Skip to main content

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 2019

The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio

Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio

The Development and Validation of an Ideal Point Measure of Work Engagement, Michael M. DeNunzio

Re-Defining Gender and Sexuality in West African Theatre: Women Artists, Feminist Representations, and Same-Sex Desire in the Twenty-First Century Theatre of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo, Heather J. Denyer

Control of Energy Transfer and Molecular Energetics using Photonic Nanostructures, Rahul Deshmukh

Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz

Neural Correlates of Automatic Emotional Processing and Emotion Regulation in Empathy and Psychopathy-Related Coldheartedness, Danielle diFilipo

Internal Displacement in the United States: A Result of Climate Change and U.S. Policy, Ahmad T. Diop

Examining Financial Stress and Coping Among U.S. Cancer Patients and Survivors: Quantitative Analyses of Survey Data., Meredith J. Doherty

The Past is Never Dead: Amorphous Time in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Anthony E. Dominguez

A Series of Acts that Disappear: The Valparaíso School’s Ephemeral Architectures, 1952–1982, Elizabeth Rose Donato

Development of Highly Efficient Catalyst and Reactions for Organic Synthesis: Monophosphine-Coordinated Palladacycle Complexes for Cross-Coupling Reactions/Polymerizations, Jie Dong

Youth Voice and the Promise and Peril of Affirmative Governmentality: An Analysis of New York City’s Borough Student Advisory Councils, Hillary R. Donnell

Broadway Bodies: Casting, Stigma, and Difference in Broadway Musicals Since "A Chorus Line" (1975), Ryan Donovan

Systematics of Carex section Laxiflorae (Cyperaceae), Jenna Dorey

A Credible Fear: The Politics of Gang Violence in the Northern Triangle, Jane E. Dowd

Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four, LeiLani Dowell

Contested Development: A Poor People's Movement for a Better Los Angeles, 1960–2018, Deshonay R. Dozier

Reclaiming the Musical Burlesque: A Reconstruction of the 1855 Musical Score to John Brougham’s Po-Ca-Hon-Tas: Or, The Gentle Savage, Christopher Drobny

A Living Experience of Feeling Listened To: A Parsesciencing Inquiry, Teodora Duarte-Quilao

A Study of the Impact of the Physical Properties of Blood on the Interpretation of Bloodstain Patterns in Forensic Investigations, Ira S. DuBey

Refusing White Privacy, Olivia Dunbar

Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel

A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value, John Dyck

Characterization of Early Biofilm Formation and Physiology in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Kelly Eckenrode

Assessment of Third Wave Therapy Assumptions about the Relation between Emotional Schemas and Psychoemotional Functioning, Emily Rachel Edwards

Internal and External Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tehila Eilam-Stock

Conceptions of Modern Egyptian Childhood During the Period of the “Liberal Experiment” in Egypt, 1922–1952: A Comparative Study of Taha Hussein’s, “An Egyptian Childhood,” and Sayyid Qutb’s, “A Child from the Village”, Nora Elgabalawy

New Factor Structure Models and Idiosyncratic Volatility, Ossama Elhadary

Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer, Benelita Elie

İbne, Gey, Lubunya: A Queer Critique of LGBTI+ Discourses in the New Cinema of Turkey, Azmi Mert Erdem

Emotion Processing Deficits in Psychopathy: Does Cueing to Relevant Facial Features Increase Cognitive and Emotional Empathy?, Shawn E. Fagan

Systems Analysis of Faculty Hiring Process Within Academia, Nicole P. Farrell

Added Interpretive Centers at U.S. War Memorials and the Reframing of National History, Jennifer K. Favorite

Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992, Nadiah Rivera Fellah

Just Borders: The Foundations of Immigration Policy, Cody Fenwick

Sequential Discrimination Between Non-Orthogonal Quantum States, Dov L. Fields

The Music in His Words: The Art of Sound and Folk in Louis Armstrong’s Manuscript for Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup

Revolutionary Affinities: Democracy and Revolution in Hannah Arendt’s Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg, Matthew P. Finck

Oldowan Tool Behaviors Through Time on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya, Emma M. Finestone

Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel

Black Women at Work in Corrections in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Documenting Demographic Changes in the New York City Department of Correction, Carolyn Fisher

The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music, M. Elizabeth Fleming

Afro-Cuba Transnational: Recordings and the Mediation of Afro-Cuban Traditional Music, Johnny Frias

Neighborhood Ecology and Recidivism: A Case Study in NYC, Sarah Picard Fritsche

Presidential Power: Assessing the Unitary Executive as the Strongest Determinant of Presidential Success, Maxwell J. Fuerderer

Essays on New Keynesian Term Premium Model with Financial Risks, Weiguo Fu

The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond, Kathleen J. Gaffney

Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Iodine-124 Labeled Nucleoside Analogs as Pet Imaging Agents to Predict Response to Gemcitabine Therapy, Kishore Kumar Gangangari

Context Dependent Roles of MDMX (MDM4) and MDM2 in Breast Cancer Proliferation and Circulating Tumor Cells, Chong Gao

Desde el margen: Teatro alterno y comunidades hispanas de Nueva York, 1997–2017, Pablo D. García Gámez

The Role of the Direct and Indirect Basal Ganglia Pathways in the Learning, Performance, and Goal-Directed Control of Action Sequences, Eric Garr

Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman, Bradford J. Garvey

The Musical World of Joseph Rumshinsky’s Mamele, D. A. Geller

Women's Contributions to Viola Repertoire and Pedagogy in the Twentieth Century: Rebecca Clarke, Lillian Fuchs, and Rosemary Glyde, Eva R. Gerard

Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland, Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar

Extreme Heat and Vulnerability in Japan Demographic and Spatial Analyses of Heatstroke, Wataru Gima

Relations Amongst Power, Self-Health Patterning, and Quality of Life in Older Adults with Chronic Illness, Philip J. Gimber

Mathematics Attitudes and Mathematics Performance: Novel Approaches towards Noncognitive Educational Measurement, Applications to Large-scale Assessment Data, and Examinations of Multigroup Invariance, Kalina Gjicali

Recolonizing Security: An Anthropology of the War on Terror in Kenya, Zoltan Gluck

Household Scenes: Politicizing Intimate Spaces in the Poetics of LeRoi Jones, Hettie Jones, David Antin, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley, Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz

Impact of Religiosity and Level of Acculturation on Cultural Alignment: An Exploration of Terror Management Mechanisms among Muslim American Women, Farah T. Goheer

Who Needs Blame?: Answerability Without Expressed Blame, Sarah Gokhale

A Mobile Cyber-Physical System Framework for Aiding People with Visual Impairment, Martin Goldberg

Rezoning, Real Estate, and The Dynamics of Displacement in Inwood, Damaly Gonzalez

Reversing borrón y cuenta nueva: The Curative Power of Family Memory in the Novels of Loida Maritza Perez and Nelly Rosario, Ivonne Gonzalez

Managerial Territoriality: Conceptualization and Measurement of a Multidimensional Construct, Katerina Gonzalez

Do It Like a Syntactician: Using Binary Gramaticality Judgements to Train Sentence Encoders and Assess Their Sensitivity to Syntactic Structure, Pablo Gonzalez Martinez

A Space to Learn, Amy R. Goods

Anti-Cancer Effects of Oleocanthal and Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Limor Goren

Imagining the Archive: Speculation as a Tool of Archival Reconstruction, MarieClaire Graham

Examining the Use of Hebephilia and Paraphilia Non-consent in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Evaluations, Nicole Graham

Visual Entrainment of Perception-Related Neural Oscillations as a Mechanism for Maintaining Rhythmic Temporal Expectations Across a Wide Range of Frequencies, Michael James Gray

Madness and the Broadway Musical, 1940s–2000s, Aleksei Grinenko

Law and Society: The Criminalization of Latinx in the United States, Gabriela Groenke

Exciton Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Jie Gu

Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Forensic Analysis: Case Studies on the Identification of Illicit Substances and Artist Pigments, Abed Haddad

The Lived Experience of African American First-Time Breastfeeding Mothers at a Baby Friendly Hospital, Catherine A. Hagerty

The Impact of Mentalization and Self-Compassion on Psychological Adjustment in Adolescents, Jaleh Hamadani

The Room with a View: Fatwas, Space, and Ritual in Contemporary Mecca, Nesrien Hamid

The Lived Experience of Spirituality in the Lives of Caribbean Men, Camille A. O. Hamilton

Restoring Solidarity: "Accountability" in Radical Leftist Subcultures, Sarah M. Hanks

Physics and Mathematics of Graded Quivers, Azeem Hasan

Comparative Analysis of Al-Ard by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory, Rana Hassan

Private Funding of the United Nations, Consequence and Future of the World Intergovernmental Organization, Kossi H. Hator

The Use of Infographics to Assess Context Processing, Beliz Hazan

Shared Deliberations: Learning from the Voices of Social Justice Lawyers on Their Aspirations, Challenges and Roles, Ian Head

Review of Au.D. Program Curriculums and the Current State of Audiology Roles and Responsibilities in the United States, Kerri L. Heesemann

Modest Automorphisms of Presburger Arithmetic, Simon Heller

Why is the Black Population of Central Brooklyn, the Mecca of Black NYC, Diminishing?, Jamell N.A. Henderson

Between the Living and the Dead, Laura Henriksen

Clientelism and Democracy in Turkey and Mexico: The Impacts on Regimes of Political Party Exploitation of Housing Tenure in Informal Settlements, David J. Henry

Feminist and Anti-Feminist Discourses on Abortion in Haiti from 2010 to 2019, Katia Henrys

Navigating Colorism and Racial Identity in Dominican Women, Christine Hernandez

A Parade of Identities: Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in Three New York City Cultural Parades, Julia M. Herrera-Moreno

Leverage Adjustment and Credit Risk, Wei He

Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement, Devin A. Heyward

Commmunity, Ecology, and Modernity: Faunal Analysis of Skútustaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland, Megan Hicks

Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman

American Digital Election Infrastructure: Policy, Risks, Options, Tyson S. Himes