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.

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Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024

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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Lauren Moton

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Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic, Sandra Moyano Ariza

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"A Spirit of Disobedience": Black Women Freedom Runners and the Collective Practice of Abolition, Delice Mugabo

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‘Coca Mestiza’: Small Farmers, Multiculturalism, and the War on Drugs in Colombia, Miryam Nacimento

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Explicit Composition Identities for Higher Composition Laws in the Quadratic Case, Ajith A. Nair

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Effects of BRCA1-Mediated Ubiquitination of HuR on RNA Metabolism in Breast Cancer, Devorah Mincha Natelson

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Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking, Christopher Naubert

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Interplay of Magnetic Impurities and Superconductivity in Topological Materials, Didier Ndengeyintwali

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“As Blind Men Learn the Sun”: Towards a Poetics of Queer Mysticism in American Literature, 1860-1960, Bradley M. Nelson

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Self-Perceived Cognitive Functioning in Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome: Enhancing Risk Detection in Health Disparity Older Adults, Caroline O. Nester

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The Role of Glutamate in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Acquistion and Expression of Conditioned Approach, Rudolf Nisanov

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Contemporary World-Novels and their Collective Protagonists, Leonardo Nolé

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Living Color: Aesthetic Surfaces and Political Life in Brazil, Samuel E. Novacich

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Modeling and Dynamics of Capillary Bridges, Moyosore Odunsi

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Working on Stage: Spectacularization of Labor in Contemporary US Theatre, Hansol Oh

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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment, John P. Orellana

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Park Use, Urban Environmental Justice, and Place Attachment in Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City, Javier Eduardo Otero Peña

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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis

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Ordinary Care: Affective Politics of Migration and the Everyday Lives of Syrian Refugees in Istanbul, Yasemin Ozer

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Border Confinement and Assistance Markets in Tijuana: Mexican Deportees’ Experiences of Labor and Violence Between Mexico and the United States, Christian Pacheco-Gómez

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Prurient Nature: Sex Work and Ethics at the Margins of Finance, Esra S. Padgett

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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey, Zachary Paganini

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Parabolic and Non-Parabolic Surfaces with Small or Large End Spaces via Fenchel-Nielsen Parameters, Michael Antony Pandazis

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“After being equals, is this the sequel?”: Vivian Fine’s Memoirs of Uliana Rooney as Artistic Commentary on Shifting Reactions to American Women’s Music, Tonia L. Passwater

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Harnessing Neural Activity to Prevent Non-Apoptotic Spinal Neurons from Microglial Phagocytosis After Motor System Injury, Jasmine L. Pathan

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Design, Fabrication, and Spectroscopy of Photocatalytic Materials in Visible Spectrum, Yamuna Paudel

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Cognitive Flexibility and Stability in Bilingual Older Adults, Lia Pazuelo

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Uncovering the Mimicry of Online Review Breadth and Depth and its Subsequent Effect on Consumer Responses, Andrea Pelaez Martinez

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Intuitionism, Justification Logic, and Doxastic Reasoning, Vincent A. Peluce

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Essays on Monopoly Power in Housing Rental Markets, Goncalo Filipe Pessa Figueiredo Costa

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Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive, Majel Peters

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Teacher Perceptions of Restorative Justice Practices in New York City Schools, Brian Pew

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Categorical Chain Conditions for Étale Groupoid Algebras, Sunil Philip

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Is Aggression In The Eye Of The Beholder?: An Eye-Tracking Study, Kemar P. Pickering

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Shear Viscosity of Quasi One-Dimensional BEC Tubes and Entanglement Negativity Conditions, Camilla Polvara

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Historiography of The Body and Corporeality in Indonesian Theatre: The Search for Decolonial Aesthetics, Mohamad Ugoran Prasad

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Values in Evidence-Based Policy: Bridging Socio-Political, Moral, and Epistemic Domains, Karyna Pryiomka

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Trees in Urban Environments: How Soil Quality Impacts Tree Performance, Saidan Qi

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Representaciones ideológicas de la lengua, la conversación y la comunicación en manuales de urbanidad del siglo XIX en México: guías para la civilización, el orden y el progreso nacional, Luis B. Quesada Nieto

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Chipping the Blue Wall: The Effect of Dogs on Police Officer Receptivity to an Employee Assistance Program, Kenneth M. Quick

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No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico, Carmín Quijano Seda

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Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography and Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata

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Resting-State EEG Microstate Features for Major Depressive Disorder Classification, George M. V. Quinn

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Reviving Hysteria: The Nineteenth Century at the End of the Twentieth, Christina Quintana

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Using Leaf Spectra to Elucidate the Taxonomy and Ecology of Living and Dried Plants, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde

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Essays on Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance, Helia Rabie

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Regulation of p21 Function by a Sense Long Non-Coding RNA Generated by Alternative Polyadenylation, Anthony Ramadei

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Bodies for Catastrophe: A Montage Study of Palestinian Digital Labor, Francisco Ramos

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The Impact of Early Teacher Bias and Academic Risk on Children’s Current and Future Academic Achievement, Damira S. Rasheed

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Uses of the Intuition: The Role of Intuition in Birth Work (Towards An Intuitive Epistemology), Kayla R. Reece

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Framing the Fight: Revolutionary Feelings in Virtual Communities, James Reilly

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Aspects of Parity Breaking in Classical and Quantum Fluids, Dylan J. Reynolds

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The Crisis of Market Society and the Fascist Solution in the Work of Karl Polanyi, Nicholas E. Reynolds

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Understanding Tax Progressivity as a Mechanism of Gender Difference in Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income, Morgan A. Richards-Melamdir

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Limit Theorems for L-functions in Analytic Number Theory, Asher Roberts

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“Community Thinking Spaces”: Exploring the Openings and Possibilities of a School-Based Intergenerational Community of Practice, Lucy A. Robins

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Mechanism of Host Recognition by the Bacteriophage Cystoviridae, Charles F. Robinson IV

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The Effect of Working Memory Performance Under Stress on the Relationship Between Trauma History, PTSD Symptoms, and Intimate Partner Violence, Gabriella Robinson

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Cuerpos Manchados: Rethinking Racial Difference Through the Grotesque Birthmark, Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

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Exploiting the Heavy Chain Glycans for the Improvement of Radioimmunoconjugates, Cindy Rodriguez

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Dante’s Volgare and the Pastoral Presence: An Analysis of the Concept of Language in the Divina Commedia, Paola M. Rodriguez

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LGBTQ+ Employees’ Disclosure and Selective Incivility Experiences: Implications for Their Health and Well-Being, Wiston A. Rodriguez

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From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan

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The Seat of Singular Gene Choice: Dissecting the Role of Odorant Receptor Enhancer Elements That Lead to Mammalian Olfactory System Expression, Alessandro M. Rosa

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Investigating the Impact of Affect in Suicide-Specific Attentional Biases, Beverlin Rosario-Williams

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Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Critical-Race Teacher Change Agents Are Challenging Whiteness in Elementary Schools, David R. Rosas

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The Film, the Stadium and the Jail: The Post-Industrial Transformation of Downtown Durham, Seth Rose

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Love in the Time of Dating Apps: Exploring Latino Young Adults’ Experiences Constructing Online Identity, Partner Preferences, and Plans for Happily Ever After, Dakota Z. Ross-Cabrera

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Time Ripens on the Counter: A Literary History of the Americas, Judah Rubin

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Moving Pictures of the Past: Nostalgia for Classical Hollywood in the Broadway Musical, 1960–1990, Curtis Russell

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Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan

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A Causal Inference Approach for Spike Train Interactions, Zach Saccomano

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Winning the War While Losing their Souls: The Crisis of Honor and Discipline Within the French Army in Algeria, Thomas A. Schellhammer

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The Intellectual Roots of Hindutva: Influences from Early German Romantics and Mahatma Gandhi, Johannes Scheuer

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Studies of Oxidopyrylium Ylide Dimers and Their Utility in the Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Troponoids, Daniel V. Schiavone

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Navigating Uncertainty in the Medically Unexplained: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis, Jenny Clark Schiff

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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff

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Computerized Cognitive Training in the Treatment of Depression: Individual Differences and Perceptions of CCT, Sophie Schiff

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44Ti/44Sc Generator Development and Radiolabeling Optimization for Medical Applications, Christine E. Schmidt-Kennelty

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Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents, Jacqueline M. Scott

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Family Fragments: Pressure and Proximity in First-Episode Psychosis, Cassandra B. Seltman

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Guardians of the Bacterial Genome: Mechanistic Insights of the NER ATPase UvrA with Damaged DNAs; Molecular Interactions Between the V.cholerae Initiator RctB with Cognate OricII DNA, Devon Semoy

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Radical Co-teaching: How Building Relationships Creates Radical Co-teaching Partnerships, Meagan L. Serrano

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Voltage Set Points for Sodium Channel Inactivation: Intrinsic and Modulatory Mechanisms, Akshay Sharma

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Structural Insights into Bacterial Helicase Loading at a Replication Origin by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, Abhipsa Shatarupa

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Biomolecular Crystals as Functional Materials, Fahmeed Khan Sheehan

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Evaluating the Reliability and Accuracy of Alchemical Binding Free Energy Methods and Calculations, Fnu Sheenam

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Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature, Beth Sherman

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Retinoblastoma Malignance and Exosome Mechanisms Facilitating Optic Nerve Head Metastatic Niche Formation, Cui Shi

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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre, Dohyun Shin

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Gendering Diaspora Across Generations: Lebanese Motherhood and Daughterhood Post-Emigration, Janan Shouhayib

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Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo

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Strike a Pose: Performing Gestures of Female Madness Across Media Circa 1900, Elyse S. Singer

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The BlackGIRL Project: Examining the Impact and Manifestation of Colorism among Black Adolescent Girls in the United States: A Critical Participatory Action Research Approach, Gina (Diagou) R. Sissoko

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Essays on Cryptocurrency Assets, Minwoo Song

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Stop the Madness: Small Arms Related Internal Violence: Improving Micro-disarmament and Human Rights in Post Conflict Reconstruction, Paulette A. Southall

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A Multilevel Approach to the Analysis and Visualization of Timbral Brightness in Post-Tonal Music, Stephen Spencer

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United States Foreign Policy Towards South Africa: From Constructive Engagement to Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, Jennifer J. Squires

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“Hattak Vpi Homma” mvt Miha Nanta Fehna? What Does “Native American” Really Mean?, Alex R. Steers-McCrum

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Defining Resilience in Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Theory Informed Approach, Barbara Storch