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
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
Metabolic Profiling and Polymer Formation of Gene Silenced Potato Periderms, Qing Cai
United in Political Solidarity: How Multicultural Endorsement and Group Identity Inspire Intergroup Political Solidarity Among Members of Lower Status Groups, Justine Calcagno
Virtue’s Web: The Virtue of Empathic Attunement and the Need for a Relational Foundation, Georgina D. Campelia
Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings, Joel A. Capellan
Musical and Dramatic Roles of the Chorus in Hugo Weisgall’s "Esther", Michael A. Capobianco IV
Observational Assessment of Empathy in Parent-Child Verbal Exchanges and Their Influence on Child Behavior, Patty Carambot
Negotiating and Navigating Invisible Food Deserts: An Exploratory Study on Foodways of Adults on the Autism Spectrum, JungJa Park Cardoso
The Words and Worlds of Disability: Discourses on Disablement Within the Situated Practices of Service Providers, Enitza C. Carril
YouTube As A Net"work": A Media Analysis of the YouTube Beauty Community, Barbara Casabianca
Assessing Social Protection Arrangements in Angola and Mozambique, Andre Cavaller Guzzi
Transmission of Focused Picosecond Light Pulse through Multimode Fibers, Yin Cen
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