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
Mechanisms of Navigation in Fiddler Crabs: An Analysis of Allocentric and Egocentric Contributions, Stephen G. Volz
Cognitive and Neurobiological Degeneration of the Mental Lexicon in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Jet M. J. Vonk
Is It All Relative? Relative Pitch and L2 Lexical Tone Perception/Tone Language Comprehension by Adult Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers, Sloane C. von Wertz
The Fabric of Manhattan: Art and Industry in the Era of A.T. Stewart, Patricia Wadsley
Environmental Changes Turn on the Sinorhizobium Melitloti ExoR-ExoS/ChvI (RSI) Host Invasion Switch, Shari N. Walcott
Understanding Resilience Strategies Among Minor-Attracted Individuals, Allyson Walker
History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace
Mermaid Song: The Notebooks of the Writing Woman, Gianna T. Ward-Vetrano
Understanding the Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Emotional Memory using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, R. Rachel Weintraub-Brevda
From Design to Completion: The Transformation of U.S. War Memorials on the National Mall, Sara Jane Weintraub
The Column of Constantine at Constantinople: A Cultural History (330-1453 C.E.), Carey Thompson Wells
The Devil's Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (From Baudelaire to Burroughs), Henry A. Wermer-Colan
Development of 90th Percentile Norms for Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: A Feasibility Study, Iris Wertheimer
Should We Talk?: Examining Individual and Aggregate Level Predictors of Mediation Selection at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Cynthia-Lee Williams
The Behavioral Effects Divorce Can Have on Children, Wanda M. Williams-Owens
The Needed Man: The Evolution, Abandonment, and Resurrection of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B. Wilson
Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children, Courtney Wong
Performing Human Rights in Neoliberal Asia: Artistic and Activist Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Melissa Wansin Wong
A Girlhood Among Ghosts, An Experimental Project, Maple Wu
Exploring the Internal Statistics: Single Image Super-Resolution, Completion and Captioning, Yang Xian
Comparative Phylogeographic, Population Genomic, and Selection Inference with Development of Hierarchical Co-Demographic Models, Alexander Xue
In Search of Homo Sociologicus, Yunqi Xue
Contextual Differences in the Effect of Interference During Language Switching in Korean-English Bilingual Speakers, Jungmee Yoon
Las Letras de Fernando de Pulgar, nueva edición, estudio preliminar y notas, Ana-Maria Zaharescu
Rewriting Methods in Groups with Applications to Cryptography, Gabriel Zapata
A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese, Qi Zhang
Essays on the Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Stock Return and Country Output, Junnan Zhao
Fast Algorithms on Random Matrices and Structured Matrices, Liang Zhao
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2016
Saving Animals: Everyday Practices of Care and Rescue in the US Animal Sanctuary Movement, Elan L. Abrell
Con cuydadosos descuydos descubiertos: Una aproximación a la obra de José Camerino en el marco de la novela del siglo XVII, Beatriz G. Acrich Cohen
Speaking of Consequences: Contemporary Music for Political Discourse, Elizabeth Adams
Neighborhood and Community Change in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, Anthony G. Aggimenti
Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution, Elliot G. Aguilar
Calling Campus Police: A Test of Procedural Justice and Unresponsive Bystander Models, Michael Francis Aiello
The Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Touch Perception and Visuo-tactile Integration, Lei Ai
Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Character Building Initiatives at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound High School, Adeola A. Alexander
Perspectives on Iraq's Past, Present, and Future in the Works of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Amnah Almukhtar
Better Work and Global Governance, Paul Alois
Three Essays on the Effects of Childbearing on Economic Well-being and Health, Ramazan Onur Altindag
Reliability of Clinical Evaluators of Spasticity in Patients with Stroke, Tiffany Alvino, Shiney David, and Chelsea Gendvil
Role of BEC-1/Beclin 1 and Autophagy Genes in C.elegans Germline Cell Proliferation, Kristina Ames
Origén e influencia de la figura de Simón Bolívar en los escritores modernistas hispanoamericanos, Wilson Anaya
The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's Morte Darthur, Elsa K. Anderson
Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque, Maxine C. Anderson
(Dis)entangling Gender Expression and Race in Antigay Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach, Steph M. Anderson
The Effect of the Long Anchor Duration on Performance in the Temporal Bisection Procedure, Sho Araiba
Bilingual French Initiatives in Public Schools: A New York Story: New Opportunities, Diversity and Shared History and Values, Claire JM Arnod Horikawa
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction in an RtI Framework: Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in the Secondary Classroom, Lisa Auslander
A Dark Record: Criminal Discourse and the African American Literary Project, 1721-1864, Brian Baaki
Effect of CNTF Derived Peptide, P021 on Cognition and Pathology in 3xTG-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Narjes Baazaoui
Essays on Foreign Firms Following Deregistration from U.S. Exchanges, Kathleen Michelle Bakarich
Transactive Knowledge Systems, Shared Leadership Style, and Team Effectiveness, Christine L. Baker
Rogues in the Postcolony: The New Picaresque and the Making of Modern India, Stacey Balkan
Transition Issues in Educational Audiology, Rebecca Bareli
Brought Up For Each Other: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson, Susan Barile
Christ the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", Stephen Barnett
A Behavior Analytic Intervention to Teach Exploratory Motor Behavior to Infants with Down Syndrome, Sara M. Bauer
Cosmopolitan Corporealities: Extraordinary Bodies and the Politics of Remembering Mid-Twentieth Century Egyptian Pluralism, Balthazar Beckett
Export / Import: The Promotion of Contemporary Italian Art in the United States, 1935–1969, Raffaele Bedarida
Critical Youth Participatory Action Research to Reimagine Environmental Education with Youth in Urban Environments, Marissa E. Bellino
Maternal History of Neglect, Mind-Mindedness, and The Cycle of Neglect, Karin N. Belser
The Modernity of Tradition: Abraham Shalom Yahuda on Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", Ilan M. Benattar
Genres of Feminist Lives: Autobiography, Archives, and Community, 1970-1983, Meredith A. Benjamin
Computerized Classification of Surface Spikes in Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopic Reconstructions of Viruses, Younes Benkarroum
Empowerment from Within: Supporting Palestinian Women’s Struggle Against Violence, Ortal Bensky
Novel Electrolytes for Use in New and Improved Batteries: An NMR Study, Marc B. Berman
Bully Victimization, Depression, and the Role of Protective Factors among College-Age LGBTQ Students, Theresa E. Bhoopsingh
Tuning into Toxins and Channels: The Characterizations of Tv1 and a Human Cardiac Sodium Channel Voltage-Sensor Domain, Mohammed H. Bhuiyan
Ten Etudes for Solo Cello by Sofia Gubaidulina, Julia A. Biber
Assessing Higher- and Lower-Order Processing in Children With and Without ADHD: A Prospective Longitudinal Study, Adina T. Bitton
Extracting Indigeneity: Oil, Environment and Self-Determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), James J. A. Blair
This Species of Property: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1619-1783, John N. Blanton
"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays, Sara Remedios Bloom
Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene, Scott Adam Blumenthal
Art as Display, Frank M. Boardman
Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India, Natascia Boeri
Social Isolation, Social and Emotional Loneliness, and Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties in Older Adults with Hearing Loss, Yuliya Borik
Declining City, Born-Again Citadel: Faith-Based Organizations and the Reconstitution of Inequality in Postindustrial America, Michael J. Boyle
"Follow the Bodies": (Re)Materializing Difference in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Briana Grace Brickley
Death Priming in Investigations: The Effects on Worldview Threat, Out-Group Derogation, and Stereotyping, Laure Brimbal
Lucumi and the Children of Cotton: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Mapping of a Black Atlantic Politics of Religion, Akissi M. Britton
Wandering in Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
Edwin Fischer and Bach Performance Practice of the Weimar Republic, Bradley V. Brookshire
The Lived Experience of Aging Black Women with Diabetes Nurse-Person Relationships, Deidra G. Brown
The Emergence of the Bird in Andean Paracas Art. c. 900 BCE - 200 CE, Mary B. Brown
Suppression of High Transverse Momentum Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at 200 GeV Nucleon-Nucleon Center of Mass Energy, Jason B. Bryslawskyj
Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos D. Burgos
Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog, Steven R. Butler
Ecological Transitions of U.S. Elementary School Students: Their Short– and Long–Term Educational Outlooks, Anthony Buttaro Jr.
The Discursive Functioning of Knowledge Claims in Research Studies on Children’s Conceptual Knowledge of Number, Patrick D. Byers
The Politics of Middle Class Decline and Growth in Industrialized Democracies, 1980 to 2010, Young-hwan Byun
Alien, Illegal, Undocumented: Labeling, Context, and Worldview in the Immigration Debate and in the Lives of Undocumented Youth, David A. Caicedo