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
Art as Display, Frank M. Boardman
Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India, Natascia Boeri
Social Isolation, Social and Emotional Loneliness, and Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties in Older Adults with Hearing Loss, Yuliya Borik
Declining City, Born-Again Citadel: Faith-Based Organizations and the Reconstitution of Inequality in Postindustrial America, Michael J. Boyle
"Follow the Bodies": (Re)Materializing Difference in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Briana Grace Brickley
Death Priming in Investigations: The Effects on Worldview Threat, Out-Group Derogation, and Stereotyping, Laure Brimbal
Lucumi and the Children of Cotton: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Mapping of a Black Atlantic Politics of Religion, Akissi M. Britton
Wandering in Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
Edwin Fischer and Bach Performance Practice of the Weimar Republic, Bradley V. Brookshire
The Lived Experience of Aging Black Women with Diabetes Nurse-Person Relationships, Deidra G. Brown
The Emergence of the Bird in Andean Paracas Art. c. 900 BCE - 200 CE, Mary B. Brown
Suppression of High Transverse Momentum Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at 200 GeV Nucleon-Nucleon Center of Mass Energy, Jason B. Bryslawskyj
Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos D. Burgos
Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog, Steven R. Butler
Ecological Transitions of U.S. Elementary School Students: Their Short– and Long–Term Educational Outlooks, Anthony Buttaro Jr.
The Discursive Functioning of Knowledge Claims in Research Studies on Children’s Conceptual Knowledge of Number, Patrick D. Byers
The Politics of Middle Class Decline and Growth in Industrialized Democracies, 1980 to 2010, Young-hwan Byun
Alien, Illegal, Undocumented: Labeling, Context, and Worldview in the Immigration Debate and in the Lives of Undocumented Youth, David A. Caicedo
Metabolic Profiling and Polymer Formation of Gene Silenced Potato Periderms, Qing Cai
United in Political Solidarity: How Multicultural Endorsement and Group Identity Inspire Intergroup Political Solidarity Among Members of Lower Status Groups, Justine Calcagno
Virtue’s Web: The Virtue of Empathic Attunement and the Need for a Relational Foundation, Georgina D. Campelia
Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings, Joel A. Capellan
Musical and Dramatic Roles of the Chorus in Hugo Weisgall’s "Esther", Michael A. Capobianco IV
Observational Assessment of Empathy in Parent-Child Verbal Exchanges and Their Influence on Child Behavior, Patty Carambot
Negotiating and Navigating Invisible Food Deserts: An Exploratory Study on Foodways of Adults on the Autism Spectrum, JungJa Park Cardoso
The Words and Worlds of Disability: Discourses on Disablement Within the Situated Practices of Service Providers, Enitza C. Carril
YouTube As A Net"work": A Media Analysis of the YouTube Beauty Community, Barbara Casabianca
Assessing Social Protection Arrangements in Angola and Mozambique, Andre Cavaller Guzzi
Transmission of Focused Picosecond Light Pulse through Multimode Fibers, Yin Cen
Mad Men of Letters: Advertising, Masculinity, and the American Postmodern Novel, Jennifer Chancellor
Millets from the Margins: Value, Knowledge and the Subaltern Practice of Biodiversity in Uttarakhand, India, Priya R. Chandrasekaran
Social Cognitive Processes in the Priming of Mental Illness Stereotypes by the Media, Ginny Chan
Left of Maidan: Self-Organization and the Ukrainian State on the Edge of Europe, Emily S. Channell-Justice
Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure?, Stanley Chen
Tuning Topological Surface States by Charge Transfer, Zhiyi Chen
Examining Victimization in South Korea 1993-2010: A Comparative Application of Ecological Theories of Crime, Jisun Choi
Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" to "Unauthorized Immigration" in Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho
A Study of the Impact of Interaction Mechanisms and Population Diversity in Evolutionary Multiagent Systems, Sadat U. Chowdhury
On the Syntax/Semantics of Korean Nominal Particles, Han-Byul Chung
Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications and the Poetics of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio
Headhunting: Evaluating the Disruptive Capacity of Leadership Decapitation on Terrorist Organizations, Ted Clemens IV
Ethnicity Matters: Implications for Understanding and Acting upon Disparities in Health Affecting Black Men in the United States, Helen V. S. Cole
Imaginary Subjects: Fiction-Writing Instruction in America, 1826 - 1897, Paul Collins
Student Perspectives on Meaningful Adult Relationships in a Transfer School, Susan E. Collins
Socio-Economic Inequalities, Academic Failure, and Institutional Interventions: What CUNY Is Doing To Help Its High Risk Populations, Cynthia Constant
How Do Open Educational Resources (OERs) Impact Students? A Qualitative Study at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Cailean Cooney
Exploring the Uses of Cultural Funds of Knowledge Among Ethnic Minority Immigrant College Students in Their Constructions of Learning Identities Within a Collaborative Photovoice Project, Stacey Jennell Cooper
Claiming Time: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith on Freedom and Futurity, Jennifer Corby
Ceasing to Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers and Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun
Curing Violence: Prescriptions for Justice and Peace in Colombia, Marissa Crawford
Saving: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Potential in the United States, Risa Cromer
Interstate Alliances of the Fourth-Century BCE Greek World: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Nicholas D. Cross
Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis, Cheila Cullen
Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps, Gretchen M. Culp
The Impact of Foster Care on Depression: An Examination of Placement Type and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Children and Adolescents, Kisha Cummings
Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot, Colleen Cusick
The Effects of Health-Related Fitness on School Attendance in New York City 6th-8th Grade Youth, Emily M. D'Agostino
Die Meistersinger, New York City, and the Metropolitan Opera: The Intersection of Art and Politics During Two World Wars, Gwen L. D'Amico
Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español, Berenice Darwich
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
“Vital Glowing Things”: The Art of Women’s Writing, 1910-1935, Elizabeth C. Decker
ZnCdMgSe as a Materials Platform for Advanced Photonic Devices: Broadband Quantum Cascade Detectors and Green Semiconductor Disk Lasers, Joel De Jesus
The Antipolitics of Food in Middle-Class America, Neri de Kramer
Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Third Space of Contemporary Chinese-Francophone Writers, Paula S. DelBonis-Platt
The Moving Image in Public Art: U.S. and U.K., 1980–Present, Annie Dell'Aria
Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance, Jessica Del Vecchio
Dialogic Faiths: Multi-Genre Expression in Religious Narrative, Rosemary L. Demos
Theoretical Analysis of Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lineshapes of Conjugated Polymers, Murali Devi
Providing Care for Many in the Context of Few Resources: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout and Moral Distress Experienced by Healthcare Providers in Rural Uganda, Lauren Michelle Dewey
Engagement and Resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic Transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000, Jeffrey Diamant
Photonic Crystals with Alternate Arrays of Rods and Holes in a Low Dielectric-Index Material, Dimitar L. Dimitrov
Healthy Beginnings: Exploring the Impact of Parental Stress and Relationship Quality on Birth Outcomes, Anna A. Divney
Paired Associative Transspinal and Transcortical Stimulation Produces Bidirectional Plasticity of Human Cortical and Spinal Motor Pathways, Luke Dixon, Mohamed Ibrahim, Danielle Santora, and
Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders' Science Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Donahue
Re-Examining the Bilingual Advantage on Interference-Control and Task-Switching Tasks: A Meta-Analysis, Seamus Donnelly
Dinámicas políticas y proyectos culturales en la Posrevolución Cubana (1989-2015): Paideia, Diáspora(s), and Generación cero, Walfrido Dorta
Modernism with a Human Face: Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954-1958, Nikolaos Drosos
Beaches, People, and Change: A Political Ecology of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy, Bryce B. DuBois
The Impact of Climate Variability and Conflict on Childhood Diarrhea and Malnutrition in West Africa, Gillian Dunn
Transparent Interiors: Detective and Mystery Fiction in the Age of Photography, Melissa D. Dunn
The Virtue Mentality, Rachel Eckhardt
African American Young People's Views of Youth Participation and its Implications for Addressing Community Problems, Isabelle M. Elisha
The Cumulative Impact of Trauma Exposure and Recidivism After Incarceration Among Black Men, Johanna E. Elumn Madera
Performing el Rap el ʿArabi 2005-2015: Feeling Politics amid Neoliberal Incursions in Ramallah, Amman, and Beirut, Rayya S. El Zein
Dislocating Camps: On State Power, Queer Aesthetics & Asian/Americanist Critique, Christopher Alan Eng
Evolving the Genre of Empire: Gender and Place in Women's Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688-1808, Diana Epelbaum
Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Survey to Assess Inclusion in DPT Curricula in the United States, Michael Erickson, Paul Nasri, David Perrotto, and
The Implications of Chromatin Remodelers' Acetylation in INO1 Activation, Michelle M. Esposito
Reshaping National Imaginations in the Midst of Civil Genocide: Denationalization in the Dominican Republic and Transnational Activism, Javiela Evangelista
How to Be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul
Scale Up Bayesian Network Learning, Xiannian Fan
Probing the Structure and Photophysics of Porphyrinoid Systems for Functional Materials, Christopher D. Farley
Darwinian Debunking Reconsidered, Amanda J. Favia
Possible Underlying Mechanisms of Hyperactivity in Children with ADHD, Nicole Feirsen
Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders, Cory M. Feldman
La quebrada y la costa peruanas en voces narrativas a mediados del siglo XX: María Rosa Macedo y Sara María Larrabure, Ricardo N. Fernández
Gender Roles, Social Control and Digital Piracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender Differences in Software Piracy Among Korean Adolescents, Riccardo Ferraresso
