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
Ulva spp. Bloom Dynamics in a Hyper-Eutrophic Estuary: Jamaica Bay, New York, Annesia Lamb
Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City, Do J. Lee
Geometry and Analysis of some Euler-Arnold Equations, Jae Min Lee
Climax Structure in Late Romantic Opera, Ji Yeon Lee
Between Settlers and Sovereignty: Literary Solidarity and Anti-Colonial Discourse in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1887–1959, Trevor J. Lee
A Sustainable “No Excuses” Charter School Model, Kelly Lerash
Development of Realistic Stimuli for the Evaluation of Listening Effort using Auditory Evoked Potentials, Christie Hoo Yee Leung
Divergence of CAT(0) Cube Complexes and Coxeter Groups, Ivan Levcovitz
Tangible Things: The Matter of Susan Howe, Thomas Lewek
On the Front Lines: Managerialism in Substance Abuse Agencies, Jocelyn E. Lewiskin
A Qualitative Case Study: Jamaican Nurses Intent to Migrate Internationally, Mabel Lewis
Angelenos, Vivian Liang
We Refugees, Again, Aaron Linas
Status, Power, and Apologies: How Status and Power Shape the Willingness to Apologize and the Perception of Victims, Louis Lipani
The Patterns and Prosecutions of Media Leakers, Julia M. Lipkins
Wukongism: Monkey King, Kungfu/Jazz, and Asian/American Performance, Sissi Liu
Essays on Innovation, Analyst Coverage, and Corporate Finance, Yang Liu
Social Influences on Songbird Behavior: From Song Learning to Motion Coordination, Iva Ljubičić
Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo
Deconstructing City Hall Park: The Development and Archaeology of the Common, Alyssa Loorya
Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla
Essays on the Economics of Health and Human Capital, Paloma Lopez de mesa Moyano
Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State, Joan C. Lopez
Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek
Compact Gene Regulatory Cassettes Support Hallmark Features of T-Cell Receptor (TCR)-alpha Gene Locus Control Region (LCR) Activity, Jordana Lovett
When Humor Hurts: The Detrimental Effect of Humor on Brand Attitudes After a Brand Transgression, Lama Lteif
Interdisciplinary Studies of Complex Network and Machine Learning and Its Applications, Shaojun Luo
Assessing the Outcomes of a Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Approach, Laura Lutgen
The Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership: A Social Exchange Perspective, Bin Ma
“Community in Solitude”: The Solitary Self, Social Critique, and Utopian Longing, Colin S. Macdonald
"Betwixt the World Destroyed and World Restored": Subjectivity and Paradisal Recovery in John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma
Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-competency Regarding Individualized Developmental Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Patricia Macho
De-centering the Monolingual: A Psychophysiological Study of Heritage Speaker Language Processing, Christen N. Madsen II
The Effects of Pyramidal Training on Staff Acquisition of Five Behavior Analytic Procedures, Lindsay M. Maffei-Almodovar
Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition, Kathryn L. Mahaney
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account, Daniel Mailick
Taxonomy, Taphonomy, and Bioerosion of Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Shark Teeth from Onslow Bay, North Carolina and an Example Extension from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the U.S.A., Harry M. Maisch IV
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
Essence, Explanation, and Modal Knowledge, Antonella Mallozzi
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Economics, Politics and the Environment, Ron Mandelbaum
Opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, Henry J. Manwell
The Distribution of Totally Positive Integers in Totally Real Number Fields, Tianyi Mao
Colorism in Assessor Ratings: Exploring the Roles of Social Dominance Orientation, Metaphorical Associations and Skin Tone Stereotypes, Tiwi D. Marira
Neonatal Stimulation of PKC Epsilon Signaling Normalizes Fragile X-Associated Deficits in PVN Oxytocin Expression and Later-Life Social and Anxiety Behavior, Alexandra E. Marsillo
Sunken II Chords and Inwardness: A Correspondence Complex in Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr Songs, Alexander J.J. Martin
There’s Nothing Here: Tenure, Attachment, and Changing Perceptions in Gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sara Martucci
The Dictators’ Dilemma: Repression or Concessions in the Face of Resistance, Chris Massaro
Standard and Anomalous Wave Transport Inside Random Media, Xujun Ma
The Brotherhood: Black Officers, Prisoners, and New York’s Crisis in Corrections, 1962–1984, Katherine Logan McBride
Adults’ Perceptions of Children with Mental Illness Labels Who Tell Truths and Lies, Jessica Lynn McCurdy
On Some Geometry of Graphs, Zachary S. McGuirk
Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry, Andrew McKinney
State Unbuilding: Presidents and the American National Security State, 1952–2016, Adam M. McMahon
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith
A History of Employee Ownership in the United States, Christopher Michael
The Structurally Adjusted School: School Restructuring and Youth Political Incorporation in Suburban America, Erin Michaels
Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel
Impact of Neurodevelopmental Genes on the Trajectory of ADHD Severity: A Pilot Study, Agnieszka Mlodnicka
Testing the Efficacy of Interventions to Decrease Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Karima Modjadidi
Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism, Kaitlin Mondello
Bacterial LPS at the Immune Modulating Component in Juzen-taiho-to, Diego Montenegro
Digesting Democracy: A Theoretical Analysis of American Food Regimes, Angela R. Moore
Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women, Philanthropy, and Italian State-Building, 1850-1890, Diana Moore
Multimodal Depression Detection: An Investigation of Features and Fusion Techniques for Automated Systems, Michelle Renee Morales
Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications to Macroeconomics and International Finance, Hiroshi Morita
Affecting Civil War: The Poetics of Fear in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Irene R. Morrison-Moncure
The New Veil: A Fundamentally Modern Phenomenon, Hassan Mortada
Strategies Involving the Food-Derived Agent Curcumin to Eliminate Brain Cancer, Sumit Mukherjee
The Effect of Nurse Residency Program Completion on Work Readiness of New Graduate Nurses Transitioning into Professional Practice, Suzanne Mullings-Carter
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study on an Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Collaborative Appearance-Based Place Recognition and Improving Place Recognition Using Detection of Dynamic Objects, Juan Pablo Munoz
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