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
Labor, Land Use, and the Luxury City, Samuel Stein
Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals, Michael C. Stern
Landscape and Lore: River Acheron and the Oracle of the Dead, LaShante St. Fleur
Memory for Episodic Details of Naturalistic Events Remains Stable Over the Course of One Week, Kennedy E. Stomberg
Two Cello Works of Pēteris Vasks: Structure, Symbolism, and Identity, Caroline Bean Stute
Accomplices in Art: The Expansion of Authorship in the 1970s and '80s, Sydney Stutterheim
Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students, Janice Summers
Novel Fast Algorithms For Low Rank Matrix Approximation, John T. Svadlenka
Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, Krystle F. Sweda
Alternative Cichoń Diagrams and Forcing Axioms Compatible with CH, Corey B. Switzer
Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed
“Caring Is Sharing”: The Effect of Childhood Memories on Consumers’ Lending Behavior, Teodora Szabo-Douat
Describing the Dress of Women: Author’s Notes on the Development of Gender, Cassandra B. Tan
Object-Oriented Musicology: Some Implications of Graham Harman's Philosophy for Music Theory, History, and Criticism, Eric Taxier
The Effects of Two Kinds of Stereotype Threat on Implicit Racial Bias in African-Americans, Brad Thomas
Is the South (Still) America’s Sacrifice Zone? A Regional Analysis of Toxic Emissions, 1987–2017, Tanesha A. Thomas
The “Olympiad of Photography”: FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965, Alise Tifentale
Controlled Observation: The Challenges of Therapy for the Mentally Ill Incarcerated Population, Esther Tingué
A Comparison of Strain, Social Learning, Control, and Trauma Theories of Crime, Nicole Trauffer
'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk, Wendy Tronrud
Occitan Musicians, Immigration, and Postcolonial Regionalism in Southern France, Sarah E. Trouslard
The Effects of Eighth Years of Compulsory Schooling Enforcement in Turkey, Muhammed Tumay
How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?, Abigail M. Turner
Stalking and Attachment Theory: Causes and Management, Zoe Turner
Representations of Hustling Women: The Figure of the Black Sex Worker in Ann Petry’s The Street and Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner, Deborah L. Uzurin
Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar, Suzanne M. Uzzilia
Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir
Las verdades de la muerte: Discurso oficial y literatura peruana durante la guerra interna (1980–2000), Alberto Valdivia Baselli
The Capabilities of Students in Poverty: Student Outcomes from a United States Department of Education TRIO Program, Arthur Valiant
The Freddie Gray Uprising: Persistence and Desistance Narratives of Community-Engaged Returning Citizens, Maurice Vann
The Political Aesthetic of Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Judgment, and Culture, Quixote R. Vassilakis
Duality in a Model of Layered Superfluids and Sliding Phases, Steven Vayl
Experience-Dependent Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Predict Cued Approach Learning: Contribution of NMDA Receptors, Mercedes Vega Villar
A Quantitative Examination of Black and Hispanic Students’ Time-to-Graduation, Ferdinand A. Verley II
Phonologically-Informed Speech Coding for Automatic Speech Recognition-based Foreign Language Pronunciation Training, Anthony J. Vicario
Místicas y disidentes: feminismo teresiano en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, Almudena Vidorreta
Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale
Working Memory Training: Cognitive and Linguistic Implications in Adult English Language Learners, Deepti Wadhera
Outlandish People: Gypsies, Race, and Fantasies of National Identity in Early Modern England, Sydnee Wagner
Ghost Peppers: Using Ensemble Models to Detect Professor Attractiveness Commentary on RateMyProfessors.com, Angie Waller
Reframing the Family Portrait: The Surrogate Mother in U.S. Theatre and Film 1939–1963, Alison Walls
Valid Time RDF, Hsien-Tseng Wang
Epistemic Injustice and Sexual Violence Intervention Advocacy, Jennifer Ware
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
Emulating Condensed Matter Systems in Classical Wave Metamaterials, Matthew Weiner
The Mutability of the Score: An Examination of the Value of Score Alteration in Virtuosic Piano Repertoire, Wayne Weng
Promoting the Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, and the Gendered Consumer in Depression-Era America, Danielle B. Wetmore
Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy, Nicole Whalen
Rethinking Gaming & Representation Within Digital Pedagogy: An Instructor’s Guide, Anthony Wheeler
PrEP Use and Barriers to Use Among Adult and Young Sexual Minority Men in the United States, Thomas Whitfield
Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health, Margarite J. Whitten
Black Skin, White Gaze: The Presence and Function of the Linchpin Character in Biopics About Black American Protagonists, Nicole N. Williams
Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices, Ovita Williams
Diversity Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Examination of “Diversity” in Graduate Education, Tellisia M. Williams
Where Do We Go from Here? Québécois Identity in the Road Novel from 1964 to 2008, Antoinette Williams-Tutt
Black and Brown Students’ Mathematics Anxiety in Elementary School: The Use of Restorative Justice Circles and Critical Concepts of Care, Hope, and Love, Mariana E. Winnik
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955, John C. Winters
Accessibility Across the Curriculum: An OER Website on Accessibility, Amy Wolfe
Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation Using Counterfactual Data, Alan Wong
Outcomes of Tinnitus Post-Cochlear Implantation in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Evangeline Wong
Affect, Behavior and (Dys)Regulation: Integrating Youth's Projective Tests and Self-Reports, Laurel Wright
Control of Molecular Energetics and Transport via Strong Light-Matter Interaction, Rong Wu
Barriers to Health and Social Services Utilization for Immigrant Autistic Children in Canada, Fjoralba Xhaferri
Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals, Erjon Xholi
Essays on the Short-Term Impact of Minimum Unit Pricing Policy in Scotland, Irena P. Xhurxhi
Arithmetic of Binary Cubic Forms, Gennady Yassiyevich
Set Operators, Xiaojin Ye
Analysis of PRO-drop Errors in L2 English by L1 Spanish Speakers, Marcos R. Ynoa
Paper, Places, and Familias: Tracing the Social Mobility of Mexicans in New York, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa
Generalized Four-Dimensional Effective Hadronic Supersymmetry Based on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), Enxi Yu
Asymmetric alpha-Stannylation of Heterocycles and Their Subsequent Use in Cross-coupling Reactions, Haoran Zhao
Essays on Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Technical Efficiency, Li Zhao
Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation, Anna Zhelnina
Uniform Lipschitz Continuity of the Isoperimetric Profile of Compact Surfaces Under Normalized Ricci Flow, Yizhong Zheng
Essays on Corporate Debt Features, Capital Structure, and Cash Policies, Xiaoyu Zhu
A Neural Mechanism for Capnotaxis in the Naked Mole-Rat, Michael Zions
Development of Ligand Guided Selection (LIGS) to Identify Specific DNA Aptamers Against Cell Surface Proteins, Hasan Ekrem Zumrut
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice, Audrey Abela
'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865, Scott Ackerman
The Critique Became the Counter-Narrative: Planning Manhattan North of the Street Grid, Gail K. Addiss
Environmental Adaptations and Agency: An Ecological Reframing of Design and Implementation Practices for Disability, Jennifer Adler
Zeta Functions of Classical Groups and Class Two Nilpotent Groups, Fikreab Solomon Admasu
Rails to Revolution: Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution, Hector Agredano
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
Death of the Caliphate: Reconfiguring Ali Abd al-Raziq’s Ideas and Legacy, Arooj Alam
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Different Strokes for Different but Reasonable Folks: Comparison of Legally Relevant Observers’ Perceptions of Custody, Fabiana Alceste
Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization, Ashna Ali
Music and Jewish Practice in Contemporary Istanbul: Preserving Heritage, Bending Tradition, Joseph M. Alpar
History of Military Interventions in Political Affairs in Pakistan, Hina Altaf
Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays, Alicia Page Andrzejewski
Stability and Application of the k-core Dynamical Model to Biological Networks, Francesca Beatrice Arese Lucini
Online Learning and Planning for Crowd-aware Service Robot Navigation, Anoop Aroor
