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
Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects, LeeAnn S. Stevens
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
The Counseling Advantages of Rechargeable Hearing Aid Batteries, Belinda M. Sun
On the Complexity of Computing Galois Groups of Differential Equations, Mengxiao Sun
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
Privileges for Being Slaves: Christian Missionaries in the Early Qing Court, Litian Swen
Performing Rhythmic Dissonance in Ligeti’s Études, Book 1: A Perception-Driven Approach and Re-notation, Imri Talgam
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Hyaluronan at the Brain-Environment Interface, Donald M. Thevalingam
Being Together: Imaginaries of Coexistence and Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Writings, Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979–Present, Jennifer J. Thompson
“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson
A Differential Algebra Approach to Commuting Polynomial Vector Fields and to Parameter Identifiability in ODE Models, Peter Thompson
Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh
Outcomes in Children with Additional Disabilities Following Cochlear Implantation: A Systematic Review, Rebecca M. Tuchman
The Impact of Local Broadband Coverage on U.S. Firms’ Information Environment, Zhiyuan Tu
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
Essays on Bank Acquisitions and Systemic Risk, Farindokht Vaghefi
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
Estudio Variacionista sobre las Formas de Tratamiento en Buga, Colombia, Diego Vargas Barona
Little Egypt: A Critical Biography, Katherine Vecchio
What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece, Christian J. Vella
Innate Antibodies, Murine Models, and Evolution: A Study of Trypanosome Lytic Factor Functions and Their Translational Applications, Joseph P. Verdi
Screening for Hearing Loss: Physician Attitudes and Practice, Theresa N. Vitale
American Sign-Language (ASL) for Audiologists, Colette Vossler-Welch
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition between al Qaeda and ISIS, Hristo Voynov
The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland
Hermitian Maass Lift for General Level, An Hoa Vu
Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen
Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker
War and Peace in American Seduction: Seduction Communities, Heterosexual Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy in New York City, Anders Wallace
A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry, Justin H. Walsh
Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993, Amanda S. Wasielewski
School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb
Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp, Elizabeth A. Weinfield
Implications of Vestibular Dysfunction Among the Aging Population: A Pocket Guide for Health Care Professionals, Maia L. Weisenfeld
Frontiers of Conditional Logic, Yale Weiss
Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
The Diffusion of a Movement Moment: Labor Organizing in the Shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Pamela Whitefield
Peptide Mediated Co-assembly of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials for Light Harvesting and Catalysis, WSM Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
The Crusader and the Dictator: An Exploration of Ideology and Neurodivergence in Contemporary Technology Practice, David J. Williams
The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson
“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, Celeste Winston
An Evolutionary Perspective on Foraging Strategies and Group Dynamics in Bio-Social Inspired Cognitive Radio Networks, Anna Wisniewska
Basic-Acceptance Teleosemantics, Esteban Withrington
Renal Specific RNAi Delivery by Fibrillar Nanoparticle Excipients, Sam Wong
"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment in Poetry and the Ethics of Representation, Darren Wood
A Novel Kinesin Adapter Directly Mediates Dendritic mRNA Localization During Synapse Development, Hao Wu
Heterocycle Synthesis from Quinols, Jing Wu
Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor, Tommy Wu
Accelerators: Their Fit in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Their Cohort Selection Challenges, Shu Yang
Emergent Critical Properties in Liquid-Gas Transition and Single Dislocations in Solid He4, Max Yarmolinsky
Cue-based reflexive reference resolution: Evidence from Korean reflexive caki, Namseok Yong
Interplay of Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Topological Phases of Matter, Cody Youmans
The Position of a Woman: A Poetics of Grace Paley’s Political Storytelling, Jamie Zabinsky
The Ends of Plot: Rupture and Entanglement in L’amica geniale, Victor X. Zarour Zarzar
Bisthioether Stapled Peptides Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Gene Repression, Gan Zhang
Tonicizations, Periods, and Period-Like Structures in the Music of Dvořák, Xieyi Zhang
Cost Stickiness and Supply Chain Bargaining Power, Binghao (Jimmy) Zhao
The Perception of Mandarin Tones in "Bubble" Noise by Native and L2 Listeners, Mengxuan Zhao
Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress, Callen Zimmerman
Ruin Sound: Audio Afterlives, Reenactment, and Remembrance in the 21st Century, Maria Edurne Zuazu
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Organic Photochemistry: Remote Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates via a Heterogeneous Approach, Niluksha Walalawela Abeykoon
Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree
To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison
Service Quality Assessment for Cloud-based Distributed Data Services, Arun Adiththan
How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal
Buying Time: Consuming Urban Pasts in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Dory Agazarian
El tango y la cultura popular en la reciente narrativa argentina, Monica A. Agrest
Differences in the Role of Acculturation on the Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Asian Subgroups, Khadijah Ahmad
The Exegetical Function of the Conductus in MS Egerton 2615, Dongmyung Ahn
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed Modifications of Nucleosides, Synthesis of Hippadine, and Deuterated 1,2,3-Triazoles, Hari K. Akula
The Lived Experience of Traumatic Amputation for Haitian Adults, Margarett Alexandre
Galois Groups of Differential Equations and Representing Algebraic Sets, Eli Amzallag
Anti-Proliferative Effects of Garcinia Fruits in Breast Cancer Cells, Harini Anandhi Senthilkumar
Hierarchical Meta-Analysis: A Simulation Study Comparing Classical Random Effects and Fully Bayesian Methods, Nancy R. Andiloro
Personality Recognition For Deception Detection, Guozhen An
Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton
Suing for Spanish: Puerto Ricans, Bilingual Voting, and Legal Activism in the 1970s, Ariel Arnau
Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look at Wayne's World, Glam, and the Losers of Rock and Roll, Michelle A. Arp
List, Sample, and Count, Ali Assarpour
Dietary Curcumin Promotes Resilience to Chronic Social Defeat Stress in a Highly Susceptible Mouse Strain, Antonio V. Aubry
Feeling as Knowing: Trans Phenomenology and Epistemic Justice, B. Lee Aultman
Analyzing Housing Demand and Its Role in the U.S. Economy, Irina Ayzenberg
The Role of Oxidative Stress and Signal Transduction in Chemotherapy-Mediated Cognitive Impairment in the Menopause Rat Model, Ciara Bagnall
Contemporary Archaeological Looting: A Criminological Analysis of Italian Tomb Robbers, Marc Balcells Magrans
Functional Interactions of tau, Pin1, p53 and mRNA 3′ Processing Factors in Non-Neuronal Cells, Jorge E. Baquero
Writing with Light: Cameraless Photography and Its Narrative in the 1920s, Karen K. Barber