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
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
Foreign-Born Artists Making “American” Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819–1893, Whitney Thompson
The Dream Deferred: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and the Destruction and Potential Resurrection of the Black Male, Alexandria L. Timoll
Schoenberg's "Phantasy" Form, Lisa A. Tipton
Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives, Atsushi Tomita
Labeling Histories: Mental Disability in American Schooling, Kylah Torre
Toxic Gas Sensing on Nanoporous Carbons, Nikolina-Eleni Travlou
The Fight for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parenting Rights in The United States, Nancy Tresil
Sewing Garments, Sowing Lives: Two Generations of Migrant Workers' Back and Forth to the Chinese Coast, Alice Tzou
Is There a Secular Tradition? On Treason, Government, and Truth, Ali M. Uğurlu
The Bourgeois Crown: Capitalism and the Monarchy in Thailand, 1946–2016, Puangchon Unchanam
Left and Right: Politics and Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany, Michelle L. Vangen
Decidedly Uncertain, Sophia I. Varosy
Dehumanization: A Case Study, Regina Varthi
The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s, Elvera L. Vilson
Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism in New York City During the Long Sixties, David C. Viola Jr.
Tandem 2.0: Image and Text Data Generation Application, Christopher J. Vitale
Terrorism: A Tool For Shaping Public Opinion, Jonathan E. Voisich
Mechanisms of Navigation in Fiddler Crabs: An Analysis of Allocentric and Egocentric Contributions, Stephen G. Volz
Cognitive and Neurobiological Degeneration of the Mental Lexicon in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Jet M. J. Vonk
Is It All Relative? Relative Pitch and L2 Lexical Tone Perception/Tone Language Comprehension by Adult Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers, Sloane C. von Wertz
The Fabric of Manhattan: Art and Industry in the Era of A.T. Stewart, Patricia Wadsley
Environmental Changes Turn on the Sinorhizobium Melitloti ExoR-ExoS/ChvI (RSI) Host Invasion Switch, Shari N. Walcott
Understanding Resilience Strategies Among Minor-Attracted Individuals, Allyson Walker
History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace
Mermaid Song: The Notebooks of the Writing Woman, Gianna T. Ward-Vetrano
Understanding the Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Emotional Memory using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, R. Rachel Weintraub-Brevda
From Design to Completion: The Transformation of U.S. War Memorials on the National Mall, Sara Jane Weintraub
The Column of Constantine at Constantinople: A Cultural History (330-1453 C.E.), Carey Thompson Wells
The Devil's Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (From Baudelaire to Burroughs), Henry A. Wermer-Colan
Development of 90th Percentile Norms for Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: A Feasibility Study, Iris Wertheimer
Should We Talk?: Examining Individual and Aggregate Level Predictors of Mediation Selection at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Cynthia-Lee Williams
The Behavioral Effects Divorce Can Have on Children, Wanda M. Williams-Owens
The Needed Man: The Evolution, Abandonment, and Resurrection of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B. Wilson
Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children, Courtney Wong
Performing Human Rights in Neoliberal Asia: Artistic and Activist Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Melissa Wansin Wong
A Girlhood Among Ghosts, An Experimental Project, Maple Wu
Exploring the Internal Statistics: Single Image Super-Resolution, Completion and Captioning, Yang Xian
Comparative Phylogeographic, Population Genomic, and Selection Inference with Development of Hierarchical Co-Demographic Models, Alexander Xue
In Search of Homo Sociologicus, Yunqi Xue
Contextual Differences in the Effect of Interference During Language Switching in Korean-English Bilingual Speakers, Jungmee Yoon
Las Letras de Fernando de Pulgar, nueva edición, estudio preliminar y notas, Ana-Maria Zaharescu
Rewriting Methods in Groups with Applications to Cryptography, Gabriel Zapata
A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese, Qi Zhang
Essays on the Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Stock Return and Country Output, Junnan Zhao
Fast Algorithms on Random Matrices and Structured Matrices, Liang Zhao
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2016
Saving Animals: Everyday Practices of Care and Rescue in the US Animal Sanctuary Movement, Elan L. Abrell
Con cuydadosos descuydos descubiertos: Una aproximación a la obra de José Camerino en el marco de la novela del siglo XVII, Beatriz G. Acrich Cohen
Speaking of Consequences: Contemporary Music for Political Discourse, Elizabeth Adams
Neighborhood and Community Change in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, Anthony G. Aggimenti
Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution, Elliot G. Aguilar
Calling Campus Police: A Test of Procedural Justice and Unresponsive Bystander Models, Michael Francis Aiello
The Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Touch Perception and Visuo-tactile Integration, Lei Ai
Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Character Building Initiatives at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound High School, Adeola A. Alexander
Perspectives on Iraq's Past, Present, and Future in the Works of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Amnah Almukhtar
Better Work and Global Governance, Paul Alois
Three Essays on the Effects of Childbearing on Economic Well-being and Health, Ramazan Onur Altindag
Reliability of Clinical Evaluators of Spasticity in Patients with Stroke, Tiffany Alvino, Shiney David, Chelsea Gendvil, and
Role of BEC-1/Beclin 1 and Autophagy Genes in C.elegans Germline Cell Proliferation, Kristina Ames
Origén e influencia de la figura de Simón Bolívar en los escritores modernistas hispanoamericanos, Wilson Anaya
The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's Morte Darthur, Elsa K. Anderson
Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque, Maxine C. Anderson
(Dis)entangling Gender Expression and Race in Antigay Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach, Steph M. Anderson
The Effect of the Long Anchor Duration on Performance in the Temporal Bisection Procedure, Sho Araiba
Bilingual French Initiatives in Public Schools: A New York Story: New Opportunities, Diversity and Shared History and Values, Claire JM Arnod Horikawa
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction in an RtI Framework: Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in the Secondary Classroom, Lisa Auslander
A Dark Record: Criminal Discourse and the African American Literary Project, 1721-1864, Brian Baaki
Effect of CNTF Derived Peptide, P021 on Cognition and Pathology in 3xTG-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Narjes Baazaoui
Essays on Foreign Firms Following Deregistration from U.S. Exchanges, Kathleen Michelle Bakarich
Transactive Knowledge Systems, Shared Leadership Style, and Team Effectiveness, Christine L. Baker
Rogues in the Postcolony: The New Picaresque and the Making of Modern India, Stacey Balkan
Transition Issues in Educational Audiology, Rebecca Bareli
Brought Up For Each Other: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson, Susan Barile
