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 2025
Double Exposure: Motherhood and Filmmaking, Eddy Berzak
Investigation of Motor Neuronal and Circuit Level Mechanistic Determinants of Spinal Excitability Following CST Injury, Thelma Bethea
Localization of Music in Perceived Motion in Cochlear Implant Users, Madeleine Beyer
Computability Theoretic Aspects of Profinite Groups and Models of Presburger Arithmetic, Jason Block
Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists, Stephon J. Boatwright
Disturbance and Diversity: Lichens in Changing Landscapes, Laura Boggess
Transmedial Econarratology: Environment and the Subject of Science Fiction, Joseph R. Boisvere
Nature et relations dans la littérature caribéenne francophone de fin du XXe siècle et contemporaine, Louise Bonastre-Fajardo
The Heartbreaks of an American Communist, Maks Bondarenko
Choreographies of Care: Disability and Relationality in Performance, Kiera Bono
Fast Transients from Magnetic Disks Around Non-Spinning Collapsar Black Holes, Justin A. Bopp
Modeling Depressive Patterns in Italian Discourse: Insights from Natural Language Processing, Annapia Borraccino
Energy Conversion Materials: Computational Design of Electrocatalysts Toward Sustainable Energy Applications, Courtney M. Brea
Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner
“Faithful German Servants” or “Good Polish Citizens”? Violence, the Village Head, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, 1918–1944, Miranda Brethour
Self-Reported Audiological and Vestibular Symptoms Associated with Lyme Disease, Daniella A. Bryan
American Realists and Magic Realists: MoMA’s 1943 Wartime Show, Viviana Bucarelli
The Sub-Syllabic Symphonies Of Self-Learning: How Do Zebra Finches Sing Them?, Abiesha Abiola Budiman
Prerogative in Common: On the Emancipatory Potential of Radical Mutuality Amid Sovereign Decisionism, Matthew Builes
Guaqueras and Campesinas in Western Boyacá, Colombia, María F. Buitrago
Breaking Out of Burnout: Leveraging Informal Learning to Encourage Needs Satisfaction to Reduce Employee Burnout, Kaitlin Busse
Speaking from the Underground: Notes on Lois Elaine Griffith & the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Aesthetic, Joseph Anthony Cáceres
CUNY in the News: A History of Reporting on the Humanities at the City University of New York, Jacqueline R. Cahill
Single Mother Poverty in a Global City, Gregory Cala
Leveraging Stellar Chemistry for a Global View into the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets, Emily Calamari
Navigating Climate Action: The River as Teacher for Eco-Literacy, Educational Regeneration and Creative Participation, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
The Double Victimization of Black Women at the Crossroads of Oppression, Carmerina Carrero
The Right to Regret: Regulating the Body Through Specters of Regret, Alysha Casnellie
The Unholy Matrimony: Russia and Violent Non-State Actors, Justin Castro
Towards Automated Evolution of Imperative Deep Learning Programs, Tatiana Castro-Vélez
The Interaction of Multilingualism and Depressed Mood on Cognitive Set-Shifting, Annalise Caviasco
Podcast: One to Grow On – Why Black Studies Matter When Working and Living in Black Communities, Celia E. Ceballos
An Interpolating Regime for the Extreme Values of a Random Zeta Model, Christine K. Chang
The Giants of Coercion: Major Powers and the Mobilization of Global Sanctions Coalitions, Louis Charbonneau
East Asian and “Extraordinary”: Intersecting Racial and Musical Identities in the Classical Music Solo Career, Audrey Chen
Correlations Between Song Popularity and Their Audio Features Using Machine Learning, Rong Chen
Essays on Capital Structure and Ownership Structure, Yiqin Chen
The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca, Anna Chichi
Alle or Elle: Automatic Speech Recognition on Louisiana French, Emily Chiu
Placemaking and Belonging in Brooklyn: Bushwick City Farms, Marisa Cigliano
Low-Resource Ecoacoustic Audio Classification, Enis Berk Coban
Los intelectuales, las palabras y el poder presidencial: Descolonización, nacionalismo y cholificación en las izquierdas contemporáneas de Bolivia, Perú y México, Cesar Augusto Coca Vargas
The Material Folklore of Occult Zines, Jacqueline G. Coffey
The Origins of German Industrialization: The Transition to Capitalism in Prussian Agriculture, Daniel C. Colligan
Hacer el Canto: Tracing Entanglements of Vocality and Interspecies Knowledge in the Imitative Practices of Costa Rican Naturalist Guides, Charles P. Colwell
Quasi una fantasia for flute, oboe, and violoncello [2019–25], Charles P. Colwell
Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward, Nicole Cote
Micro-Computed Tomography Unveils New Plesiadapiform Cranial Morphology: Implications for Early Primate Evolution, Jordan Crowell
Interspecies Responsivity in Early Modern Drama and Animal Performances, Taylor C. Culbert
Transitional Justice and Counter-Productivity: A Case Study of Serbia and Croatia, Michael F. Curry
Blurred Borders: Women of Mexican Descents’ Experiences in the US Across Space and Time, Allison LC Das
Jamaica in the Olympics: The Rise of Usain Bolt, Micaiah Davis
Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980, Janine DeFeo
Ética del cuidado y solidaridad feminista en la producción literaria y fílmica de mujeres en Perú, Guatemala y El Salvador, 1994–2019, Rocio del Pilar Del Aguila Gracey
The Warmth of Welcome of Refugees and Migrants in the Western Balkans, Zylfie Demushi
Parvalbumin Interneuron-Oligodendrocyte Interactions in the Infralimbic Cortex Promote Extracellular Plasticity Mechanisms After Safety Learning, Lucy Emma Denholtz
Empirical Essays in Income and Educational Inequality of Opportunity, Aman Desai
Biophysical Principles Governing HP1a-DNA Condensate Properties: Regulatory Roles of Histone Tails and RNA, Priyasha Deshpande
Parametrization of Formal Norm Compatible Sequences, Joseph DiCapua
A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda, Benjamin J. Diehl
Biophysical Analysis of S100A12 and the Nucleosome Core Particle, Christopher DiForte Jr.
Henry Jones and the 1641 Depositions: Shaping a Crucial Record of Early Modern Ireland, Phelim Dolan
Medication Adherence Among Partnered, Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV: What’s Love, Interdependence and Comorbidities Got to Do with It?, Kendell M. Doyle
Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude: On Media and the Making of Sense, Andrew Thomas Dunn
Effect of Equation of State on the Formation of Binary Black Holes in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks, Theodore Edwards
An ERP Study of Attentional Blink and Inhibition of Return, Caesar Ekya
Developments in the Lithographic Engineering of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta Mesa Terahertz-Emitting Devices, Sarah Elghazoly
A Tutor Like Me: Examining Tutor-Student Demographic Match in an Early Literacy Tutoring Program, Elizabeth LeSure Epstein
Wavelength and Luminance Interaction on Spatio-Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Function, Taylan S. Ergun
Destabilizing the Nuyorican: Rivera’s Women and Nuyorican Cinema, Judith R. Escalona
Novel Machine Learning Methods for Quasar Variability and Strong Gravitational Lensing, Joshua Fagin
Vote for the CCRB in 2025: A Data Visualization Analysis of Police Oversight Under Three Mayoral Administrations, Thomas Fagin
The Diplomacy of Contention: The Case of Venezuela, Lina Maria Fajardo Vallejo
A Meta-Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Treatment Programs: The Role of Risk-Need-Responsivity in Treatment Effectiveness, Irina Fanarraga
Hope, Imagination, and Prison Abolition, Maggie Fife
Britten’s Violin Concerto and His Early Period—Score Analysis and Pacifist Narrative, Magdalena Filipczak
American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy, Todd Fine
Craft Schools: Forming American Craft Culture Through Sites of Collective Pedagogy, 1970–1985, Michelle Millar Fisher
Dónde Están: Searching for Desaparecidos of the Argentine Dirty War, Paula Fleischer
Seeing and Sanctioning Structural Unfairness, Grace Flores-Robles
Killer App: Uber, Worker Ownership, and the Materialization of Change, Erik Alexander Forman
A Historical Analysis of Saturday Night Live's Engagement in American Presidential Politics, Isabel Fox
Constructing a Parameterized Stimuli Space Suitable to Induce Controlled Changes in Human and Machine Perceptual Systems, Andrew Frankel
Quaternion-Enhanced AI for Robust and Scalable Modeling in Computational Science Under Uncertainty, Vladimir Frants
Performance Practice as Compositional Style: Wet Ink’s Collaborative Work, Carrie Frey
Revolutionary Love and Rage: Destabilizing Colonialism, White Supremacy, & Transphobia, Valerie Fryer-Davis
Predicting the Dynamics of Complex Networks from Structural Phenomena, George Furbish
Crisis Narratives and the Vicissitudes of Haitian Foodways: A Critical Comparison of Three Food Items, Marc S. Gabriel
Satellite-Host Galaxy Co-evolution with Next-Generation Regulator Models, Austen Gabrielpillai
Case Disposition and Collaborative Decision-Making Among Drug Court Teams in Chile, Sebastian Galleguillos
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985, Sonja Gandert
Modernity and the Promise of Democracy: A Democratic Reading of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Gabriel Garber
Tracing My Roots: An Exploratory Data Visualization and Analysis of Jewish Immigration and Assimilation to New York City, Jamie E. Gelberg
Cultural Evolution in Tiers: On Birdsong and Functional Layering in Learned Traits, Franny C. Geller
Quantified Lives: Data, Bias, and the Cost of Categorization, Colin F. Geraghty
