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
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen
Probing the Gelation Phenomena in Molecular and Seed-Based Gels, Malick Samateh
On Different Parametrizations of Feynman Integrals, Ray Daniel Sameshima
Mindfulness in Medicine: Modified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program among Future Doctors, Virtue Sankoh
Towards a Mathematical Model of Motility Using Dictyostelium discoideum: Proteins and Geometric Features that Regulate Bleb-Based Motility, Zully Santiago
Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed
Intention and Interpretation in Law, Cosim J. Sayid
Signals in the Black Stack / GEOMEtyr Design Manual, Jason T. Scaglione
TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries, Michael N. Scharf
Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World, Amy B. Schiller
The Practice of Mainland Chinese Students Adopting English Names and Its Motivations, T. Leo Schmitt
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani
Swedish Migration Politics: Have the Sweden Democrats Taken Over the Political Agenda?, Sofia Sedergren
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Corinne Ann Settecase-Wu
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Words Are Found Responsible: Poetry's Jurisdiction and the Transformation of Equal Rights, Talia Shalev
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Minor Forms, Dismantled Norms: Mediums of Modernism in Pakistan, Gemma Sharpe
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
The Implementation Fidelity of the Family Finding Intervention through the Lens of Permanency Specialists, Liat L. Shklarski
Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle, Oren Shmuel
Analysis of a Group of Automorphisms of a Free Group as a Platform for Conjugacy-Based Group Cryptography, Pavel Shostak
Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
The Untapped Potential of Ethnic Community Networks: Urban Resiliency and the Chinese Commuter Van System in New York City, Alexandra Diane Smith
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982, Gillian Sneed
Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers
Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Investigating the Feasibility of Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.): An Innovated and Practical Intervention to Enhance Police Mindfulness and Resilience, Stephanie B. Stern
Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects, LeeAnn S. Stevens
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
The Counseling Advantages of Rechargeable Hearing Aid Batteries, Belinda M. Sun
On the Complexity of Computing Galois Groups of Differential Equations, Mengxiao Sun
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
Privileges for Being Slaves: Christian Missionaries in the Early Qing Court, Litian Swen
Performing Rhythmic Dissonance in Ligeti’s Études, Book 1: A Perception-Driven Approach and Re-notation, Imri Talgam
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
Hyaluronan at the Brain-Environment Interface, Donald M. Thevalingam
Being Together: Imaginaries of Coexistence and Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Writings, Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979–Present, Jennifer J. Thompson
“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson
A Differential Algebra Approach to Commuting Polynomial Vector Fields and to Parameter Identifiability in ODE Models, Peter Thompson
Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh
Outcomes in Children with Additional Disabilities Following Cochlear Implantation: A Systematic Review, Rebecca M. Tuchman
The Impact of Local Broadband Coverage on U.S. Firms’ Information Environment, Zhiyuan Tu
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
Essays on Bank Acquisitions and Systemic Risk, Farindokht Vaghefi
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
Estudio Variacionista sobre las Formas de Tratamiento en Buga, Colombia, Diego Vargas Barona
Little Egypt: A Critical Biography, Katherine Vecchio
What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece, Christian J. Vella
Innate Antibodies, Murine Models, and Evolution: A Study of Trypanosome Lytic Factor Functions and Their Translational Applications, Joseph P. Verdi
Screening for Hearing Loss: Physician Attitudes and Practice, Theresa N. Vitale
American Sign-Language (ASL) for Audiologists, Colette Vossler-Welch
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition between al Qaeda and ISIS, Hristo Voynov
The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland
Hermitian Maass Lift for General Level, An Hoa Vu
Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen
Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker
War and Peace in American Seduction: Seduction Communities, Heterosexual Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy in New York City, Anders Wallace
A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry, Justin H. Walsh
Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993, Amanda S. Wasielewski
School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb
Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp, Elizabeth A. Weinfield
Implications of Vestibular Dysfunction Among the Aging Population: A Pocket Guide for Health Care Professionals, Maia L. Weisenfeld
Frontiers of Conditional Logic, Yale Weiss
Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
The Diffusion of a Movement Moment: Labor Organizing in the Shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Pamela Whitefield
Peptide Mediated Co-assembly of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials for Light Harvesting and Catalysis, WSM Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
The Crusader and the Dictator: An Exploration of Ideology and Neurodivergence in Contemporary Technology Practice, David J. Williams
The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson
“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, Celeste Winston
An Evolutionary Perspective on Foraging Strategies and Group Dynamics in Bio-Social Inspired Cognitive Radio Networks, Anna Wisniewska
Basic-Acceptance Teleosemantics, Esteban Withrington
Renal Specific RNAi Delivery by Fibrillar Nanoparticle Excipients, Sam Wong
"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment in Poetry and the Ethics of Representation, Darren Wood
A Novel Kinesin Adapter Directly Mediates Dendritic mRNA Localization During Synapse Development, Hao Wu
Heterocycle Synthesis from Quinols, Jing Wu
Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor, Tommy Wu
Accelerators: Their Fit in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Their Cohort Selection Challenges, Shu Yang
Emergent Critical Properties in Liquid-Gas Transition and Single Dislocations in Solid He4, Max Yarmolinsky
Cue-based reflexive reference resolution: Evidence from Korean reflexive caki, Namseok Yong
Interplay of Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Topological Phases of Matter, Cody Youmans
