencies, Lukas Gabric
Attachment, Exploration, and Internalized Homonegativity, Gregory J. Gagnon
The Reduction, Sequestration, and/or Coordination of Technetium-99 Utilizing Polyoxometalates and Nanomaterials, Colleen MB Gallagher
A Re-evaluation of the Hyper-selectivity Perspective: The Case of Second-Generation Filipinos, Brenda B. Gambol Gavigan
Sex/Gender Differences in Serial Position Profiles in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Controls, Emnet Z. Gammada
A Teacher Educator's Narrative Journey into Mindfulness, Al-Karim H. Gangji
Flower Unfurling: Buddhist Modernism and The Early Writing of James Joyce, Erin Garrow
Fair World 64: A Text-Based Game of the 1964–1965 World's Fair, Christofer R. Gass
Unclonable Secret Keys, Marios Georgiou
Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing, Hussein M. Ghaly
Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico, Isabel Gil Everaert
A Critical Analysis of the Projection of Historical Narratives of the Indian Tribal People in "Our Past III", Sudhashree Girmohanta
Quadratic Packing Polynomials on Sectors of R2, Kaare S. Gjaldbaek
Going Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, Anna Gjika
An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship to "the Other" in the Historiography of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer
The Cognitive Thalamus: Source Analysis of Scene Working Memory Delay Activity, Bernard A. Gomes
The Guinea-Bissau Constitutional Reform Debate, Watson Aila Gomes
Evaluating Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperatures, In Situ Observations, and Coral Symbioses in Southwestern Puerto Rico, Andrea Michelle Gomez
Inclinaciones del yo: Aproximaciones desde el afecto y la vulnerabilidad a la literatura y el cine autobiográficos de la España en Crisis (2008–2019), Salvador Gómez Barranco
Familismo, FAFSA, and Sallie Mae: A Study of Second Generation Latinx Student Loan Debt, Jasmine Gonsalez
Descriptive Inhumanism: Description and Decolonial Aesthetics, Marcos Gonsalez
Understanding Atmospheres Across the Stellar-Substellar Boundary, Eileen C. Gonzales
Performing NYC Latinidades: Building a Diasporic Home at Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Oriana E. Gonzales
Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation, Selenid M. Gonzalez-Frey
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil? On the Interpersonal Effects of Boredom Expression, Manuel F. Gonzalez
Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Potentially Tumor Targeting Analogues of the Tetrahydrofuran Containing Acetogenins, Patricia Gonzalez Periche
Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France, Sam Goodson
Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival, 1962–1992, Christopher T. Green
Grassroots Tales: Journeys of Inward Healing and Outward Movement Building – “A story of youth development and healing”, Andrew Cory Greene
And Ain’t I a Man: An Examination of Violence Against African-American Men by Caucasian Men in the United States, Bryan L. Greene
Mobile Cognitive Training for the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression in Young Adults: A Double-Blind, Randomized Pilot Study with Active Control, Alice Grinberg
“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton, Valerie Gritsch
Binaural: Trauma and Disability Representation in Cinema, Joshua Grossberg
Reclaiming Indiana: The Politics of Crisis Amid the Failures of Liberal Capitalist Modernity, Chris Grove
Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Lisa Gueldenzopf
Fiscal and Monetary Policies and Stock Market, Ilhami Gunduz
Essays on the Application of the Machine Learning Methods in Finance and Policy Evaluation, Olga Guska
Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Exhibiting Israeli Art, 1939–1965, Chelsea Haines
Facilitators and Barriers for Home Health Aides Detecting and Reporting Elder Abuse in New York City, Agnieszka K. Halarewicz
A Data Exploration of Jeopardy! from 1984 to the Present, Brian S. Hamilton
Did the Muslim Ban Cause Islamophobia? Institutional versus Individual Prejudice, Emma Handte
Mission Adrift: The Impact of Managerialism on Graduate Social Work Education, Carolyn Hanesworth
Oxytocin Receptor and MicroRNA-198/c-MET Signaling as Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer, Trisheena Harricharran
Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda, and the Tea Trade in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880–1914, Leila Anne Harris
DNA Damage Recognition and UvrB Loading by UvrA within the Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway, Silas Hartley
From One Period to the Next... : Menstruation and the Psychoanalytic Process of Working through to the Feminine, Loryn L. Hatch
The Role of Mentalized Affectivity in Romantic Love and Relationship Satisfaction, Camilla P. Hegsted
Devising Complicité: Devised Theatre, Neoliberal Funding Pressures, and the Evolution of Théâtre de Complicité, Joseph Anthony Heissan Jr.
Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store, Samuel M. Hellmann
Examining the Effects of Reflection on Professional Identity Development in Community College Preservice Teachers, Delia Hernandez
The Language of Exploitation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of How Employers Use Bilingualism in New York City Job Ads, Guadalupe R. Hernandez
La obra dramatica de Lope de Vega: Temas y motivos neoestoicos, Rosa M. Herrera-Rodriguez
Behavioral Outcomes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Cochlear Implants, Patricia K. Herz
Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households, Maritza G. Hiciano Ramos
