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 2016
Mad Men of Letters: Advertising, Masculinity, and the American Postmodern Novel, Jennifer Chancellor
Millets from the Margins: Value, Knowledge and the Subaltern Practice of Biodiversity in Uttarakhand, India, Priya R. Chandrasekaran
Social Cognitive Processes in the Priming of Mental Illness Stereotypes by the Media, Ginny Chan
Left of Maidan: Self-Organization and the Ukrainian State on the Edge of Europe, Emily S. Channell-Justice
Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure?, Stanley Chen
Tuning Topological Surface States by Charge Transfer, Zhiyi Chen
Examining Victimization in South Korea 1993-2010: A Comparative Application of Ecological Theories of Crime, Jisun Choi
Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" to "Unauthorized Immigration" in Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho
A Study of the Impact of Interaction Mechanisms and Population Diversity in Evolutionary Multiagent Systems, Sadat U. Chowdhury
On the Syntax/Semantics of Korean Nominal Particles, Han-Byul Chung
Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications and the Poetics of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio
Headhunting: Evaluating the Disruptive Capacity of Leadership Decapitation on Terrorist Organizations, Ted Clemens IV
Ethnicity Matters: Implications for Understanding and Acting upon Disparities in Health Affecting Black Men in the United States, Helen V. S. Cole
Imaginary Subjects: Fiction-Writing Instruction in America, 1826 - 1897, Paul Collins
Student Perspectives on Meaningful Adult Relationships in a Transfer School, Susan E. Collins
Socio-Economic Inequalities, Academic Failure, and Institutional Interventions: What CUNY Is Doing To Help Its High Risk Populations, Cynthia Constant
How Do Open Educational Resources (OERs) Impact Students? A Qualitative Study at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Cailean Cooney
Exploring the Uses of Cultural Funds of Knowledge Among Ethnic Minority Immigrant College Students in Their Constructions of Learning Identities Within a Collaborative Photovoice Project, Stacey Jennell Cooper
Claiming Time: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith on Freedom and Futurity, Jennifer Corby
Ceasing to Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers and Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun
Curing Violence: Prescriptions for Justice and Peace in Colombia, Marissa Crawford
Saving: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Potential in the United States, Risa Cromer
Interstate Alliances of the Fourth-Century BCE Greek World: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Nicholas D. Cross
Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis, Cheila Cullen
Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps, Gretchen M. Culp
The Impact of Foster Care on Depression: An Examination of Placement Type and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Children and Adolescents, Kisha Cummings
Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot, Colleen Cusick
The Effects of Health-Related Fitness on School Attendance in New York City 6th-8th Grade Youth, Emily M. D'Agostino
Die Meistersinger, New York City, and the Metropolitan Opera: The Intersection of Art and Politics During Two World Wars, Gwen L. D'Amico
Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español, Berenice Darwich
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
“Vital Glowing Things”: The Art of Women’s Writing, 1910-1935, Elizabeth C. Decker
ZnCdMgSe as a Materials Platform for Advanced Photonic Devices: Broadband Quantum Cascade Detectors and Green Semiconductor Disk Lasers, Joel De Jesus
The Antipolitics of Food in Middle-Class America, Neri de Kramer
Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Third Space of Contemporary Chinese-Francophone Writers, Paula S. DelBonis-Platt
The Moving Image in Public Art: U.S. and U.K., 1980–Present, Annie Dell'Aria
Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance, Jessica Del Vecchio
Dialogic Faiths: Multi-Genre Expression in Religious Narrative, Rosemary L. Demos
Theoretical Analysis of Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lineshapes of Conjugated Polymers, Murali Devi
Providing Care for Many in the Context of Few Resources: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout and Moral Distress Experienced by Healthcare Providers in Rural Uganda, Lauren Michelle Dewey
Engagement and Resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic Transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000, Jeffrey Diamant
Photonic Crystals with Alternate Arrays of Rods and Holes in a Low Dielectric-Index Material, Dimitar L. Dimitrov
Healthy Beginnings: Exploring the Impact of Parental Stress and Relationship Quality on Birth Outcomes, Anna A. Divney
Paired Associative Transspinal and Transcortical Stimulation Produces Bidirectional Plasticity of Human Cortical and Spinal Motor Pathways, Luke Dixon, Mohamed Ibrahim, and Danielle Santora
Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders' Science Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Donahue
Re-Examining the Bilingual Advantage on Interference-Control and Task-Switching Tasks: A Meta-Analysis, Seamus Donnelly
Dinámicas políticas y proyectos culturales en la Posrevolución Cubana (1989-2015): Paideia, Diáspora(s), and Generación cero, Walfrido Dorta
Modernism with a Human Face: Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954-1958, Nikolaos Drosos
Beaches, People, and Change: A Political Ecology of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy, Bryce B. DuBois
The Impact of Climate Variability and Conflict on Childhood Diarrhea and Malnutrition in West Africa, Gillian Dunn
Transparent Interiors: Detective and Mystery Fiction in the Age of Photography, Melissa D. Dunn
The Virtue Mentality, Rachel Eckhardt
African American Young People's Views of Youth Participation and its Implications for Addressing Community Problems, Isabelle M. Elisha
The Cumulative Impact of Trauma Exposure and Recidivism After Incarceration Among Black Men, Johanna E. Elumn Madera
Performing el Rap el ʿArabi 2005-2015: Feeling Politics amid Neoliberal Incursions in Ramallah, Amman, and Beirut, Rayya S. El Zein
Dislocating Camps: On State Power, Queer Aesthetics & Asian/Americanist Critique, Christopher Alan Eng
Evolving the Genre of Empire: Gender and Place in Women's Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688-1808, Diana Epelbaum
Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Survey to Assess Inclusion in DPT Curricula in the United States, Michael Erickson, Paul Nasri, and David Perrotto
The Implications of Chromatin Remodelers' Acetylation in INO1 Activation, Michelle M. Esposito
Reshaping National Imaginations in the Midst of Civil Genocide: Denationalization in the Dominican Republic and Transnational Activism, Javiela Evangelista
How to Be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul
Scale Up Bayesian Network Learning, Xiannian Fan
Probing the Structure and Photophysics of Porphyrinoid Systems for Functional Materials, Christopher D. Farley
Darwinian Debunking Reconsidered, Amanda J. Favia
Possible Underlying Mechanisms of Hyperactivity in Children with ADHD, Nicole Feirsen
Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders, Cory M. Feldman
La quebrada y la costa peruanas en voces narrativas a mediados del siglo XX: María Rosa Macedo y Sara María Larrabure, Ricardo N. Fernández
Gender Roles, Social Control and Digital Piracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender Differences in Software Piracy Among Korean Adolescents, Riccardo Ferraresso
Status Signaling and the Characterization of a Chirp-Like Signal in the Weakly Electric Fish Steatogenys elegans, Caitlin E. Field
Fundamental Parameters of the Lowest Mass Stars to the Highest Mass Planets, Joseph C. Filippazzo
The Evolution of the Viral RNA Sensor OAS1 in Old World Monkeys and Cetartiodactyls, Ian Fish
Explicit Reciprocity Laws for Higher Local Fields, Jorge Florez
Centralized, Decentralized, Distributed: Disruptive Technology in Distance Education from "Sunrise Semester" to Present-Day MOOCs, Rosanna Flouty
Perceptions of Fidelity and Adaptation in Evidence-Informed Interventions by Women of Color Sexuality Health Educators, Sara C. Flowers
Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy, Simon Gaston Fortin
Effects of Two Prereading Activities on Comprehending Science Text: Reading Abridged Text and Learning Vocabulary Words, Audrey J. Fowler
The Impact of Affect on Neural Mechanisms Underlying Orientation Perception, Michelle L. Fowler
Studies in the Creation and Implementation of School Cultures: Two New York City Stand-Alone Charter Schools, Olivia-Beate A. Franzini
The Effects of Job Characteristics on Home Care Workers’ Well-being and Job Performance: Understanding the Psychosocial Effects of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa
Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga (2006 - 2015), Andrew L. Friedman
Outcomes of Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Adults with Postlingual Deafness: A Systematic Review, Jillian Friedman
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Alessia Frisoli
Tradition and Transition: American Orthodox Jewish Women Preparing and Becoming Sexually Active within Marriage, Shoshannah D. Frydman
Puccini’s Love Duets and the Unfolding of Time, Kae Fujisawa
Shadows and Light. Ernie Gehr Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Sean M. Fuller
The Role of Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Ontogeny in Organization and Evolution of Social Systems, Andrew G. Fulmer
Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden, Julie L. Gafney
Participation Strategies in Low-Resource Settings and Their Impact on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: A Study in Four Different Geographical Regions, Magdalena Galazyn
Control of Spontanous Emission from Quantum Emitters Using Hyperbolic Metamaterial Substrates, Tal Galfsky
Archiving the '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture, Margaret A. Galvan
Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York, Nicholas Gamso
Fragmentation and Multiplicity in Cuban-American Identity: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez and Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas, Daimys E. Garcia
The Effect of Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty on Forensic Clinical Judgments of Competency for Execution, Eugenia Garcia-Dubus
Essays on the Economics of Health and Risky Behavior, Markus Gehrsitz
Physiopathology and Intervention in Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review, Justin Gelesky, Dylann C. Germann, Amanda Percaccio, and Rachelle Schick
Feminine Ideology, Relational Self-Concept, and Internalizing Symptoms in Women, Anjali George
Photooxidation Chemistry and Photodynamic Therapy: Pointsource Delivery of Singlet Oxygen, Sensitizer and Nitrosamine Drugs, Ashwini Anil Ghogare
Development of a Patient-Centered Health Literacy Toolkit for Audiology and Hearing Loss (The 'HH Lit Kit'), Jennifer L. Gilligan