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 Grammatical Systems of Attentionworthiness: Positional Signals and Invariant Meanings in Spanish Word Order, Eduardo Ho-Fernández
Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation for a Gradient Parameter Space, Katherine Howitt
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Migratory and Immune-Evasion Properties of Circulating Tumor Cells, Jeannette A. Huaman
In Support of Abstraction: Physical Interiority Beyond Postmodern Dance, Irene Hultman Monti
A Semi-Automated Approach to Medical Image Segmentation using Conditional Random Field Inference, Yu-chi Hu
Overcoming Challenges in the Assessment and Treatment of Problem Behavior in Adults with Autism, Julia A. Iannaccone
Modeling Where it Matters: Redesigning Mathematics Education with Adolescent Girls of Color, Kara L. Imm
Hebrew as a Gendered Language and an Oppressive Mechanism against Women in the Israeli Society, Rotem Itzhaky
Misuse of Social Behavior in Down Syndrome: Caregiver Conducted Functional Analysis, Sally M. Izquierdo
American Novels Amidst the Rise of New Media: Emergent Publics and Forms, Sarah Ruth Jacobs
Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy, Patrick C. James
PARP1-Targeted Radiotherapies, Stephen Jannetti
Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel, Huber David Jaramillo Gil
Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches, Katherine Jensen
A Glance at the Mirror: Ensemble Perception of Symmetry, Gene Jerskey
The Implementation of Empathy in the Animated Television Show “Hey Arnold”, Starnise Johnson
Thoughts of Becoming: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh, Humayun Kabir
The Cortico-Motoneuronal System in the PlexinA1 Knock-Out Mouse: Sculpting the Motor Response and Activity-Dependent Plasticity, John Kalambogias
Wave Propagation in Random and Topological Media, Yuhao Kang
Small-x QCD Calculations with a Biased Ensemble, Gary Kapilevich
The Picturesque and Its Decay: The Travel Writing and Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley, Gabrielle Kappes
Out of Home: Social Class in Women’s Writing, 1950–2016, Lisa M. Karakaya
Yours Sincerely, Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Letter Writing, Jojo S. Karlin
Essays on Corporate Sustainability, Aditya Malateesh Kashikar
The Zine Union Catalog, Lauren S. Kehoe, Jenna Freedman, , and
Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy, Sean M. Kennedy
Robust Neural Machine Translation, Abdul Rafae Khan
Protein Phosphatase 2A Suppresses Spindle Elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Shoily P. Khondker
The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis, Catherine King
Factors Predicting Sustainability: A Correlational Study of One Multi-Site Program, Meredith L. King Jensen
Mashing through the Conventions: Convergence of Popular and Classical Music in the Works of The Piano Guys, Alina Kiryayeva
Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Adverse Trauma Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood, Olena Kleshchova
The Impact of a Single Session of Mindfulness Meditation on the Attentional Blink in Non-Meditators, Arielle L. Klopsis
Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Unconscious and Illusory Touch Perception, Lua Koenig
Changes in Tinnitus Perception Following Cochlear Implantation and Hearing Aid Use, Corinne L. Kohan
The Twilight of the Absolute: Russian Symbolism and the Romantic Project, Evgeniya A. Koroleva
Genderlects in Social Media, Alina Korovatskaya
Climbing Performance and Ecology in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas, Elaine E. Kozma
An Eco-Political Theory of Territory, Jonathan Kwan
Who Governs the Sea? An Analysis of the Regime Complex in International Shipping, Brent Landon
The Impact of Childhood Music Experience on Speech Perception and Processing: A Systematic Review, Erika Lanham
The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power, Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature, Makeba Lavan
Repairing the U.S.–South Korea Alliance: THAAD as an Appeasement Measure, Jane Lee
The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Wh-Quantification: Wh-NPIs and Wh-In-Situ, Yeonju Lee-Sikka
Particle Dynamics in Anti-de Sitter Space by EIH Method, Jiusi Lei
Probing the Limits of Singular Gene Expression Through the Activity of High Representation Odorant Receptor Transgenes, Eugene Lempert
New Tower of Babel: Probing the Antecedents and Consequences of Linguistic Ostracism, Julia N. Leone
Lo visible, lo invisible y lo imaginable: Neoliberalismo y ciudad en las producciones culturales de posguerra en Centroamérica, Maria A. Leon Umana
Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects in Multilingual People with Aphasia, Aviva Lerman
Feminist Theology and the Fantastic in Jewish Poetics and Children's Literature (1960s–Present), Meira S. Levinson
Inferring Research Fields in Administrative Records Using Text Data, Ekaterina Levitskaya
Visualizing TEDx Events: Ten Years of “Ideas Worth Spreading”, Antonios Liamis
How Much Does Imprecision in Accounting Measurement Enhance Value?, Ying Liang
Machine Learning Applications for Drug Repurposing, Hansaim Lim
Ethical Validity: An Ethical Validity Claim for Discourse Ethics, Jamie B. Lindsay
Shock, Stimulus, and Upheaval: The Great Recession, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Mayoral Coalitions in Brooklyn, NY 2009–2013, Charles Linsmeier
I. Selective Chlorination and Fluorination of Quinols II. Synthetic Study of Strongylophorine-26, Sihan Li
Essays on Social Connectedness, Institutional Behavior, and Market Predictability, Yan Li
Searching for Pōhakuloa: A Citizen Scientist’s Journey in Aloha ‘Āina, Drake Logan
Model Theory of Groups and Monoids, Laura M. Lopez Cruz
Blocking Visual Awareness with Continuous Flash Suppression Prevents Cognitive Control, Jonathan LoVoi
Matrix Low Rank Approximation at Sublinear Cost, Qi Luan
'Once Famous in an Odd Way': Curiosity and Queerness in Late 19th-Century American Male Impersonation, S.C. Lucier
Acting Objects: Staging New Materialism, Posthumanism and the Ecocritical Crisis in Contemporary Performance, Sarah Lucie
Exploring the Lived Experience of Decision-Making among Family Caregivers of Black Older Adults with Advanced Chronic Illnesses, Theresa L. Lundy
The Problem of Literary Development in Russian Formalism and Digital Humanities, Basil Lvoff
Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Increase Individuals’ Intentions to Engage in Intergroup Dialogue?, Noelle A. Malvar
Lengua, identidad y poder: Ideologías lingüísticas en la prensa hispana de los Estados Unidos (1980–2007), Evangelia-Lydia Manatou
A Defense and Expansion of the Theory of Capitalist Ground Rent: Speculation, Securitization, and Struggles Over Land and Housing, Francesca Manning
Compulsive Doubting: Self and Other in the Psychology of Judgment, Certainty, and Indecision, Michael Marcus
Tones in Shupamem Reduplication, Magdalena Markowska
Growth of Conjugacy Classes of Reciprocal Words in Triangle Groups, Blanca T. Marmolejo
Functions of Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factor 2 in Excitable Tissues, Christopher Marra
Essays on Paid Sick Leave in the United States, Shaoying Ma
The Making of a Queer Caribbean: Grassroots, Dancehall, and Literary Advocacy (1975–2015), Dadland Maye
Cochlear Implantation: Why vs. Why Not? A Pocket Guide for Non-Cochlear Implant Audiologists, Lauren McCauley
Martial Caillebotte’s Mélodies and Scènes Lyriques: Analytical Essays and Performance Guide, Dominique McCormick
In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time, Carmel M. Mc Mahon
“Prepare for Death and Follow Me:” An Archaeological Survey of the Historic Period Cemeteries of New York City, Elizabeth D. Meade
The Truman Administration and Zionist Legitimation Strategies to Achieve Statehood, Gianna Meier
Más allá de la comisión de la verdad y reconciliación: Memoria, cuerpo y producción cultural de mujeres en el perú (2005–2013), Otilia M. Mendiolaza
Essays in Financial Economics and Applied Macroeconomics, Marius Mihai
An Analysis of Women and Terrorism: Perpetrators, Victims, Both?, Elizabeth Lauren Miller
Oceanic Groundings: Maritime Geographies and Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century, Maegan A. Miller
Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others, Sasha M. Miller
