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 2025
Essays in Public Economics, Zachary Santamaria
Unpacking the Orders, Leonard J. Santos
The Evolution of the Electrical Market: A Texas Journey, David A. Sastre Perez
Reproductive Nation: Cold War Fantasies and German Unification, Yanara Schmacks
Freedom Pedagogy: Black Educators in the Urban North During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Milagros Seraus-Roache
Overturning of Roe v. Wade as a Mega-Threat: Effects on Women’s Identity Fusion and Disidentification in the Workplace, Shivani Shah
Speculative Networks: From Political Protest to the Neoliberal Market in Feminist Video Art in the US, 1970-85, Helena Shaskevich
Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Understanding the Experiences of Black Males in CUNY’s NYC Men Teach, Fatima Sherif
Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation, Destry Sibley
Audiologic Management of Individuals with Advanced Cochlear Otosclerosis: A Systematic Review, Sophie Silvermintz
The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Play Behavior of Juvenile Rats, Rebecca S. Smart
"The Flesh of the Facts": Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness, Carli Snyder
With Other Men: Love, Narrative, and Belonging Among Same-Sex Attracted Men in New Orleans, Davine A. Sorapuru-Mitchell
Path Dependency and the Politics of U.S. Health Reform, Sophia Spadafore
Black Incarcerated Veterans and VA Service Access, Kimona S. Spencer
The Long Arm of the Law: The Far-Reaching Effects of the Carceral State on Families, Madison Squiers
Nonlinear Physics of Parity-Broken Fluids, Sudheesh Srivastava
Quantifying Educational Impacts Under the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Era, Matthew T. Stanton
Quantifying the Individual Bilingual Experience Through a Lens of Language Dominance, LeeAnn Stover
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
The Work of Morning: Administrative Ecologies & Institutional Poetics, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Perspectives of Play Advocates on Children’s Unstructured Play in Turkey, Bengi Sullu
The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After the Khmer Rouge, Sokunthary Svay
The Alphaproteobacterial General Stress Response: Investigating Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Regulatory Mechanisms, Danielle Swingle
Visualizing the Rise of American Women's Soccer, Hoi Wah Tang
Essays on the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks, Rubaiyat Tasnim
Inherited Wounds: Generational Trauma in Postcolonial Film and Narrative Fiction of the Global South, Sabrina Testi Melgarejo
Decoding the Plant Metabolome: A Metabolomics Approach to Guereza (Colobus guereza) Feeding Ecology in Kibale National Park, Uganda, Emma Grace Thurau
Guardians of the Iranian Revolution: Clerical Authority, Bonyads, and the IRGC in Iran's Economic Landscape, Chase M. Toscano
The Invisible Hand of Networked Repression, Thuy Anh Tran
Differential Mechanisms of Access in Working Memory: Comparing Global and Selective Retrieval, Jade M. Turbides
Lishmah: An Exploration of Syntactic Ambiguity and Biblical Exegesis Through the Jewish Calendar Year, Shani Tzoref
Improving Low-Resource Translation with Finite State Grammars, Nicholas J. Uva
The Ethnobotany and Pharmacology of Medicinal Plants for Caribbean Women’s Health, Ella Thomas Vardeman
Environmental Enrichment Reduces Cue-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin-Seeking Following Prolonged Use and Reverses Region-Specific Heroin-Induced Neuroadaptations, Apoorva Vashisht
The U.S. Grand Strategy Toward the Pacific Islands, Angela Vasovic
The Last Stand of Angraecum: Biogeographic and Evolutionary History of Darwin's Muses, Simon Verlynde
My Wings Are Not Broken: Black Males, Carcerality, and Education, Crystal M. Welch-Scott
No Place Like Home: Dyke Dramas and/as Queer Feminist Worldmaking, Janet Werther
The Role of Secondary and Tertiary Structure in the Cap-Independent Translation of FGF-9 and HIF-1-alpha, Amanda Michelle Whittaker
3BB: Loss and Remembrance in the Anthropocene, Amanda J. Woolsey
The Role of Confined Hydration and Water Reorganization in Molecular Binding, Joe Z. Wu
Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading Yoshino ki, Miaoling Xue
Beyond the Sum: A Network Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Behavioral Outcomes in Justice-Involved Youth, Jennifer Yang
Expression and Transcriptional Regulation of APL-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans APP Ortholog, Ji-Sup Yang
Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence, Chunyu Yuan
Streaming Instabilities in Class 0/I Disks, Shirin Gul Zaidi
Nurturing the Student Voice and Its Creative Power in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Research With Students on Emotion, Imagination, and Understanding., Luis Adolfo Zambrano
“We” Listen to Algorithms: How Cultural Identity Influences Acceptance of Algorithmic Recommendations, Yuanyuan Zhang
The Effects of Irrelevant Parameters in Language Acquisition, Yukun Zhang
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Essays on Empirical Economics, Dorian Abreu
The Effects of Environmental Changes on the Biodiversity and Macroecological Patterns of Bird Assemblages in the United States, Marlen Acosta Alamo
la VIDA: Towards a Motivated Goal Reasoning Agent, Ursula Addison
What Exactly Does Identity Have to do with Teaching? Exploring the Connection Between a Teacher's Racialized Identity and their Teacher Identity, Lizette Aguilar
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics: Assessing Recreational Marijuana Laws, Dragos Ailoae
Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases, Zainab T. Akande
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Ege Aksu
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Challenges in Arabic Speech Recognition, Enas Albasiri
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos
A Praxis of Radical Collectivity: Centering Justice and the Poetics of Racialized Progressive Leadership, Alisa Algava
Analysis of Victim/Villain Narratives Presented Under Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Frameworks: The Kosovo Case, Kristi Allaj
Seeing Safety in Red: Expressions of Interpersonal Gratitude Affects Conservatives’ Political Attitudes in the United States, Kyle M. Anderson
Bad Becomings: Autobiographical Writing, Queer/Trans Theory, Melancholia, Jacob Elias Aplaca
Teaching in the “Home Language” Is not Enough: Navigating Spanish Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Dual Language Bilingual Program, Gladys Yacely Aponte
Synthesis And Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) and Suzuki Polycondensation (SPC), Hamid Ardolic Jr.
Evolution of the Extant and Fossil Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae), Julia L. Arenson
Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Vanadium Doped Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), Qudsia Ashraf
Development of the Hearing Emotion/Activity Restrictions on Teenagers (Heart), Robin G. Axelrod
Trends and Predictors of Internet Use for Health-Related Purposes Among Adults in the United States of America, Paul Ayamah
Recognizing Elder Abuse in Mongolia: Experiences of Family Physicians, Ariunsanaa Bagaajav
Studying Lake Surface Temperature Variabilities at Regional and Global Scales Using Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations, Abdou Rachid Bah
Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease, Dhaneesha R. Bahadur
Original vs. Simplified Miranda Rights: The Impact on Miranda Rights Comprehension and Subsequent Waiver Decisions, Sydney Baker
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study, Whitney Barnett-Rhodes
Mind Your Business or Be Your Brother's Keeper? Managing Vulnerability in the New York City Subway, Maria Barrera-Vilert
Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist
Counter-Archives in Digital Spaces, Patricia Belen
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Fragmentation and Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England, Israel Ben-Porat
Establishing a Murine Model of Malaria-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Demonstrating the Contribution of Extrinsic Apoptosis to Tubular Necrosis, Johanna Bensalel-Lyampe
Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha
Active Galactic Nuclei - The Arrhythmic Beat of a Galactic Heart, Henry James Best V
The Redemption of History: Poetics and Politics in the Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino
Integrating In Vitro and In Silico Approaches to Gain Insight into the Mechanism of Amyloid Fibrillogenesis, Marvin M. Bilog
