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
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
African American Performers in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Between Political Promise and Racial Propaganda, Christopher E. Silsby
Prints on Display: Exhibitions of Etching and Engraving in England, 1770s-1858, Nicole Simpson
Otologic Blast Injuries, Michelle Singer
Assessing the Ordinality of Response Bias with Item Response Models: A Case Study Using the PHQ-9, Venessa N. Singhroy
Audiometric Status, Self-Perception of Hearing Disorders, and Noise Dose in Audio Post-Production Engineers, Laura M. Sinnott
The Nature of Defenses Used by School-Aged Children with ADHD, Laurie G. Slodounik
The Role of Self-Disclosure in Improving Workplace Cross-Race Mentoring Outcomes, Christine R. Smith
Development of a Journaling Application to Track Progress of Adaptation to Amplification for Adult Patients: DEarDiary, Nicole C. Snider
Weaponization of Data for Governmentality, Juliana Son
Subthreshold PTSD and Associated Psycholgical Distress in Trauma Exposed Male and Female Veterans, Matthew A. Southard
Coincidence of Bargaining Solutions and Rationalizability in Epistemic Games, Todd Stambaugh
The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, and Environments of Warning, Jordan Steingard
Family–School Partnerships and the Missing Voice of Parents, Laura R. Stein
Infinitely Many Solutions to Asymmetric, Polyharmonic Dirichlet Problems, Edger Sterjo
Niche Shifts, Species Distributions, and Genetic Diversity in Gymnophthalminae Lizards, with a Focus on Microclimates and Thermophysiology, Maria Strangas
“I Am Going to College…Now What?!”: Becoming a College Student, Renata Strashnaya
Linear Progress with Exponential Decay in Weakly Hyperbolic Groups, Matthew H. Sunderland
Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle
What’s Your Story? Assessing Childhood Maltreatment Using the Thematic Apperception Test in An Adult Inpatient Population., Thachell C. Tanis
Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor
Marginalidad y subversión en tres novelas de Juan Filloy de la década de 1930, Sonia M. Tejada
Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study, Madeleine Terry
Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer
El negro y el haitiano en la literatura dominicana de la diáspora, Juan Nicolás Tineo
Dostoevsky as a Translator of "Eugénie Grandet", Julia Titus
The College Application Essay Mediating Inequality Along the Path to Higher Education, Ralitsa S. Todorova
Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano
Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro, Lorena Uribe Bracho
Mechanisms for Survival and Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells, Matthew B. Utter
La melancolía de Juan Ramón Jiménez: un estudio emotivo, Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
Mechanism and Development of Peptide-Based Inhibitors to Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Self-Assembly, Jayson Vedad
El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo, Edgar Augusto Verastegui
Aurality as Methexis and the Rise of Castilian Literature: The Case of the Siete Partidas, Maristela Verastegui
Convergent Evolution of Biochemical Innovations in Polychaetes: Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Bioluminescence and Venom Production, Aida E. Verdes Gorín
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite
Hearing Loss and Third Party Disability: A Systematic Review, Kathleen H. Wallace
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Essays on Institutional Ownership and Corporate Finance, Qijian Wang
Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought, Milo Ward
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
Essays on the Transmission of Risk and Volatility Across International Financial Markets, Evan Warshaw
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics, Daniel E. Weissglass
Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics, Kenneth R. Weisshaar
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
An Exploration and Analysis of the Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael, Gregory K. Williams
The Structure of Models of Second-order Set Theories, Kameryn J. Williams
The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams
Race and Gun Violence in the United States: A Case Study of Policy Reform in Missouri, Morgan C. Williams Jr
The Son Jarocho Revival: Reinvention and Community Building in a Mexican Music Scene in New York City, Emily J. Williamson
Towards an Atomic Level Model of the Structure and Calmodulin Mediated Activation of eEF-2K, Nathan E. Will
Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson
Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases, E. Cameron Wilson
Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case, Georgia M. Winters
The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen
Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf
“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961, Ky N. Woltering
Private-Key Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Private Classification of Medical Data, Alexander N. Wood
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance, Alev Isil Yildirim
Neural Hypervigilance in Trauma-exposed Women, Seungyeon A. Yoon
Parent Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Offspring Mental Health: An Examination of Potential Mediators, Joanna Young
“Are They Supposed to Be Heugin?": Negotiating Race, Nation, and Representation in Korean Musical Theatre, Ji Hyon Yuh
The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff
Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900, Nicole Zeftel
Object Localization, Segmentation, and Classification in 3D Images, Allan Zelener
Direct Experimental Evidence of Toroidal Symmetry in a Lanthanide-Based Molecular Magnet, Qing Zhang
Domain-Specific Knowledge Exploration with Ontology Hierarchical Re-Ranking and Adaptive Learning and Extension, Grace G. Zhao
Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work, Philip Zigman
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
Can Mindfulness Training Reduce Stress Reactivity in First-Year College Students?, Liat Zitron
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719–1809, Heather Zuber
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
Interstructure Lattices and Types of Peano Arithmetic, Athar Abdul-Quader
Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham
Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from Nearby Molecular Clouds as a Probe of Cosmic Ray Density Variations, Ryan Abrahams
Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning, Julie Ackerman