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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).

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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.

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Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2015

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The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings

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Saving Moral Realism: Against Blackburn's Projectivism, Paul James Cummins

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The Symbiosis Between Villa-Lobos's Carnaval Das Crianças And Momoprecoce: A Comparative Study, Vanessa Rodrigues Cunha

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Tonic And Phasic Inhibitory Mechanisms Mediating Sensorimotor Decision-Making In The Goldfish Auditory Startle Circuit, Paul C.P. Curtin

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Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity, Emily Cury

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Assessment of Physical Performance in Adolescents of Varying Body Weight, Nicholas Dalonzo, Nicole Liquori, and Nicole Savarese

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The Ones Left Behind: MAKING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, Audrey Davis

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"Managers" in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs, Jonathan Ryan Davis

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The Heterotopia of Flight: Resisting the Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis

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Improving Investigative Interviews: Facilitating Disclosure of Information through Implicit Means, Evan Crawford Dawson

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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico, Arden Decker

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Dancer Performance on the Lower Quarter Y Balance Test: A Longitudinal Study, Megan DeHey, Kelly Kaems, Molly Saunders, and Gabrielle Schneider

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Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants, Zarabeth Waldman DeLuca

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The Contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the Modern Jazz Style, David Joseph DeMotta

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Zirconium-89: Radiochemistry and Ligand Development toward Improved PET Applications, Melissa Ann Deri

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Child Abductors Who Have Killed Their Victims: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Analysis, Tonya M. DeSa

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Growth and Characterization of Type-II Submonolayer ZnCdTe/ZnCdSe Quantum Dot Superlattices for Efficient Intermediate Band Solar Cells, Siddharth Dhomkar

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Neoliberal Dystopias: Postmodern Aesthetics and a Modern Ethic in Four Pairs of Plays by Argentine and Irish Playwrights (1990-2003), Noelia Diaz

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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity, Maggie Dickinson

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Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Scott Dicus

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A Static and Dynamic Investigation of Quantum Nonlinear Transport in Highly Dense and Mobile 2D Electron Systems, Scott A. Dietrich

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Essays On Spatial Econometrics: Estimation Methods And Applications, Osman Dogan

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Art as Communication: Employing Gricean Principles of Communication as a Model for Art Appreciation, Melissa June Dolese

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Towards the Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Gephyrotoxin 287C, Maciej E. Domaradzki

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The Relationship between Social-Emotional Development, Academic Achievement and Parenting Practices in Young Children who Attend Head Start, Emily A. A. Dow

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More Than Objects: Understanding Female Slaves in Barbados in the Early Modern Period, Phoebe Martine Downes

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The Inconstancy of Bodies: Yvonne Meier's Works, 1985 ' 2012, Lindsey Ann Drury

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3D Scene Reconstruction with Micro-Aerial Vehicles and Mobile Devices, Ivan Dryanovski

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Lost in Translation: Regressive Femininity in American J-Horror Remakes, Matthew Ducca

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Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center, Andrea Rosso Efthymiou

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The Reciprocal Relationship Among Object Relations, Attention, and Language in a Sample of School-Aged Children, Katherine Ann Eiges

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Archiving the City: A Guide to the Art of Urban Interventions, Olatokunbo Adeola Enigbokan

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Essays in the Theory and Practice of the Suzuki Method, Kara Eubanks

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An Examination Of The Effect Of Vision-Related Factors And Availability Of Health Care Resources On Depression, Functional Status, And Falls Among New York City Senior Center Attendees, Lauren Evans

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De Novo Design And Engineering Of Functional Metal And Porphyrin-Binding Protein Domains, Bernard Howard Everson

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Novel Approaches for the Performance Enhancement of Cognitive Radio Networks, Kenneth Ugonna Ezirim

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Housing and the Environment: Smoking Triggers and Tobacco Smoke Exposure, Shannon Farley

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Getting Out of the Ghetto: Harm Reduction, Drug User Health, and the Transformation of Social Policy in New York, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein

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The Theoretical and Psychological Foundations of Care in Environmental Ethics, Rachel Fedock

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Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism, Alice Feng

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Densidad léxica en la prensa hispana de EE.UU. e Hispanoamérica: Un estudio comparativo, Luana Ferreira

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Held And Dropped: A Study Of Metaphor And Subjective Experience In A Psychoanalytic Treatment, Alison Michele Ferst

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Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Perception of Three-Dimensional Shape from Texture: Adaptation and Aftereffects, Carole Filangieri

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Massey Products in String Topology, Aron Fischer

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Use of the Bioness L300® Functional Electrical Stimulator in Acute Stroke Rehabilitation, Christine Flanigan, Colleen M. Martinez, Beth N. Terranova, and Nicholas Wildi

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Beauty Practices Among Latinas: The Impact of Acculturation, Skin Color and Sex Roles, Angelica Flores

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Growing Up Online: Identity, Development and Agency in Networked Girlhoods, Claire M. Fontaine

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Pseudomonas Bacteriophage Phi6 as a Model for Virus Emergence, Brian Elwood Ford

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The holomorphic couch theorem, Maxime Fortier Bourque

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Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children, Talita Maria Fortunato

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Black Migrant Literature, New African Diasporas, and the Phenomenology of Movement, Christopher Ian Foster

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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?, Brian J. Fox

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Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries and the Colonial State in French Algeria, 1830-1914, Kyle Francis

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Maternal Substance Use Disorder, Difficult Temperament And Child Psychopathology: Examining A Biopsychosocial Model For The Intergenerational Transmission Of Vulnerability, Wendy Carolina Franco

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Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank

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Diversity and Phylogeography of Anurans of the Highlands of Ethiopia, Xenia Freilich

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Iminophosphoranes As Useful Precursors To Potential Transition Metal-Based Cancer Chemotherapeutics, Malgorzata Ilona Frik

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A Syntactic Treatment of Adjectival Non-Intersectivity in English, Alexander Funk

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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

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New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown, Erin Nicholson Gale

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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010, Donatella Galella

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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

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The relationship between teacher training, perceptions of school violence, and burnout., Kristi Lynn Geissler

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Apple picking: The rise of electronic device thefts in Boston subways, Kendra Gentry

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The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: The Evolution of a Forgotten Memorial, Sheila Gerami

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Network Modeling of the Mental Lexicon: Phonological Links Within and Between Communities, Jennifer Anne Gerometta

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Three Potential Mediators of the Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect on Smoking in Middle Adulthood, Miriam Ghirmay

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A Man to Preserve or Reform the Nation: Masculinity as Political Rhetoric in English Novels during the Revolution Controversy, Janne Burger Gillespie

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The Immigration Experience Among Elderly Egyptian Immigrants In The United States, Ihab Girgis

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Effectiveness of a Partial Read-Aloud Test Accommodation to Assess Reading Comprehension in Students with a Reading Disability, Michelle Marie Giusto

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Refugees And Relief: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee And European Jews In Cuba And Shanghai 1938-1943, Zhava Litvac Glaser

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Aerosol and Urban Heat Island Effects on Warm Cloud-Top Shortwave Infrared Reflectance and Visible Albedo, Heather Glickman-Eliezer

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Counting the Blades of Grass: Series, Punctum, and the Averted Gaze in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Lane Glisson

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"Beyond Chingones and Chingados: Performing Masculinities in Contemporary Mexican Theatre", Zaida Godoy Navarro

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Expanding International Regimes, Thomas R. Goggin

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Of Truths, Secrets, and Loyalties: Political Belonging and State Building in Poland after State Socialism, Saygun Gokariksel

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El transnacionalismo y la identidad judia en la obra de Isaac Goldemberg, Jose Goni

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Pennsylvania Academic Career/Technical Training Alliance Initiative: Engaging Youth in School and Work, Marna Goodman

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Incipient Speciation in Freshwater Fish Species from Two Isolated Watersheds, Paula Gore Miller

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Roman Tragedy and Medicine: Language and Imagery of Illness in Seneca and Celsus, Michael Patrick Goyette

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Understanding Failure: Social Workers Reflect on Their Licensing Examination Experience, Scott Graybow

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The Effects of Morpho-Phonemic and Whole Word Instruction on the Literacy Skills of Adult Struggling Readers, Susan Gray

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Mobilizing The Collective: Helhesten And The Danish Avant-Garde, 1934-1946, Kerry Greaves

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An Assessment Of The Therapeutic Fib: The Ethical And Emotional Role Of Therapeutic Lying In The Caregiving Of Alzheimer's Disease Patients By Non-Medical Caregivers, Dina Green

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Beyond Information: College Choice as a Literacy Practice, Jeremy Samuel Greenfield

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Biophysical Characterization of a De Novo Elastin, Kelly Nicole Greenland

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What's "Black" Got to Do With It: An Analysis of Low-Income Black Students and Educational Outcomes, Derrick E. Griffith

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Expanding the Structural Biologist's Tool Chest by Chemical and Biocompatible Modification of Peptides: from Characterizing Marine Snail Toxins to OutPHOXIng Tryptophan, Alexander Grigoryan

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The American Monster, Dara Beth Gross

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The City Meditations, Nicholas Grosso

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Ni Francaise, Ni Juive, Ni Arabe: The Influence of Nineteenth Century French Judaism on the Emergence of Franco- Jewish- Arab Literature, Deborah Rosalind Gruber

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The World Bank, Amartya Sen and Cultural Heritage as Development in Jordan, Mark Guarnaccia

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Nepantla and Ubuntu Ethics Para Nosotros: Beyond Scrupulous Adherence Toward Threshold Perspectives of Participatory/Collaborative Research Ethics, Monique Antoinette Guishard

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Studies On Bell's Theorem, Veli Ugur Guney

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Essays On The Impacts Of Quantitative Easing On Financial Markets, Joanne Guo

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Microfossils as proxies for Holocene climate in semi-enclosed basins: the Hudson River estuary, New York, USA and the Marmara Sea, Turkey, Damayanti Gurung

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Designing Instruction For Recovering Alcoholics: The Role Of Executive Function And Levels Of Guidance In Learning From Visually Complex Simulations, Jeffrey Gutkin

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Testing Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Using Data from Patient Experience Surveys, Thomas Arthur Hagerty

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Courage to Speak, Fortitude to Listen: A Model for the Study of First-Person LD Narratives, Charles Christian Haitz

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Searching for a Place to Stand: Redefining Citizenship, Community, and the Right to Public Space in the Era of "Stop, Question, and Frisk", Jan N. Haldipur