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
Masculinidades en Crisis y Prácticas de Resistencia Feminista en la Literatura y el Cine Españoles de Autoría Femenina, Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra
Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Informed Consent with Adolescents, Blanca I. Santana
Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta. An Analysis of Anger in Italian and Spanish Women Writers of the Early Modern Era, Luisanna Sardu Castangia
Developing Italy: Photography and National Identity during the Risorgimento, 1839-1859, Beth Saunders
Mobilizing for Capitalism: How Islamic Civil Society Makes a Market Economy Possible in Turkey, Dean G. Schafer
Risk Factors of Eating Disorders and the Modern Orthodox Jewish Family, Susan D. Schmool
An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques, Maxwell B. Schwartz
The Photographic Universe: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Photography, Media, and Digital Culture, Martha Schwendener
Locked In: Melancholia in the Modern American Prison Literature of R. Dwayne Betts and Jarvis Jay Masters, Johnna Scrabis
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Energy Transfer in an Organic/Inorganic Composite of Zinc Oxide and Graphite Oxide, Jeff A. Secor
The Motivic Economy in Nikolai Medtner's Sonata Romantica, Nellie S. Seng-Quinn
Deciphering the Role of Gfi1b Gene Target Rgs18 in Erythro-megakaryocytic Lineage Divergence, Ananya Sengupta
Development of New Radiolabeling Methods and Insights on Ionizing Radiation Interactions with Nanoparticles, Travis Shaffer
Gendered Expression Online: Exploring Gendered Communication on Facebook and in a Collaborative Editing Task, Christina M. Shane-Simpson
Richard A. Posner: A Study in Judicial Entrepreneurship, Sean J. Shannon
The Critical Social Ecology of Student Success in Higher Education: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study of Undergraduates' Experiences and Outcomes at the City University of New York (CUNY), Leigh Shebanie McCallen
The Regulation of the Phosphatidate Phosphatase Gene PAH1 and Its Regulatory Role on Cell Homeostasis, Goldie Libby Sherr
Consciousness, Perception, and Short-Term Memory, Henry F. Shevlin
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions, Participation, and Belonging, The Netherlands and Denmark, 1960s-80s, Andrew D.J. Shield
Yellow Dust Abode: The Hawley-Suski Letters, 1942-1945, Roxanne Shirazi
Neurodevelopmental Defects Associated with Gestational Exposure to Low Levels of DBP in Mice, Françoise Sidime
Social Ties and State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia, David Siegel
“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype, Rondi Silva
Sustainable Molecular Gelators: Beta-D-Glucoside Derived Structuring Agents and Their Material Application, Julian R. Silverman
Autophagy and Lipid Homeostasis in C. elegans, Melissa J. Silvestrini
Classics and Rockefeller Center: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Use of Classicism in Public Space, Jared A. Simard
Queering by Example: Sex Education in the Age of Vlogging, Zoe M. Simpson
Synthesis and Characterization of Segmented Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers via Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET), Gagandeep Singh
A Passage from Brooklyn to Ithaca: The Sea, the City and the Body in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
Perceptions of Money: Relationships between Remembered Parental Rejection, Extrinsic Life Aspirations and Maladaptive Attitudes toward Money, Rebecca J. Smith
Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media, Hanna L. Smokoski
Problem and Adaptive Behavior Levels in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders as Predictors of Sibling Adjustment, Hallie Solarsh
Can People Successfully Return to Nature?, Nicholas A. Sollogub
Cayley Graphs of Semigroups and Applications to Hashing, Bianca Sosnovski
The Sciences of the Soul: The Emergence of Psy-sciences and the Modern State in Turkey, Kutlughan Soyubol
Characteristics of Newly-hired Members of the New York City Police Department as Predictors of Subsequent Job Performance, Francis E. Spangenberg
An Averaging Method for Advection-Diffusion Equations, Nicholas Spizzirri
Sex Differences in Stress, Burnout and Coping in Emergency Medical Service Providers, Celia R. Sporer
Discourses of "Cruelty-Free" Consumerism: PETA, The Vegan Society and Examples of Contemporary Activism, Andrea Springirth
Community Violence, School Climate, and Social-Emotional Well-Being in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Leighann Starkey
Effect of Temporal Onset of Mechanical Loading on Tendon to Bone Healing, Determined with a Novel In-Vivo Device, Mark E. Stasiak
Finish Fetish: Art, Artists, and Alter Egos in Los Angeles of the 1960s, Monica Steinberg
The Reliability and Validity of the SCAN and SCAN-C for Use with Children with Auditory Processing Disorders: A Systematic Review, Chana S. Stern
El narrador en la ciudad dentro de la temática de los cuentos de emigración y transición puertorriqueña (1948-1968), Sandra Margarita Stern
Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador, Victoria Stone-Cadena
Wet Data: The Ocean and its Negative Archive, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Hospital Quality of Care, Ruirui Sun
Epistemic Considerations on Extensive-Form Games, Cagil Tasdemir
Shattered Mosaic: David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, and Social and Electoral Polarization in Late-20th Century New York City, Gabriel S. Tennen
Screening Male Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of the Alternative Coming-of-Age Motion Picture, Matthew J. Tesoro
Schooling the Market: Venture Philanthropy, Field Building and the NewSchools Venture Fund, Gregory E. Tewksbury
Symmetry and Interval Cycles in the Quartettos of Mario Davidovsky, Ines Thiebaut Lovelace
Object Relations in Children's Projective Testing: Applying the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale to the Thematic Apperception Test, Lily A. Thom
Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level, Ryan P. Tofil
Between Life and Literature: The Influence of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary on Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction, Victoria Tomasulo
Animate Impossibilities: On Asian Americanist Critique, Racialization, and the Humanities, Frances H. Tran
Empty Metal Jacket: The Biopolitical Economy of War and Medicine, Sandra Lee Trappen
Efficient Location Privacy In Mobile Applications, Erald Troja
Adult Neurogenesis in Avian Auditory Cortex, Caudomedial Nidopallium (NCM): Lateralization and Effects of Statins, Shuk C. Tsoi
The Effects of Descriptions and Images of Antecedent Stimuli and Outcomes to Correct Responses in Task Analysis Instruction, Bryan C. Tyner
Essays in Health Economics, Aigbokhai Unuigbe
“Über die Liebe”: Love and Sex According to Eduard Von Keyserling, Caroline Urvater
Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach, Jorge Valderrama
Broadcasting the Crisis: Spanish Television as Critique, Eva Velasco Pena
The Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Integrated Photoconductive Antennas for On-Chip Terahertz Wave Radiation and Detection, Ruben Dario Velasquez Rios
Shakespeare for the Volk: Shakespeare and the Development of the Idea of German Nationhood, 1817–1867, Daniel Rockhill Siegel Venning
Neurophysiological correlates of English vowels /I/ and /E/ in monolingual and bilingual 4 and 5-year-old children, Nancy Vidal
Cohomology of Certain Polyhedral Product Spaces, Elizabeth A. Vidaurre
Construing Character: Virtue as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System, Denise Vigani
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