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
Losing Values: Illiquidity, Personhood, and the Return of Authoritarianism in Skopje, Macedonia, Fabio Mattioli
Where Have All The Feminists Gone?: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Students' Attitudes Toward Gender Equality, Erin Maurer
Sounds in the Marketplace: Consumer Reactions to Ambient and Product Sounds, Lauren Mayor
Issues of Rhythm, Symmetry, and Style in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for PIano and Strings, Ilya Mayzus
On the Appearance of the Comedy LP, 1957–1973, David Michael McCarthy
Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994, Kevin E. McCarthy
Politics Between and Within Us: Authenticity and Theatricality in Modern Political Thought, Daniel J. McCool
Exploring Older Adults’ Perceptions of the Utility and Ease of Use of Personal Emergency Response Systems, Patricia A. McLean
Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory, John McMahon
Literacies of Bilingual Youth: A Profile of Bilingual Academic, Social, and TXT Literacies, Michelle A. McSweeney
Assembly and Association: Mapping the Development of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Columbia County, NY, Christopher L. Meatto
Loans’ Impact on International Relations: Venezuela as Lender and Borrower, Leonela C. Medina Baez
'Something On Women For the Crime Bill': The Construction and Passage of the Violence Against Women Act, 1990-1994, Irene Meisel
Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i, Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh
Race and Gender in the Advancement to Partnership: Perceptions of Black Female Lawyers, Tsedale M. Melaku
Emotion Regulation in Relation to Cognitive Functioning in the Preclinical Stages of Dementia, Erica P. Meltzer
City Poems And Urban Crisis, 1945 - Present, Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson
Vector Beams for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Giovanni Milione
Charles Ives on the Nature of Experience: The Compositional Designs and Aesthetic Programs of Three Orchestral Works, Ashleé Michele Miller
On the Derivative of 2-Holonomy for a Non-Abelian Gerbe, Cheyne J. Miller
An ERP Study of Sensory-Linguistic Processing in the Context of ASD Research, Larissa R. Miller
Photodynamic Killing of Human Cancer Cells with Smart Photosensitizer Materials and An Endoscopic Implement for Singlet Oxygen Delivery, Mihaela N. Minnis
Connectivity: An Ecological Paradigm for the Study of Bronze Age, Slobodan Mitrović
Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: Race, Place, and the National Environmental Policy Act, Keith K. Miyake
Madison Vanguard: A Novel, Berni Moestafa
Biosynthesis and Roles of Virulence Conferring Cell Wall Associated Dimycocerosate Esters in Mycobacterium marinum, Poornima Mohandas
A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY, Sean Molloy
The Relative Impact of Psychosocial Well-being and Mental Health on the Relationship between Economic Circumstance and Religiosity, Veronica Momjian
Water Condensation and Protein Adsorption on Hybrid Superhydrophobic-Hydrophilic Surfaces, Bikash Mondal
Role of hnRNP A1 in the Regulation of HDM2 Gene Expression, Heriberto Moran
Ethnic and National Identity of Third Generation Koreans in Japan, Haruka Morooka
Series of Intermittent Heroin Injections Enhances Acquisition of Operant Responding for Cues Paired with Natural Rewards, Jennifer Morrison
Investigating Personal Intelligent Agents in Everyday Life through a Behavioral Lens, Sara Moussawi
The Lived Experience of Fathers with Advanced Cancer, Maria Mowassee
"A return to reality": Mark Hansen's Metaphysics: Towards a New Relationality of Twenty-first-century Media, Sandra Moyano Ariza
The Transatlantic Oarsmen Cooperative: Doubling Down on a Transatlantic Financial Regulatory Regime, Joselyn Muhleisen
The Hermeneutics of International Trade Conflicts: U.S. Punitive Trade Policy Towards China and Japan, Barry F. Murdaco
Neither a Slave nor a King: The Antislavery Project and the Origins of the American Sectional Crisis, 1820-1848, Joseph T. Murphy
Il dilemma del prigioniero. Luciano Bianciardi e il disincanto del moderno, Ilaria Muzzi
Comparative Population Genomics and Speciation of Snakes Across the North American Deserts, Edward A. Myers
An Exploration of Target Event Encoding in a Predictive Learning Task with Humans: Integrated or Separable Processing?, Natasha B. Nadler
Integral Theory, Positive Psychology, and Sacred Texts of the World: A New Philosophy of Education for the 21St Century, Muhammad Naeem
Selling National Security: Journalism, Political Actors, and the Marketing of Counterterrorism Policy, Nicole M. Napolitano
Power and Proximity: The Politics of State Secession, Elizabeth A. Nelson
Exploring Sewage Sludge/Fish Waste-Based Materials As Adsorbents Of Pharmaceuticals From Water Phase, Lilja Nielsen
Speech-recognition Outcomes in Older Adults with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Jennie Noska
Essays in Labor and Development Economics, Stephen Daniel O'Connell
Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation, Sobukwe O. Odinga
Understanding the Glass Cliff Effect: Why Are Female Leaders Being Pushed Toward the Edge?, Yael S. Oelbaum
The Effects of Globalization on an Emerging Economy: The Case of South Africa, Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo
The Remedy That's Killing: CUNY, LaGuardia, and The Fight for Better Math Policy, Rachel A. Oppenheimer
Towards Collaboration Between Lawyers and Social Workers: A Content Analysis of Joint Degree Programs, Ifem E. Orji
Re-framing Informal Family Caregiving, Magdalena T. Ornstein-Sloan
Help-Seeking Latina Victims of Domestic Violence and the Programs That Serve Them in New York City, Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez
Let Fall: Hysteria and the Psychoanalytic Act, Matthew W. Oyer
Bullying Prevention in New York City Public Schools: School Safety Agents' Perceptions of Their Roles, Gabriel R. Paez
Classical Transport in Disordered Systems, Antonios Papaioannou
Language-Mixing in Discourse in Bilingual Individuals with Non-Fluent Aphasia, Avanthi Paplikar
A Geometric Model of Twisted Differential K-theory, Byung Do Park
Value Congruence and Unethical Decision-Making: The Dark Side of Person-Organization Fit, Chad C. Parson
Some 2-Categorical Aspects in Physics, Arthur Parzygnat
Psychological Perspectives on the Under-Representation of African Americans and Females in Entrepreneurship: The Relationship between Perceptions of Fit and Intentions to Leave, Rachel Pascall-Gonzalez
Phylogeny, Systematics and Biogeography of Short-Tailed Opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis), Silvia E. Pavan
The Context of Alkmeonid Inscriptions and Monuments: A Catalogue of Material and Literary Evidence for the Alkmeonidai, Cameron G. Pearson
NMR Studies of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Jing Peng
Interaction of Spliceosomal U2 snRNP Protein p14 with Its Branch Site RNA Target, William Perea Vargas
Ways of Thinking about Illness Representations of Cancer, Ian Zachary Pervil
Seeing and Perceptual Content, Ben S. Phillips
Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War U.S. Television, 1957–1964, Melissa Phruksachart
A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City, Christine A. Pinnock
Actions, Reasons and Self-Expression: A Defense of Subjectivist-Internalism about Reasons, Carolyn P. Plunkett
Crossing The Great Divide: An Investigation of Data and Memory, Julia Pollack
Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente, Michael Polson
The Effects of Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies on Managerial Job Performance, Raphael Y. Prager
Cervantes' "Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados": A Theater of Tradition and Innovation, Michael K. Predmore
Three Essays in Intuitionistic Epistemology, Tudor Protopopescu
Quaternion Algebras and Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds, Joseph Quinn
Jules Verne Constructs America: From Utopia to Dystopia, Dana L. Radu
The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, Heidi M. Rafferty-Reijm
Intraindividual Variability as a Predictor of Cognitive Decline in Elderly, Wendy S. Ramratan
Mechanisms of Immune Activation and Suppression by Parasitic Wasps of Drosophila, Johnny R. Ramroop
"They have sold the clouds": Queering Indigenous Politics in Colombia, Taylor O. Ramsey
Brainstorming Solutions for the Unintended Consequences of Antibiotics and the Development of Resistant Bacteria, Rajini D. Ramsukh
Specific Binding Affinity of the Non-Catalytic Domain of Eukaryotic Like Type IB Topoisomerase of vaccinia Virus, Benjamin R. Reed
Effect of an Internet-Based Education Program on Self-Care Agency in People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Darcel M. Reyes
An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson, Antoine N. Rideau
The Bauhaus Wall Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product, Morgan Ridler
A Comparative Perspective between FARC Guerrilleras and Chechen Black Widows, Denise Rivera
The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure, Lara Rossana Rodriguez
Tobacco Cessation and the Household Budget: A Longitudinal Analysis of Consumption and Heterogeneity in the United States, Erin R. Rogers
An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB, Devon Rolleri
The Relation of Analysis to Performance of Post-tonal Violin Music: Three Case Studies, Karen E. Rostron
The Impact of Modality Expectancy on Memory Accuracy for Brand Names, Daniel Rubin
A Meaning Hypothesis to Explain Speaker's Choice of the Sign Look, Nadav Ayal Sabar
Provisional Capital: National and Urban Identity in the Architecture and Planning of Bonn, 1949-1979, Samuel L. Sadow
Genocide in Rwanda: Understanding Why They Died, Joseph Sambou
An Analysis of Technological Features Enabled Management of Information Facets, Jim Samuel