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
Status Signaling and the Characterization of a Chirp-Like Signal in the Weakly Electric Fish Steatogenys elegans, Caitlin E. Field
Fundamental Parameters of the Lowest Mass Stars to the Highest Mass Planets, Joseph C. Filippazzo
The Evolution of the Viral RNA Sensor OAS1 in Old World Monkeys and Cetartiodactyls, Ian Fish
Explicit Reciprocity Laws for Higher Local Fields, Jorge Florez
Centralized, Decentralized, Distributed: Disruptive Technology in Distance Education from "Sunrise Semester" to Present-Day MOOCs, Rosanna Flouty
Perceptions of Fidelity and Adaptation in Evidence-Informed Interventions by Women of Color Sexuality Health Educators, Sara C. Flowers
Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy, Simon Gaston Fortin
Effects of Two Prereading Activities on Comprehending Science Text: Reading Abridged Text and Learning Vocabulary Words, Audrey J. Fowler
The Impact of Affect on Neural Mechanisms Underlying Orientation Perception, Michelle L. Fowler
Studies in the Creation and Implementation of School Cultures: Two New York City Stand-Alone Charter Schools, Olivia-Beate A. Franzini
The Effects of Job Characteristics on Home Care Workers’ Well-being and Job Performance: Understanding the Psychosocial Effects of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa
Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga (2006 - 2015), Andrew L. Friedman
Outcomes of Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Adults with Postlingual Deafness: A Systematic Review, Jillian Friedman
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Alessia Frisoli
Tradition and Transition: American Orthodox Jewish Women Preparing and Becoming Sexually Active within Marriage, Shoshannah D. Frydman
Puccini’s Love Duets and the Unfolding of Time, Kae Fujisawa
Shadows and Light. Ernie Gehr Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Sean M. Fuller
The Role of Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Ontogeny in Organization and Evolution of Social Systems, Andrew G. Fulmer
Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden, Julie L. Gafney
Participation Strategies in Low-Resource Settings and Their Impact on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: A Study in Four Different Geographical Regions, Magdalena Galazyn
Control of Spontanous Emission from Quantum Emitters Using Hyperbolic Metamaterial Substrates, Tal Galfsky
Archiving the '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture, Margaret A. Galvan
Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York, Nicholas Gamso
Fragmentation and Multiplicity in Cuban-American Identity: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez and Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas, Daimys E. Garcia
The Effect of Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty on Forensic Clinical Judgments of Competency for Execution, Eugenia Garcia-Dubus
Essays on the Economics of Health and Risky Behavior, Markus Gehrsitz
Physiopathology and Intervention in Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review, Justin Gelesky, Dylann C. Germann, Amanda Percaccio, and Rachelle Schick
Feminine Ideology, Relational Self-Concept, and Internalizing Symptoms in Women, Anjali George
Photooxidation Chemistry and Photodynamic Therapy: Pointsource Delivery of Singlet Oxygen, Sensitizer and Nitrosamine Drugs, Ashwini Anil Ghogare
Development of a Patient-Centered Health Literacy Toolkit for Audiology and Hearing Loss (The 'HH Lit Kit'), Jennifer L. Gilligan
Multi-Digit Coordination in Absence of Cutaneous Sensory Feedback During Grasping Tasks, Christina Gioeli, Kerry McPartlan, Emily Reid, and Matthew Turturro
Fallible Justice: The Dilemma of the British in the Gold Coast, 1874-1944, Neal M. Goldman
Ánxel fole: Voz cultural y política de Galicia. Á lus do candil. Contos a carón do lume., Isolina Gonzalez
Utilizing Linguistic Context To Improve Individual and Cohort Identification in Typed Text, Adam Goodkind
Preparing Teachers to Work with Students with Emotional Regulation Difficulties, Dana E. Gottesman
Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries, Stephanie Grace Petinos
The Consequences of the State Implementation of a Nationally Standardized Teacher Performance Assessment as a Certification Requirement: A Mixed Methods Study, Deborah Greenblatt
Traumatic Stress, World Assumptions, and Law Enforcement Officers, Douglas William Green
Perception and Production of /v/ and /w/ in Hindi speakers, Vikas Grover
The Effect of Community and Individual Differences on College Students' Attitudes and Behaviors towards Transgender Individuals, Laura Hackimer
The Relationship between Fragile Self-Esteem, Mindfulness, and Hostile Attribution Style, Robyn L. Haertel
Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914, Jameel N. Haque
Developments in Television Viewership, Lucile E. Hecht
Both Into and Out of the Cage: New Media, Transgression, and the Remaking of American Literary Connection, 1975-1999, Casey Henry
El español en Estados Unidos y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española: Una historia glotopolítica, Lorena Hernandez Ramirez
(Sub)versions of Banditry: Ferréz’s Re-appropriation and Redefinition of the Marginal Identity, Marissel Hernández-Romero
Breaking Cover: Confronting Crisis and Displacement in Timbuktu, Mali, Andrew Hernann
An Analysis of the Relationship between CEO Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Type and Quality, Nicole M. Heron
Bilingual Latino Middle Schoolers on Languaging and Racialization in the US, Sarah Hesson
Building in Public: Critical Reconstruction and the Rebuilding of Berlin after 1990, Naraelle Hohensee
Medication Management in Pediatric Chronic Illness: Should Patient Anxiety be Considered?, Claire J. Hoogendoorn
A Developmental Perspective on Parental Cognitions and Emotions in the Context of a Parent-Mediated Intervention for Children with ASD, Emily R. Hotez
Molecular Analysis of FtsZ-Ring Assembly in E. coli cytokinesis, Kuo-Hsiang Huang
“Love” Across the Strait: Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Women and Taiwanese Men, Paoyi Huang
An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus, Rui Huang
The Politics of Court Driven Morality Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage 1971-2015, Korey L. Hughes
Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona, Min Huh
Response and Responsibility: The War Veterans’ Art Center at the Museum of Modern Art (1944–48), Laurel Humble
Boundaries and Belonging: Asian America, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis, Natalie C. Hung
Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Miciah Hussey
Psychological and Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Tinnitus: A Systematic Review, Shanna Hymowitz
The Relationship Between Lexical Performance and Regional Gray Matter Volumes: A Longitudinal Study of Cognitively Healthy Elderly, JungMoon Hyun
Obesity over the Life Course: Perspectives in Health and Mortality, Noura E. Insolera
REPETITION: A Study in Visual Form Using Selected Artworks by Edward Hopper, Lauren Irwin
Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults, Marie-Anne Issa
The Conflicts of Coexistence: Contested Meanings of Carnivore Management and Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Hannah F. Jaicks
Metabolic Profiling of Genetically Modified Potato Periderm Tissues, Liqing Jin
Post-Apartheid Citizenship and the Politics of Evictions in Inner City Johannesburg, Anthony Johnson
The French Revolution in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962): Historical Analogy and the Limits of French Historical Reason, Timothy Scott Johnson
Does Intergroup Threat Cause Distinct Contact Orientations for High and Low Status Groups?, Brian M. Johnston
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Liars and Truth Tellers: Exploring the Moderating Impact of Working Memory Capacity, Sarah Jordan
Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality, Mary Augusta Joseph
Data-Driven Synthesis and Evaluation of Syntactic Facial Expressions in American Sign Language Animation, Hernisa Kacorri
The Fictions of Whiteness: Transatlantic Race Science, Gender, Nationalism, and the Construction of Race in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1823-1867), Philip E. Kadish
LIM Protein Ajuba Participates in the Repression of ATR-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Human Cells, Sampada Kalan
Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding, Ervin Kallfa
Synthesis of Novel Aporphine-Inspired Neuroreceptor Ligands, Nirav R. Kapadia
On Sums of Binary Hermitian Forms, Cihan Karabulut
Delusional Disorder: Treatment and the Restoration of Adjudicative Competence, Martin Kassen
Firms' Decisions to Enter a Market of Highly Differentiated Products: Apparel Industry and New York Fashion Week, Yoko Katagiri
The Versatile Singer: A Guide to Vibrato & Straight Tone, Danya Katok
What Factors Influence Urban School Leaders Arts Programming Decisions, Jennifer Katona
Internet Access and Freedom: Constructing and Reacting to Transnational Norms about Internet Diffusion and Use, Heather L. Katz
Imagining a "Poethical" Classroom, Erica Kaufman
Publication in Martial's Time and the Publication of his Works, Jack Kaufmann
‘Open, and Always, Opening’: Trans- Poetics as a Methodology for (Re)Articulating Gender, the Body, and the Self ‘Beyond Language’, Lizzy Tricano Kaval
Hope and Health Related Quality of Life of Older Women Who Have Had Heart Attacks, Alice Mary Kelly-Tobin
Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island, Tim Keogh
Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform, Ramona N. Khan
Chamber-specific Patterns of Epicardium Formation in Zebrafish, Sana Khan
Refractions Through the Secular: Islam, Human Rights and Universality, Zara Khan
GIVE-ME: Gamification In Virtual Environments for Multimodal Evaluation - A Framework, Wai L. Khoo
Identity in Sociocultural Context: Life Stories of Korean Youth in New York City, Hannah Hyunkyung Kim
Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy, Jinwon Kim
On The Free and G-Saturated Weight Monoids of Smooth Affine Spherical Varieties For G=SL(n), Won Geun Kim
