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 2018
The Effect of a Voice Treatment on Facial Expression in Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical and Demographic Predictors, Amanda D. Bono
Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio
Famed Communities: Trojan Origins, Nationalism, and the Question of Europe in Early Modern England, Joseph Bowling
"It's like They're Right There Next to You": Maintaining Girls' Camp Friendships via Mobile Media, Elise Bragard
Investigation of Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Greenhouse Gas Production in the Urban Hudson River Estuary, Brian Alan Brigham
Curcumin Inhibits the IKK:NF-kappa B Pathway in Neural Fear Circuits, Miguel A. Briones
Information Content, Charge Transport Properties, and Computational Capacities of Proteins, Joseph Murphy Brisendine Jr.
Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement, Seon Britton
Educational Relevance as a Motivating Operation for Equivalence Class Formation: Implications for Application, Julia Brodsky
Regulation of the Tubulin Homolog FtsZ in Escherichia coli, Monika S. Buczek
Using Molecular Markers to Trace the Population History of Volant Organisms at Differing Temporal Scales, Noah A. Burg
The Labyrinth and the Cave: Archaic Forms in Art and Architecture of Europe, 1952–1972, Paula Burleigh
A Network Theoretical Approach to Real-World Problems: Application of the K-Core Algorithm to Various Systems, Kate Burleson-Lesser
The Exceptional Case of Plancia Magna: (Re)analyzing the Role of a Roman Benefactress, Barbara F. Caceres-Cerda
The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes
An Experimental Study of the Differences Between "Just" and "Only": NPI Licensing and Modal Scope, Taletha Callahan-Kanik
Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants, Lluvia Camacho Cervantes
Rationality and Efficient Verifiable Computation, Matteo Campanelli
Vowel Production in Down Syndrome: An Ultrasound Study, Micalle Carl
PARP PET Imaging Agents, Brandon Carney
Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll
The Geometry of Pragmatism, Kristi-Lynn Cassaro
The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English, Giacomo Castronovo Jr.
Optimization of CuInxGa1-xSe2 Solar Cells with Post Selenization, Zehra Cevher
The French Revolution in Early American Literature, 1789–1815: Translations, Interpretations, Refractions, Courtney Chatellier
Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities, Melanie D. Chin
Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners, Jiyoung Choi
The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency, Sooran Choi
Sociality and Stress in Female Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa: Behavioral Flexibility and Coping Mechanisms, Shahrina Chowdhury
The Social Construction of Protest: Print Media Coverage of the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Protests in New York City, Kirsten Christiansen
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Cioe Peña
Integration of BMP and Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling Regulates Multiple Homeostatic Functions in Caenorhabditis elegans, James F. Clark
The Inter-Subject Correlation of EEG in Response to Naturalistic Stimuli, Samantha S. Cohen
Noise Levels In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review, Esther Cohn
Toward a Science of Morals, Ross Taylor Colebrook
Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole, Alisha M. Collins
Forensic Analysis of Fiber Dyes via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mircea A. Comanescu
A Narrative Approach to Investigating the Contextual Nature of Adolescent Self-Regulation, Kelly Conover
The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography, Brendon E. Cook
The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895, Brendan Cooper
A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists’ Perception of Ethnic Identity Shifts in Immigrant Patients, Ricardo Corbetta
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Leadership Ineffectiveness: The Interactive Effects of Leader Personality, Job Demands, and Job Resources on Ethical Climate and Employee Turnover Intentions, Michelle D. Corman
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography, Melissa Coss Aquino
Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa
Culture Care Needs of Puerto Rican Women Receiving HIV Care from Nurse Practitioners in New York City, Michele Crespo-Fierro
Mahoma en dos textos aljamiados del siglo XVI: La filosofía perenne y el monomito de los moriscos, Emil L. Cruz Fernández
Strengths and Resiliencies of Black MSM in New York City Who Maintain HIV-Seronegativity, Jagadisa-devasri Dacus
Social Capital and Analyst Forecasts, Jing Dai
A Comparison of Quiz Grading Criteria, Exam Question Type and Novelty, and their Effects on Exam Scores, Samantha Dalfen
MicroRNA 1207-3P in Prostate Cancer, Dibash Das
Chile’s Decree-Law 1094: A Source of Immigrant Vulnerability, Joao M. Da Silva
Bias-Motivated Homicides: Toward a New Typology, Lindsey Sank Davis
A Contribution Toward a Global Monograph of Gyroporus: Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Biogeography, Naveed Davoodian
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Venezuela: Oil and Madness. Politics, Propaganda, and Realities of the Chavista Era, Alvaro E. de Prat
Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo
Baryons and Interactions in Magnetic Fields, Amol Deshmukh
Pregnancy Induced Alterations of Reproductive Tract Collagen and Elastin in a Murine Model, Basant K. Dhital
Essays on the Market Structure of the U.S. Health Care System, Ayse S. Diebel
Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon
Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, and the Afterlives of the Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature, Anahi A. Douglas
The Relationship Between Parenting and Child Trauma: An Intergenerational Investigation, Miriam A. Dreyer
Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury
The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic
Final Call: Rank-and-File Rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Under the Influence: Drinking and Immersion in New York City Theatre and Popular Entertainment, 1850 to Present, Chloë R. Edmonson
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin
Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg
Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg
Reading Comprehension Instruction for Young Students with High Functioning Autism: Forming Contextual Connections, Karen S. Engel
A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism, Cory A. Evans
The Color of Desire: Contradictions of Race, Sex, and Gay Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher B. Ewing
The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen
Determinants of the Acquisition and Display of Behaviors Associated with “Guilt” (Appeasement Behaviors) by Companion Dogs, Parvene Farhoody
Non-canonical Activation of CREB/crh-1 Mediates Neuroprotection in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Excitotoxic Necrosis, K. Genevieve Feldmann
The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Laura R Feola
Studying the Space of Almost Complex Structures on a Manifold Using de Rham Homotopy Theory, Bora Ferlengez
Ansiedades épico-criollas y el mecenazgo de Indias en el Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña, Andrea L. Fernandez
Resonant Texts: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, Paul Fess
Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, Chassitty N. Fiani
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn