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 2016
(Sub)versions of Banditry: Ferréz’s Re-appropriation and Redefinition of the Marginal Identity, Marissel Hernández-Romero
Breaking Cover: Confronting Crisis and Displacement in Timbuktu, Mali, Andrew Hernann
An Analysis of the Relationship between CEO Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Type and Quality, Nicole M. Heron
Bilingual Latino Middle Schoolers on Languaging and Racialization in the US, Sarah Hesson
Building in Public: Critical Reconstruction and the Rebuilding of Berlin after 1990, Naraelle Hohensee
Medication Management in Pediatric Chronic Illness: Should Patient Anxiety be Considered?, Claire J. Hoogendoorn
A Developmental Perspective on Parental Cognitions and Emotions in the Context of a Parent-Mediated Intervention for Children with ASD, Emily R. Hotez
Molecular Analysis of FtsZ-Ring Assembly in E. coli cytokinesis, Kuo-Hsiang Huang
“Love” Across the Strait: Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Women and Taiwanese Men, Paoyi Huang
An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus, Rui Huang
The Politics of Court Driven Morality Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage 1971-2015, Korey L. Hughes
Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona, Min Huh
Response and Responsibility: The War Veterans’ Art Center at the Museum of Modern Art (1944–48), Laurel Humble
Boundaries and Belonging: Asian America, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, Natalie C. Hung
Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Miciah Hussey
Psychological and Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Tinnitus: A Systematic Review, Shanna Hymowitz
The Relationship Between Lexical Performance and Regional Gray Matter Volumes: A Longitudinal Study of Cognitively Healthy Elderly, JungMoon Hyun
Obesity over the Life Course: Perspectives in Health and Mortality, Noura E. Insolera
REPETITION: A Study in Visual Form Using Selected Artworks by Edward Hopper, Lauren Irwin
Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults, Marie-Anne Issa
The Conflicts of Coexistence: Contested Meanings of Carnivore Management and Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Hannah F. Jaicks
Metabolic Profiling of Genetically Modified Potato Periderm Tissues, Liqing Jin
Post-Apartheid Citizenship and the Politics of Evictions in Inner City Johannesburg, Anthony Johnson
The French Revolution in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962): Historical Analogy and the Limits of French Historical Reason, Timothy Scott Johnson
Does Intergroup Threat Cause Distinct Contact Orientations for High and Low Status Groups?, Brian M. Johnston
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Liars and Truth Tellers: Exploring the Moderating Impact of Working Memory Capacity, Sarah Jordan
Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality, Mary Augusta Joseph
Data-Driven Synthesis and Evaluation of Syntactic Facial Expressions in American Sign Language Animation, Hernisa Kacorri
The Fictions of Whiteness: Transatlantic Race Science, Gender, Nationalism, and the Construction of Race in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1823-1867), Philip E. Kadish
LIM Protein Ajuba Participates in the Repression of ATR-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Human Cells, Sampada Kalan
Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding, Ervin Kallfa
Synthesis of Novel Aporphine-Inspired Neuroreceptor Ligands, Nirav R. Kapadia
On Sums of Binary Hermitian Forms, Cihan Karabulut
Delusional Disorder: Treatment and the Restoration of Adjudicative Competence, Martin Kassen
Firms' Decisions to Enter a Market of Highly Differentiated Products: Apparel Industry and New York Fashion Week, Yoko Katagiri
The Versatile Singer: A Guide to Vibrato & Straight Tone, Danya Katok
What Factors Influence Urban School Leaders Arts Programming Decisions, Jennifer Katona
Internet Access and Freedom: Constructing and Reacting to Transnational Norms about Internet Diffusion and Use, Heather L. Katz
Imagining a "Poethical" Classroom, Erica Kaufman
Publication in Martial's Time and the Publication of his Works, Jack Kaufmann
‘Open, and Always, Opening’: Trans- Poetics as a Methodology for (Re)Articulating Gender, the Body, and the Self ‘Beyond Language’, Lizzy Tricano Kaval
Hope and Health Related Quality of Life of Older Women Who Have Had Heart Attacks, Alice Mary Kelly-Tobin
Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island, Tim Keogh
Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform, Ramona N. Khan
Chamber-specific Patterns of Epicardium Formation in Zebrafish, Sana Khan
Refractions Through the Secular: Islam, Human Rights and Universality, Zara Khan
GIVE-ME: Gamification In Virtual Environments for Multimodal Evaluation - A Framework, Wai L. Khoo
Identity in Sociocultural Context: Life Stories of Korean Youth in New York City, Hannah Hyunkyung Kim
Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy, Jinwon Kim
On The Free and G-Saturated Weight Monoids of Smooth Affine Spherical Varieties For G=SL(n), Won Geun Kim
Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models of Inflammation, Magdalena J. Kiprowska
“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig
Predictability of Bond Risk Premia with an Affine Term Structure Model, Sibel Korkmaz
Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review, Hershel Korngut
Life Experience: Freddy Got Fingered As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece, Frank Koshel
Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn, Amy Kraizman
p-adic L-functions and the Geometry of Hida Families, Joseph Kramer-Miller
ThisCollegeStory.com: How Interactive Writing Media Influenced the Way First-Year Students Made Sense of their College Transition, Philip Kreniske
Essays on Institutional Investor Trading, Karolina Krystyniak
Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
Professional Wrestling and/as Theatre: Bodies, Labor, and the Commercial Stage, Eero Laine
Where Is the "Korean" in the Korean War Memorial: Kissena Park's Korean War Memorial, Alice Lam
Vocal Rhythm Coordination and Preterm Infants: Rhythms of Dialogue in a High-Risk NICU Sample, Adrianne E. Lange
The New Reflexivity: Puzzle Films, Found Footage, and Cinematic Narration in the Digital Age, Jordan Lavender-Smith
Interfictional Identities: Transformation and Dissimulation in the Early Modern Period, Yael Nezer Lavender-Smith
Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others, Elisa J. Lee
An Exploration of the Paradox of Bisexuality in Women: The Dawn Research Study, Anna Levy-Warren
Excavating ePortfolios: What Student-Driven Data Reveals about Multimodal Composition and Instruction, Amanda M. Licastro
Becoming Serpent: Mapping Coils of Paranoia in a Neocolonial Security State, Rachel J. Liebert
The Bodies, Minds, Desires and Scorn of Britain's "Stepdaughters of War", Alexandra J. Lightle
Essays on Investor Attention, Hongqi Liu
Do Executives Have Fixed Effects on Firm-Level Stock Price Crash Risk?, Jiaxin Liu
Social Support, Social Companionship, and Social Distress in Young Adults with Cochlear Implants, Arta Ljubanovic
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled Criticism of McCarthyism in 1950s America, William Lorenzo
Filología reflexiva: Hacia una pedagogía “evaluadora”. Reflexión y evaluación del campo filológico español (1936-1968), Jose Antonio Losada Montero
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering
Accessing Academe, Disabling the Curriculum: Institutional Locations of Dis/ability in Public Higher Education, Andrew J. Lucchesi
Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative, Eric Lynch
Targeting Efficiency: The Effects of Video Modeling and Feedback on Instructors’ Acquisition and Generalization of Behavior Analytic Skills, Maya S. Madzharova
Fashioning Desire at B. Altman & Co.: Ethics and Consumer Culture in Early Department Stores, Tessa Maffucci
The Efficacy of Motor Imagery Training on Range of Motion, Pain and Function of Patients After Total Knee Replacement, Noorelhoda Mahmoud, Marc A. Razzano Jr., and Karen Tischler
A Systematic Review of Dual-Sensory Impairment in Older Adults, Abby F. Malawer
In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Mindfulness in Learning, Anna Malyukova
What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic, Ryan A. Mann-Hamilton
Toward a Kripkean Concept of Number, Oliver R. Marshall
My Mother Needs Me! Is It Possible to Stay Connected While Being My Own Person? The Object Relations of the Latina “Dutiful Daughter”, Juliana Martinez
Testimonios (re)creados: La nueva novela testimonial latinoamericana, Reynaldo Martinez
Understanding School and Interethnic Relations of Mexican Immigrant Youth in a Post-Industrial Community, Roberto Martinez
Paratextuality and Contemporary Narrative: The Physical Object as a Storytelling Device, James Mason
The Remembrance of Things Past: Does Self-Report Moderate the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Long-Term Psychiatric Consequences?, Christina N. Massey
Understanding the High School Dropout Process Through Student Engagement and School Processes: Evidence from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, Tara Marie Mastrorilli
Role of Humor in Emotion Regulation: Differential Effects of Adaptive and Maladaptive Forms of Humor, Lindsay Mathews