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
Taxonomy, Taphonomy, and Bioerosion of Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Shark Teeth from Onslow Bay, North Carolina and an Example Extension from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the U.S.A., Harry M. Maisch IV
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
Essence, Explanation, and Modal Knowledge, Antonella Mallozzi
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Economics, Politics and the Environment, Ron Mandelbaum
Opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, Henry J. Manwell
The Distribution of Totally Positive Integers in Totally Real Number Fields, Tianyi Mao
Colorism in Assessor Ratings: Exploring the Roles of Social Dominance Orientation, Metaphorical Associations and Skin Tone Stereotypes, Tiwi D. Marira
Neonatal Stimulation of PKC Epsilon Signaling Normalizes Fragile X-Associated Deficits in PVN Oxytocin Expression and Later-Life Social and Anxiety Behavior, Alexandra E. Marsillo
Sunken II Chords and Inwardness: A Correspondence Complex in Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr Songs, Alexander J.J. Martin
There’s Nothing Here: Tenure, Attachment, and Changing Perceptions in Gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sara Martucci
The Dictators’ Dilemma: Repression or Concessions in the Face of Resistance, Chris Massaro
Standard and Anomalous Wave Transport Inside Random Media, Xujun Ma
The Brotherhood: Black Officers, Prisoners, and New York’s Crisis in Corrections, 1962–1984, Katherine Logan McBride
Adults’ Perceptions of Children with Mental Illness Labels Who Tell Truths and Lies, Jessica Lynn McCurdy
On Some Geometry of Graphs, Zachary S. McGuirk
Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry, Andrew McKinney
State Unbuilding: Presidents and the American National Security State, 1952–2016, Adam M. McMahon
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith
A History of Employee Ownership in the United States, Christopher Michael
The Structurally Adjusted School: School Restructuring and Youth Political Incorporation in Suburban America, Erin Michaels
Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel
Impact of Neurodevelopmental Genes on the Trajectory of ADHD Severity: A Pilot Study, Agnieszka Mlodnicka
Testing the Efficacy of Interventions to Decrease Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Karima Modjadidi
Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism, Kaitlin Mondello
Bacterial LPS at the Immune Modulating Component in Juzen-taiho-to, Diego Montenegro
Digesting Democracy: A Theoretical Analysis of American Food Regimes, Angela R. Moore
Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women, Philanthropy, and Italian State-Building, 1850-1890, Diana Moore
Multimodal Depression Detection: An Investigation of Features and Fusion Techniques for Automated Systems, Michelle Renee Morales
Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications to Macroeconomics and International Finance, Hiroshi Morita
Affecting Civil War: The Poetics of Fear in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Irene R. Morrison-Moncure
The New Veil: A Fundamentally Modern Phenomenon, Hassan Mortada
Strategies Involving the Food-Derived Agent Curcumin to Eliminate Brain Cancer, Sumit Mukherjee
The Effect of Nurse Residency Program Completion on Work Readiness of New Graduate Nurses Transitioning into Professional Practice, Suzanne Mullings-Carter
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study on an Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Collaborative Appearance-Based Place Recognition and Improving Place Recognition Using Detection of Dynamic Objects, Juan Pablo Munoz
NMR Characterizations of Candidate Battery Electrolytes, Stephen A. Munoz
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History, Brendan Murphy
It’s a Family Affair: Parental Configuration, Educational Attainment, and Race, Sandra Murphy
The Effects of a Voice Treatment on Facial Emotional Expression in Parkinson's Disease: Expressivity, Experience, and Gender, Elizabeth M. Murray
Biological Signatures of Emotion Regulation in Children, Sarah Myruski
Explaining Animosity Towards the Roma: A Case Study of Twitter Communication in Italy during the Refugee Crisis, Mayuko Nakatsuka
Rhetorique du Soi dans la litterature francophone haïtienne du XXe siècle. Manques et Manquements?, Jasmine Narcisse
Nature versus Nurture, Matilda Nikehasani
The Threats of Sea Level Rise: An Eco-Geopolitical Visual Analysis, Jorge L. Nowell-Enriquez
Managing Ambiguity: Nurses Caring for the Mother of a Stillborn Baby, Natasha J. Nurse
The State and Future of Autonomous Vehicle Regulation in the United States, Nikolay Nyashin
Manipulating Goal States and Brain States: Using EEG and HD-tDCS to Investigate Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Achievement Goals on Declarative Memory, Yuliya Ochakovskaya
Strauss and the City: The Reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier within New York City, 1907–1934, Christopher G. Ogburn
Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato, Nathan Oglesby
The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies, Emily L. Olsen
Darwin's Failures: Childless Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Rose P. O'Malley
Process Evaluation of Terrorism Amnesty and Reintegration Program, and Perceptions of the Program within Kenya Police, Resila Onyango
Segunda Parte de la Historia General Llamada Índica (1572) de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Estudio y Edición Anotada., Aleksín H. Ortega
Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community, Angelica Ortega
The Artfulness of Absence: A Linguistic Analysis of Simile and Metaphor, Kathryn Paige O'Shields
Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works, Leann Osterkamp
Stereotype Threat and Racial Disparities at the Front End of the Criminal Justice System, Megan J. O'Toole
Never Trust Anything That Bleeds for Seven Days and Doesn’t Die: Menstruation, Cultural Materialism, and Autoethnography, Anastasiya Panas
Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment, Spiridon Papanikolaou
A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Self-Regulatory Control in Adults with Gambling and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Nidhi Parashar
Visualizing Knowledge in the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Breviari d’amor, Joy Partridge
The Way We Dream Now: History, Theory, and LGBTQ Memoir in America, Megan Paslawski
Essays on the Economics of Driving and Health, Jessica Lynn Peck
The Phenomenon of Match-Fixing in Soccer: A Plague Without a Cure?, Nikolaos Petropoulos
The Therapeutic Potential of Natural Products from Vaccinium Berries for Viral and Lung Diseases Through an Improved LC-MS-Based Chemometric Approach, Vanya I. Petrova
Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film, Michael D. Phillips
Dolls Who Speak: Sex Robots, Cyborgs and the Image of Woman, Victoria E. Pihl Sorensen
Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Kartik Pilar
Throwing off the "Draggling Dresses": Women and Dress Reform, 1820-1900, Laura J. Ping
The Syndrome of Romantic Love, Arina Pismenny
Validity Testing of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey (GGNPS), Alexandra Plavskin
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Dream Visions and Dramatic Designs, Michael Plunkett
Casualties of Racism: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Emerging Adults, Lillian Anais Polanco
N-Representability in the Quantum Kernel Energy Method, Walter Polkosnik
Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis, Marcos Polonia
Military Citizenship in the Post-9/11 Homefront, Estefania Ponti
Physical Applications of the Geometric Minimum Action Method, George L. Poppe Jr.
The Theatrical King: Joseph Addison's Invention of Modern Sovereignty, Dan Poston
Relating Justification Logic Modality and Type Theory in Curry–Howard Fashion, Konstantinos Pouliasis
Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride
Synthesis and Characterization of Cytocompatible Sponge-Mimetic Scaffolds and Biomedical Polymers, Kamia Punia
Perceived Health: A Grounded Theory Study on How Young Black Men Process Their Health, Layla L. Qaabidh
Iron Oxide Nanomagnets in Polymer Matrices – Synthesis and Characterization, Shenjie Qiu
Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz, Juana M. Ramos
Due Process and the Right to Legal Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Marielos G. Ramos
Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning, Jesse Rappaport
The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen
