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
The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams
Race and Gun Violence in the United States: A Case Study of Policy Reform in Missouri, Morgan C. Williams Jr
The Son Jarocho Revival: Reinvention and Community Building in a Mexican Music Scene in New York City, Emily J. Williamson
Towards an Atomic Level Model of the Structure and Calmodulin Mediated Activation of eEF-2K, Nathan E. Will
Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson
Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases, E. Cameron Wilson
Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case, Georgia M. Winters
The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen
Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf
“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961, Ky N. Woltering
Private-Key Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Private Classification of Medical Data, Alexander N. Wood
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance, Alev Isil Yildirim
Neural Hypervigilance in Trauma-exposed Women, Seungyeon A. Yoon
Parent Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Offspring Mental Health: An Examination of Potential Mediators, Joanna Young
“Are They Supposed to Be Heugin?": Negotiating Race, Nation, and Representation in Korean Musical Theatre, Ji Hyon Yuh
The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff
Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900, Nicole Zeftel
Object Localization, Segmentation, and Classification in 3D Images, Allan Zelener
Direct Experimental Evidence of Toroidal Symmetry in a Lanthanide-Based Molecular Magnet, Qing Zhang
Domain-Specific Knowledge Exploration with Ontology Hierarchical Re-Ranking and Adaptive Learning and Extension, Grace G. Zhao
Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work, Philip Zigman
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
Can Mindfulness Training Reduce Stress Reactivity in First-Year College Students?, Liat Zitron
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719–1809, Heather Zuber
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
Interstructure Lattices and Types of Peano Arithmetic, Athar Abdul-Quader
Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham
Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from Nearby Molecular Clouds as a Probe of Cosmic Ray Density Variations, Ryan Abrahams
Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning, Julie Ackerman
Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning, Manju A. Adikesavan
Heavy Ink: A Documentary on the Comicbook Revolution, Renzo Adler
The Untold Story of Africa: What Advertising from Africa Reveals to the Rest of the World About the Continent, Rachael F. Afolabi
Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom, Neil S. Agarwal
Back to Square One: Understanding the Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Ahmed A. Ahmed
A Combinatorial Framework for Multiple RNA Interaction Prediction, Syed Ali Ahmed
Narrating the Future: Understanding How Student Narratives Relate to Outcomes in Community College, Tanzina Ahmed
The Politician and the Professor: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Strains of Modern American Liberalism, Peter-Christian Aigner
Minding the Baby®: Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Treatment Outcomes in a Mother-Infant Home Visiting Program, Jessica G. Albertson
Lichen Conservation in Eastern North America: Population Genomics, Climate Change, and Translocations, Jessica Allen
The Racial Politics of Elementary School Choice for Black Parents Living in Brooklyn, NY, Shannon N. Allen
Patterns of Injury in Homicide Relationships: Clinical, Psychological, and Investigative Implications, Shea L. Alvarez Cussen
The Legacy of Slavery and the Continued Marginalization of Communities of Color Within the Legal System, Julia N. Alvarez
Using Video in a Collaborative Teacher Team Within a Special Education School: A Case Study, Belinda Akua-Kisiwaa Amoako
Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments, Erin M. Andersen
Capitalism and Unfreedom: Louis D. Brandeis and a Liberty of the Left, Eric L. Apar
Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, and Praxis in NYC Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile
Nervous Salomes: New York Salomania and the Neurological Condition of Modernité, Margaret K. Araneo
Fit for the Stage: Regency Actors and the Inspiration Behind Romantic Drama, James Armstrong
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Defects and Domain Structures in Perovskite-Type Dielectric Ceramics, David J. Ascienzo
Subversion and Transcendence in the Latin American Modern Travel Novel (1928-1976), Andrea Babsky
Bodies of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender in the Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
You Need Violence and Sincerity: Godard and the Manufacturing of a Revolutionary Cinema, Matthew Ballinger
The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro
Why Some Take Pleasure in Other People’s Pain: The Role of Attachment, Competition, and Cooperation on Schadenfreude, Alison Baren
Harm and Victim Age as Factors in the Determination of Intentionality and Culpability, Donal David Barnard Jr.
The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Marissa A. Barrera
Spatial-Relational Learning and Memory Deficits Associated with NMDAR Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Brittany L. Bascetta
W.E.B. Du Bois: Freedom, Race, and American Modernity, Elvira Basevich
Manifold Convergence: Sewing Sequences of Riemannian Manifolds with Positive or Nonnegative Scalar Curvature, Jorge E. Basilio
The Analysis of Musical Dramaturgy in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Danielle J. Bastone
“The Monster They've Engendered in Me”: Gothic Strategies in African American and Latina/o Prison Literature, 1945-2000, Jason Baumann
Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development, Diana Baus
Overpopulation and the Impact on the Environment, Doris Baus
The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect in Men, Robert A. Beattey Jr.
Diversity's Impact on the Quality of Deliberations, Amanda N. Bergold
Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan, Zachary S. Berman
Ecologies of the Passions in Early Modern English Tragedies, Roya Biggie
The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites, John Bigolski
Quantum Optical Interferometry and Quantum State Engineering, Richard J. Birrittella Jr
Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork
The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Layla Blodgett Carrillo
Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Satellite Snow and Sea Ice Detection, George Bonev
Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences, Christin P. Bowman
Personalizing an Implicit Measure of Job Satisfaction, Brittany Boyd
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons for Housing and Labor, Marnie F. Brady
Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study, Carol Brathwaite
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Semantic Attention: Effects of Modality, Lexicality and Semantic Content, David Britton
African American Male Veterans’ Illness Representation and Reported Self-Management Practices of High Blood Pressure, Tammie Brodie
Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology, Sharmaine Browne
Expanding Intersectionality Praxis: Informing Culturally-Responsive Programming for Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Young Men, Justin T. Brown
A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975), Megan Brown
Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown
Evil and the Ontological Disproof, Carl J. Brownson III
Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program for the Naturalization of Metaphysics, Amanda Bryant
Three Essays on Fiscal Policy, Sinem Buber Singh
Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?, Chelsie Burchett
The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke
