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
Modern Arts and Pueblo Traditions in Santa Fe, 1909–1931, Elizabeth S. Hawley
Musicking, Discourse, and Identity in Participatory Media Fandom, Aya Esther Hayashi
The Narration of Conflicting Accountabilities in the Era of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation, James Christopher Head
Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers
Las novelas de la Violencia y la Revolución en la formación del Frente Nacional en Colombia y el Estado revolucionario mexicano, Luis J. Henao Uribe
Charge State Dynamics and Quantum Sensing with Defects in Diamond, Jacob D. Henshaw
Women’s Suffrage in American Art: Recovering Forgotten Contexts, 1900-1920, Elsie Y. Heung
Powerhouse Chihuahua: Electricity, Water, and the State in the Long Mexican Revolution, Jonathan Hill Jr
Influence of the Silk Road Trade on the Craniofacial Morphology of Populations in Central Asia, Ayesha Yasmeen Hinedi
The Effect of an Extinction Procedure on Level of Responding to Visual Stimuli in an Evaluative Conditioning Procedure, Allison Hirsch
Synthesis and Evaluation of Densely-Functionalized Troponoids, Danielle R. Hirsch
“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry
Gendering Flexicurity: The Effects of Flexicurity on Gender Equality, Szu-Ying Ho
Absences and Epistemologies of Ignorance: A Critical Multi-Sited Study on the Teaching of the Danish Colonial and Slave Trading Past, Naja B. Hougaard
The Study of Soft Power: China’s Presence in African Region, Jessica Huang
The Social Life of Black Thought in the Long Eighteenth Century, Kristina Huang
Essays in New Keynesian Monetary Policy, Tzu-Hao Huang
Innovation Under Stress, Zhaojun Huang
Vision-based Assistive Indoor Localization, Feng Hu
Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements, Amanda Huminski
Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain
The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim
Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby
Enhancing 3D Visual Odometry with Single-Camera Stereo Omnidirectional Systems, Carlos A. Jaramillo
The Philosophical Foundations of PLEN: A Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms, Ralph E. Jenkins
Swimming in a Sea of No's: Controlling and Managing the New York Public Pools, Mette L. Jensen
Analyzing Genre in Post-Millennial Popular Music, Thomas Johnson
The Tuskegee Revolt: Student Activism, Black Power, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington, Brian P. Jones
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
Music Intensity in the Ear Canal in Quiet and in Subway Noise Using Four Different Headphones, Meghan A. Joyce
Phonetic Properties of Oral Stops in Three Languages with No Voicing Distinction, Stephanie M. Kakadelis
Quantum and Classical Transport of 2D Electrons in the Presence of Long and Short Range Disorder, Jesse Kanter
"When We Demand Our Share of This World”: Struggles for Space, New Possibilities of Planning, and Municipalist Politics in Mumbai, Malav J. Kanuga
P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
Development and Transfer of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Special Education Teachers, Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis
Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor
Insurgent Difference: An Ethnography of an Indian Resource Frontier, Madhuri Karak
Socialization Trajectories of Civic Development: Examining Variation Among Children in Black Immigrant and African American Families, Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles
Morality as Social Software, Jongjin Kim
Input and Output in the Acquisition of Russian as a Heritage Language During the Third Year of Life, Ekaterina V. Kistanova
Increasing Access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Transgender Women and Trans Feminine Non-Binary Individuals in New York City, Augustus Klein
Cynic and Epicurean Parrhesia in Horace's Epodes 5 & 6: Appropriating a Parallel Philosophical Debate For Poetic Purposes, Kent Klymenko
Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes, Eric A. Knudsen
Finding Paths via Quantum Systems and Its Application for Quantum Algorithms, Daniel S. Koch
Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash
Music for AI Reports: Dual Prospects in Music Production, Achim Koh
Essays on Wealth Inequality and Asset Pricing, Georgios Koimisis
The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment to Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Effects of Structural and Electronic Disorder in Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 Thin Films, Inna Korzhovska
EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Being in Performance: A Philosophical Account of the Embodied Actor, Brad M. Krumholz
The Advection-Diffusion Equation and the Enhanced Dissipation Effect for Flows Generated by Hamiltonians, Michael Kumaresan
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids and Garnet-Type Li7La3Zr2O12, Shen Lai
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
