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 [email protected].
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 2026
Good Mothers: Black Disabled Mothers & The Family Policing System, Siobhan Pokorney
Assessing the Community Impact of Two Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City, Katheryne Pugliese
Pigeons, Satellites and Angels: Industrial Agriculture, Digital Technologies, and Financial Investments in Brazil, Ana Flavia Pulsini Louzada Badue
Imagination and the Self: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Study, Qianyi Qin
The Savage Constitution, Nandini Ramachandran
Supramolecular Assembly in Short Peptide Systems for Selective Metabolite Recognition and Drug Nanoencapsulation, Maithreyi Ramakrishnan
Identifying Textual Predictors of Early Termination in Clinical Trials in Medicine: An Explainable Machine-Learning Study, Rohan Ramnarain
Nāgasvaram Ensemble Music in Contemporary South India: Perspectives of Revival, Rajeswari Ranganathan
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Organic Materials in Strong Light–Matter Interaction and Terahertz Optics, Kamyar Rashidi
Courts of New York: A Visual Atlas of the City’s Public Basketball Spaces, Nathaniel Rattner
Considering Numerical Relativity for Upgrades in McFACTS Merger Dynamics, Shawn K. Ray
Gramsci’s ‘Democratic Philosopher’ and the Concept’s Foundations in Marxian Social Ontology, Eli Recht-Appel
Vestigial Choreographies: Climate Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, Alexandra A. Rego
Engineering Wave Phenomena in Hyperbolic Materials, Enrico Maria Renzi
SEC-SAXS and SANS analyses of the talin•vinculin complex, Gilbert Reyes
New York State Excelsior Scholarship Program: A Post-Implementation Analysis of Student Success, Eligibility, and Indebtedness – An Intersectional Study of Black and White Female Students, Marcus I. Richardson
A Critical Lens on Emotions and Learning: Shame, Loneliness, and Alienation in Community College, Mike Rifino
The First Five: Reimagining Early Puerto Rican Women Novelists, Adrianna Rios
The Digital Divide in Political Redistricting: AI's Impact on Minority Representation, Jaime Rodriguez
Semi-Peripheral Whiteness in a Global City: Central and Eastern European Women in Dubai, Hana Rubenstein
A Molecular Framework for Multiexciton Photochemistry: One- and Two-Electron Transfer in Singlet Fission Chromophores, Bernardo Arturo Salcido Santacruz
Cognitive Consequences of Job Discrimination: An Investigation of Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Disparities in Neuropsychological Test Performance, Shana S. Samuel
Migrant Justice through Collective Liberation: Contemporary Intersectional Theorizing, Organizing, and Dreaming, Sonia A. Sanchez Carmen
The Networks of Early U.S. Fiber Art, 1949-69, Analisa Sato
Erosion and Accretion: Mobilities of Sand, People, and Memory at Queer Riis Beach, Jah Elyse Sayers
Trans-cyber Cinema: Digital Embodiment in Science-fiction Films, Sophia R. Schrock
Individual Intellectual Humility as a Predictor of Perceived Information Sharing and Perceived Shared Leadership, Mary Beth Schroeder
Syntactic Connectivity Across "Islands" in Shupamem, Hagay Schurr
Radiotheranostics for Gynecological Pathologies, Joni Sebastiano
Temporal Integration in Music and Aesthetic Judgments: Assessing Musical Taste Through a Transformer-Based Approach, Sophia M. Senderak
A Study of Bengali Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion, Arundhati Sengupta
Kanak-Ish Misfits: Queer Imaginaries, Racialized Borders, and the Politics of Care in Berlin, Germany, Faruk Seref
Dynamic Structure of Vinculin and Talin in Cell-Cell Adhesion and Cell-Matrix Adhesion, Bright Chen Hao Shi
The Other Sodomites: A History of Racial Queerness, Paris Shih
A Comparison of Manufacturers’ Claims of Attenuation Rates in Non-Custom Earplugs, Skyler M. Shipley
Monosaccharide Binding to Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptor Microarrays, Milan A. Shlain
Diverse Sensory Mechanisms in Bacterial PAS-Containing One-Component Systems, James J. Siclari
Now or Nowhere: Apocalypse from Below and the Invention of Utopia in Early Modern Political Thought, O. L. Silverman
Open to the Public(s): Privatized Public Space, Technology, and Aspirational Wealth at Hudson Yards, Troy Simpson
The Radical Political Possibilities of Asexuality and Aromanticism, Kirty Singh
The New York City Fields of Calcio Libero: Where Protagonists Activate Counter-Hegemony, Olivia Soderini
Unfreezing Language: A Decolonial Reframing of Translanguaging Pedagogies in English as a New Language & Dual Language Bilingual Education Settings, Cristian R. Solorza
Performing Hybridity: Solo Cello Works by Diasporic Korean Composers Isang Yun and Younghi Pagh-Paan, Sarah Song
Mapping the Water Quality of Jamaica Bay, New York (1996-2024): Principal Component Analysis and K-Means Clustering, Sneha Srivastava
Precarious Status, Essential Work: Migrant Labor, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Regularization in Covid Quebec, Jessie Lauren Stein
Identifying Helium Emission-Line Stars with the Condor Array Telescope, Julia Stewart
Productive Information Calls, Mengtian Sui
Beyond Spectacle: The Children’s Protection Society and the Politics of Childcare in Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945), Melis Sulos Akyelli
Essays in Corporate Finance and Mortgage Finance, Rui Sun
Model-Theoretic Arguments in Philosophy, Peter Susanszky
The Impact of Gun Control Policies on Firearm-Related Deaths: A Two Decade State-by-Year Analysis, Rabana Tajrin
Shielding the State, Shaking the Regime: Military Alliances, Domestic Deterrence, and Internal Conflict, Leo Tamamizu
Role of Long-Range Interactions in Structure and Dynamics of Carbohydrates, Beicer Catalina Tapia Amaya
Knowing Through Making: Weaving a Pedagogy of Love, Embodiment, and Freedom Through Arts-Based Research, Mariatere Tapias
Recognition at Work: How Managerial Acknowledgment Shapes Team-Level Outcomes, Annalissa Thomas
Building on Rented Land: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women’s Digital Homeplace-Building on TikTok, Monica Thompson
Retrieval Information from Working Memory: The Output Gating Framework Perspective and its Underlying Processes, Chen Tiferet-Dweck
Aging Drives Selective Vulnerability of Dopamine–Glutamate Projections to the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Weakening Dopamine Release and Novelty Discrimination, Jacquelyn N. Tomaio
Socialism on Display: State-Sponsored Exhibitions of Art and Visual Culture in Stalinist Poland, 1945–1956, Patryk P. Tomaszewski
Reexamining the Croton Aqueduct: A Ward-Level Microhistorical Analysis of Infrastructure and Cholera Mortality in 1849 New York City, Alexandria R. Toothman
Narrative Disorders: 'Poetics of Unreason' and the Limits of the War Story in Lebanese Postwar Fiction, Melissa Trujillo
Museomics, Systematics, and Environmental Detection of Odonata, Rhema C. Uche Dike
Building in the Meantime: Political Time, Intermittent Rule, and Aspiration in Turkey’s Black Sea Hinterlands, Emine Busra Unluonen
Russian Case Across L1, Heritage, and L2 Speakers, Reid V. Vancelette
Behavioral Cues, Acoustic Cues, and Working Memory in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) During a Behavioral Innovation Task, Raymond John Van Steyn
Exploring the Effect of Babble Background Noise on Learning New Patterns in an Artificial Accent of English in Monolingual and Bilingual Young Adults, Mariana Vasilita
Urban Counterpoint (1992–2003): The Piano Music of Ed Bland, Joseph Vaz
Figures of the Jeune Fille in Postwar French Cinema: Libertine Ingenues, Lolitas, and Creatures from Caroline Chérie to Monika, Nina Verneret
The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds, Dhipinder Walia
Local Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Enzymatic Activity Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Function in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Aria R. Walls
Calculated Risks: The Power of Predictive Risk Models to Regulate Families of Color, Ashleigh Washington
Real Language: Cybernetics and Transatlantic Romanticism, Stuart H. Watson Jr
"Don’t Work Cheap:" Richard Berry, "Louie Louie," and a Lifelong Fight for Rights in the Music Industry, Sarah Weber
Analyzing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center Using Computational Tools, Rongmei Wei
The Curse of Being Completely Surrounded by Context: The Social Life of Form and Content in the Post-Post Cuban Artworld, Alexander D. Werner
A Hot Topic: Congressional Polarization and Climate Change, Mercedes R.P. Wilby
From Beneath the Press: On Black Feminist Archival Belonging and Permanence, Explored Through the Brixton Black Women’s Group, Maya Williams
No Reply: The Exclusus Amator Through Ancient and Modern Love Poetry, Ayla Wing
Protein Allostery Probed by Ligands Across Sites, Virgil A. Woods
Financial Disclosure Scriptability and Price Laziness, Wen Xie
The Role of External Factors in Shaping Carbohydrate Conformational Landscapes, Murat Yaman
Quaternionic Analogues of Zagier’s Sums of Binary Quadratic Forms, Ajmain A. Yamin
Calcium Zincate Cycling and Failure Mechanisms: Pathways to Commercialization for Grid Scale Energy Storage, Patrick K. Yang
Sing Tsiah-Png: Displacement and Diaspora in Taiwanese American Cinema, Yung-Jen Yang
Visible Lives, Invisible Strands: Critical Consciousness and Civic Engagement Among Muslim SA/SWANA College Students, Firdevs Yigiter
Cecil Taylor, 1950–1976: Theory & Practice in His Own Words, Michelle A. Yom
The Three Walls of Pattern Recognition: Fundamental Limits and Structured Approximations in Discrete Bayesian Learning, Ahmet Yuksel
Modeling and Generating Trustworthy Speech, Yuwen Yu
At the Margins of History, the Body Moves and Knows: Carmen as Myth, Flamenco as a Fugitive Form of Knowledge Transmission, Inmaculada Zanoguera Garcias
Early Visual Cortex in the Formation of Visual Awareness, Zhilin Zhang
Analysis of Diterpenoid Alkaloids from American Aconitum Using LC-MS Metabolomic Methods, Yi Zhao
AI-Driven Just-in-time Software Defect Prediction, Yunhua Zhao
Potential Energy Landscape Formalism for Quantum Liquids, Yang Zhou
The Moral Complexities of Privileged Oppressed Agents, Yingshihan Zhu
