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
Characterization and Quantification of Covalent Modification of Proteins Using Mass Spectrometry, Pratikkumar N. Rathod
The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Unveiling Chaim Shatan: An Analyst Unveiling War Wounds, Andrea Recarte
The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages, Juan R. Recondo
Event-Related Potential Studies of Error Monitoring to Affective and Non-Affective Stimuli in Adolescents and Emerging Adults, Rebecca K. Reed
A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's Tango-Études pour flûte seule: An Analytical Approach, Asis Reyes
Unusual Accidental Signs, Microtonal Inflections, and Marchetto of Padua, Alan D. Richtmyer
New Dyes for Cancer Theranostics, Waqar Rizvi
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
The American Whig Party and Slavery, Mitchell Rocklin
Gender and Terrorism: A Homeland Security Perspective, Diana Rosa Rodriguez-Spahia
An Examination of the Relationships Between Stressors, Correctional Burnout, and Job Outcomes, Erin Rogers
The State of Hate in America: A Study of Hate Group Permeation in the United States by State, Michelle Rogers
Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ, Paul M. Romita
The Politics of Service: Affectivity, Social Relations, and the Power of Tipping in the Restaurant Industry, Jacqueline A. Ross
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
The Lines Between the Lines: Stage Directions as Fluid, Affective Collaborations Between Theatre Texts and Theatre Makers, Sarah Bess Rowen
Vectorial Realities: Foucault and the Politics of the Literary Address, Jiyoung Ryu
Stereotype Threat as an Explanation for Sexual Risk Taking Behavior in Gay Men: A Multi-Study Exploration of Mechanisms, Inna Saboshchuk
Langston Hughes in Turkestan: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks 1932–1933, Zahera Z. Saed
Time-Series and Cross-Section Variation of Bond Risk Premia, Niloofar Sahebalzamany
Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States, Sara Salman
The Unsuspected Francis Lieber, Richard Salomon
Insurgent Knowledge: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Open Admissions, Danica B. Savonick
Electric Light: Automating the Carceral State During the Quantification of Everything, R. Joshua Scannell
Supercharged Models of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Their Utility in Sensing, Peter J. Schnatz
Global Pretrial Detention Use: A Cross-National Analysis, Martin Schönteich
Persistence of Cultural Heritage in a Multicultural Context: Examining Factors that Shaped Voting Preferences in the 2016 Election, Anna M. Schwartz
Essays on the Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors, Raul Segura-Escano
The Juridical Communities of Apulia: Communal Identity and Municipal Belonging in the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples, Vincenzo Selleri
Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition, Arundhati Sengupta
The Two Inexical Uses Theory of Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle, Daniel S. Shabasson
Postcolonial Indian Nonfiction Cinema: The Documentaries of Satyajit Ray, Muzahid Sharif
Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon, Deen S. Sharp
Everyday Violence and Women's Lives in Zambia: An Autoethnography, Amina Shikupilwa
A Pedagogical Study of the "Four Lauds for Solo Violin" by Elliott Carter, Heesun Shin
Diagnosing the Will to Suffer: Lovesickness in the Medical and Literary Traditions, Jane Shmidt
Lauretta Vinciarelli in Context: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture, Art, Pedagogy, and Theory, 1968-2007, Rebecca Siefert
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, Christian D. Siener
Gendered Violence: An Analysis of State Legal Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Amongst Refugee Women, Maria Sigalas
African American Performers in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Between Political Promise and Racial Propaganda, Christopher E. Silsby
Prints on Display: Exhibitions of Etching and Engraving in England, 1770s-1858, Nicole Simpson
Otologic Blast Injuries, Michelle Singer
Assessing the Ordinality of Response Bias with Item Response Models: A Case Study Using the PHQ-9, Venessa N. Singhroy
Audiometric Status, Self-Perception of Hearing Disorders, and Noise Dose in Audio Post-Production Engineers, Laura M. Sinnott
The Nature of Defenses Used by School-Aged Children with ADHD, Laurie G. Slodounik
The Role of Self-Disclosure in Improving Workplace Cross-Race Mentoring Outcomes, Christine R. Smith
Development of a Journaling Application to Track Progress of Adaptation to Amplification for Adult Patients: DEarDiary, Nicole C. Snider
Weaponization of Data for Governmentality, Juliana Son
Subthreshold PTSD and Associated Psycholgical Distress in Trauma Exposed Male and Female Veterans, Matthew A. Southard
Coincidence of Bargaining Solutions and Rationalizability in Epistemic Games, Todd Stambaugh
The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, and Environments of Warning, Jordan Steingard
Family–School Partnerships and the Missing Voice of Parents, Laura R. Stein
Infinitely Many Solutions to Asymmetric, Polyharmonic Dirichlet Problems, Edger Sterjo
Niche Shifts, Species Distributions, and Genetic Diversity in Gymnophthalminae Lizards, with a Focus on Microclimates and Thermophysiology, Maria Strangas
“I Am Going to College…Now What?!”: Becoming a College Student, Renata Strashnaya
Linear Progress with Exponential Decay in Weakly Hyperbolic Groups, Matthew H. Sunderland
Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle
What’s Your Story? Assessing Childhood Maltreatment Using the Thematic Apperception Test in An Adult Inpatient Population., Thachell C. Tanis
Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor
Marginalidad y subversión en tres novelas de Juan Filloy de la década de 1930, Sonia M. Tejada
Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study, Madeleine Terry
Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer
El negro y el haitiano en la literatura dominicana de la diáspora, Juan Nicolás Tineo
Dostoevsky as a Translator of "Eugénie Grandet", Julia Titus
The College Application Essay Mediating Inequality Along the Path to Higher Education, Ralitsa S. Todorova
Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano
Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro, Lorena Uribe Bracho
Mechanisms for Survival and Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells, Matthew B. Utter
La melancolía de Juan Ramón Jiménez: un estudio emotivo, Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
Mechanism and Development of Peptide-Based Inhibitors to Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Self-Assembly, Jayson Vedad
El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo, Edgar Augusto Verastegui
Aurality as Methexis and the Rise of Castilian Literature: The Case of the Siete Partidas, Maristela Verastegui
Convergent Evolution of Biochemical Innovations in Polychaetes: Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Bioluminescence and Venom Production, Aida E. Verdes Gorín
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite
Hearing Loss and Third Party Disability: A Systematic Review, Kathleen H. Wallace
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Essays on Institutional Ownership and Corporate Finance, Qijian Wang
Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought, Milo Ward
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
Essays on the Transmission of Risk and Volatility Across International Financial Markets, Evan Warshaw
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics, Daniel E. Weissglass
Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics, Kenneth R. Weisshaar
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
An Exploration and Analysis of the Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael, Gregory K. Williams
The Structure of Models of Second-order Set Theories, Kameryn J. Williams
