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
Closing the Chasm: Al-Fārābī on Islam and Politics, Onur F. Muftugil
The Performance and Patronage of Baloch Culture through Music (and Related Arts) in the Eastern Arabian Peninsula, George Murer
Self-Determination in Transportation: The Route to Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities, Jessica Murray
Queer Displacements: Minorities, Mobilities, and Mobilizations in French and Francophone Literature, Thomas Muzart
The Life and Death of Mambo: Culture and Consumption in New York's Salsa Dance Scene, Carmela Muzio Dormani
Molecular Roles of Small Inner Membrane Proteins in Escherichia coli Cell Envelope Integrity, Aaron Mychack
Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers
Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo
Macroharmony in Ligeti's Etudes, Book 3, Nicolas Namoradze
The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film, Victoria Napolitano
Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Nano-Coatings: Study of Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Properties and Applications, Illya Nayshevsky
Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S., Sokhnagade B. Ndiaye
Audio Quality as Content: Everyday Criticism of the Lo-fi Format, Elizabeth Newton
Density Functional Theory Study of Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Films, Pradip R. Niraula
Unpaid Care Work and Civic Engagement: A Review of Literature Suggesting Unpaid Care Work as Civic Engagement, William Novello
Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019, Dax Oliver
#Fired: Survivor Reactions to Facebook Firing in Organizations, Rachel Omansky
Economics of Higher Education Productivity, Uchenna K. Oparah
Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile, Pilar Ortiz
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Eric Osborne-Christenson
On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities, Isaac Overcast
Acquisition Orders and Instructional Sequences: A Case Study of Russian Textbooks, Olga Ozhiganova
Advanced Computational Methodologies to Study Binding Free Energies of Biomolecular Complexes, Rajat Kumar Pal
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Predicting Distress and End-of-Life Planning among Individuals with Advanced Cancers, Aliza A. Panjwani
The Objectives of Public Higher Education in New York City Through the Lens of Language, John-Nicholas Parker
Age-Related Effects on Gait Parameters in Healthy Normal Aging Adults, Jamie C. Park
Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language, Olga Parshina
Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel
Gene Regulation and Cell Fate Choice in the Developing Vertebrate Retina, Sruti Patoori
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Many Forms of Black Death: Coal Extraction, Transnational Activism and the Value of Life in Colombia, Oscar H. Pedraza Vargas
Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia
Emotion in Mind, Kathryn E. Pendoley
360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), Joseph Pentangelo
Una isla, dos literaturas: Contrapunteo de la literatura de la isla y la diáspora dominicanas (1965–2018), Jose L. Peralta
A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements, Trace Peterson
Los cuerpos en conflicto del chavismo: cuatro obras venezolanas en la era de la Revolución Bolivariana, Rebeca Pineda Burgos
“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy, Maritha Pocorni-Humphries
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
Essays in Retirement Economics, Gunnar Poppe Yanez
Narrating Intensity: History and Emotions in Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante, Stefania Porcelli
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
DH in Prison, Sabina Pringle
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Ascriptive Nationalism, Demagoguery, and the Modern Presidency: A Case Study in Constitutional Decay, Christopher J. Putney
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Primary Care Physician Perceptions of Hearing Loss and Amplification: A Survey, Sophie Racine
The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel
Reflections on the Eating of Bologna Sandwiches: A Memoir, Benjamin M. Raphael
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution, Alexander C. Redlins
Visual Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Erin L. Reilly
Exploring Vicarious Resilience among Practitioners Working with Clients Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events, Adam Reynolds
Exploring Influences on Autistic Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Ariana Riccio
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
Inspirations for Awake: Expressions of Trauma Through Fiction and Autoethnographic Literature, Sophia Rodriguez
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
The Sounds of Sikles Gurung: A Phonetic and Phonological Description of a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal, Danielle Ronkos
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
Object Relations, Identity Formation, and Transitional Space in Religious Conversion, Arielle Rubenstein
Convexity and Curvature in Hierarchically Hyperbolic Spaces, Jacob Russell-Madonia
Fact and Fiction in Mexican Film: 1970s, 2000s, Lily M. Ryan
Paper House: The Revolution, the Disappeared, and the Historicity of Lebanon, Elsa Saade
Building for Culture: How Municipal Ownership of Cultural Facilities Influences Annual Arts Funding in American Cities, Adam M. Sachs
Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought, Nader Sadre
Developmental Outcomes of Young Children Exposed to Early Childhood Adversities, Inga Saitadze
A Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Connection Between Gender and Discipline in Grades Pre-K–8, Nicole Salazar
Truth Telling: Exploring Sexuality in Widowed and Single Older Black Women, Margaret A. Salisu
Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke
Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making, Patricia Y. Sanchez
The Impact of Anti-Corruption Laws: Evidence from the U.K. Bribery Act's Extraterritorial Reach, Amanda Sanseverino
Parent–Child Relationship, Resting Heart Rate, and Callous–Unemotional Traits in Adolescents, Eva M. Santucci
UN Trust Funds as Agent to Fulfill the Norm Adapting and Diffusing Functions, Mikiko Sawanishi
“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind, Hunter M. Sawyer
Mutational Analysis and Domain Characterization of the Apolipoprotein L-1 Ion Channel, Charles M. Schaub
A Quadratic Analysis of Trait Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability, Katlyn Schroder
Structural Studies of Peptide Toxins and Their Binding Properties Towards the Voltage Sensing Domain of Nav1.7, Ryan Schroder
Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds, Adam See
Whose War Is It Anyway? How Afghanistan Became a Battlefield Over Global Hegemony During the Cold War, Kathryn Shapiro
On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic, Alaa M. Sharif
A Modelist Proposal, Jian Shen
Breast Dressing: A Critical Review of Post-Surgical Bras, Adi Sieradzki
Essays on Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Capital Flows, Luis E. Silva-Yanez
Gender Differences in Personality: An Item-Level Analysis, Casey C. Smith
The Perception of Prosody in English-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Grace R. Smith
The Coherence of Left-Libertarianism: A New Approach to Reconciling Libertarianism and Socialism, Jesse E. Spafford
Awful Nearness: Rape and the English Novel, 1740–1900, Erin A. Spampinato
How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery, Ann Marie (Annie) Spencer
Shakespeare's Problem Comedies as Self-Critique, John-Paul Spiro
Translation Distance and Fibered 3-Manifolds, Alexander J. Stas
