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 2017
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Defects and Domain Structures in Perovskite-Type Dielectric Ceramics, David J. Ascienzo
Subversion and Transcendence in the Latin American Modern Travel Novel (1928-1976), Andrea Babsky
Bodies of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender in the Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
You Need Violence and Sincerity: Godard and the Manufacturing of a Revolutionary Cinema, Matthew Ballinger
The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro
Why Some Take Pleasure in Other People’s Pain: The Role of Attachment, Competition, and Cooperation on Schadenfreude, Alison Baren
Harm and Victim Age as Factors in the Determination of Intentionality and Culpability, Donal David Barnard Jr.
The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Marissa A. Barrera
Spatial-Relational Learning and Memory Deficits Associated with NMDAR Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Brittany L. Bascetta
W.E.B. Du Bois: Freedom, Race, and American Modernity, Elvira Basevich
Manifold Convergence: Sewing Sequences of Riemannian Manifolds with Positive or Nonnegative Scalar Curvature, Jorge E. Basilio
The Analysis of Musical Dramaturgy in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Danielle J. Bastone
“The Monster They've Engendered in Me”: Gothic Strategies in African American and Latina/o Prison Literature, 1945-2000, Jason Baumann
Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development, Diana Baus
Overpopulation and the Impact on the Environment, Doris Baus
The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect in Men, Robert A. Beattey Jr.
Diversity's Impact on the Quality of Deliberations, Amanda N. Bergold
Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan, Zachary S. Berman
Ecologies of the Passions in Early Modern English Tragedies, Roya Biggie
The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites, John Bigolski
Quantum Optical Interferometry and Quantum State Engineering, Richard J. Birrittella Jr
Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork
The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Layla Blodgett Carrillo
Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Satellite Snow and Sea Ice Detection, George Bonev
Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences, Christin P. Bowman
Personalizing an Implicit Measure of Job Satisfaction, Brittany Boyd
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons for Housing and Labor, Marnie F. Brady
Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study, Carol Brathwaite
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Semantic Attention: Effects of Modality, Lexicality and Semantic Content, David Britton
African American Male Veterans’ Illness Representation and Reported Self-Management Practices of High Blood Pressure, Tammie Brodie
Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology, Sharmaine Browne
Expanding Intersectionality Praxis: Informing Culturally-Responsive Programming for Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Young Men, Justin T. Brown
A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975), Megan Brown
Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown
Evil and the Ontological Disproof, Carl J. Brownson III
Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program for the Naturalization of Metaphysics, Amanda Bryant
Three Essays on Fiscal Policy, Sinem Buber Singh
Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?, Chelsie Burchett
The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke
Dictatorship Across Borders: How Brazil Influenced the Chilean Coup d’état of 1973, Mila Burns Nascimento
Great Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century: The Ukrainian Example, Oksana Byeha
The Fat Female Bodies of Saturday Night Live: Uncovering the Normative Cultural Power of a Countercultural Comedy Institution, Katharine Cacace
Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration, and the Women Who Remained Behind, 1880-1914, Victoria Calabrese
Walking as Ontological Shifter: Thoughts in the Key of Life, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo
Morphogenesis and Growth Driven by Selection of Dynamical Properties, Yuri Cantor
Open Works: Between the Programmed and the Free, Art in Italy 1962 to 1972, Lindsay A. Caplan
A Necessary Lens: The History of Privacy in the United States 1890-1999, Lawrence Cappello
Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003, Tatiana Carayannis
By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising, Maria L. Carreon
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
Capturing the Attention of Caregivers: Variability in Infant Vocalizations, Catharine A. Castelluccio de Diesbach
The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals, Mirela Cengher
Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners, Marie L. Cerat
"La Dolce Vita" Today: Fashion and Media, Nicola Certo
Aspects of Quantifier Float in Thai, Khanin Chaiphet
Electoral System Effects: Institutions and Context or New and Old Democracies, Helen Chang
Some Metric Properties of the Teichmüller Space of a Closed Set in the Riemann Sphere, Nishan Chatterjee
Lengua y violencias en Colombia: Discursos sobre patrimonio lingüístico (1991-2010), Carolina Chaves-O'Flynn
Chloride and Proton Binding in the E. coli 2Cl¯:1H+ CLC Exchanger, Catherine Chenal
Wave Propagation Inside Random Media, Xiaojun Cheng
Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women, Kuan-Yi Chen
As if by Magic: Unleashing Critical and Expressive Voices Through a Rhetoric of "This/And" in First-Year Composition, Nolan Chessman
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for Li-Ion Batteries, Lisa Cirrincione
Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror, Erin Liat Claridge
I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal, Marci M. Clark
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Constructions of New England Identity and Place in American Music, 1885-1935, Jacob A. Cohen
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Thule Iron Use in the Pre-contact Arctic, Eileen Colligan
Preventing Sexual Violence Where It Most Often Occurs: An Investigation of the Situational and Structural Components of Child Sexual Abuse in Residential Settings, Nicole Colombino
Women’s Sexual Fantasies in Context: The Emotional Content of Sexual Fantasies, Psychological and Interpersonal Distress, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships, Sarah Constantine
A Normative Account of Political Representation, Kenneth R. Courtney
Automatically Guilty: Associations Between Evidence and Guilt, William E. Crozier IV
Liberal Translations: Secular Concepts, Law, and Religion in Colonial Egypt, Jeffrey Culang
The Effects of Social Power Bases Within Varying Organizational Cultures, Ayanna Cummings
Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York, Gordon A. Dale
William Bolcom’s "Twelve New Etudes" (1988): Theoretical and Interpretative Analysis, Ran Dank
Racial Microaggressions and Health Status: The Moderating Effect of Emotion Regulation, Kristin C. Davidoff
Impressive Failures: Mavericks of Film Authorship and the Impossibility of Success in Hollywood, Tom S. Davies
Imagining Basic Income as an International and Domestic Remedy to Wealth Inequality, Christian A. Davis
Education Is Transformation: The Impact of Attitudes, Robert DeCaul
La Symbolique païenne dans l'oeuvre de René Depestre, Wilson Decembre
Arte de resistencia de escritoras latinas en los Estados Unidos: Magali Alabau y Carmen Boullosa, Agustin De Jesus
Essays in Corporate Responsibility and Finance, Mert Demir
The Role of Language in the Development of Temporal Cognition in 6- to 10-Year-Old Children, Danielle DeNigris
Occlusion Effects in Various Testing Conditions Using Insert Earphones, Amanda M. DeSantolo
Never Forgets: Traumatic Trace Within Public Space, Jan Descartes
Transferring Paremias. Cultural, Linguistic, and Literary Transitions of Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by Vincenzo Brusantino, Pompeo Sarnelli, and John Florio, Daniela D'Eugenio
Fitting-in: How Formerly Incarcerated New York City Black Men Define Success Post-Prison, Mika'il DeVeaux
Beyond the Obvious: Emerging Contaminants and Biogeochemistry as a Cause and Solution for Nitrogen Pollution, Stephanie L. DeVries
Thinking About the Self While Talking to Someone Else: Investigating Self-Focus in Conversation, Carrie DiMatteo
Removal of Organic Micro-Pollutants from Water Using Sewage Sludge Based Composite Adsorbents, Rui Ding
"Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime": Liberal Carceral Logics and the Reproduction of Settler Colonial Violence in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land