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 2019
Essays in Empirical Economics, Agustin Indaco
Arts et Métiers PHOTO-Graphiques: The Quest for Identity in French Photography between the Two World Wars, Yusuke Isotani
Electroencephalographic Asymmetry, Emotion Regulation, and Their Relationships with Depression Risk, Aliza Jacob
Presenciar el pasado: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television, Kristina L. Jacobs
Effects of Pre-tests and Feedback on Performance Outcomes in Massive Open Online Courses:What Works and What Doesn’t?, Maria Janelli
Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: A Constructed Autobiography of Identity, Jana Jarosz
Empirical Analysis of China’s Exchange Rate and Macroeconomic Policy, Jia Ji
Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe: Civic Nation-Building Discourse in Kazakhstan and Russia, Nathan P. Jones
Interhemispheric Communication and Lateralization in the Mouse Hippocampus, Jake Jordan
The Forgotten Comrades: Leftist Women, Palestinians, and the Jordanian Communist Party, 1936–1957, Fadi H. Kafeety
Characterization of Immunomodulatory Microbial Factors in Medicinal Plants, Kriti Kalpana
Crossing the Atlantic: Italians in Argentina and the Making of a National Culture, 1880–1930, Lauren A. Kaplan
Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War, Nataliya Karageorgos
The Development of Face Morphing Task to Assess Self Other Differentiation, Esen Karan
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
Performing Desire in Times Square: Sailors, Hustlers and Masculinity, Kel R. Karpinski
“The Least Sexually Confident Women in the World”: International NGOs and the Racialized Politics of Obstetric Fistula, Googie S. Karrass
Integrating the Effects of Biotic Interactions into Models of Species Distributions, Jamie M. Kass
Developing a Dissociative Nanocontainer for Peptide Drug Delivery, Michael Patrick Kelly
Same-Sex Union Formation and Dissolution in the United States and Europe, Eric Ketcham
Officers’ and Community Members’ Evaluations of Police–Civilian Interactions, Mawia Khogali
A Defense of Pure Connectionism, Alex B. Kiefer
Paradoxes of Feminist Stances in “New Turkey”: Reconceiving NGO-State Relationships in the Case of KAMER, Irem Kilic
Women and Their Struggle to be Considered Funny as Told Through the Study of Female Standup Comics, Jean Kim
Behavioral Effects of Restrictive Housing on Prisoners, Mijin Kim
The Equal Right to Sing: The American Zeitgeist and Its Implications for Music Education, YoungEun Kim
“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin, Andrew D. King
Furious: Myth, Gender, and the Origins of Lady Macbeth, Emma King
The Shape of Knowledge: The Postwar American Poet's Library, with Diane di Prima and Charles Olson, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
The Evolution of Spinosad Resistance in Colorado Potato Beetles (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), Coby Michael Klein
The Functional Morphology of Ingestion in the Platyrrhine Sclerocarpic Harvesters (Platyrrhini, Primates), Zachary Stoffel Klukkert
Everyday Violence: Catcalling and LGBTQ-Directed Aggression in the Public Sphere, Simone A. Kolysh
Remaking of a Modern Islamic Turkey, Ayҫa Korkutan
African Childhood in Literature and Law: Between Traditions and Modernism, Parfait Kouassi Kouacou
Components of Fluency-Based Instruction in the College Classroom, Jennifer Kourassanis Velasquez
Murine Genetic Variance in Sugar and Fat-Conditioned Flavor Preferences: Roles of Dopamine, Opioid and NMDA Receptors and Nutritive Sensing, Tamar T. Kraft
Minimalistic Peptide-Based Supramolecular Systems Relevant to the Chemical Origin of Life, Daniela Kroiss
Between Politics and Morality: Hans Kelsen's Contributions to the Changing Notion of International Criminal Responsibility, Jason Kropsky
Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?, Emilie Kristine Krumsvik
Romanization Through Mosaics: Transition at Fishbourne and Colchester, Elizabeth Kurtulik Mercuri
Wind Flow Dynamics over Complex Terrain, Eric Kutter
Geometric Properties of Closed Three Manifolds and Hyperbolic Links, Alice Kwon
Novel Heterocyclic Methodology for the Construction of Natural Products, Robert C. Lapo
A Meta-Analysis of Information Processing Measures of Intelligence, Performance, and Group Score Differences, Elliott C. Larson
Essays on Paid Family Leave in the United States, Beila R. Leboeuf
Facial Identification: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research, Jungwon Lee
Structural Studies on Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Activation of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase, Kwangwoon Lee
Reverse the Curse: Colonialist Legacies of the Magic Poem, Karen E. Lepri
Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation or Relocation: Barbuda as a Case Study, Martha B. Lerski
Sex, Scents, and Cephalopods: Factors That Affect Social and Reproductive Behavior in Chambered Nautilus and Oval Squid, Naomi J. Lewandowski
Intimate Partner Violence Among Expectant Adolescent Couples: Psychological and Relational Predictors and Sexual Risk, Jessica Lewis
Essays in Health Economics, Chiao-Han Lin
The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link
In Her Own Hands: How Girls and Women Used the Piano to Chart their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, and Shape Music in America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin
The Superstitious Heuristic in Strategic Decision-making, Jing Liu
The Moving On Program and Supportive Housing Residents with Histories of Homelessness, Kimberly Livingstone
Place-Making by Black and Latinx Students in Predominantly White Institutions: Participatory Design and Meaning Making Through a Social Enterprise, Joshua P.H. Livingston
A Purely Defeasible Argumentation Framework, Zimi Li
Basis for a Critique of International Human Rights and Constitutional Law: Foundations, Speech Acts and Analytic Limitations, Luis H. Llanos Gil
Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez
Claiming the Remains of the Past: The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects to Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, Pierre Losson
Sylvia Plath and "the bigger things": War, History, and Modernism at Midcentury, Reagan Lothes
The Impact of Racial Microaggressions and Major Discriminatory Events on Mental Health, Florence Lui
Objectively-measured and Subjectively-perceived Financial Literacy, Wenyi Lu
A Narrative Inquiry of Associate Degree Nursing Students' Stories About Their Experience of Academic Misconduct, Bridget Anne Maley
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Supramolecular Assemblies in Biology and Bionanotechnology, Anjela Manandhar
Cognitive Models of Defense Behaviors in Hosts of Brood Parasites, Thomas J. Manna
Stabilizing Forces in Acoustic Cultural Evolution: Comparing Humans and Birds, Daniel C. Mann
Love and Revolution: Queer Freedom, Tragedy, Belonging, and Decolonization, 1944 to 1970, Velina Manolova
Art and War: Republican Propaganda of The Spanish Civil War, Jason Manrique
Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks
The Evolution of the Centaur in Italian Renaissance Art: Monster, Healer, Mentor, and Constellation, Trinity Martinez
Getting the Benefit of the Doubt: The Effect of Randomization Ratio on the Placebo Response, Taiki Matsuura
The Role of Fluids in Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Deposit, NY, Peter D. Matt
Magic Performances: Rituals and Practice in Italian Theatre and Culture, 1520–1650, Erika Mazzer
Perceptions of Sexual Violence: An Investigation of Sexual Harassment, Sexual Coercion, and Sexting, Jennifer J. McMahon
Effects of Primary and Secondary Cigarette Smoke on Auditory Function: A Systematic Review, Hilary McManus
Anxieties of Incorporation: U.S. Territorialization and the Western Imaginary from the Louisiana Purchase to Moby-Dick, Diana Meckley
The Growing Middle Class and the Absence of Democracy in China, Danni Mei
Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction, Rosemery Membreno
Remembering Vienna: Mapping Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors from Austria, Katharina Menschick
Vanishing Leaves: A Study of Walt Whitman Through Location-Based Mobile Technologies, Jesse A. Merandy
The Ferguson Effect in Contemporary Policing: Assessing Police Officer Willingness to Engage the Public, Christopher Mercado
The Origins of the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Stephanie Mercedes
Affordances in the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Pedagogies of Writing, Reading, and Making, T. Meyerhoff
The Urban Domestic: Homosocial Domesticity, Literature, And Culture in 19th and 20th Century New York City, Krystyna Michael
Coordination, Collaboration, and Delegation in EU Migration Management, Nicholas R. Micinski
La vigencia de lo r/Real: la memoria traumática y el relato policial postdictatorial en Argentina y Chile, 1996–2015, Jelena Mihailovic
Weaving Modern Forms: Fiber Design in the United States, 1939–1959, Sarah Mills
Articulation of the Japanese Moraic Nasal: Place of Articulation, Assimilation, and L2 Transfer, Ai Mizoguchi
Dermatoglyphic Measures in Relation to Depressive Symptoms Among Non-Clinical Adolescents and Young Adults, Yosefa A. Modiano
Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk
El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y El Guzman de Alfarache, Cristina Morales Segura
This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus, Eleanor A. Morikawa
