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
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
The Relationship Between Non-Traditional Instructional Strategies and the Multicultural Competence of School Psychologists, Jacqueline Kluger
Effect of Implementation of Simulation on Critical Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Joanne M. Knoesel
Criminal Responsibility: Meta-analysis and Study Space, Lauren E. Kois
Perspectives on Emotional Climate Associated with Classroom Interactions, Hiro Komatsubara
Gender and Financial Risk Aversion, Efstathia Korkou
Effects of a Computer-based Simulation on Chemistry Self-Efficacy, Yolanta V. Kornak-Bozza
Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler, Ryan Kosseff-Jones
The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa
The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics, Rachel Kravetz
A Partial Nonlinear Extension of Lax-Richtmyer Approximation Theory, Aradhana Kumari
The P53 Independent Functions of Estrogen-Activated MDM2 in Cell Signaling and Mammary Architecture, Nandini Kundu
Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports, Leonid Lantsman
Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style, Barbara Laux
A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood
Gustave Vogt's Musical Album of Autographs: A Scholarly Edition, Kristin Leitterman
La nación está en otra parte: cultura y neoliberalismo en México (1977-1996), Rafael Lemus
Who Am I to You? Using Function Words as a Measure of Transference, Jon William P. Lentz
The Advanced Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue and Explosives, Jennifer M. Leonard
Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South, Jenny LeRoy
A Quasi-Experimental Study of a Health Patterning Modality about Childhood Vaginitis and Power in Haitian Primary Caregivers, Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce
Three Essays on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis with a Special Focus on Greece, Flora Leventi
Some Results in Combinatorial Number Theory, Karl Levy
The Fear Factor: Exploring the Impact of the Vulnerability to Deportation on Immigrants' Lives, Shirley P. Leyro
Albert Camus's Mediterraneanism in La Peste, Jacquelyn Libby
The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd
Weight Loss Maintenance: Women's Experience During Perimenopause, Karren B. Liebert
Recreational Music Exposure and Music-Induced Hearing Loss: A Systematic Literature Review, Carolyn Lindenbaum
Computational Investigation of the Pore Formation Mechanism of Beta-Hairpin Antimicrobial Peptides, Richard Lipkin
Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss
Olfactory Receptor Antagonism in the OR-I7 Aldehyde Receptor and the Mammalian Olfactory System, Min Ting Liu
Cruising Borders, Unsettling Identities: Toward a Queer Diasporic Asian America, Wen Liu
Archaeology of Void Spaces, Cory Look
Like A Natural Woman - Black Women’s Theatre Aesthetics: Agency & Resistance on the Chitlin’ Circuit, Adrienne R. Lotson
Surplus Consumption, Habit Utility and Moody Investors, Jun Lou
The Relationships Among Different Traits of Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence, Jennifer E. Loveland
El Spill de Jaume Roig. Estudio de relaciones semióticas con la picaresca, Raul Macias Cotano
Cognitive and Affective Control Deficits in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Melissa-Ann Mackie
Queering Addiction, TaraRose Macuch
Why Do Negative Employment Outcomes for Workers with Disabilities Persist?: Investigating the Effects of Human Capital, Social Capital, and Discrimination, Martine Maculaitis
Body Size Regulation via BMP Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, Uday Madaan
Affective Afterlives: An Ethnography of Activism Between Movements, Manissa Maharawal
Elogio del amateur: Traducción y resistencia en la era del Panamericanismo (EE.UU. 1889-1945), Maria Soledad Marambio Castro
Latino/a Adolescents and Young Adults Coping with Parental Cancer within a Cultural Context, Amanda Mia Marin-Chollom
A Study of Nikolai Medtner's Compositional Technique: Form and Narrative in Tales, Oliver H. Markson
Vim Parat: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid, Melissa Marturano
Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading of L’Esclusa, Bradford Masoni
Stereospecific Electrophilic Fluorination of Alkylcarbastannatrane Reagents, Xinghua Ma
The Effects of Tilted Magnetic Fields on Quantum Transport in 2D Electron Systems, William A. Mayer
Dominance & Survivance: Urban Latino Communities and Education in Racial Neoliberal Urbanism, Edwin Mayorga
Creating an Unbroken Line of Becoming in Live Music Performance, Bonnie B. McAlvin
Exhibitions of Outsider Art Since 1947, Christina McCollum
Mónica Mayer: Translocality and the Development of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico, Alberto McKelligan Hernandez
Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Drosophila Anterior Determinant, Bicoid, John McLaughlin
Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana, Katherine F. McLeod
A Survey of Athenian Block Grants of Citizenship, Mary Jean E. McNamara
Potential Modifications to Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Anderson-Fabry Disease, Mariam Meghdari
Modulation of Spasticity by Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation in Animals with Spinal Cord Injury, Wagdy Mekhael
Methods and Professionals Involved in Evaluating Postural Control in the Autism Spectrum Disorder Population: A Systematic Review, Christina Melora
Decomposing Time Effect on Valuation and Choice, Yan Meng
Lipid Sensing by Mammalian Target of Rapamycin, Deepak Menon
The Effects of Parametrically Manipulating the Ratio of Complimentary to Constructive Feedback Statements on Performance, Amanda Mentzer
Cyber Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Measurement, Prediction, and Means for Reduction, Brittany K. Mercado
The Under-Explored Role of Tiredness in Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay and Bisexual Men, Brett M. Millar
A Political Ecology of Information: Media and The Dilemma of State Power in China, Michael L. Miller
Hatred Simmering in the Melting Pot: Hate Crime in New York City, 1995-2010, Colleen E. Mills
On Subcomplete Forcing, Kaethe B. Minden
"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole, Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry
Motivating Morphological Constituents: A Learning-Based Analysis of Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish, Ignacio Lorenzo Montoya
Optical Forces Generated by Plasmonic Nanostructures, Matthew A. Moocarme
Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran
Hearing Related Concerns Among Parkinson’s Patients and Their Care Partners, Samantha Morgan
Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920, Kristin L. Moriah
The Relationship Between Clinical Teaching Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence in Clinical Nurse Faculty in Pre-licensure Baccalaureate Programs in New York State, Caroline K. Mosca
The Short Story and the Photographic: Twentieth-Century Imagetexts In and Of the Americas, Lucienne Muller
Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century, Lisa Murray
Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency, Matthew Murray
Genealogy of the Concept of "Hate Crime": The Cultural Implications of Legal Innovation and Social Change, Roslyn Myers
Theatre Translation as Historiography: Projections of Greek Self-Identity Through English Translations During the European Crisis, Maria Mytilinaki
Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler
Pharmacological Antagonism and the Olfactory Code, Mihwa Na
Max Kowalski's Japanischer Frühling: A Song Collection from the Period of the Jewish Cultural Alliance in Nazi Germany, Nils Neubert
Black Models Matter: Challenging the Racism of Aesthetics and the Facade of Inclusion in the Fashion Industry, Scarlett L. Newman
Social Work Students' Endorsement of Recovery-Oriented Principles and Practices When Working with Consumers Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness, Jennifer M. Nikou
Exploring the Relationship between Sequence Learning, Motor Coordination, and Language Development, Rita Obeid
The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind, Tyler Okney
