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
The Nucleus Accumbens Core Dopamine D1 and Glutamate AMPA/NMDA Receptors Play a Transient Role in the Performance of Pavlovian Approach Behavior, Veronica Dobrovitsky
The Lived Experience of Feeling Disrespected, Nadine Donahue
The Variation in Russia’s Foreign Policy in Near Abroad After the Disintegration of the USSR, Nataliia Donchenko
The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation, Daniel Douglas
Characterization of Hydrophobic Interactions of Polymers with Water and Phospholipid Membranes Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Mihaela Drenscko
Enhancing and Evaluating Scientific Argumentation in the Inquiry-Oriented College Chemistry Classroom, Annabel D'Souza
The Technocratic Politics of the Common Core State Standards in History, Kate Duguid
Spectacular Politics and Everyday Performance: Tracing Music from Ceauşescu’s Romania to Multicultural America, Benjamin Dumbauld
Coping, Accommodations, and Strategies: An Interview Study on Academic and Employment Experiences with Adults with Dyslexia, Rita W. El-Haddad
Escribiendo para desahogarme: Release and Resistance in a Middle School Bilingual Writing Workshop, Carla Espana
Seeing and Being Seen: A Multimodal Inquiry of Multilingual High School Newcomers and Their Contributions to Educational Communities, Ivana Espinet
The Contributions of Child and Romantic Attachment to Sleep Quality, Karen Estefane
Spectral Bodies: Women's Resistance Across Time in North America, Whitney C. Evanson
Detecting Majorana Fermion Induced Crossed Andreev Reflection, Lei Fang
ADHD and Theory of Mind in School-Age Children: Exploring the Cognitive Nature of Social Interactions in Children with ADHD, Rachel Feigenbaum
Essays on Capital Structure and Institutional Ownership, Yuan Feng
The Proscriptive Principle and Logics of Analytic Implication, Thomas M. Ferguson
Estradiol, Substance P, and the PI3K-Akt-mTOR Pathway in the Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord During Inflammatory Pain, Zane Ferguson
Intercusp Geodesics and Cusp Shapes of Fully Augmented Links, Rochy Flint
Zooarchaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Newly Excavated Middle Pleistocene Deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa, Frances L. Forrest
LIM Protein Ajuba Directly Interacts with Replication Protein A to Prevent ATR DNA Damage Response, Sandy Wan Shan Fowler
Spatial Prepositions in Spanish, Carolina Fraga
The Economics of American Higher Education, Robin Freedman
Sex Differences in the Anxiety Effects of Cannabinoids, Helen T. French
Reinventing the Wheel of Teaching Business? Learning in the Academic Classroom - The Case of the Business Consulting Course, Francesco R. Frova
One Endless Dance: Tanaka Min's Experimental Practice, John (Zack) Fuller
Reimagining the Collective: Black Popular Music and Recording Studio Innovation, 1970-1990, Will Fulton
The Willfulness of a Missing Frame: Ahmed Zaki and the Politics of Visual Resistance, Miriam M. Gabriel
Synthesis and Evaluation of Tetrahydroprotoberberines as Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Satishkumar V. Gadhiya
Dopamine D1 and D3 Receptor Polypharmacology in Cocaine Reward and Cocaine Seeking, Ewa J. Galaj
An Evaluation of the Effects of the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Program on Short- and Intermediate-Term Outcomes, Raymond Galinski
The Effects of Pre-Trial Event Stimulus Properties on Timing in the Peak Interval Procedure, Daniel A. Garces
Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York, Lorena García-Barroso
Involute Analysis: Virtual Discourse, Memory Systems and Archive in the Involutes of Thomas De Quincey, Kimberley A. Garcia
Heterojunction Engineering for Next Generation Hybrid II-VI Materials, Thor Garcia
"Propaganda for Democracy": The Vexed History of the Federal Theatre Project, Karen E. Gellen
Are You With Me? The Impact of Losing a Conversation Partner’s Attention to a Mobile Device, Zachary A. Geller
A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature, Sean Gerrity
Posthumanist Animals in Art: France and Belgium, 1972-87, Arnaud Gerspacher
A Systematic Review of Occupational Music-Induced Hearing Loss, Lilach Gez Saperstein
Distribution and Activation of Catecholaminergic Neurons in the Brain of Male Plainfin Midshipman Fish: Divergence in Behavior and Reproductive Phenotype, Zachary Ghahramani
Synthesis of Complex/Multifunctional Metal (Hydr)oxide/Graphite Oxide/AuNPs or AgNPs Adsorbents and Analysis of their Interactions with Chemical Warfare Agents, Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis
Characterizing Cool Brown Dwarfs and Low-Mass Companions with Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra, Paige Godfrey
Capture and Abandon: Social Reproduction and Informal Land Tenure in Jamaica, Rachel Goffe
"The World of Our Children": Jews, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Place and Race on the Lower East Side, 1963-1993, Barry Goldberg
From the Making to the Tuning to the Use of Chlorins for Biomedical Applications, Junior Gonzales
Mental Illness Stigma and Community Integration: Linking Perceived Experiences with Reported Behavior, Lauren L. Gonzales
El significado de la construcción con ser focalizador en el español de Colombia, Ana I. González Támara
A Realization of Modernity: Case Studies in Connectivity and Time, Mari Gorman
Una democracia aterrorrizada: Justicia y afecto en los textos de la transición democrática Argentina, Mariana Graciano
From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the United States, Jason H. Greenberg
Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist, Ian F.P. Green
A Reformers' Union: Land Reform, Labor, and the Evolution of Antislavery Politics, 1790–1860, Sean G. Griffin
Collaboration Revisited: The Performative Art of Claude Cahun and Hannah Weiner, Phillip L. Griffith
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905, Timothy M. Griffiths
Warmth and Competence Traits: Perceptions of Female and Male Nurse Stereotypes, Randolph E. Gross
“Pay, Protection, and Professionalism”: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing and the Future of Home Health Care in the United States, Julia R. Gruberg
Solving Algorithmic Problems in Finitely Presented Groups via Machine Learning, Jonathan Gryak
El español de Canarias y la canariedad en la España autonómica: Un estudio glotopolítico, Pablo Guerra
Counting Rational Points, Integral Points, Fields, and Hypersurfaces, Joseph Gunther
Elimination for Systems of Algebraic Differential Equations, Richard Gustavson
The Queer Allure of Digital Sociality, Benjamin Parrish Haber
Joint Laver Diamonds and Grounded Forcing Axioms, Miha Habič
The Role of Glutamate Neurotransmission in the Ventral Tegmental Area in the Expression of Conditioned Approach Learning, Priscila Hachimine-Merli
Essays on Economics of Inequality, Aboozar Hadavand
Behavioral Responses to Pulses of Light in the Longfin Inshore Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii (Lesueur, 1821), Stavros P. Hadjisolomou
Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Histone Variant H2A.Z During Sea Urchin Development, Mihai Hajdu
From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist, Alexis Halkovic
On London Ground: The Landscape Paintings of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, Lee Hallman
Butch Between the Wars: A Pre-History of Butch Style in Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Film, Karen Allison Hammer
The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music, Aaron Harcus
Prescription Opioid Misuse: Initiation, Sources of Supply, and the Role of Medical Providers, Alexandra Harocopos
The Transgenerational Transmission of Emotion Regulation: The Effect of Maternal Coping on Child Executive Functioning, Devon J. Harrison
Solo Performance: An Extension of Vocal Pedagogy, Monica J. Harte
Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’s Leadership in Jordan, Widad Hassan
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