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
Essays on Inequality and Macroeconomic Stability, Thomas Hauner
The Effects of Childhood Irritability on Adolescent Outcomes and Treatment Response in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Estrella Heber
First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?, Ingrid T. Heidrick
Not My Queer: Queer Representation in Contemporary Italian Serial Television, Julia Heim
Uncovering What Readers Know: Understanding Readers’ Online and Offline Processes for Identifying Story Elements, Esther Hellmann
When Old Age Changed: Inventing the "Senior State," 1945-1975, Benjamin Hellwege
Arghhh! My Computer Screen Froze: A “Glitch” in K-12 Blended Learning Classrooms, Tricia P.A. Herbert
Translanguaging Practices for Educational Equity: Moments in a Bilingual Middle School Classroom, Luz Y. Herrera
Interval Cycles in György Kurtág’s Post-Dodecaphonic Late Music, Ramin Heydarbeygi
String Quartet No. 2, Ramin Heydarbeygi
The Performance Conversation: A Pragmatic, Curricular Approach to Speaking from the Stage, Barrett J. Hipes
Shame, Darwin, and Other Victorian Writers, Aaron Khai Han Ho
Leftist Militant Songs and War of Position in Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib
Knowing Others, Or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, and Acknowledging in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Meechal Hoffman
Rights and Feelings: Marriage Equality and the Language of Citizenship in Argentina and the United States, Julie Hollar
Heinrich Schenker’s Early Approach to Form, 1895–1921: Implications for His Late Work and Its Reception, Jason A. Hooper
Development of Authoring and Agency in Early Childhood Through Play, Pi-Chun Grace Ho
Parental Influence on Second Generation Chinese-American Youth’s Career Choice and Development, Yingli Huang
Secret and Divine Signs: A Cinematic Ode to the Art of Cruising, Terrence T. Hunt
Recognizing Freedom: Manumission in the Roman Republic, Tristan Husby
"Toccatas and Arias": Analysis and Historical Context of Vivian Fine’s Last Work for Solo Piano, Manon Hutton-DeWys
Song Rhythm Development in Zebra Finches, Julia Hyland Bruno
The Impact of Spirituality and Trauma on Appraisals of Psychotic-Like Experiences, Kathleen Isaac
The Racialization and Exploitation of Foreign Workers by the Law, Seiko Ishikawa
Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq, Heidi James Fisher
Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to the Home Country, Sou Hyun Jang
Regulation of the Amyloid Precursor Protein by Prostaglandin J2, A Mediator of Inflammation: Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease, Teneka L. Jean-Louis
Social Order and the Culture of Corruption in India, Arunodhaya Jebamani
Thine Is the Kingdom: The Political Thought of 21st Century Evangelicalism, Joanna Tice Jen
The Politics of Shorter Hours and Corporate-Centered Society: A History of Work-Time Regulation in the United States and Japan, Keisuke Jinno
The Role of Pitx Proteins in Early Xenopus Development, Ye Jin
Networked: New York City’s Charter Schools and the New Profiteers, Christina Johnson
K-12 Education, Pedagogy and Student Achievement, Genevieve Johnson
Meaning Through Things, Marilynn Johnson
The Impact of Teacher Perception of Professional Learning Communities on Student Algebraic Achievement, Tyrone John
Heritage Language Education in South Korea: Challenges and Demands, Mihyun Jo
Trumping Norms: Whither the International Liberal Order?, Maureen Jones
Acts of Provocation: Popular Antiracisms on/through the Twenty-First Century New York Commercial Stage, Stefanie A. Jones
The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in Postwar Los Angeles, Stephen Jones
Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States, Cara M. Jordan
Narrating Power and Injustice: How Young People Make Sense about Fairness, Svetlana Jovic
Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity, Mohamad Junaid
Essays in Financial Development and Income Inequality, Samuel M. Jung
Asymmetric Alliances and Side Payments: Alliance Politics Between Unequal Powers, Muhammad S. Kabir
The Failure of Post-War Reconstruction in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Indebtedness, Caste Exclusion and the Search for Alternatives, Ahilan Kadirgamar
Words of Change: How Linguistic Shifts Over the Course of a Short-Term Exposure Therapy Represent Movement Towards Psychological Health, Zachary A. Kahn
Toward a Social Ontology of the Family, Laura W. Kane
Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric, Allannah K. Karas
Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population, Maryam E. Karimi
From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016, Joshua Katz-Rosene
Design of Collagen-Mimetic Peptides, Parminder Jeet Kaur
Our Vile Age: Women and Class in the Interwar Novels of Nancy Mitford, Kelley Kawano
Worlds of If: Analyses of the Composed and Improvised Works of Robert Dick, Melissa Keeling
A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models, Ellyn Rolleston Keith
Secure and Efficient Delegation of a Single and Multiple Exponentiations to a Single Malicious Server, Matluba Khodjaeva
Expectations and Aspirations of Motherhood for Young Women in Foster Care, Joanna Kibel-Gagne
Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America, Chunrye Kim
Turaev Surfaces and Toroidally Alternating Knots, Seungwon Kim
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics, Michael Kirby
Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure, Thomas Kivatinos
The Relationship Between Non-Traditional Instructional Strategies and the Multicultural Competence of School Psychologists, Jacqueline Kluger
Effect of Implementation of Simulation on Critical Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Joanne M. Knoesel
Criminal Responsibility: Meta-analysis and Study Space, Lauren E. Kois
Perspectives on Emotional Climate Associated with Classroom Interactions, Hiro Komatsubara
Gender and Financial Risk Aversion, Efstathia Korkou
Effects of a Computer-based Simulation on Chemistry Self-Efficacy, Yolanta V. Kornak-Bozza
Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler, Ryan Kosseff-Jones
The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa
The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics, Rachel Kravetz
A Partial Nonlinear Extension of Lax-Richtmyer Approximation Theory, Aradhana Kumari
The P53 Independent Functions of Estrogen-Activated MDM2 in Cell Signaling and Mammary Architecture, Nandini Kundu
Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports, Leonid Lantsman
Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style, Barbara Laux
A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood
Gustave Vogt's Musical Album of Autographs: A Scholarly Edition, Kristin Leitterman
La nación está en otra parte: cultura y neoliberalismo en México (1977-1996), Rafael Lemus
Who Am I to You? Using Function Words as a Measure of Transference, Jon William P. Lentz
The Advanced Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue and Explosives, Jennifer M. Leonard
Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South, Jenny LeRoy
A Quasi-Experimental Study of a Health Patterning Modality about Childhood Vaginitis and Power in Haitian Primary Caregivers, Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce
Three Essays on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis with a Special Focus on Greece, Flora Leventi
Some Results in Combinatorial Number Theory, Karl Levy
The Fear Factor: Exploring the Impact of the Vulnerability to Deportation on Immigrants' Lives, Shirley P. Leyro
Albert Camus's Mediterraneanism in La Peste, Jacquelyn Libby
The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd
Weight Loss Maintenance: Women's Experience During Perimenopause, Karren B. Liebert
Recreational Music Exposure and Music-Induced Hearing Loss: A Systematic Literature Review, Carolyn Lindenbaum
Computational Investigation of the Pore Formation Mechanism of Beta-Hairpin Antimicrobial Peptides, Richard Lipkin
Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss
Olfactory Receptor Antagonism in the OR-I7 Aldehyde Receptor and the Mammalian Olfactory System, Min Ting Liu
Cruising Borders, Unsettling Identities: Toward a Queer Diasporic Asian America, Wen Liu