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
When Human-Leopard Conflict Turns Deadly: A Cross-Country Situational Analysis, Julie S. Viollaz
Nature and Nostalgia in the Art of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), Shannon Vittoria
An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Class Construction in Early National New York City, Alisa J. Wade
Living Infrastructure: Being, Time, and Government in New York City, Stephanie Diane Wakefield
Real Gender: Identity, Loss, and the Capacity to Feel Real, Hannah Wallerstein
Design Rules for the Nucleation, Growth, and Encapsulation of Gold Nanoparticles with Applications to Cancer Imaging, Matthew A. Wall
An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics, David Walters Jr.
Patterns of Growth and the Economic Development of China, Adam C. Watson
Kongo to Kings County, Marcus Alan Watson
Occupy Citizenry: Participatory Performance in New York City: 2009-2015, Kenn Dixon Watt
An Exploration of Early Romanization: A Comparative and Semiotic Approach, Mikel Wein
Le Pianiste: Parisian Music Journalism and the Politics of the Piano, 1833–35, Shaena B. Weitz
Computerized Cognitive Intervention in Cognitively Normal Very Elderly Individuals, Rebecca K. West
The C3 Conditional: A Variably Strict Ordinary-Language Conditional, Monique L. Whitaker
Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention, Simone White
Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation, Stephen (Red) Wierenga
From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States, Karen G. Williams
Early Relational Experiences and Poor Psychological and Social Outcomes as Mediated by Internalized Heterosexism in Sexual Minority Women: Illustration of a Theoretical Model, Katharine Williams
Coalescence of Research: Urban Advantage as a Learning Organization Structured to Support a Culture of Inquiry, Marianne Williams
Effects Of Serveware Materiality On Food Perceptions, Consumption, and Waste, Sara Williamson
Dual-Aspect Meter: A Theory of Metrical Consonance, Dissonance, Weight, and Variety, Andrew Wilson
Comprehensive Mass Balance Isotope Schematics for Determining the Provenance of the Moon Forming Impactor., John C. Wolbeck
Snapshots, Cynthia L. Wong
The Fourth Movement of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto: Investigating the Musical-Mathematical Connection, Cynthia L. Wong
Explicit Formulae and Trace Formulae, Tian An Wong
Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods
Essays in Chinese Financial Markets, Chang Xia
The Price of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Class Structure, and Language Endangerment in Shanghai, Fang Xu
Stochastic Processes And Their Applications To Change Point Detection Problems, Heng Yang
Earnings Management and Bargain Purchase Gains, Yan Yan
Semantic Holism Revisited, Chun-Ping Yen
Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922, Secil Yilmaz
Educational Histories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth: From Countries of Origin to the United States, Joanna Yip
Animal Performance in Big-Time Vaudeville, Catherine M. Young
Large-Scale Spatial Data Management on Modern Parallel and Distributed Platforms, Simin You
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theories, Jihwan Yu
Electrochemical Nanoprobes for Electron Transfer Kinetics and Electrocatalysis Study, Yun Yu
What are the Barriers and Conduits to College Success for Academically Vulnerable Students?, Marisol Zacarias
Anton Arensky’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 35, for Violin, Viola, and Two Celli, Miho Zaitsu
Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago, Adam Zanolini
New Classical Solutions in Supergravity, Zhibai Zhang
Relational Pluralism in Boards of Directors: A Multidimensional View, Zhu Zhu
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supervision on Trauma Training Outcomes for Assertive Community Treatment Teams, Sacha Zilkha
Essays on the Well-Being of an Aging Population, Alice Zulkarnain
DH Box: A Virtual Computer Lab in the Cloud, Stephen Zweibel
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2015
Persons as Self-consciously Concerned Beings, Benjamin Abelson
Target Zero: Why States Choose To Eradicate Infectious Diseases And How They Succeed, Gifty Abraham
Wigner High-Electron-Correlation Regime Of Non-Uniform Density Systems: A Quantal-Density-Functional-Theory Study, Douglas Mortimer Achan
Interactions and Complexity in Multi-Agent Justification Logic, Antonios Achilleos
"I Shall not Fear:" Secure Attachment to G-d as a Buffer against Anxiety, Peryl Agishtein
SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE Ronnbergia ALLIANCE (BROMELIACEAE): HISTORY OF DISJUNCT DIVERSIFICATION IN THREE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS OF THE NEOTROPICS, Julian Andres Aguirre Santoro
The Insanity Defense, Public Anger, and the Potential Impact on Attributions of Responsibility and Punishment, Chioma Ajoku
Corruptions, Imitations, and Innovations: Tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's Polemics, Faris Al Ahmad
The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit, Kara Susan Alaimo
/n/:/r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n>r Sound Change, Katie Albany
Effect of Absent Tactile Sensation on Multi-digit Coordination Underlying Hand Control, Michael P. Alcorn, Bruce Faulkner, Matthew Macina, and Brian Sherman
Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs, Patrick Michael Alexander
Homeland Security and Community policing: Shift in Federal Funding Post Sep. 11: From Community Policing to Homeland Security, Mohsen S. Alizadeh
Development Of A Naturalistic Observational Parenting Practice Assessment Tool For Externalizing Behavior Research, Thailyn L. Alonso
Intimate Relationships: Reality and Normativity, Jason V. Altilio
The Mystification of Christian Salvation: On the Anxiety of Redemption in Renaissance Poetry and Drama, Kimberly Paige Ambroziak
Exploring the Effects of Strain on Cross-national Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model, Catrin Andersson
Electrophysiological Markers of Short-term Visual Adaptation: An Examination Across the Schizophrenia Spectrum, Gizely N. Andrade
Guilty Stereotypes: The Social Psychology Of Race And Suspicion In Police Interviews And Interrogations, Sara C. Appleby
Adonis' Poetics of Vision and Modernity, Rasha Arabi
The Geometry and Combinatorics of Closed Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces, Chris Arettines
Gender, Money, and the Charity Organization Society: 1900-1919, Sarah H. Arnold
The Role of Dependence in Alcohol Reinforcement: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms, Michal Atzram
Narratives of Interiority: Black Lives in the U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
Assessing Theory of Mind in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Typical Development, Sarita Austin
Basic Cable: A Reluctant American Perspective on the Arab Spring Through Revolutionary Art, Philip Ayoub
Toward an Argumentation-based Dialogue framework for Human-Robot Collaboration, Mohammad Quamrul Azhar
Identifying Risk And Protective Factors Associated With The Relationship Between Developmental Delays And Behavior Problems In An Urban Sample Of Preschool Children, Jaclyn Weber Babcock
A Long-Term Follow-Up of Crossover Youth: Young Adult Outcomes for Maltreated Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Carly Lyn Baetz
Imagining What Could Be: The Role of Youth Leadership in Realizing College for All, Tara Bahl
Implications of Muscle Activation Patterns on Balance in the Elderly, Arielle Bailey, Goldie Baum, Hadassa Radzik, and Aruna Woods
Molecular-Genetic and Behavioral Analysis of the Functionality of Patterning in the Trigeminal Neuraxis, Dana Bakalar
The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
The Sensitive Psychopath: Assessing Construct Overlap Between Secondary Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder, Trevor H. Barese
Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency, Doris Barkin
On the Biology, Behavior, and Conservation of the Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus sp., Gregory Jeff Barord
Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Homeless Families: The Importance of Shelter Environment, Nisha Nicole Beharie
Effects of Reproductive Experiences on Age-related Neural and Behavioral Changes in Female Rats, Saranna Belgrave
Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment, Robert Joseph Bell
Functional Characterization Of The Plant 15-Cis-Zeta-Carotene Isomerase Z-Iso, Jesus Alonso Beltran Zambrano
Propagation of Non-Stationary Noise in Waveguides, Jonathan Samuel Ben-Benjamin
Mechanisms of Vocal Coordination in Zebra Finches, Jonathan I. Benichov
Retrospective Chart Review of Patients Following Unilateral Total Knee Replacement to Assess Achievement of Functional Milestones Based on Type of Anesthetic Used Intra-Operatively, William S. Benish, Lolline Chong, Elana Kram, and Danielle Krieger
Developmental Coordination Disorder: The Relationship Between Gait And Attention With Possible Implications For Early Identification And Intervention, Yocheved Bensinger-Brody
Parentification and Separation-Individuation in Siblings of Individuals with a Chronic Illness or Disability, Danielle Benveniste Stevens