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).
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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 2021
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood, Eva C. McGraw
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
The Relationship of Pathological Narcissism to Empathic Functioning, Antonia M. McMaster
Working Memory Task Performance in Children With SLI: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Megan V. McVeety
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities, Sean Miller
Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham
Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico, Sarah Molinari
Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing Madame Bovary, Francesca Montalti
Dream City: Post-Millennials and Millennials Navigate School, Work, and Housing in New York City, Omar Montana
Effects of Working Memory Load on Ensemble versus Individual Object Processing, Clark Moore
Magnetic Resonance Characterization Studies of Sodium and Lithium-based Energy Storage Materials, Daniel J. Morales
Three LC-MS Plant Metabolomics Studies of Hop (Humulus) Species: Wild H. neomexicanus, Drought Stress, and Agricultural Terroir, Taylan Morcol
The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence, Emanuel D. Moss
Art After Dark: Economies of Performance, New York City 1978–1988, Meredith Mowder
Illegitimate Tasks and Performance Outcomes: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Coworker Sharing Illegitimate Tasks Experiences, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi
The Local Accountability Journalism Tracker, Sandy Mui
Essays on Universal Basic Income, Nana Mukbaniani
Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia
Framing the Border: Liminality in the Network Narratives of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal
Development of High-Throughput Methods for Screening Venom Peptides, Tanya Napolitano
Divergent Expectations and Dynamic Price Discovery, Shankar Narayanan
Dating Apps, or, Ghosts in the Viral Affect Machine, Gregory Narr
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Modeling and Analysis of Affiliation Networks with Subsumption, Alexey Nikolaev
The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry, Sean M. Nolan
Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels: Language Contact, Variation, and Change, Chaya R. Nove
Training and Individual Predictors of Attitudes Toward Serious Mental Illness Amongst Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students, Lauren K. O'Connor
Aloof: Black Divas of Refusal, Kwame K. Ocran
Not So Black and White: How Second-Generation Nigerian Americans Decide Whom to Marry, Karen Okigbo
Analysis of Transplantable Photoreceptor Replacement Cell Chemotactic Mechanisms in Retinal Biomimetic Ligand Gradients, Onyekwere Onwumere
The Different Components of Active Shooter Incidents: Examining the Co-occurrence of Offender and Incident Characteristics, Jeffery R. Osborne
“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building with Wynne Greenwood’s Tracy + the Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea
Systematic Review: The Effect of Hearing Aids on Balance and Falls, Natalia Beatriz Pagan-Guadalupe
The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads, Daniel S. Palmer
The Making of Transpacific Video Art, 1966–1988, Haeyun Park
Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community, Alison E. Parks
Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave, Joseph D. Parziale
Examining the Effect of Longstanding Deafness on Health Literacy: A Systematic Review, Sara S. Payami
The U.S.–Mexican War: Visualizing Contested Spaces from Parlor to Battlefield, Erika Pazian
Understanding and Predicting the Distribution of Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest, Andrea Paz Velez
From Rulay to Rules: Perceptions of Prison Life and Reforms in the Dominican Republic’s Traditional and New Prisons, Jennifer Peirce
Displacing the Border: Refugees, Law, and Geography in Turkey, Mert Peksen
Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni
Water-Responsive, Peptide-Based Crystals, Roxana Piotrowska
Nacido en Cuba: Imaginarios del Niño y la Patria, Justo Planas
Experience and Satisfaction with Hearing Aid Services Delivered via Teleaudiology in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Shelby Platia
The Relationship Between Arts Education and Beliefs About Equality and Social Action, Naomi B. Podber
A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco
Synthesis, characterization and applications of peptide-coated nanoparticles, Mina Sadat Poursharifi
Redlining, Neighborhood Decline, and Violence: How Discriminatory Government Policies Created Violent American Inner Cities, Richard Powell
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Emotional Development and Stress Response, Alexandra Pritchett
A Schema-Theoretic Approach to Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century Tonality, Simon K. S. Prosser
Optimizing Communication in Palliative and Hospice Care: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Sherry E. Queen
Improving the Assessment of Practical Judgment Ability in Older Adults, Crystal G. Quinn
Here Time Becomes Space: The Victorian Spatial Imaginary, Jonathan E. Rachmani
The Power of a Sound Mind: Exploring Meditation and Sound Therapies for Treating the Emotional Impact of Tinnitus, Sabeena A. Ramnanan
Circuits Underlying Serotonin Mediated Sex Differences in Fear Learning, Rebecca Ravenelle
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
Third Harmonic Generation: A Method for Visualizing Myelin in the Murine Cerebral Cortex, Michael Redlich
Treatment, Diagnostic, Demographic, and Historical Factors Affecting Mental Health Diversion Outcomes, Amanda L. Reed
Examining the Transient Neural Dynamics Underlying Working Memory Maintenance for Complex Visual Stimuli, Chelsea Reichert Plaska
The Role of Tbx2 in Germ Layer Suppression and Dorsoventral Patterning during Early Vertebrate Development, Shoshana Reich
How Are Refugees Depicted in the Amarillo Globe-News?, Shannon Reimers
Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colombian Political Landscape, Heidi A. Rhodes
The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky
Critical Climates: Stimmung, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989, Marc Cesar Rickenbach
"Never Forget": Embodied Absence and Extended Relations of Care After 9/11, Sophie L. Riemenschneider
Pandemic Schooling: Lessons in Equity, Advocacy, and Racial Justice, Donna Rivera
No Hair! Don't Care! Resistance and Empowerment of Bald and Low Shaved Black Women, Monica Rivers
Delayed Modulation of Glutamate Receptors by Anti-Epileptic Drugs after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats, Edgar Rodriguez
After Abstract Expressionism: Reconsidering the “Death of Painting” at Midcentury, Natasha Roje
A Comparison of Simulated Schizophrenia in Mental Health Experts and Genuine Schizophrenia in Psychiatric Patients, Amanda Rosinski
Exploring the Effects of Coworker Ostracism on Feedback Inquiry and Voice: The Mediating Role of Proactive Motivation, Ethan G. Rothstein
Motivation of Networking Behavior: A Study of Novel Interventions, Jeremy D. Rothstein
From Poor Campesinos to Tortilla Kings: Mexican Migrant Elites, Yesenia Ruiz
Toward the Black Indian Ocean: Race and the Human Project in the Afro-Asian Imagination, Micheal A. Rumore
Introducing Odysseus: Force, Resistance and Nostos in the Formation of Odysseus’ Character, Haley Ryan
Pilot Study Of The Effects Of Mobile Based Resonant Frequency Breathing On Cognitive Performance In Healthy Young Adults With Elevated Stress, Daniel Saldana
Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency, Jules F. Salomone-Sehr
Orban's Hungary: Lack of Freedoms Becoming The Motivation for Hungarian Emigration, Fanni Sampson
The Problem of Leisure: A Modern History of Work and Idleness, Lea S. Sanchez
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Fate Choice Within Specific Retinal Lineages, Estie Schick
Perceiving the Body: On the Bodily Senses and the Nature of Perception, Fiona C. Schick
Living in Permanent Transience: An Ethnography of Contemporary Alexandria, Alexandra K. Schindler
The Material Culture of Temperature: Measurement, Capital and Semiotics, Scott W. Schwartz
Label Imputation for Homograph Disambiguation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches, Jennifer M. Seale
Extracting Theory from Practice: A Computational Analysis of the Persian Radif, Sepideh Shafiei
A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh, Ahmed Shamim
Estrogen Modulation of VTA Dopamine Neuron Physiology and Behavioral Responsivity to Variable Social Stressors, Mary R. Shanley
Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels, Sally Sharif
The Politics of "Dignity" and the Tunisian Truth Commission: Keywords, Violence, Human Rights, Douaa Sheet
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mexican Return Migration across the Life Course, Mara G. Sheftel
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychological Outcomes of Mobile Guided Resonant Frequency Breathing in Young Adults with Elevated Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Al Amira Safa Shehab
Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel, Michael Shelichach
3D Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification from 3D Range and 2D Color Images, Xiaoke Shen
Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata