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
Love and Power: Narrative Resistance in the Contemporary Literature and Film of the Americas, Tania Nicolaou
Toward More Intelligible Simultaneous Multi-channel Speech Enhancement and Recognition, Zhaoheng Ni
Freedom Dreams of Young Black Boys: A Qualitative Study Among Black Male Elementary School Learners, Lamar Ok
Stereotype Engineering, Ian Olasov
Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks, Cristina Onea
Essays on Educational Policies, Mehlika Ozsoy
Gendered Censorship: The (Un)successful Attempts to Silence Women's Bodies and Minds in "Closed" Communities, Devorah L. Paltiel
Characterizing Malaria Infections in Caribbean Lizards: Parasite Niche Expansion & Host Response, Sarah J. Pangburn
Examining Relatability, Alexia Papigiotis
The Spontaneous Flora of New York City; and Systematics of Larix (Pinaceae), Lydia T. Paradiso
How Argentina Won the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup: A Data Story, Aniruddha Parthasarathy
Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury, Vaidehi Hemkumar Patel
Treating “Endemic Neglect”: Race, Psychiatry, and Modjeska Simkins’s Fight for Medical Civil Rights at the South Carolina State Hospital (1910-1985), Bradford Charles Pelletier
Comparing Campaigns to End the Subminimum Wage with a Multiple Streams Approach, Chris Peraino
Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse, Jeremiah Perez-Torres
Excitons and Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Materials Heterostructures - Applications as Qubits, Time Crystals, and Superfluids, Gabriel Pimenta Martins
Exotic and Familiar: Constructing Martinique, 1763–1902, Remi D. Poindexter
Hope by a Thousand Cuts: Fashion Ethics from Cutting Fabric to Cutting a Fashion Film, Sarah G. Porterfield
“Earth Took of Earth”: Melancholy and Earth in Late Medieval English Literature, Emily A. Price
American Utopia: The Evolution of David Byrne’s Viewpoint of America from 1977 to Present, Morgan A. Prince
Elucidating the Roles of Eukaryotic Initiation Factors Involved in DAP5 Mediated Translation, Jacob NK Quartey
Mad at the System: The Mental Health Act UK: Power and Control of Racialized Women, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar
Potential Role of a Ruthenium-Based Compound Ru-IM in the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Rachele Rameau
Crafting Sovereignty: Race, Ancestral Memory, and Contemporary Art in Peru, 1970–1990, Horacio Ramos Cerna
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
Moving the Needle: The Policy of Change on Syringe Access, New York City and State, 1988–2023, Joyce Rivera
Wielding the Border: A Genealogy of U.S.-Mexico Bordering Practices and the Purposes They Serve, Nicholas J. Rodrigo
Collaborative Memory and Metamemory: The Impact of Normative and Informational Motivations on Conformity, Karen Rodriguez
Belonging Against the Odds: Exploring Restorative Justice Practices as Pathways to Foster Belonging in New York City Transfer Schools, Miguel Rodriguez
Cueing Motions in a String Quartet, An Exploratory Study of Motion Trajectories, Maren Rothfritz
Writing Architecture: Space and Structure in Edith Wharton, Yael Hameiri Sainsaux
Decades of Division: Analyzing Hate Crimes in the USA (1991–2022), Sangeeth Sajan Baby
The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, Golnaz Salehkarimi
Final Report: An Overview of the Communications Intern Position at WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), Hannah P. Salzer
Receptions of Mental Health Emergency Services in New York City, Daniel R. Samost
Digital Odyssey: Navigating Culture, Structure, and Agency in the Transformation of a Public University, Lisa Santa-Coloma
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
Counterinsurgency and Endogenous Statebuilding in Northwestern Pakistan, Sehar Sarah Sikander Shah
Overturning of Roe v. Wade as a Mega-Threat: Effects on Women’s Identity Fusion and Disidentification in the Workplace, Shivani Shah
From Sequence to Allostery: How Amino Acid Differences Rewire Coupled Conformational Heterogeneity in the PTP Enzyme Family, Shivani Sharma
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
Love Amid the Rage: Feminist Affect in Women's Life-Writing, Genesis Siverio
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
Illicit Blocks of Ethnic Enclaves: Asian Migrant Sex Work in the Ethnic Neighborhoods of New York City and Los Angeles, Brittany Y. Suh
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
Post-Authoritarian Agonism: Performing Agony and Citizenship in Contemporary Indonesia, Yoseph Joned Suryatmoko Ndaruhadi
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
Problems with Authority: The Political Theory of Neoconservative Political Science, Milo Ward
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
Interoceptive Forecasting and Recall: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity and Disgust Sensitivity, David Lloyd Yap
Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence, Chunyu Yuan
