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 2020
Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Increase Individuals’ Intentions to Engage in Intergroup Dialogue?, Noelle A. Malvar
The Making of a Queer Caribbean: Grassroots, Dancehall, and Literary Advocacy (1975–2015), Dadland Maye
Cochlear Implantation: Why vs. Why Not? A Pocket Guide for Non-Cochlear Implant Audiologists, Lauren McCauley
“Prepare for Death and Follow Me:” An Archaeological Survey of the Historic Period Cemeteries of New York City, Elizabeth D. Meade
The Truman Administration and Zionist Legitimation Strategies to Achieve Statehood, Gianna Meier
Más allá de la comisión de la verdad y reconciliación: Memoria, cuerpo y producción cultural de mujeres en el perú (2005–2013), Otilia M. Mendiolaza
Essays in Financial Economics and Applied Macroeconomics, Marius Mihai
An Analysis of Women and Terrorism: Perpetrators, Victims, Both?, Elizabeth Lauren Miller
Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others, Sasha M. Miller
Nature-Inspired Electrode Materials For Next Generation Sustainable Energy Storage, Mikhail Miroshnikov
Returning to Childhood: Memoirs of Childhood Reading, Stephanie Montalti
Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976, Melina A. Moore
Social Contract Theory and Transitional Justice: A Philosophical Approach to a Problem of Global Importance, Brendan Moriarty
Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain, Kathryn N. Moss
Closing the Chasm: Al-Fārābī on Islam and Politics, Onur F. Muftugil
Queer Displacements: Minorities, Mobilities, and Mobilizations in French and Francophone Literature, Thomas Muzart
The Life and Death of Mambo: Culture and Consumption in New York's Salsa Dance Scene, Carmela Muzio Dormani
Molecular Roles of Small Inner Membrane Proteins in Escherichia coli Cell Envelope Integrity, Aaron Mychack
Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers
Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo
The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film, Victoria Napolitano
Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Nano-Coatings: Study of Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Properties and Applications, Illya Nayshevsky
Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S., Sokhnagade B. Ndiaye
Audio Quality as Content: Everyday Criticism of the Lo-fi Format, Elizabeth Newton
Density Functional Theory Study of Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Films, Pradip R. Niraula
Unpaid Care Work and Civic Engagement: A Review of Literature Suggesting Unpaid Care Work as Civic Engagement, William Novello
Economics of Higher Education Productivity, Uchenna K. Oparah
On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities, Isaac Overcast
Advanced Computational Methodologies to Study Binding Free Energies of Biomolecular Complexes, Rajat Kumar Pal
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
The Objectives of Public Higher Education in New York City Through the Lens of Language, John-Nicholas Parker
Age-Related Effects on Gait Parameters in Healthy Normal Aging Adults, Jamie C. Park
Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel
Gene Regulation and Cell Fate Choice in the Developing Vertebrate Retina, Sruti Patoori
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia
Una isla, dos literaturas: Contrapunteo de la literatura de la isla y la diáspora dominicanas (1965–2018), Jose L. Peralta
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
Essays in Retirement Economics, Gunnar Poppe Yanez
Narrating Intensity: History and Emotions in Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante, Stefania Porcelli
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
DH in Prison, Sabina Pringle
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Ascriptive Nationalism, Demagoguery, and the Modern Presidency: A Case Study in Constitutional Decay, Christopher J. Putney
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Primary Care Physician Perceptions of Hearing Loss and Amplification: A Survey, Sophie Racine
The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution, Alexander C. Redlins
Visual Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Erin L. Reilly
Exploring Vicarious Resilience among Practitioners Working with Clients Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events, Adam Reynolds
Exploring Influences on Autistic Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Ariana Riccio
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
Convexity and Curvature in Hierarchically Hyperbolic Spaces, Jacob Russell-Madonia
Fact and Fiction in Mexican Film: 1970s, 2000s, Lily M. Ryan
Paper House: The Revolution, the Disappeared, and the Historicity of Lebanon, Elsa Saade
Building for Culture: How Municipal Ownership of Cultural Facilities Influences Annual Arts Funding in American Cities, Adam M. Sachs
Developmental Outcomes of Young Children Exposed to Early Childhood Adversities, Inga Saitadze
A Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Connection Between Gender and Discipline in Grades Pre-K–8, Nicole Salazar
Truth Telling: Exploring Sexuality in Widowed and Single Older Black Women, Margaret A. Salisu
Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke
The Impact of Anti-Corruption Laws: Evidence from the U.K. Bribery Act's Extraterritorial Reach, Amanda Sanseverino
Parent–Child Relationship, Resting Heart Rate, and Callous–Unemotional Traits in Adolescents, Eva M. Santucci
UN Trust Funds as Agent to Fulfill the Norm Adapting and Diffusing Functions, Mikiko Sawanishi
“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind, Hunter M. Sawyer
Mutational Analysis and Domain Characterization of the Apolipoprotein L-1 Ion Channel, Charles M. Schaub
A Quadratic Analysis of Trait Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability, Katlyn Schroder
Structural Studies of Peptide Toxins and Their Binding Properties Towards the Voltage Sensing Domain of Nav1.7, Ryan Schroder
Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds, Adam See
Whose War Is It Anyway? How Afghanistan Became a Battlefield Over Global Hegemony During the Cold War, Kathryn Shapiro
A Modelist Proposal, Jian Shen
Breast Dressing: A Critical Review of Post-Surgical Bras, Adi Sieradzki
Essays on Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Capital Flows, Luis E. Silva-Yanez
The Perception of Prosody in English-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Grace R. Smith
The Coherence of Left-Libertarianism: A New Approach to Reconciling Libertarianism and Socialism, Jesse E. Spafford
Awful Nearness: Rape and the English Novel, 1740–1900, Erin A. Spampinato
How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery, Ann Marie (Annie) Spencer
Shakespeare's Problem Comedies as Self-Critique, John-Paul Spiro
Translation Distance and Fibered 3-Manifolds, Alexander J. Stas
Labor, Land Use, and the Luxury City, Samuel Stein
Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals, Michael C. Stern
Two Cello Works of Pēteris Vasks: Structure, Symbolism, and Identity, Caroline Bean Stute
Accomplices in Art: The Expansion of Authorship in the 1970s and '80s, Sydney Stutterheim
Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students, Janice Summers
Novel Fast Algorithms For Low Rank Matrix Approximation, John T. Svadlenka
Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, Krystle F. Sweda
Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed
Object-Oriented Musicology: Some Implications of Graham Harman's Philosophy for Music Theory, History, and Criticism, Eric Taxier