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 2026
Race and the Enduring Logic of Exclusion in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1882–2025, Kejda Nikollaj
Revolutionary Petunias in the Hallways: Adultification, Identity, and Black Girls’ High School Experiences, Renee Niles
Too Fast, Too Slow: Girlhood, Temporality, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Film, Alessandra Occhiolini
Wageless by Design: Dependency in U.S. Visa Regimes, Cristina Ochoa Echeverri
Joy Beyond the World, Poignant as Grief: Fantasy as a Literature of Continuance, Natasha Ochshorn
Algorithmic Problems in Automorphic Orbits of Free Groups, Siobhan B. O'Connor
Urban Sacred Grove: A Visioning for Collective Care, Preservation, Environmental Justice, and Resilience, Oluwadara A. Ojugbele
Managing Multi-Channel Service Operations, Omer Berk Olmez
An Absolute Manner of Seeing: Flaubert, 1848, and the Development of Modernist Style, Nicholas Olson
Public Finance, Private Profit: The Contradictions of Public Resource Capture by Financialized Landlords in North America, Sophie O'Manique
Mapping Nucleosome Stability: Linking Oncogenic Structural Alterations to Long-Range Allosteric Communication, Augustine C. Onyema
"Who Am I? Who Are We? What Are We Going to Do About It?": Testimonios of Latinx Social Justice High School Alumni, William Salomon Orellana
Goddess in a Trash Can: Religious Ritual Disposal in New York City Public Parks, Zoe Oro-Hahn
On the Treatment of Animals: Animalier Art and Animal Welfare in France Between 1840 and 1890, Anna Orton Hatzis
The Maghrebi Silk Road: A Medieval Exploration, Malak Ouammou
New Age Spirituality in Post-Secular Turkey: Navigating Secular Sensibilities and Class Privilege, Zeynep Ozbarlas
Essays on Health and Immigration Policy, Selen Ozdogan
Exploring Police Decision-Making on COVID-19 Vaccination: A Moral Panic Framework Analysis of Two Pivotal Points of the Pandemic, Jill Paccione Frometa
The Perceptual Gap: How Voters See the Ideological World, Javier Padilla
Sugar-Induced Cell Death Is a Common Phenomenon in Yeast Mediated by the Production of Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Compounds, Raveena Parbhudayal
Tejiendo Conocimientos: Pláticas, Testimonios, and the Pedagogies of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Teachers in New York City, Veronica I. Paredes
The Soviet New Wave: A Comparative Analysis, Katarina Parks
Characterization and Advancement of Molluscan Venom Gland Cell Model Systems, James V. Parziale
Computational Insights into Nucleosome Dynamics in Epigenetics Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Rutika Patel
The Impact of Multi-Brand Promotions on Visual Distinctiveness and Consumer Choice, Melanie Isabel Paul Austin
Somatosensory Cortex Responses to Illusory Touch in a Visual-Tactile Integration Task, Aditi Surendra Pawar
G&P2P: A Multi-Source Approach to Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion, Chun-Yi Peng
Undoing Ableism: The Dramaturgy of Relaxed Performance and the Making of Neurodivergent Bodies, Hui Peng
Sleep Deprivation Changes Social Behavior in African Cichlid Fish (Astatotilapia burtoni), Bryan M. Perez Valverde
A Simulation to Compare Models for a Longitudinal Ordinal Response with a Multilevel Cross-Classified Data Structure, Rachel S. Perlin
Good Mothers: Black Disabled Mothers & The Family Policing System, Siobhan Pokorney
Assessing the Community Impact of Two Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City, Katheryne Pugliese
Pigeons, Satellites and Angels: Industrial Agriculture, Digital Technologies, and Financial Investments in Brazil, Ana Flavia Pulsini Louzada Badue
Imagination and the Self: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Study, Qianyi Qin
The Savage Constitution, Nandini Ramachandran
Supramolecular Assembly in Short Peptide Systems for Selective Metabolite Recognition and Drug Nanoencapsulation, Maithreyi Ramakrishnan
Identifying Textual Predictors of Early Termination in Clinical Trials in Medicine: An Explainable Machine-Learning Study, Rohan Ramnarain
Courts of New York: A Visual Atlas of the City’s Public Basketball Spaces, Nathaniel Rattner
Considering Numerical Relativity for Upgrades in McFACTS Merger Dynamics, Shawn K. Ray
Gramsci’s ‘Democratic Philosopher’ and the Concept’s Foundations in Marxian Social Ontology, Eli Recht-Appel
Vestigial Choreographies: Climate Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, Alexandra A. Rego
Engineering Wave Phenomena in Hyperbolic Materials, Enrico Maria Renzi
New York State Excelsior Scholarship Program: A Post-Implementation Analysis of Student Success, Eligibility, and Indebtedness – An Intersectional Study of Black and White Female Students, Marcus I. Richardson
A Critical Lens on Emotions and Learning: Shame, Loneliness, and Alienation in Community College, Mike Rifino
The First Five: Reimagining Early Puerto Rican Women Novelists, Adrianna Rios
The Digital Divide in Political Redistricting: AI's Impact on Minority Representation, Jaime Rodriguez
Semi-Peripheral Whiteness in a Global City: Central and Eastern European Women in Dubai, Hana Rubenstein
A Molecular Framework for Multiexciton Photochemistry: One- and Two-Electron Transfer in Singlet Fission Chromophores, Bernardo Arturo Salcido Santacruz
Cognitive Consequences of Job Discrimination: An Investigation of Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Disparities in Neuropsychological Test Performance, Shana S. Samuel
Migrant Justice through Collective Liberation: Contemporary Intersectional Theorizing, Organizing, and Dreaming, Sonia A. Sanchez Carmen
Erosion and Accretion: Mobilities of Sand, People, and Memory at Queer Riis Beach, Jah Elyse Sayers
Trans-cyber Cinema: Digital Embodiment in Science-fiction Films, Sophia R. Schrock
Radiotheranostics for Gynecological Pathologies, Joni Sebastiano
Temporal Integration in Music and Aesthetic Judgments: Assessing Musical Taste Through a Transformer-Based Approach, Sophia M. Senderak
Kanak-Ish Misfits: Queer Imaginaries, Racialized Borders, and the Politics of Care in Berlin, Germany, Faruk Seref
Dynamic Structure of Vinculin and Talin in Cell-Cell Adhesion and Cell-Matrix Adhesion, Bright Chen Hao Shi
The Other Sodomites: A History of Racial Queerness, Paris Shih
A Comparison of Manufacturers’ Claims of Attenuation Rates in Non-Custom Earplugs, Skyler M. Shipley
Monosaccharide Binding to Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptor Microarrays, Milan A. Shlain
Diverse Sensory Mechanisms in Bacterial PAS-Containing One-Component Systems, James J. Siclari
Now or Nowhere: Apocalypse from Below and the Invention of Utopia in Early Modern Political Thought, O. L. Silverman
Open to the Public(s): Privatized Public Space, Technology, and Aspirational Wealth at Hudson Yards, Troy Simpson
The Radical Political Possibilities of Asexuality and Aromanticism, Kirty Singh
The New York City Fields of Calcio Libero: Where Protagonists Activate Counter-Hegemony, Olivia Soderini
Unfreezing Language: A Decolonial Reframing of Translanguaging Pedagogies in English as a New Language & Dual Language Bilingual Education Settings, Cristian R. Solorza
Precarious Status, Essential Work: Migrant Labor, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Regularization in Covid Quebec, Jessie Lauren Stein
Identifying Helium Emission-Line Stars with the Condor Array Telescope, Julia Stewart
Productive Information Calls, Mengtian Sui
Beyond Spectacle: The Children’s Protection Society and the Politics of Childcare in Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945), Melis Sulos Akyelli
Essays in Corporate Finance and Mortgage Finance, Rui Sun
Model-Theoretic Arguments in Philosophy, Peter Susanszky
The Impact of Gun Control Policies on Firearm-Related Deaths: A Two Decade State-by-Year Analysis, Rabana Tajrin
Shielding the State, Shaking the Regime: Military Alliances, Domestic Deterrence, and Internal Conflict, Leo Tamamizu
Role of Long-Range Interactions in Structure and Dynamics of Carbohydrates, Beicer Catalina Tapia Amaya
Knowing Through Making: Weaving a Pedagogy of Love, Embodiment, and Freedom Through Arts-Based Research, Mariatere Tapias
Recognition at Work: How Managerial Acknowledgment Shapes Team-Level Outcomes, Annalissa Thomas
Building on Rented Land: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women’s Digital Homeplace-Building on TikTok, Monica Thompson
Aging Drives Selective Vulnerability of Dopamine–Glutamate Projections to the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Weakening Dopamine Release and Novelty Discrimination, Jacquelyn N. Tomaio
Socialism on Display: State-Sponsored Exhibitions of Art and Visual Culture in Stalinist Poland, 1945–1956, Patryk P. Tomaszewski
Reexamining the Croton Aqueduct: A Ward-Level Microhistorical Analysis of Infrastructure and Cholera Mortality in 1849 New York City, Alexandria R. Toothman
Narrative Disorders: 'Poetics of Unreason' and the Limits of the War Story in Lebanese Postwar Fiction, Melissa Trujillo
Museomics, Systematics, and Environmental Detection of Odonata, Rhema C. Uche Dike
Behavioral Cues, Acoustic Cues, and Working Memory in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) During a Behavioral Innovation Task, Raymond John Van Steyn
Exploring the Effect of Babble Background Noise on Learning New Patterns in an Artificial Accent of English in Monolingual and Bilingual Young Adults, Mariana Vasilita
Figures of the Jeune Fille in Postwar French Cinema: Libertine Ingenues, Lolitas, and Creatures from Caroline Chérie to Monika, Nina Verneret
The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds, Dhipinder Walia
Local Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Enzymatic Activity Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Function in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Aria R. Walls
Calculated Risks: The Power of Predictive Risk Models to Regulate Families of Color, Ashleigh Washington
Real Language: Cybernetics and Transatlantic Romanticism, Stuart H. Watson Jr
A Hot Topic: Congressional Polarization and Climate Change, Mercedes R.P. Wilby
From Beneath the Press: On Black Feminist Archival Belonging and Permanence, Explored Through the Brixton Black Women’s Group, Maya Williams
No Reply: The Exclusus Amator Through Ancient and Modern Love Poetry, Ayla Wing
Protein Allostery Probed by Ligands Across Sites, Virgil A. Woods
Financial Disclosure Scriptability and Price Laziness, Wen Xie
