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
Individual Levels of Bias and Immigration Policies in the United States: A Test and Extension of the Dual Processing Model of Bias, Lorraine Phillips
Cortical Thickness Abnormalities Within the Salience and Reward Networks in Older Depressed Adults with Apathy, Monique A. Pimontel
Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera
Encountering Place, Pedagogy, and Culture: Study Abroad and Experiential Learning in Morocco and Indonesia, Jennifer M. Pipitone
Feature Selection From Large Acoustic Feature Sets in Computational Paralinguistics, Dara Pir
The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature, Sixto E. Portilla
Open Source Micro Diplomas: New Credentials for New Learning, Jack F. Powers
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
Genre, Representation, and Memory in Spanish Civil War Texts by Women from Spain and the United States, Jennifer Prince
Syntax and Semantics of Perceptual Representation, James K. Quilty-Dunn
Approximation Algorithms for Effective Team Formation, George Rabanca
Merchandise, Promotion, and Accessibility: Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, Amy L. Raffel
Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine, Lakshmi Ramanathan
Stress as a Cultural Tool in Higher Education, Nadia Ramjit
Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space, Anna Rascovar
Making Sense of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen
A Conceptualization of the Body in Psychodynamic and Body-Based Psychotherapies: Areas of Overlap and Possibilities for Integration, Aleksandra Rayska
Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939), Lauren Reches
The Nature of Introspection, Adriana Renero
Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler
Sacralizar lo efímero: Configuración del amante y el amado en Luis Cernuda y César Moro, Lena R. Retamoso Urbano
Brief and Extended Experimental Analysis of Spelling Deficits, Kimberly Reyes-Giordano
Jazz and Recording in the Digital Age: Technology, New Media, and Performance in New York and Online, Dean S. Reynolds
Dancing Silhouettes: Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed: A Critical Study, Maria N. Rhodes
Cochlear Implantation in Adults with Neurofibromatosis Type II: Outcomes, Benefits, and Limitations, Lydia Riehl
“Just Get it Done”: How the New York City High School Admissions Process is Re-defining the Work & Identities of Professionals in Screened High School-Programs, Heather Rippeteau
Women in the Workplace: The Impact of Earning Potential Empowerment and the Work-Life Balance, Alysha-Beth Rodriguez
Essays on the Economic Well-Being of Women, Timothy A. Roeper
The Conflict of Progressive and Conservative Tendencies in the Film Work of Steranko, James H. Romberger
The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico, Domenico Romero
Asymptotic Counting Formulas for Markoff-Hurwitz Tuples, Ryan Ronan
Deconstructing Rape Culture Through An Exploration of Consent, Desire, and Pleasure, Yael Rosenstock
Imperial Butterfly, Dagmar Rothschild
Letter to the President: Longitudinal Critical Discourse Analysis of Academic and Hip Hop Genres in a Rap Narrative Program, Debangshu Roygardner
Embodying Rhythm Nation: Multimodal Hip Hop Dance as a Site for Adolescent Social-Emotional and Political Development, Lauren M. Roygardner
Medical Student Knowledge Regarding Age Related Hearing Loss and Amplification, Max L. Rubin
University Education for the Creation of the Black Middle Class: Kigali, Rwanda, Chrystina L. Russell
Choteo Cubano: Humor as a Critical Tool in Twentieth-Century Cuban Theater, Rebecca L. Salois
Reflections on the Implementation of Improved Outcomes for Children and Its Impact on the Capacity of Child Welfare Workers to Deliver Services, Rita Sanchez-Torres
Culturas emocionales: Narrativa escrita por mujeres cubanas durante el periodo especial (1992–2005), Laura Sandez
A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech, Jeremy Sawyer
A Combined Computational Strategy of Sequence and Structural Analysis Predicts the Existence of a Functional Eicosanoid Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster, Michael Scarpati
The Conceptualization of a Crime Event as a Process to Analyze Crime Commission and Behavioral Consistency in Serial Sexual Assaults, Kimberley R. Schanz
Closer Ties: The Dutch Caribbean and the Aftermath of Empire, 1942-2012, Chelsea Schields
Patriarchy and Varieties of Violence Against Women: A Contextual Analysis, Margaret Schmuhl
Ludic Conceptualism: Art and Play in the Netherlands, 1959 to 1975, Janna Therese Schoenberger
Do Tax Directors Face Consequences from Tax Avoidance?, Liora Y. Schulman
Communicationists and Un-Artists: Pedagogical Experiments in California, 1966-1974, Hallie Rose Scott
Diophantine Approximation and The Atypical Numbers of Nathanson and O'Bryant, David Seff
Scholasticism and Formal Structure in Camille Saint-Saëns's Fugues for Keyboard, Pedro Segarra-Sisamone
Evaluative Mind: Extraneous Influences on Morality, Aesthetics, and Perception, Angelika Luiza Seidel
"Resisting from Within": (Re)imagining a Critical Translingual English Classroom, Kate Anna Seltzer
Culture and Mental Health: Considering the Role of the Complex Cultural-History in Irish-American Population, Tiffinie Patricia Sesko
Machine Learning Approach to Retrieving Physical Variables from Remotely Sensed Data, Fazlul Shahriar
Dinosaurs for the Digital Age: Democratic Party Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Aaron B. Shapiro
Second Harmonic Generation – A Novel Approach in Retinal Imaging, Denis Y. Sharoukhov
Writing for Strangers: Structural Transformations of the Public Letter, 1640-1790, Shang-yu Sheng
No More False Heavens: In the Wake of Campus Sexual Violence, Destry Sibley
Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Relations of Working Memory in Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Ashley N. Simone
Féminisme Oblige: Katharine Susan Anthony and the Birth of Modern Feminist Biography, 1877-1929, Anna C. Simonson
Noodling Changes: The Development of Xylophone Improvisation in New York City (1916-1942), Jonathan D. Singer
Characterizing the Impacts of Contaminants on Fish Embryogenesis and Revealing an Alternate Molecular Mechanism of AHR Mediated Cardiac Defects, Corinna Singleman
Aesthetic Geographies: Art, Crises, Urban Imaginaries, Erin Siodmak
Aspects of Biological Explanation, Derek J. Skillings
Community, Identity, and Tradition within a Progressive Christian Congregation, James W. Skinner
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan
"The Engine of Free Expression": The Political Economy of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States, Nora Slonimsky
Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture, Yair Solan
Essays on the Law of One Price in Financial Markets and the Recent Financial Crisis, Igor Sorkin
Parallels of Love and Hate Defined by Attachments, Nicole Spann
Customer Management in the Internet Age, Joshua Sperber
The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes, Marie Springer
Local Immigration Enforcement Entrepreneurship in the Punishment Marketplace, Daniel L. Stageman
Essays on Capital Structure and Public Debt Markets, Viktoriya Staneva
For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self, Natallia Stelmak Schabner
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
Sick Systems: How Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Became Practically Incurable in Romania, Jonathan Stillo
Mutagenesis of Human Alpha-Galactosidase A for the Treatment of Fabry Disease, Erin Stokes
Nomadic Dispossessions: Representations of Land, Labor, and Mobility, 1780–1815, Maria Ah Hyun Stracke
Literary Theories of Circumcision, A. W. Strouse
The End of AIDS: Gender, Race and Class Politics in New York's Campaign to End the Epidemic, Lauren Suchman
Control of Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Semiconductors, Zheng Sun
Moving Forward: Railways in Puerto Rico, Gricel M. Surillo Luna
Travel Mode Identification with Smartphone Sensors, Xing Su
Lexical Access in Children with Specific Language Impairment and Auditory Processing Deficits, Laura E. Sylvia
Underrepresentation of Women in Politics: Focus on New York City, Yuliya Szczepanski
The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald, Agata Szczodrak
Continuum Electrostatics Analysis of the Kok Cycle of Photosystem II, Witold Szejgis
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Culture and Class in Marginalized Minority Educational Attainment, Alan R. Takeall
The Role of T-box Proteins in Vertebrate Germ Layer Formation and Patterning, Sushma Teegala
What is the Language of Islam?: Reform, Translation, and Secularism in Turkey, Yunus Dogan Telliel
An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Labor Display Rules and Performance in a Human Resources Sexual Harassment Interview Simulation, Jolie M.B. Terrazas
The Protagonist's Experience: Temporality, Narrative, and Harmonic Process in Brahms's Solo Lieder, Loretta Terrigno
Affordable and Accessible Hearing Healthcare Interventions in the United States: A Literature Review and Prospective Analysis, Garrett Thompson
Physiological Correlates of Affective Decision-Making in Anxiety and Depression, Louisa I. Thompson
