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
The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel, Pamela Burger
Let The Record Show: Mapping Queer Art and Activism in New York City, 1986-1995, Tara Jean-Kelly Burk
Maude I. Kerns: Overlapping Interpretations of Art and Pedagogy in the Northwest and Along the Pacific Coast, 1890–1932, Mary Helen Burnham
The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana, Nicole Burrowes
The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace, Vanessa L. Burrows
Theory Development and Pilot Testing of a New Survey Instrument on Usability by Older Adults, Meriam Caboral-Stevens
Data Monitoring and Analysis in Wireless Networks, Yongjie Cai
An Electromyographic Comparison of the Functional Performance of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle in Prolonged Sitting Versus Standing Populations, Kerry Campagnola, Giusi Gerbino, Erica Johnson, and Adrienne O’Keefe
Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Revisited, Wenbo Cao
The emergence of L1 innovations in Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming, Agustina Carando
Force to change large cardinal strength, Erin Kathryn Carmody
Choosing To Learn In Two Languages: Why Non-Latino, English-Speaking Families Select Spanish/english Dual Language Bilingual Programs, Kathryn Louise Carpenter
The Influence of Forward Head Posture on Suprahyoid Activity During Oropharyngeal Swallowing: A Surface Electromyographic Analysis, Brianne Carroll, Sierra Hunt, Katherine Sheeleigh, and Mark Wnukowski
Algorithmic properties of poly-Z groups and secret sharing using non-commutative groups, Bren Cavallo
The Development Of The Eu's Counter Terrorism Policies In The Post 9/11 Era, Sinem Cevik
Ecomusicology: back to the roots of sound/music and environmental sustainability, Tiffany Challe
Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850, Ping-Ying Chang
Contemporary Art and Internationalism at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–1988, Rachel Chatalbash
Control of Cell Cycle Progression by mTOR, Amrita Chatterjee
Exploring Antecedents, Performance Outcomes And Psychological Processes Of Multi-Device Use, Chi-Wen Chen
Essays On Real Estate Investment Trusts, Jiajin Chen
Use of the Modified Emotional Stroop Task to Detect Suicide Risk in College Students, Yeunjoo Chung
The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Regulating Barrel Cortex Physiology, Philip Chu
The Relationship Between Maternal Depression And Negative Outcomes In Children: Parenting Deficits' Impact On Children's Emotional Regulation And Behavioral Expression, Gabrielle Francesca Cione
Three Essays on Income and Wealth Inequality, Damir Cosic
Teaching Community College Students Strategies For Learning Unknown Words As They Read Expository Text, Leslie Craigo
Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors, Frank Joseph Cretella
Sexual Victimization, Disclosure, and Accountability: Organizational Responses of the Boy Scouts of America to Child Sexual Abuse, Michelle Anne Cubellis
The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings
Saving Moral Realism: Against Blackburn's Projectivism, Paul James Cummins
The Symbiosis Between Villa-Lobos's Carnaval Das Crianças And Momoprecoce: A Comparative Study, Vanessa Rodrigues Cunha
Tonic And Phasic Inhibitory Mechanisms Mediating Sensorimotor Decision-Making In The Goldfish Auditory Startle Circuit, Paul C.P. Curtin
Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity, Emily Cury
Assessment of Physical Performance in Adolescents of Varying Body Weight, Nicholas Dalonzo, Nicole Liquori, and Nicole Savarese
The Ones Left Behind: MAKING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, Audrey Davis
"Managers" in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs, Jonathan Ryan Davis
The Heterotopia of Flight: Resisting the Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
Improving Investigative Interviews: Facilitating Disclosure of Information through Implicit Means, Evan Crawford Dawson
Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico, Arden Decker
Dancer Performance on the Lower Quarter Y Balance Test: A Longitudinal Study, Megan DeHey, Kelly Kaems, Molly Saunders, and Gabrielle Schneider
Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants, Zarabeth Waldman DeLuca
The Contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the Modern Jazz Style, David Joseph DeMotta
Zirconium-89: Radiochemistry and Ligand Development toward Improved PET Applications, Melissa Ann Deri
Child Abductors Who Have Killed Their Victims: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Analysis, Tonya M. DeSa
Growth and Characterization of Type-II Submonolayer ZnCdTe/ZnCdSe Quantum Dot Superlattices for Efficient Intermediate Band Solar Cells, Siddharth Dhomkar
Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity, Maggie Dickinson
Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Scott Dicus
A Static and Dynamic Investigation of Quantum Nonlinear Transport in Highly Dense and Mobile 2D Electron Systems, Scott A. Dietrich
Essays On Spatial Econometrics: Estimation Methods And Applications, Osman Dogan
Art as Communication: Employing Gricean Principles of Communication as a Model for Art Appreciation, Melissa June Dolese
Towards the Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Gephyrotoxin 287C, Maciej E. Domaradzki
The Relationship between Social-Emotional Development, Academic Achievement and Parenting Practices in Young Children who Attend Head Start, Emily A. A. Dow
More Than Objects: Understanding Female Slaves in Barbados in the Early Modern Period, Phoebe Martine Downes
The Inconstancy of Bodies: Yvonne Meier's Works, 1985 ' 2012, Lindsey Ann Drury
3D Scene Reconstruction with Micro-Aerial Vehicles and Mobile Devices, Ivan Dryanovski
Lost in Translation: Regressive Femininity in American J-Horror Remakes, Matthew Ducca
Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center, Andrea Rosso Efthymiou
The Reciprocal Relationship Among Object Relations, Attention, and Language in a Sample of School-Aged Children, Katherine Ann Eiges
Archiving the City: A Guide to the Art of Urban Interventions, Olatokunbo Adeola Enigbokan
Essays in the Theory and Practice of the Suzuki Method, Kara Eubanks
De Novo Design And Engineering Of Functional Metal And Porphyrin-Binding Protein Domains, Bernard Howard Everson
Novel Approaches for the Performance Enhancement of Cognitive Radio Networks, Kenneth Ugonna Ezirim
Housing and the Environment: Smoking Triggers and Tobacco Smoke Exposure, Shannon Farley
Getting Out of the Ghetto: Harm Reduction, Drug User Health, and the Transformation of Social Policy in New York, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein
The Theoretical and Psychological Foundations of Care in Environmental Ethics, Rachel Fedock
Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism, Alice Feng
Densidad léxica en la prensa hispana de EE.UU. e Hispanoamérica: Un estudio comparativo, Luana Ferreira
Held And Dropped: A Study Of Metaphor And Subjective Experience In A Psychoanalytic Treatment, Alison Michele Ferst
Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Perception of Three-Dimensional Shape from Texture: Adaptation and Aftereffects, Carole Filangieri
Massey Products in String Topology, Aron Fischer
Use of the Bioness L300® Functional Electrical Stimulator in Acute Stroke Rehabilitation, Christine Flanigan, Colleen M. Martinez, Beth N. Terranova, and Nicholas Wildi
Beauty Practices Among Latinas: The Impact of Acculturation, Skin Color and Sex Roles, Angelica Flores
Growing Up Online: Identity, Development and Agency in Networked Girlhoods, Claire M. Fontaine
Pseudomonas Bacteriophage Phi6 as a Model for Virus Emergence, Brian Elwood Ford
The holomorphic couch theorem, Maxime Fortier Bourque
Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children, Talita Maria Fortunato
Black Migrant Literature, New African Diasporas, and the Phenomenology of Movement, Christopher Ian Foster
Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?, Brian J. Fox
Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries and the Colonial State in French Algeria, 1830-1914, Kyle Francis
Maternal Substance Use Disorder, Difficult Temperament And Child Psychopathology: Examining A Biopsychosocial Model For The Intergenerational Transmission Of Vulnerability, Wendy Carolina Franco
Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank
Diversity and Phylogeography of Anurans of the Highlands of Ethiopia, Xenia Freilich
Iminophosphoranes As Useful Precursors To Potential Transition Metal-Based Cancer Chemotherapeutics, Malgorzata Ilona Frik
A Syntactic Treatment of Adjectival Non-Intersectivity in English, Alexander Funk
Modernist Medievalisms and Medieval Modernisms: Auꝺr the Deep-Minded and Derdriu in Norse, Old Irish, Modernist Irish and Post-1945 Scottish Literature, Cori L. Gabbard
New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown, Erin Nicholson Gale
Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010, Donatella Galella
Was There a Sensory Trade-off in Primate Evolution? The Vomeronasal Groove as a Means of Understanding the Vomeronasal System in the Fossil Record., Eva Christine Garrett
The relationship between teacher training, perceptions of school violence, and burnout., Kristi Lynn Geissler
Apple picking: The rise of electronic device thefts in Boston subways, Kendra Gentry
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: The Evolution of a Forgotten Memorial, Sheila Gerami
Network Modeling of the Mental Lexicon: Phonological Links Within and Between Communities, Jennifer Anne Gerometta
Three Potential Mediators of the Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect on Smoking in Middle Adulthood, Miriam Ghirmay
A Man to Preserve or Reform the Nation: Masculinity as Political Rhetoric in English Novels during the Revolution Controversy, Janne Burger Gillespie
The Immigration Experience Among Elderly Egyptian Immigrants In The United States, Ihab Girgis