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
Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Drosophila Anterior Determinant, Bicoid, John McLaughlin
Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana, Katherine F. McLeod
A Survey of Athenian Block Grants of Citizenship, Mary Jean E. McNamara
Potential Modifications to Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Anderson-Fabry Disease, Mariam Meghdari
Modulation of Spasticity by Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation in Animals with Spinal Cord Injury, Wagdy Mekhael
Methods and Professionals Involved in Evaluating Postural Control in the Autism Spectrum Disorder Population: A Systematic Review, Christina Melora
Decomposing Time Effect on Valuation and Choice, Yan Meng
Lipid Sensing by Mammalian Target of Rapamycin, Deepak Menon
The Effects of Parametrically Manipulating the Ratio of Complimentary to Constructive Feedback Statements on Performance, Amanda Mentzer
Cyber Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Measurement, Prediction, and Means for Reduction, Brittany K. Mercado
The Under-Explored Role of Tiredness in Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay and Bisexual Men, Brett M. Millar
A Political Ecology of Information: Media and The Dilemma of State Power in China, Michael L. Miller
Hatred Simmering in the Melting Pot: Hate Crime in New York City, 1995-2010, Colleen E. Mills
On Subcomplete Forcing, Kaethe B. Minden
"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole, Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry
Motivating Morphological Constituents: A Learning-Based Analysis of Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish, Ignacio Lorenzo Montoya
Optical Forces Generated by Plasmonic Nanostructures, Matthew A. Moocarme
Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran
Hearing Related Concerns Among Parkinson’s Patients and Their Care Partners, Samantha Morgan
Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920, Kristin L. Moriah
The Relationship Between Clinical Teaching Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence in Clinical Nurse Faculty in Pre-licensure Baccalaureate Programs in New York State, Caroline K. Mosca
The Short Story and the Photographic: Twentieth-Century Imagetexts In and Of the Americas, Lucienne Muller
Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century, Lisa Murray
Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency, Matthew Murray
Genealogy of the Concept of "Hate Crime": The Cultural Implications of Legal Innovation and Social Change, Roslyn Myers
Theatre Translation as Historiography: Projections of Greek Self-Identity Through English Translations During the European Crisis, Maria Mytilinaki
Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler
Pharmacological Antagonism and the Olfactory Code, Mihwa Na
Max Kowalski's Japanischer Frühling: A Song Collection from the Period of the Jewish Cultural Alliance in Nazi Germany, Nils Neubert
Black Models Matter: Challenging the Racism of Aesthetics and the Facade of Inclusion in the Fashion Industry, Scarlett L. Newman
Social Work Students' Endorsement of Recovery-Oriented Principles and Practices When Working with Consumers Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness, Jennifer M. Nikou
Exploring the Relationship between Sequence Learning, Motor Coordination, and Language Development, Rita Obeid
The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind, Tyler Okney
Do Spellings of Words and Phonemic Awareness Training Facilitate Vocabulary Learning in Preschoolers?, Robin O'Leary
An Examination of the Needham Question: Why Didn't China Have a Scientific Revolution Considering Its Early Scientific Accomplishments?, Rebecca L. Olerich
Things We Dare Not See: Media Revisions of Incestuous Relationships, Mattheus M. Oliveira
Structural and Biochemical Studies of the DNA Replication Initiation Mechanism of the Second Chromosome of Vibrio cholerae, Natalia Orlova
Toward a Reoriented Radicalism: Black Marxism and Orientalism, Alexandros Orphanides
Ecology, Evolution, and Sexual Selection in the Invasive, Globally Distributed Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata), M. Aaron Owen
Between Speech & Song: Clarifying the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Sara M. Paar
The Recycling GTPase, RAB-10, Regulates Autophagy Flux in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nicholas J. Palmisano
Naturally-Derived Molecular Ensembles in Medicine, Materials Science and Evolutionary Biology: An Interdisciplinary Study, Silvio Panettieri
Trypanosome Lytic Factor Mediated Immunity Against Leishmania sp., Jyoti Pant
Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel, Santiago Parga Linares
Three Essays on Inequality in the United States, Gowun Park
Therapeutic Exploitation of Metabolic Checkpoints In Cancer Cells, Deven S. Patel
Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States, David Pearson
An Examination of Therapeutic Alliance During Prolonged Exposure in the Treatment of a Comorbid PTSD and SUD Population, Annelisa Pedersen
Procedural Justice for Youth: Discrepancies in the Provision of Defense Counsel for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Emily K. Pelletier
Critical Play: Agency, Interdependency, and Intersectionality in an Early Childhood Classroom, Maria Persons
Thresholds of Atrocity: Liberal Violence and the Politics of Moral Vision, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Individual Levels of Bias and Immigration Policies in the United States: A Test and Extension of the Dual Processing Model of Bias, Lorraine Phillips
Cortical Thickness Abnormalities Within the Salience and Reward Networks in Older Depressed Adults with Apathy, Monique A. Pimontel
Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera
Encountering Place, Pedagogy, and Culture: Study Abroad and Experiential Learning in Morocco and Indonesia, Jennifer M. Pipitone
Feature Selection From Large Acoustic Feature Sets in Computational Paralinguistics, Dara Pir
The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature, Sixto E. Portilla
Open Source Micro Diplomas: New Credentials for New Learning, Jack F. Powers
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
Genre, Representation, and Memory in Spanish Civil War Texts by Women from Spain and the United States, Jennifer Prince
Syntax and Semantics of Perceptual Representation, James K. Quilty-Dunn
Approximation Algorithms for Effective Team Formation, George Rabanca
Merchandise, Promotion, and Accessibility: Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, Amy L. Raffel
Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine, Lakshmi Ramanathan
Stress as a Cultural Tool in Higher Education, Nadia Ramjit
Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space, Anna Rascovar
Making Sense of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen
A Conceptualization of the Body in Psychodynamic and Body-Based Psychotherapies: Areas of Overlap and Possibilities for Integration, Aleksandra Rayska
Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939), Lauren Reches
The Nature of Introspection, Adriana Renero
Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler
Sacralizar lo efímero: Configuración del amante y el amado en Luis Cernuda y César Moro, Lena R. Retamoso Urbano
Brief and Extended Experimental Analysis of Spelling Deficits, Kimberly Reyes-Giordano
Jazz and Recording in the Digital Age: Technology, New Media, and Performance in New York and Online, Dean S. Reynolds
Dancing Silhouettes: Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed: A Critical Study, Maria N. Rhodes
Cochlear Implantation in Adults with Neurofibromatosis Type II: Outcomes, Benefits, and Limitations, Lydia Riehl
“Just Get it Done”: How the New York City High School Admissions Process is Re-defining the Work & Identities of Professionals in Screened High School-Programs, Heather Rippeteau
Women in the Workplace: The Impact of Earning Potential Empowerment and the Work-Life Balance, Alysha-Beth Rodriguez
Essays on the Economic Well-Being of Women, Timothy A. Roeper
The Conflict of Progressive and Conservative Tendencies in the Film Work of Steranko, James H. Romberger
The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico, Domenico Romero
Asymptotic Counting Formulas for Markoff-Hurwitz Tuples, Ryan Ronan
Deconstructing Rape Culture Through An Exploration of Consent, Desire, and Pleasure, Yael Rosenstock
Imperial Butterfly, Dagmar Rothschild
Letter to the President: Longitudinal Critical Discourse Analysis of Academic and Hip Hop Genres in a Rap Narrative Program, Debangshu Roygardner
Embodying Rhythm Nation: Multimodal Hip Hop Dance as a Site for Adolescent Social-Emotional and Political Development, Lauren M. Roygardner
Medical Student Knowledge Regarding Age Related Hearing Loss and Amplification, Max L. Rubin
University Education for the Creation of the Black Middle Class: Kigali, Rwanda, Chrystina L. Russell
Choteo Cubano: Humor as a Critical Tool in Twentieth-Century Cuban Theater, Rebecca L. Salois
Reflections on the Implementation of Improved Outcomes for Children and Its Impact on the Capacity of Child Welfare Workers to Deliver Services, Rita Sanchez-Torres
Culturas emocionales: Narrativa escrita por mujeres cubanas durante el periodo especial (1992–2005), Laura Sandez
A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech, Jeremy Sawyer
A Combined Computational Strategy of Sequence and Structural Analysis Predicts the Existence of a Functional Eicosanoid Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster, Michael Scarpati