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 2015
Whistles of Sympatric Species of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the Bahamas: Acoustic Characteristics and Contextual Use, Jennifer Daisy Kaplan
Olfaction As The Paradigm For Perceptual Philosophy, Andreas Keller
The Role of the VTA NMDA Receptors, VTA DA Cells and VTA Terminal Regions in Reward-Related Learning, Karen Kest
The Role of ATP and Cleavage Factor Phosphorylation in pre-mRNA 3' Cleavage Reaction, Asya Khleborodova
Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students, Magdalena Kieliszek
Gender and Trauma from World War I to the War in Iraq: Narrative in the Aftermath of Loss, Jenny Young Kijowski
Death and Photography in East Asia: Funerary Use of Portrait Photography, Jeehey Kim
The Odyssey of North Korean Defectors: Issues and Problems in the Migration Process, You Gene Kim
The Ties that Bind: Gender, Race, and Empire in Caribbean Indenture Narratives, Alison Joan Klein
The Effects of Maximal Strength Training on Gait and Balance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pretest Posttest Pilot Study, Janet Klein, David Park, Charles Wright, and Michael Zervas
Regulation of the Vacuolar ATPase activity, Paulina Konarzewska
Psychosocial Sequelae Of Homicide Among Murder Victims' Family Members: An Appraisal Of Depression, Grief, And Posttraumatic Stress, Sarah Kopelovich
Development of Instructional Competencies for Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Abigail Kotowski
Interactions Between Descending and Somatosensory Inputs in Humans, Lisa Krivis, Ann Mackey, Maureen McDonough, and Denise Uttaro
TCR Alpha LCR and non-LCR cis-elements contributing to tissue specific expression of the TCR Alpha gene in thymic and peripheral T cells, Martina Kucerova-Levisohn
Attenuation Of Methamphetamine And Nmda-Induced Toxicity By Leptin In Murine Striatum, Nawshin Hoque Kutub
Effecting Moral Change: Lessons from the First Emancipation, Howard Landis
Supporting Collaborative Learning in Computer-Enhanced Environments, Shalva S. Landy
"Young Men of the Stones": Gendering the First Palestinian Intifada, Karen Lauria
Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Global Toolkits and Urban Reinvestment in Buenos Aires, Jacob H. Lederman
The Role of Financial Reporting Quality in the Selection of New Audit Committee Member, Dongliang Lei
Rebellion under the Palm Trees: Memory, Agrarian Reform and Labor in the Aguán, Honduras, Andres Leon
Bank Monitoring: Impact on Equity REIT Risk and Return, Mariya Letdin
Changes in Economic Well-Being of the Elderly, Mei Liao
Juan Bautista Aguirre (1725-1786) y los orígenes de la nación ecuatoriana, Alex Paul Lima
Strongly-correlated 2D Electron Systems in Si-MOSFETs, Shiqi Li
Low-rank Based Algorithms for Rectification, Repetition Detection and De-noising in Urban Images, Juan Liu
Order and Asymmetry in Jammed Systems, Zhusong Li
The Lived Experience of Family Nurse Practitioners Performing Sexual Health Assessments, Madeleine Mary Lloyd
Pragmatics and Semantics in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Karece Lopez
Proton Pumping in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Jianxun Lu
Deception as forgery: The role of reference information in honesty and deceit, Timothy John Luke
The New York Philharmonic Strike of 1973, Kuan Cheng Lu
Exploring Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Time Dependent Density Functional Theory, Kai Luo
Some Common Sense For The Common Core, Katherine M. Maciaszek
Hybridized Criticality and Elementary Excitations in LiHoF4, Haifu Ma
Effectiveness of Psychological Techniques in Increasing Deviant Sexual Fantasy Self-Disclosures, Christian Maile
The effects of mood and perceived cost on self-disclosure of deviant sexual fantasies and behavior, Jordan S. Maile
Essays on Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Michael Malenbaum
Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching, Despina Stefanou Malliaroudakis
Large-pore mesoporous organosilicas and related polymer nanocomposites, Amanpreet Singh Manchanda
Metasurfaces for photon sorting and selective absorption, Isroel Moshe Mandel
The Influence Of A Child's Learning Disability On A Parent's Psychological Experience: A Comparison Of Parents With And Without Learning Disabilities, Alice Varley Mangan
Rethinking Internal Working Models from a Developmental Perspective: Clarifying the Concept and Making a Case for a Sensitive Period of Attachment, Leah Bothe Manning
Polymer Pen Printing: A Tool for Studying 2D Enzymatic Lithography and Printing 3D Carbon Features, Zhantong Mao
Optimal Targeting Regimes and Instrument Rules in the Basic New Keynesian Model, Luc Marest
Essays in the Economics of Education and Health, Jesse Margolis
Hearing Conservation Attitudes and Behaviors at Orthodox Jewish Weddings, Audrey Margulies
Privilege in Haiti: Travails in Color of the First Bourgeois Nation-State in the Americas, Philippe-Richard Marius
`We Are All Stories in the End, I Want Mine to be a Good One': College Students' Work-Family Expectations and the Role of Educational Experiences, Chandra D. Mason
The Impact of Police Misconduct in Kings County on New York City's Civil Liability 2006-2010, Brian A. Maule
No Shortcuts: The Case for Organizing, Jane Frances McAlevey
Middle School Girls in Postfeminist Times, Susan McCullough
Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jessica McGivney
Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island, Allison Manfra McGovern
Three Faces of Human Exceptionalism: Genius, Saint, Monster, Mary Clare Feldmann McKinley
Communication, Labor, and Communicative Labor, Rachel McKinney
Assessing the Impact of Restrictions to Medicaid Coverage of Methadone and Buprenorphine on Opioid Users' Access to and Utilization of Substance Use Treatment, Courtney McKnight
RAGTIME THEN AND NOW: Composers and Audiences from the Ragtime Era to the Ragtime Revival, William Martin McNally
Studies Toward a General Synthesis of Poly-Substituted Alpha-Hydroxytropolones, Christine Marie Meck
Age, Cognition, and Listening Effort, Sapna Mehta
Sublimity and Identity: Portrayals of the Female Body By Latin American Women Poets in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Kathryn Mendez
Proust's Medusa: Ovid, Evolution, and Modernist Metamorphosis, Gregory John Mercurio
The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers, Katharine Pace Miles
The Trickster In Nella Larsen's Passing (1929): Performing And Masquerading An American Identity, Rachael Miller Benavidez
The Making of Knowledge-Makers in Composition: A Distant Reading of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal, Jessica Ty Miller
Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat, Menemsha P.S. Milnor
Renaissance Humanism and the Ottoman 'Other' - Discourse Construction, Position and Power, Aramis Miranda-Reyes
Theater Matters: Female Theatricality in Hawthorne, Alcott, Brontë, and James, Keiko Miyajima
Development and Validation of a Bangladeshi Pediatric Silhouette Scale (BPSS), Ana Mola
Panorama Generation for Stereoscopic Visualization of Large-Scale Scenes, Edgardo Molina
Surviving the Gauntlet: Adult Undergraduates in American Higher Education, David Bernard Monaghan
Maternal Dissociation, Emotional Acceptance and Child Emotion Regulation: A Study of Residents in a Family Homeless Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Brian S. Mueller
Exploiting Cancer Cell Signaling and Metabolism: Implications for Therapeutic Approach, Suman Mukhopadhyay
The neurophysiology of intersensory selective attention and task switching, Jeremy W. Murphy
The 'in-Group Advantage' For Perceiving Emotion Across Demographic Groups And Communication Channels, Thomas Myers
Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context, Marisa A. Nagano
Estimation of Outer-Middle Ear Transmission using DPOAEs and Fractional-Order Modeling of Human Middle Ear, Maryam Naghibolhosseini
The Impact of Technology on Consumerism, David Naranjo
Music In Poetry And Poetry In Music: Tumanian's Anush, Beata Asmik Navratil
Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars, Emily Schuchardt Navratil
Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix, Nikolina Nedeljkov
Investigating the effects of intervention intensity on skill acquisition and task persistence in children with Down syndrome, Nicole Marie Neil
The Mechanisms Of Transmission: Examining The Effects Of Childhood Interpersonal Violence Across Generations, Amber Nemeth
Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory, Joao Nemi Neto
Explorations In Advancing Microalgae Productivity, Peter Neofotis
'HOPE FOR EVERY ADDICTED AMERICAN' An Opioid Epidemic in the Age of Ethopolitics: Implications for U.S. Drug Policy and Governing Problematic Subjects, Elizabeth Newcomer
Affecting Neoliberal Public Health Care: Interdependent Relationality between Disabled Care Recipients and their Care Providers, Akemi Nishida
Discerning Between Types of Otitis Media and Their Evidence Based Treatments: A Review for the Audiologist, Hadassah Norowitz
A Review Of Teacher Preparation In New York City: Through An Analysis Of The Teacher Academy, Naomi Uchechuwku Nwosu
A Spelling Pronunciation Strategy Helps College Students Remember How To Spell Difficult Words, Turkan Ocal
Loosening the Critical Corset: New Approaches to the Short Fiction of Kate Chopin and Ruth Stuart, Kathryn Erin O'Donoghue
Women of Faith: Adaptation of African American Women Breast Cancer Survivors, Pearline Lincoln Okumakpeyi
Effects of Job Type and Culture on Relationships Between Job Characteristics and Worker Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis, Justina Oliveira