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 2023
The Queer Life of Lorena Hickok, Samantha D. Leyerle
From Prostitution to Sex Trafficking: Dilemmas of Victim Service Workers Helping Chinese Immigrant Women at the Courts, Yen-Chiao Liao
Essays on Tax Impacts on Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Regional Disparity, Mei Li
Essays on Structural Transformation and Inequality, Yaoqi Lin
Audiological Management of Children with Down Syndrome: A Toolkit for Caregivers, Natalie Lisiewicz
A Race-Police Regime: NYPD Technology and Urban Governance in New York City, Elliott Liu
Evaluation of Symmetric Functions and Boolean Functions over Stochastic Input, Naifeng Liu
Structural Identification of Pair Trades, Yi Liu
Fantasmas compartidos: Posmemoria, herencia y reescritura de la Guerra Civil española en México y España, Mayte Lopez Sanchez
Understanding Victim-Offender Overlap Among Youth in Custody in the United States and Taiwan, Tzu-Ying Lo
Variations in Family Child Care: Providers' Experiences Crafting Spaces In-Between School and Home, Eleanor Luken
Structural Anomaly Detection, Shoufu Luo
Leveraging Bio-Inspired Molecules for Cancer Theranostics, Douglas S. MacPherson
Haunted Homelands: Mary Hunter Austin's Search For Belonging in California's Central Valley, Aimee M. Maddalena
Birthing, Nursing, and Grieving: An Anthropological Archaeology of Healing Shrines in North Lebanon, Sarah Mady
Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”, Laura Malhotra
Environmental Drivers of Dispersal in Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), Amanda Mancini
Engineered PLGA Nanofibers for Drug Delivery, Andrew Mancuso
Misogyny in Contemporary Populist Authoritarianism, Maxine Mannheim
Optimized Peptide Nanomaterials as Delivery Vehicles for Hydrophobic Metal-Based Anticancer Agents, Yaron Marciano
Urban Space, Genre and Subjectivity in African and Latin American Cinema, Matthew Marcus
Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception, Matthew Martin
Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence, Kurt M. Masiello
Evaluating Neural Networks as Cognitive Models for Learning Quasi-regularities in Language, Xiaomeng Ma
How Do Authoritarian Regimes Win Re-Election During an Economic Recession?, Mst Sarmin Akter Mazumder
The Lived Experience of Using Opiates Among Young Adults, Catherine Mbewe
Using Bayesian Generalized Structural Equation Modeling to Analyze Latent Agreement, Sydne T. McCluskey
"How" as a Signal of an Invariant Meaning, Andrew S. McCormick
Brainwaves, Memory, and Reward, Rebecca McCune
Characterization of Pathological Tau Mutants, Charles J. McDonald
Mediated Locality: Assembling the Independent Music Scene in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Meegan
Leveraging Local Perturbations to Map Allosteric Networks of Phosphatases, Tamar (Skaist) Mehlman
Late Talkers: Maternal Input and Attention Allocation in Mother–Child Dyad Play, Toby B. Mehl
The Nawat Language Revitalization in El Salvador and How Its Digital Activism Transcends Borders, Sergio J. Mendoza Gallardo
Transnational Ritual Poetics of Blackness in Performance, Nina A. Mercer
White Supremacist Print Culture and the Creation of White Working-Class Ideology in 1860s New York City, Anna Meyer
Illness Intrusiveness and Psychosocial Adjustment Among Older Adults with Multimorbidity, Irina Mindlis
Electrophysiological Signatures of Stress Adaptability in the BNST-VTA Pathway, Yuka Miura
A Digital Toolkit for Teachers About Artificial Intelligence, Benjamin Moerch
Dynamics of Spin and Charge of Color Centers in Diamond under Cryogenic Conditions, Richard G. Monge
Soundness and Completeness Results for the Logic of Evidence Aggregation and its Probability Semantics, Eoin Moore
From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers on the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat, and Politics, Kevin Morris
Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian
Examining Metacognitive Access to Low-Level Ensemble Representations, Vladimir Mudragel
Only for the Pleasure of Telling: Filling the Void in Pasolini's Trilogia della vita, Courtney Munson
Artists, Activists, and Therapists Making Meaning of Collective Violence in Lebanon: A Community-Engaged Participatory Research Study, Nawal Muradwij
Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy
Extreme E-Service Learning: Remote Learning for Undergraduate Students and Telehealth Intervention for Children with Autism, Madiha S. Muzammal
Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in the Dorsolateral Striatum Following a High Fat Diet, Tikva Nabatian
Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815, Cody E. Nager
Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam
Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction, Emma Navarro
A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease: Sex-Dependent Mechanisms Altered by the HDAC Inhibitor RG2833 in a Transgenic Rat Model, Kelechi Ndukwe
A Field of Relations: A Mixed Analysis of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” with Voyant, a Text Analysis Tool, Asma A. Neblett
English Learners In NYC, Raquel Neris
Cost-Effective and Performance-Preserving Secured Application Management in Cloud Environments, Minh Nguyen
Creative Figures: Portraiture and the Making of the Modern American Artist, 1918-1930, Sasha Nicholas
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668, Nathan D. Nikolic
Speakers and Addressees as Creative Interpreters, Svitlana Novikova
Marriage Stories: Legal Reform and the Novel in France and Britain, 1780–1860, Tatiana Nunez-Bright
Sit Less, Move More: A National Study of Physical-Activity Behavior and Cancer, Stella O. Nwogugu
Essays on Entrepreneurship, Yoshiko Oka
Barriers to Optimal Audiological Care for Members of the Deaf Community, Joyce Orenshein
A Consecutive Case Series Evaluation of Tummy Time With and Without Preferred Items, Rika Ortega
Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face, Gregory Kent Oswald
The Neural Correlates of Bodily Self-Consciousness in Virtual Worlds, Evan A. Owens
Wild Women of Anatolia: The Critical Construct Validity of the Liberation of Women in Turkey, Sedef Ozoguz
The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982, Sergio G. Palencia Frener
Never-Ending Parenting: Challenges Experienced by Caregivers of Adults with Severe Autism, Andrea Palerino
Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine, Julia Panter
Frontier Precarities: Inequality and Exclusion in Tech, Spiros M. Papadantonakis
Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Francesca Paradiso
Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Hollow Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Aloka S. Paragoda Arachchilage
Sustainable to the Core: Essays on Strategy and Sustainability, Junghoon Park
The Impact of Political Affiliation on Performance Judgements, Kajal Patel
MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media, Patricia K. Paul
doc/u/ment: Affinities in 20th and 21st-Century Documental Poetics, Katherine Payne
Feminismos del exilio: devenir mass media y militancia de las escritoras republicanas en Buenos Aires (1938–1963), Lorena Paz Lopez
The Possibilities and Limitations of Parent Organizations to Advance Equity, Nildania Perez
The Numbers Don’t Lie: A Quantitative Examination of Trauma Outcomes Among Black Homeless Women, Lisa Marie Persad
David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History, Nicholas K. Petaludis
Reflections on the Digital Memory of Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Vinh T. Pham
The Development of Novel Radioscandium and Hydroxypyridinonate Based Radiopharmaceuticals, Michael Phipps
Expanding the Role of the Temporal Dimension in Ecological Niche Models: A Study on Mexican Montane Small Mammals, Gonzalo E. Pinilla Buitrago
Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives, Karen C. Pitt
Design and Applications of Fmoc-Histidine and Aspartic Acid Tripeptides as Proton Conductive Materials, Shejla S. Pollozi
Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Johan Svensson, John Popham
Three Essays on Substructural Approaches to Semantic Paradoxes, Brian C. Porter
Dynamics in Designed Elastins and Enzymes, Jonathan M. Preston
Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano
Drug Repurposing Using Gene Expression Data Mining, Yue Qiu
A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho
Beyond Punishment: A Critical and Interpretive Phenomenology of Accountability, Cameron Rasmussen