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
Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models of Inflammation, Magdalena J. Kiprowska
“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig
Predictability of Bond Risk Premia with an Affine Term Structure Model, Sibel Korkmaz
Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review, Hershel Korngut
Life Experience: Freddy Got Fingered As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece, Frank Koshel
Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn, Amy Kraizman
p-adic L-functions and the Geometry of Hida Families, Joseph Kramer-Miller
ThisCollegeStory.com: How Interactive Writing Media Influenced the Way First-Year Students Made Sense of their College Transition, Philip Kreniske
Essays on Institutional Investor Trading, Karolina Krystyniak
Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
Professional Wrestling and/as Theatre: Bodies, Labor, and the Commercial Stage, Eero Laine
Where Is the "Korean" in the Korean War Memorial: Kissena Park's Korean War Memorial, Alice Lam
Vocal Rhythm Coordination and Preterm Infants: Rhythms of Dialogue in a High-Risk NICU Sample, Adrianne E. Lange
The New Reflexivity: Puzzle Films, Found Footage, and Cinematic Narration in the Digital Age, Jordan Lavender-Smith
Interfictional Identities: Transformation and Dissimulation in the Early Modern Period, Yael Nezer Lavender-Smith
Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others, Elisa J. Lee
An Exploration of the Paradox of Bisexuality in Women: The Dawn Research Study, Anna Levy-Warren
Excavating ePortfolios: What Student-Driven Data Reveals about Multimodal Composition and Instruction, Amanda M. Licastro
Becoming Serpent: Mapping Coils of Paranoia in a Neocolonial Security State, Rachel J. Liebert
The Bodies, Minds, Desires and Scorn of Britain's "Stepdaughters of War", Alexandra J. Lightle
Essays on Investor Attention, Hongqi Liu
Do Executives Have Fixed Effects on Firm-Level Stock Price Crash Risk?, Jiaxin Liu
Social Support, Social Companionship, and Social Distress in Young Adults with Cochlear Implants, Arta Ljubanovic
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled Criticism of McCarthyism in 1950s America, William Lorenzo
Filología reflexiva: Hacia una pedagogía “evaluadora”. Reflexión y evaluación del campo filológico español (1936-1968), Jose Antonio Losada Montero
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering
Accessing Academe, Disabling the Curriculum: Institutional Locations of Dis/ability in Public Higher Education, Andrew J. Lucchesi
Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative, Eric Lynch
Targeting Efficiency: The Effects of Video Modeling and Feedback on Instructors’ Acquisition and Generalization of Behavior Analytic Skills, Maya S. Madzharova
Fashioning Desire at B. Altman & Co.: Ethics and Consumer Culture in Early Department Stores, Tessa Maffucci
The Efficacy of Motor Imagery Training on Range of Motion, Pain and Function of Patients After Total Knee Replacement, Noorelhoda Mahmoud, Marc A. Razzano Jr., Karen Tischler, and
A Systematic Review of Dual-Sensory Impairment in Older Adults, Abby F. Malawer
In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Mindfulness in Learning, Anna Malyukova
What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic, Ryan A. Mann-Hamilton
Toward a Kripkean Concept of Number, Oliver R. Marshall
My Mother Needs Me! Is It Possible to Stay Connected While Being My Own Person? The Object Relations of the Latina “Dutiful Daughter”, Juliana Martinez
Testimonios (re)creados: La nueva novela testimonial latinoamericana, Reynaldo Martinez
Understanding School and Interethnic Relations of Mexican Immigrant Youth in a Post-Industrial Community, Roberto Martinez
Paratextuality and Contemporary Narrative: The Physical Object as a Storytelling Device, James Mason
The Remembrance of Things Past: Does Self-Report Moderate the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Long-Term Psychiatric Consequences?, Christina N. Massey
Understanding the High School Dropout Process Through Student Engagement and School Processes: Evidence from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, Tara Marie Mastrorilli
Role of Humor in Emotion Regulation: Differential Effects of Adaptive and Maladaptive Forms of Humor, Lindsay Mathews
Losing Values: Illiquidity, Personhood, and the Return of Authoritarianism in Skopje, Macedonia, Fabio Mattioli
Where Have All The Feminists Gone?: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Students' Attitudes Toward Gender Equality, Erin Maurer
Sounds in the Marketplace: Consumer Reactions to Ambient and Product Sounds, Lauren Mayor
Issues of Rhythm, Symmetry, and Style in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for PIano and Strings, Ilya Mayzus
On the Appearance of the Comedy LP, 1957–1973, David Michael McCarthy
Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994, Kevin E. McCarthy
Politics Between and Within Us: Authenticity and Theatricality in Modern Political Thought, Daniel J. McCool
Exploring Older Adults’ Perceptions of the Utility and Ease of Use of Personal Emergency Response Systems, Patricia A. McLean
Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory, John McMahon
Literacies of Bilingual Youth: A Profile of Bilingual Academic, Social, and TXT Literacies, Michelle A. McSweeney
Assembly and Association: Mapping the Development of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Columbia County, NY, Christopher L. Meatto
Loans’ Impact on International Relations: Venezuela as Lender and Borrower, Leonela C. Medina Baez
'Something On Women For the Crime Bill': The Construction and Passage of the Violence Against Women Act, 1990-1994, Irene Meisel
Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i, Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh
Race and Gender in the Advancement to Partnership: Perceptions of Black Female Lawyers, Tsedale M. Melaku
Emotion Regulation in Relation to Cognitive Functioning in the Preclinical Stages of Dementia, Erica P. Meltzer
City Poems And Urban Crisis, 1945 - Present, Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson
Vector Beams for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Giovanni Milione
Charles Ives on the Nature of Experience: The Compositional Designs and Aesthetic Programs of Three Orchestral Works, Ashleé Michele Miller
On the Derivative of 2-Holonomy for a Non-Abelian Gerbe, Cheyne J. Miller
An ERP Study of Sensory-Linguistic Processing in the Context of ASD Research, Larissa R. Miller
Photodynamic Killing of Human Cancer Cells with Smart Photosensitizer Materials and An Endoscopic Implement for Singlet Oxygen Delivery, Mihaela N. Minnis
Connectivity: An Ecological Paradigm for the Study of Bronze Age, Slobodan Mitrović
Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: Race, Place, and the National Environmental Policy Act, Keith K. Miyake
Madison Vanguard: A Novel, Berni Moestafa
Biosynthesis and Roles of Virulence Conferring Cell Wall Associated Dimycocerosate Esters in Mycobacterium marinum, Poornima Mohandas
A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY, Sean Molloy
The Relative Impact of Psychosocial Well-being and Mental Health on the Relationship between Economic Circumstance and Religiosity, Veronica Momjian
Water Condensation and Protein Adsorption on Hybrid Superhydrophobic-Hydrophilic Surfaces, Bikash Mondal
Role of hnRNP A1 in the Regulation of HDM2 Gene Expression, Heriberto Moran
Ethnic and National Identity of Third Generation Koreans in Japan, Haruka Morooka
Series of Intermittent Heroin Injections Enhances Acquisition of Operant Responding for Cues Paired with Natural Rewards, Jennifer Morrison
Investigating Personal Intelligent Agents in Everyday Life through a Behavioral Lens, Sara Moussawi
The Lived Experience of Fathers with Advanced Cancer, Maria Mowassee
"A return to reality": Mark Hansen's Metaphysics: Towards a New Relationality of Twenty-first-century Media, Sandra Moyano Ariza
The Transatlantic Oarsmen Cooperative: Doubling Down on a Transatlantic Financial Regulatory Regime, Joselyn Muhleisen
The Hermeneutics of International Trade Conflicts: U.S. Punitive Trade Policy Towards China and Japan, Barry F. Murdaco
Neither a Slave nor a King: The Antislavery Project and the Origins of the American Sectional Crisis, 1820-1848, Joseph T. Murphy
Il dilemma del prigioniero. Luciano Bianciardi e il disincanto del moderno, Ilaria Muzzi
Comparative Population Genomics and Speciation of Snakes Across the North American Deserts, Edward A. Myers
An Exploration of Target Event Encoding in a Predictive Learning Task with Humans: Integrated or Separable Processing?, Natasha B. Nadler
Integral Theory, Positive Psychology, and Sacred Texts of the World: A New Philosophy of Education for the 21St Century, Muhammad Naeem
Selling National Security: Journalism, Political Actors, and the Marketing of Counterterrorism Policy, Nicole M. Napolitano
Power and Proximity: The Politics of State Secession, Elizabeth A. Nelson
Exploring Sewage Sludge/Fish Waste-Based Materials As Adsorbents Of Pharmaceuticals From Water Phase, Lilja Nielsen
Speech-recognition Outcomes in Older Adults with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Jennie Noska
Essays in Labor and Development Economics, Stephen Daniel O'Connell
Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation, Sobukwe O. Odinga
Understanding the Glass Cliff Effect: Why Are Female Leaders Being Pushed Toward the Edge?, Yael S. Oelbaum
The Effects of Globalization on an Emerging Economy: The Case of South Africa, Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo
The Remedy That's Killing: CUNY, LaGuardia, and The Fight for Better Math Policy, Rachel A. Oppenheimer
Towards Collaboration Between Lawyers and Social Workers: A Content Analysis of Joint Degree Programs, Ifem E. Orji
