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 2024
Identification of Mandibular and Maxillary Molars of Old World Monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics, Eric John Mazelis
Best Practices for Healthcare Providers When Communicating with Individuals with Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review, Ashley McCaig
Social Workers Working with Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: The Influence of Trauma Work on the Social Worker’s Intimate Relationships, Claire T. McCue
Making and Unmaking Multiethnic Black Neighborhoods: Immigration, Race, and Gentrification in New York and Paris, Maura McGee
Making Sense of Making Parole in New York, Alexandra McGlinchy
Consciousness and Physicalism, Brian McGowan
Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976, Douglas A. Medina
Toward Otherworlding the Teaching-Learning of Psychology With Community College Students, Francisco Medina
Flanker Task Performance in Young and Older Adults: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Fatima Medrano
Applying an Intersectional and Multi-Systemic Level Approach to ADEI Institutional Assessments in Social Work Higher Education, Diana A. Melendez
Integration of Field- and Space-Based Observations Toward Assessing Drivers of Biogeochemical Variability Across Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems, Alana B. Menendez
Higher Diffeology Theory, Emilio Minichiello
Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left, Lydia Mokdessi
Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought, Pedro Monque
Defying Normativity: Reclaiming a Narrative of Queer Resistance in Young Adult Literature, Christopher Morabito
Me and Mathematics: “Doing What You’re Talking About”: In Dialogue with My Family, Eden Morris
Failure to Mourn: Challenges to the Work of Mourning in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature, Mattia Mossali
The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Lauren Moton
Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza
"A Spirit of Disobedience": Black Women Freedom Runners and the Collective Practice of Abolition, Delice Mugabo
‘Coca Mestiza’: Small Farmers, Multiculturalism, and the War on Drugs in Colombia, Miryam Nacimento
Explicit Composition Identities for Higher Composition Laws in the Quadratic Case, Ajith A. Nair
“As Blind Men Learn the Sun”: Towards a Poetics of Queer Mysticism in American Literature, 1860-1960, Bradley M. Nelson
The Role of Glutamate in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Acquistion and Expression of Conditioned Approach, Rudolf Nisanov
Contemporary World-Novels and their Collective Protagonists, Leonardo Nolé
Modeling and Dynamics of Capillary Bridges, Moyosore Odunsi
Working on Stage: Spectacularization of Labor in Contemporary US Theatre, Hansol Oh
Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment, John P. Orellana
Park Use, Urban Environmental Justice, and Place Attachment in Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City, Javier Eduardo Otero Peña
Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
Border Confinement and Assistance Markets in Tijuana: Mexican Deportees’ Experiences of Labor and Violence Between Mexico and the United States, Christian Pacheco-Gómez
Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey, Zachary Paganini
Parabolic and Non-Parabolic Surfaces with Small or Large End Spaces via Fenchel-Nielsen Parameters, Michael Antony Pandazis
“After being equals, is this the sequel?”: Vivian Fine’s Memoirs of Uliana Rooney as Artistic Commentary on Shifting Reactions to American Women’s Music, Tonia L. Passwater
Uncovering the Mimicry of Online Review Breadth and Depth and its Subsequent Effect on Consumer Responses, Andrea Pelaez Martinez
Essays on Monopoly Power in Housing Rental Markets, Goncalo Filipe Pessa Figueiredo Costa
Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive, Majel Peters
Teacher Perceptions of Restorative Justice Practices in New York City Schools, Brian Pew
Is Aggression In The Eye Of The Beholder?: An Eye-Tracking Study, Kemar P. Pickering
Values in Evidence-Based Policy: Bridging Socio-Political, Moral, and Epistemic Domains, Karyna Pryiomka
Trees in Urban Environments: How Soil Quality Impacts Tree Performance, Saidan Qi
Representaciones ideológicas de la lengua, la conversación y la comunicación en manuales de urbanidad del siglo XIX en México: guías para la civilización, el orden y el progreso nacional, Luis B. Quesada Nieto
Chipping the Blue Wall: The Effect of Dogs on Police Officer Receptivity to an Employee Assistance Program, Kenneth M. Quick
No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico, Carmín Quijano Seda
Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography and Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata
Using Leaf Spectra to Elucidate the Taxonomy and Ecology of Living and Dried Plants, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde
Essays on Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance, Helia Rabie
Uses of the Intuition: The Role of Intuition in Birth Work (Towards An Intuitive Epistemology), Kayla R. Reece
Framing the Fight: Revolutionary Feelings in Virtual Communities, James Reilly
Aspects of Parity Breaking in Classical and Quantum Fluids, Dylan J. Reynolds
Understanding Tax Progressivity as a Mechanism of Gender Difference in Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income, Morgan A. Richards-Melamdir
Limit Theorems for L-functions in Analytic Number Theory, Asher Roberts
From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan
Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Critical-Race Teacher Change Agents Are Challenging Whiteness in Elementary Schools, David R. Rosas
Love in the Time of Dating Apps: Exploring Latino Young Adults’ Experiences Constructing Online Identity, Partner Preferences, and Plans for Happily Ever After, Dakota Z. Ross-Cabrera
Time Ripens on the Counter: A Literary History of the Americas, Judah Rubin
Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan
A Causal Inference Approach for Spike Train Interactions, Zach Saccomano
Studies of Oxidopyrylium Ylide Dimers and Their Utility in the Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Troponoids, Daniel V. Schiavone
From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff
Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents, Jacqueline M. Scott
Family Fragments: Pressure and Proximity in First-Episode Psychosis, Cassandra B. Seltman
Biomolecular Crystals as Functional Materials, Fahmeed Khan Sheehan
Evaluating the Reliability and Accuracy of Alchemical Binding Free Energy Methods and Calculations, Fnu Sheenam
Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature, Beth Sherman
Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre, Dohyun Shin
Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo
Strike a Pose: Performing Gestures of Female Madness Across Media Circa 1900, Elyse S. Singer
Essays on Cryptocurrency Assets, Minwoo Song
Regulation of the Intracellular Trafficking of Ajuba by Cell Density and Cell Cycle-Dependent Mechanisms, Huanhuan Sun
Speeding Up Coded Distributed Machine Learning, Xian Su
Metric Schemas and Projections in Three Colombian Folk Genres, Lina S. Tabak
Systematics and Comparative Genomics of the Petaluridae (Odonata: Anisoptera), Ethan R. Tolman
God, Fatherland, Family: Integralismo and the Making of the Far-Right in Twentieth Century Brazil, Daniela M. Traldi
Prosodic Marking of Focus in Autistic and Neurotypical Adults, Nishtha N. Trivedi
Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined, Christina Trupiano
Development and Application of Magnus Expansion based Propagators for Problems in Spectroscopy and Quantum Dynamics, Taner M. Ture
Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay, Alexandra Tydings
Deep Learning-Based Human Action Understanding in Videos, Elahe Vahdani
The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education, Jessica Velez Tello
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Altruistic Imperialism: The Co-optation of Mutual Aid by the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, Kelly T. Waltz
Context in Computer Vision: A Taxonomy, Multi-stage Integration, and a General Framework, Xuan Wang
Employment Outcomes in Higher Education, Yunxia Wei
Neurochemical Signaling of Reward-Based Learning in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons, Kyla F. Wholley
Framing Teacher Migration: An Analysis of Jamaican Media Coverage from 2016–2023, Denise Wiley
Normative Orientations to Housing Activism and the Uneven Path to Nonprofitization in New York City, 1964–1989, Andrew Wilkes
The Black MAP Project: A Black People’s Epistemology of Healing, Britton Williams
Black Women and Social Movements: A Narrative Analysis, Nantasha Williams
Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Population Social Vulnerability and Risk: A Spatial Analysis Based on the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) of India, Paradorn Wongchanapai
Empirical Essays on Corporate Financing Behaviors, Joonsung Won
Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021, Olivia Wood
How Do We Learn What We Cannot Say?, Daniel Yakubov
Empirical Essays on Retail Investors, Institutional Investors, and Anomalies, Yuqing Yang
Spain's Vision of Empire through Conquest, Ideology, and Law in the Sixteenth Century, Penelope Yau-Wen
We Cannot Labor Our Way Out of Oppression: An Exploratory Study of Wealth Through Black Women’s Lived Experience, Tiffany N. Younger
New Algorithmic Support for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Vitaly Zaderman