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
Speech Perception in Mandarin- and Cantonese-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Sum Yee Fong
Difficult Subjects Scatting and Scattered: A Poetics of Dissolution in Black Expressive Culture, Tonya M. Foster
Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare, Bradley Fox
Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story, Angela Francis
"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
From Establishment to Final Independence: A Study of the National Archives of the United States of America from 1934–1985, Daniel M. Frett
Demystifying the Placebo Effect, Phoebe Friesen
Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner
English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization, Jennifer C. Gabriele
Rachmaninoff and the Flexibility of the Score: Issues Regarding Performance Practice, Tanya Gabrielian
Poetry, Photography and the Place of Longing: A Return, Victoria R. Gandolf
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Felix L. Garcia
Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959), Pablo Garcia Martinez
Haunted Stories, Haunted Selves: Ghosts in Latin American Jewish Literature, Charlotte Gartenberg
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Neural Bases of Metamemory Judgments, Alexandra M. Gaynor
Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation, Liam S. Geron
Re-Architecting Mass Storage Input/Output for Performance and Efficiency, Robert Gezelter
Synthetic Control and Dynamic Panel Estimation: A Case Study of Iran, Orkideh Gharehgozli
Three Essays on Capital Structure and Cross-Listing, Saeed Ghasseminejad
Mechanisms Adopted by Dengue-2 Viruses to Induce Autophagy in Mammalian Cells, Sounak Ghosh Roy
Examining the Effects of a Content-based Peer Feedback Writing Intervention in Community College Classrooms, Jennifer M. Gilken
Renal Risk Variants of Apolipoprotein L-1 Form Channels at the Plasma Membrane that Lead to a Cytotoxic Influx of Calcium, Joseph A. Giovinazzo
Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers, Dana Glaser
Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, Erin R. Glass
Perceived Knowledge and Defense of Political Attitudes, Matthew H. Goldberg
Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices, Emily Goldsmith
The Fragmented Mind: Working Memory Cannot Implement Consciousness, Javier Gomez-Lavin
Out of the Shadows: Women of the FMLN Guerrilla Army in El Salvador’s Civil War, 1979–1992, Erica Gonzalez
Highly Skilled Immigration in the United States in An Age of Globalization: An Institutional and Agency Approach, Marcela F. González
A Discourse of True and False: An Analysis of the Publications of the AFL-CIO Between 1955-1965 as Archived in the Tamiment Library, John J. Gorham Jr.
Characterizing Venom Gene Expression, Function and Species Diversity in Predatory Marine Snails of the Terebridae, Juliette Gorson
New Use of an Old Discourse Marker: The Interface of Implicit Attitudes, Explicit Attitudes, and Rapid Language Change of "So", Syelle Graves
The Development of Affect and Defense in Childhood and Adolescence, Kari Gray
Cellist, Catalyst, Collaborator: The Work of Charlotte Moorman, Saisha Grayson
Associations of the Medial Olivocochlear Reflex and Speech-In-Noise Abilities in Normal Hearing Adult Listeners: A Systematic Review, Imari J. Greaves
Against Criminalization and Pathology: The Making of a Black Achievement Praxis, Charles M. Green Sr.
A Preliminary Program Evaluation of a Narrative Therapy Intervention for Persons Incarcerated for Violent Crime, Brooke C. Greene
A Comparison of the Effects of Various Feedback Presentations on Typing Accuracy and Speed, Julieanne Guadalupe
Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the Same 'Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Luis Guzman Valerio
Individual Differences in Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emission Phase, Joshua J. Hajicek
The Library of Pantainos: A Unique Ancient Library, Michael W. Handis
Fundamental Chemistry Related to the Separations and Coordination of Actinium-225, Thorium-227, and Technetium-99, Jasmine L. Hatcher
Modern Arts and Pueblo Traditions in Santa Fe, 1909–1931, Elizabeth S. Hawley
Musicking, Discourse, and Identity in Participatory Media Fandom, Aya Esther Hayashi
The Narration of Conflicting Accountabilities in the Era of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation, James Christopher Head
Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers
Las novelas de la Violencia y la Revolución en la formación del Frente Nacional en Colombia y el Estado revolucionario mexicano, Luis J. Henao Uribe
Charge State Dynamics and Quantum Sensing with Defects in Diamond, Jacob D. Henshaw
Women’s Suffrage in American Art: Recovering Forgotten Contexts, 1900-1920, Elsie Y. Heung
Powerhouse Chihuahua: Electricity, Water, and the State in the Long Mexican Revolution, Jonathan Hill Jr
Influence of the Silk Road Trade on the Craniofacial Morphology of Populations in Central Asia, Ayesha Yasmeen Hinedi
The Effect of an Extinction Procedure on Level of Responding to Visual Stimuli in an Evaluative Conditioning Procedure, Allison Hirsch
Synthesis and Evaluation of Densely-Functionalized Troponoids, Danielle R. Hirsch
“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry
Gendering Flexicurity: The Effects of Flexicurity on Gender Equality, Szu-Ying Ho
Absences and Epistemologies of Ignorance: A Critical Multi-Sited Study on the Teaching of the Danish Colonial and Slave Trading Past, Naja B. Hougaard
The Study of Soft Power: China’s Presence in African Region, Jessica Huang
The Social Life of Black Thought in the Long Eighteenth Century, Kristina Huang
Essays in New Keynesian Monetary Policy, Tzu-Hao Huang
Innovation Under Stress, Zhaojun Huang
Vision-based Assistive Indoor Localization, Feng Hu
Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements, Amanda Huminski
Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain
The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim
Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby
Enhancing 3D Visual Odometry with Single-Camera Stereo Omnidirectional Systems, Carlos A. Jaramillo
The Philosophical Foundations of PLEN: A Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms, Ralph E. Jenkins
Swimming in a Sea of No's: Controlling and Managing the New York Public Pools, Mette L. Jensen
Analyzing Genre in Post-Millennial Popular Music, Thomas Johnson
The Tuskegee Revolt: Student Activism, Black Power, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington, Brian P. Jones
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
Music Intensity in the Ear Canal in Quiet and in Subway Noise Using Four Different Headphones, Meghan A. Joyce
Phonetic Properties of Oral Stops in Three Languages with No Voicing Distinction, Stephanie M. Kakadelis
Quantum and Classical Transport of 2D Electrons in the Presence of Long and Short Range Disorder, Jesse Kanter
"When We Demand Our Share of This World”: Struggles for Space, New Possibilities of Planning, and Municipalist Politics in Mumbai, Malav J. Kanuga
P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
Development and Transfer of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Special Education Teachers, Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis
Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor
Insurgent Difference: An Ethnography of an Indian Resource Frontier, Madhuri Karak
Socialization Trajectories of Civic Development: Examining Variation Among Children in Black Immigrant and African American Families, Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles
Morality as Social Software, Jongjin Kim
Input and Output in the Acquisition of Russian as a Heritage Language During the Third Year of Life, Ekaterina V. Kistanova
Increasing Access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Transgender Women and Trans Feminine Non-Binary Individuals in New York City, Augustus Klein
Cynic and Epicurean Parrhesia in Horace's Epodes 5 & 6: Appropriating a Parallel Philosophical Debate For Poetic Purposes, Kent Klymenko
Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes, Eric A. Knudsen
Finding Paths via Quantum Systems and Its Application for Quantum Algorithms, Daniel S. Koch
Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash
Music for AI Reports: Dual Prospects in Music Production, Achim Koh
Essays on Wealth Inequality and Asset Pricing, Georgios Koimisis
The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment to Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Effects of Structural and Electronic Disorder in Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 Thin Films, Inna Korzhovska
EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Being in Performance: A Philosophical Account of the Embodied Actor, Brad M. Krumholz
The Advection-Diffusion Equation and the Enhanced Dissipation Effect for Flows Generated by Hamiltonians, Michael Kumaresan
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids and Garnet-Type Li7La3Zr2O12, Shen Lai