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 library barcode 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 top-level Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Efficient Private Information Retrieval, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
Topological Insulating States in Photonics and Acoustics, Xiang Ni
Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton
The Right to Run: Decoding Sexism Against Women Politicians and Fighting for a New Paradigm for Intersectional Left Feminists, Charlene A. Obernauer
Existentialmd.com: Building Towards an Embodied Internet Aesthetic, Natasha Ochshorn
Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States and Nepal: A Comparative Study, Abin Ojha
Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
A Politics of Boundlessness, Fernando Orellana
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements, Jason W. Ostrowe
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, Sofia Oviedo
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
Getting at the Surface: A Promoter and Coding Sequence Characterization of an Odorant Receptor, Irena G. Parvanova
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take X-4, Barbara T. Paulus
Changing the Narrative: Building a Conceptual Framework for Advocating Representation in History Textbooks, Valerie Paul
Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric and Multiferroic Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxide Materials and Nanocomposites, Frederick A. Pearsall
Transfigurations of the News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Cancer Killing Effect of Interleukin-24, Leah Eshanie Persaud
Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities, Francesca Petronio
Development, Expertise, and Infrastructure between the Ohio River and Cincinnati Riverfront, 1895-Present, Raymond W. Pettit
The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s, Audrey Phillips
Ray Johnson: Collage as Networked "Correspondance", Gillian Pistell
Radical Solace and Young Adult Writing: Racialized Dis/ability, Fan Fiction, and Feel(ing)s in Composition, Jenn Polish
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
The Woman We Don’t Want to Be: The Anti-Heroine in American Women’s Modernisms, Madison Priest
Control of Light-Matter Interactions via Nanostructured Photonic Materials, Nicholas Proscia
How We Act Together, Matthew Rachar
Identification and Characterization of Barrier Insulator Activity in the T-Cell Receptor alpha Locus Control Region, Gayathri Devi Raghupathy
Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West, Berglind H. Ragnarsdóttir
Analyzing Prosody with Legendre Polynomial Coefficients, Rachel Rakov
Preparation of Enantioenriched Alkyltin Species and their Application in Stereospecific Transformations, Glenn O. Ralph
The Iconography of the Gold and Silver Coinage of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, Nisha N. Ramracha
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping in Computer Aided Drug Design, Steven Ramsey
Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States, Shirley Reid
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder
Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco
Black Amerinquen, Kayla Marie Rodriguez
Una enunciación intersticial: la poética del destierro de Carlos de Rokha, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1928–1933, Lauren Rosati
Caring for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Melanie Rosenthal
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and U.S. Musical Theatre, Phoebe Rumsey
Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Roy Adaptation Modes Scale (RAMS) to Measure Coping and Adaptation, Sandra A. Russo
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen
Mindfulness in Medicine: Modified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program among Future Doctors, Virtue Sankoh
Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed
The Practice of Mainland Chinese Students Adopting English Names and Its Motivations, T. Leo Schmitt
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Swedish Migration Politics: Have the Sweden Democrats Taken Over the Political Agenda?, Sofia Sedergren
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Corinne Ann Settecase-Wu
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
The Implementation Fidelity of the Family Finding Intervention through the Lens of Permanency Specialists, Liat L. Shklarski
Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle, Oren Shmuel
Analysis of a Group of Automorphisms of a Free Group as a Platform for Conjugacy-Based Group Cryptography, Pavel Shostak
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
The Untapped Potential of Ethnic Community Networks: Urban Resiliency and the Chinese Commuter Van System in New York City, Alexandra Diane Smith
Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers
Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
The Counseling Advantages of Rechargeable Hearing Aid Batteries, Belinda M. Sun
On the Complexity of Computing Galois Groups of Differential Equations, Mengxiao Sun
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979–Present, Jennifer J. Thompson
“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson
A Differential Algebra Approach to Commuting Polynomial Vector Fields and to Parameter Identifiability in ODE Models, Peter Thompson
Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
Essays on Bank Acquisitions and Systemic Risk, Farindokht Vaghefi
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
Estudio Variacionista sobre las Formas de Tratamiento en Buga, Colombia, Diego Vargas Barona
Screening for Hearing Loss: Physician Attitudes and Practice, Theresa N. Vitale
American Sign-Language (ASL) for Audiologists, Colette Vossler-Welch
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition between al Qaeda and ISIS, Hristo Voynov
The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland
Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen
Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker
A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry, Justin H. Walsh
Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993, Amanda S. Wasielewski
School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb
Implications of Vestibular Dysfunction Among the Aging Population: A Pocket Guide for Health Care Professionals, Maia L. Weisenfeld
Frontiers of Conditional Logic, Yale Weiss
Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein