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 2018
NMR Characterizations of Candidate Battery Electrolytes, Stephen A. Munoz
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History, Brendan Murphy
It’s a Family Affair: Parental Configuration, Educational Attainment, and Race, Sandra Murphy
The Effects of a Voice Treatment on Facial Emotional Expression in Parkinson's Disease: Expressivity, Experience, and Gender, Elizabeth M. Murray
Biological Signatures of Emotion Regulation in Children, Sarah Myruski
Explaining Animosity Towards the Roma: A Case Study of Twitter Communication in Italy during the Refugee Crisis, Mayuko Nakatsuka
Rhetorique du Soi dans la litterature francophone haïtienne du XXe siècle. Manques et Manquements?, Jasmine Narcisse
Nature versus Nurture, Matilda Nikehasani
The Threats of Sea Level Rise: An Eco-Geopolitical Visual Analysis, Jorge L. Nowell-Enriquez
Managing Ambiguity: Nurses Caring for the Mother of a Stillborn Baby, Natasha J. Nurse
The State and Future of Autonomous Vehicle Regulation in the United States, Nikolay Nyashin
Manipulating Goal States and Brain States: Using EEG and HD-tDCS to Investigate Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Achievement Goals on Declarative Memory, Yuliya Ochakovskaya
Strauss and the City: The Reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier within New York City, 1907–1934, Christopher G. Ogburn
Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato, Nathan Oglesby
The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies, Emily L. Olsen
Darwin's Failures: Childless Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Rose P. O'Malley
Process Evaluation of Terrorism Amnesty and Reintegration Program, and Perceptions of the Program within Kenya Police, Resila Onyango
Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada., Aleksín H. Ortega
Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community, Angelica Ortega
The Artfulness of Absence: A Linguistic Analysis of Simile and Metaphor, Kathryn Paige O'Shields
Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works, Leann Osterkamp
Stereotype Threat and Racial Disparities at the Front End of the Criminal Justice System, Megan J. O'Toole
Never Trust Anything That Bleeds for Seven Days and Doesn’t Die: Menstruation, Cultural Materialism, and Autoethnography, Anastasiya Panas
Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment, Spiridon Papanikolaou
A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Self-Regulatory Control in Adults with Gambling and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Nidhi Parashar
Visualizing Knowledge in the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Breviari d’amor, Joy Partridge
The Way We Dream Now: History, Theory, and LGBTQ Memoir in America, Megan Paslawski
Essays on the Economics of Driving and Health, Jessica Lynn Peck
The Phenomenon of Match-Fixing in Soccer: A Plague Without a Cure?, Nikolaos Petropoulos
The Therapeutic Potential of Natural Products from Vaccinium Berries for Viral and Lung Diseases Through an Improved LC-MS-Based Chemometric Approach, Vanya I. Petrova
Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film, Michael D. Phillips
Dolls Who Speak: Sex Robots, Cyborgs and the Image of Woman, Victoria E. Pihl Sorensen
Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Kartik Pilar
Throwing off the "Draggling Dresses": Women and Dress Reform, 1820-1900, Laura J. Ping
The Syndrome of Romantic Love, Arina Pismenny
Validity Testing of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey (GGNPS), Alexandra Plavskin
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Dream Visions and Dramatic Designs, Michael Plunkett
Casualties of Racism: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Emerging Adults, Lillian Anais Polanco
N-Representability in the Quantum Kernel Energy Method, Walter Polkosnik
Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis, Marcos Polonia
Military Citizenship in the Post-9/11 Homefront, Estefania Ponti
Physical Applications of the Geometric Minimum Action Method, George L. Poppe Jr.
The Theatrical King: Joseph Addison's Invention of Modern Sovereignty, Dan Poston
Relating Justification Logic Modality and Type Theory in Curry–Howard Fashion, Konstantinos Pouliasis
Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride
Synthesis and Characterization of Cytocompatible Sponge-Mimetic Scaffolds and Biomedical Polymers, Kamia Punia
Perceived Health: A Grounded Theory Study on How Young Black Men Process Their Health, Layla L. Qaabidh
Iron Oxide Nanomagnets in Polymer Matrices – Synthesis and Characterization, Shenjie Qiu
Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz, Juana M. Ramos
Due Process and the Right to Legal Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Marielos G. Ramos
Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning, Jesse Rappaport
The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen
Characterization and Quantification of Covalent Modification of Proteins Using Mass Spectrometry, Pratikkumar N. Rathod
The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Unveiling Chaim Shatan: An Analyst Unveiling War Wounds, Andrea Recarte
The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages, Juan R. Recondo
Event-Related Potential Studies of Error Monitoring to Affective and Non-Affective Stimuli in Adolescents and Emerging Adults, Rebecca K. Reed
A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's Tango-Études pour flûte seule: An Analytical Approach, Asis Reyes
Unusual Accidental Signs, Microtonal Inflections, and Marchetto of Padua, Alan D. Richtmyer
New Dyes for Cancer Theranostics, Waqar Rizvi
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
The American Whig Party and Slavery, Mitchell Rocklin
Gender and Terrorism: A Homeland Security Perspective, Diana Rosa Rodriguez-Spahia
An Examination of the Relationships Between Stressors, Correctional Burnout, and Job Outcomes, Erin Rogers
The State of Hate in America: A Study of Hate Group Permeation in the United States by State, Michelle Rogers
Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ, Paul M. Romita
The Politics of Service: Affectivity, Social Relations, and the Power of Tipping in the Restaurant Industry, Jacqueline A. Ross
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
The Lines Between the Lines: Stage Directions as Fluid, Affective Collaborations Between Theatre Texts and Theatre Makers, Sarah Bess Rowen
Vectorial Realities: Foucault and the Politics of the Literary Address, Jiyoung Ryu
Stereotype Threat as an Explanation for Sexual Risk Taking Behavior in Gay Men: A Multi-Study Exploration of Mechanisms, Inna Saboshchuk
Langston Hughes in Turkestan: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks 1932–1933, Zahera Z. Saed
Time-Series and Cross-Section Variation of Bond Risk Premia, Niloofar Sahebalzamany
Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States, Sara Salman
The Unsuspected Francis Lieber, Richard Salomon
Insurgent Knowledge: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Open Admissions, Danica B. Savonick
Electric Light: Automating the Carceral State During the Quantification of Everything, R. Joshua Scannell
Supercharged Models of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Their Utility in Sensing, Peter J. Schnatz
Global Pretrial Detention Use: A Cross-National Analysis, Martin Schönteich
Persistence of Cultural Heritage in a Multicultural Context: Examining Factors that Shaped Voting Preferences in the 2016 Election, Anna M. Schwartz
Essays on the Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors, Raul Segura-Escano
The Juridical Communities of Apulia: Communal Identity and Municipal Belonging in the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples, Vincenzo Selleri
Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition, Arundhati Sengupta
The Two Inexical Uses Theory of Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle, Daniel S. Shabasson
Postcolonial Indian Nonfiction Cinema: The Documentaries of Satyajit Ray, Muzahid Sharif
Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon, Deen S. Sharp
Everyday Violence and Women's Lives in Zambia: An Autoethnography, Amina Shikupilwa
A Pedagogical Study of the "Four Lauds for Solo Violin" by Elliott Carter, Heesun Shin
Diagnosing the Will to Suffer: Lovesickness in the Medical and Literary Traditions, Jane Shmidt
Lauretta Vinciarelli in Context: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture, Art, Pedagogy, and Theory, 1968-2007, Rebecca Siefert
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, Christian D. Siener
Gendered Violence: An Analysis of State Legal Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Amongst Refugee Women, Maria Sigalas