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
Characterizing Cool Brown Dwarfs and Low-Mass Companions with Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra, Paige Godfrey
Capture and Abandon: Social Reproduction and Informal Land Tenure in Jamaica, Rachel Goffe
"The World of Our Children": Jews, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Place and Race on the Lower East Side, 1963-1993, Barry Goldberg
From the Making to the Tuning to the Use of Chlorins for Biomedical Applications, Junior Gonzales
Mental Illness Stigma and Community Integration: Linking Perceived Experiences with Reported Behavior, Lauren L. Gonzales
El significado de la construcción con ser focalizador en el español de Colombia, Ana I. González Támara
A Realization of Modernity: Case Studies in Connectivity and Time, Mari Gorman
Una democracia aterrorrizada: Justicia y afecto en los textos de la transición democrática Argentina, Mariana Graciano
From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the United States, Jason H. Greenberg
Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist, Ian F.P. Green
A Reformers' Union: Land Reform, Labor, and the Evolution of Antislavery Politics, 1790–1860, Sean G. Griffin
Collaboration Revisited: The Performative Art of Claude Cahun and Hannah Weiner, Phillip L. Griffith
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905, Timothy M. Griffiths
Warmth and Competence Traits: Perceptions of Female and Male Nurse Stereotypes, Randolph E. Gross
“Pay, Protection, and Professionalism”: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing and the Future of Home Health Care in the United States, Julia R. Gruberg
Solving Algorithmic Problems in Finitely Presented Groups via Machine Learning, Jonathan Gryak
El español de Canarias y la canariedad en la España autonómica: Un estudio glotopolítico, Pablo Guerra
Counting Rational Points, Integral Points, Fields, and Hypersurfaces, Joseph Gunther
Elimination for Systems of Algebraic Differential Equations, Richard Gustavson
The Queer Allure of Digital Sociality, Benjamin Parrish Haber
Joint Laver Diamonds and Grounded Forcing Axioms, Miha Habič
The Role of Glutamate Neurotransmission in the Ventral Tegmental Area in the Expression of Conditioned Approach Learning, Priscila Hachimine-Merli
Essays on Economics of Inequality, Aboozar Hadavand
Behavioral Responses to Pulses of Light in the Longfin Inshore Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii (Lesueur, 1821), Stavros P. Hadjisolomou
Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Histone Variant H2A.Z During Sea Urchin Development, Mihai Hajdu
From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist, Alexis Halkovic
On London Ground: The Landscape Paintings of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, Lee Hallman
Butch Between the Wars: A Pre-History of Butch Style in Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Film, Karen Allison Hammer
The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music, Aaron Harcus
Prescription Opioid Misuse: Initiation, Sources of Supply, and the Role of Medical Providers, Alexandra Harocopos
The Transgenerational Transmission of Emotion Regulation: The Effect of Maternal Coping on Child Executive Functioning, Devon J. Harrison
Solo Performance: An Extension of Vocal Pedagogy, Monica J. Harte
Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’s Leadership in Jordan, Widad Hassan
Essays on Inequality and Macroeconomic Stability, Thomas Hauner
The Effects of Childhood Irritability on Adolescent Outcomes and Treatment Response in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Estrella Heber
First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?, Ingrid T. Heidrick
Not My Queer: Queer Representation in Contemporary Italian Serial Television, Julia Heim
Uncovering What Readers Know: Understanding Readers’ Online and Offline Processes for Identifying Story Elements, Esther Hellmann
When Old Age Changed: Inventing the "Senior State," 1945-1975, Benjamin Hellwege
Arghhh! My Computer Screen Froze: A “Glitch” in K-12 Blended Learning Classrooms, Tricia P.A. Herbert
Translanguaging Practices for Educational Equity: Moments in a Bilingual Middle School Classroom, Luz Y. Herrera
Interval Cycles in György Kurtág’s Post-Dodecaphonic Late Music, Ramin Heydarbeygi
String Quartet No. 2, Ramin Heydarbeygi
The Performance Conversation: A Pragmatic, Curricular Approach to Speaking from the Stage, Barrett J. Hipes
Shame, Darwin, and Other Victorian Writers, Aaron Khai Han Ho
Leftist Militant Songs and War of Position in Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib
Knowing Others, Or Not: Performing, Caring, Foreboding, and Acknowledging in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Meechal Hoffman
Rights and Feelings: Marriage Equality and the Language of Citizenship in Argentina and the United States, Julie Hollar
Heinrich Schenker’s Early Approach to Form, 1895–1921: Implications for His Late Work and Its Reception, Jason A. Hooper
Development of Authoring and Agency in Early Childhood Through Play, Pi-Chun Grace Ho
Parental Influence on Second Generation Chinese-American Youth’s Career Choice and Development, Yingli Huang
Secret and Divine Signs: A Cinematic Ode to the Art of Cruising, Terrence T. Hunt
Recognizing Freedom: Manumission in the Roman Republic, Tristan Husby
"Toccatas and Arias": Analysis and Historical Context of Vivian Fine’s Last Work for Solo Piano, Manon Hutton-DeWys
Song Rhythm Development in Zebra Finches, Julia Hyland Bruno
The Impact of Spirituality and Trauma on Appraisals of Psychotic-Like Experiences, Kathleen Isaac
The Racialization and Exploitation of Foreign Workers by the Law, Seiko Ishikawa
Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq, Heidi James Fisher
Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to the Home Country, Sou Hyun Jang
Regulation of the Amyloid Precursor Protein by Prostaglandin J2, A Mediator of Inflammation: Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease, Teneka L. Jean-Louis
Social Order and the Culture of Corruption in India, Arunodhaya Jebamani
Thine Is the Kingdom: The Political Thought of 21st Century Evangelicalism, Joanna Tice Jen
The Politics of Shorter Hours and Corporate-Centered Society: A History of Work-Time Regulation in the United States and Japan, Keisuke Jinno
The Role of Pitx Proteins in Early Xenopus Development, Ye Jin
Networked: New York City’s Charter Schools and the New Profiteers, Christina Johnson
K-12 Education, Pedagogy and Student Achievement, Genevieve Johnson
Meaning Through Things, Marilynn Johnson
The Impact of Teacher Perception of Professional Learning Communities on Student Algebraic Achievement, Tyrone John
Heritage Language Education in South Korea: Challenges and Demands, Mihyun Jo
Trumping Norms: Whither the International Liberal Order?, Maureen Jones
Acts of Provocation: Popular Antiracisms on/through the Twenty-First Century New York Commercial Stage, Stefanie A. Jones
The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in Postwar Los Angeles, Stephen Jones
Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States, Cara M. Jordan
Narrating Power and Injustice: How Young People Make Sense about Fairness, Svetlana Jovic
Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity, Mohamad Junaid
Essays in Financial Development and Income Inequality, Samuel M. Jung
Asymmetric Alliances and Side Payments: Alliance Politics Between Unequal Powers, Muhammad S. Kabir
The Failure of Post-War Reconstruction in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Indebtedness, Caste Exclusion and the Search for Alternatives, Ahilan Kadirgamar
Words of Change: How Linguistic Shifts Over the Course of a Short-Term Exposure Therapy Represent Movement Towards Psychological Health, Zachary A. Kahn
Toward a Social Ontology of the Family, Laura W. Kane
Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric, Allannah K. Karas
Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population, Maryam E. Karimi
From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016, Joshua Katz-Rosene
Design of Collagen-Mimetic Peptides, Parminder Jeet Kaur
Our Vile Age: Women and Class in the Interwar Novels of Nancy Mitford, Kelley Kawano
Worlds of If: Analyses of the Composed and Improvised Works of Robert Dick, Melissa Keeling
A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models, Ellyn Rolleston Keith
Secure and Efficient Delegation of a Single and Multiple Exponentiations to a Single Malicious Server, Matluba Khodjaeva
Expectations and Aspirations of Motherhood for Young Women in Foster Care, Joanna Kibel-Gagne
Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America, Chunrye Kim
Turaev Surfaces and Toroidally Alternating Knots, Seungwon Kim
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics, Michael Kirby
Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure, Thomas Kivatinos
