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
Contemporary Albanian-Italian Literature: Mapping New Italian Voices, Anita Pinzi
Singing Motherhood: First time mothers' experiences singing to their infants, Margaret Mia Pixley
Three Essays on The Cost of Debt Capital, Katarzyna Nelicka Platt
Social Epistemology and the Project of Mapping Science, Kamili Posey
The Pulitzer Prize and Women: An Investigation into Three Decades of Winning Plays by Female Dramatists (1981-2009), Kathleen Potts
Is cue-based memory retrieval 'good-enough'?: Agreement, comprehension, and implicit prosody in native and bilingual speakers of English, Elizabeth Pratt
Ordering and topological defects in solids with quenched randomness, Thomas Chapman Proctor
Relationship of Students' Spelling Gains to Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Practice, Alison Puliatte
Cationic amphiphilic synthetic macromolecules with superior antibacterial activity, Ashish Punia
Development of Functional Interactions Among Cortical and Trabecular Traits During Growth of the Lumbar Vertebral Body, Melissa Ramcharan
Traumatic Brain Injuries among adolescent inmates in Rikers Island, NYC Jail: A mixed methods study, Cassandra Ramdath
Income Inequality And Vulnerabiility To Flood Hazard In Brazil, Rebecca Rasch
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) as a potential contributor to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's Disease, Sara Nicole Resch
On Polynomial Roots Approximation Via Dominant Eigenspaces And Isolation Of Real Roots, Omar Ivan Retamoso Urbano
Juror Target Monitoring Errors in Multiple Defendant Trials, Lindsey M. Rhead
Attitudes of Normal Hearing Listeners Towards Personal Sound Amplification Products: Etymotic Bean, Jennifer Rhoades
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer in American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
On String Topology Operations and Algebraic Structures on Hochschild Complexes, Manuel Rivera
Confronting Moral and Literary Perspectives in 'La fuerza de la sangre', José Nayar Rivera Méndez
Manifestation of Humanity and Humanism in Czechoslovak Cinema 1949-1953, Selma Rockova
Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985., Magdalena Romero Cordoba
Obstruent Voicing and Tone in Siklis Gurung, Danielle Ronkos
The Journal Of Mother Studies: A Peer Reviewed, International, Interdisciplinary, Open-Acess, Digital Humanities Hybrid Project, Martha Joy Rose
Exploring Chromatin-bound MDM2 Functions in Compromised Transcriptional Regulation of p53 Target Genes, Melissa Rosso
Reframing Romantic Nature: Towards a Social Ecocriticism, Matthew Rowney
Common-Tone Preserving Contextual Inversions in the Music of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Jessica Rudman
Twisted Blue, Jessica Rudman
Pimps of Harlem: Talk of Labor and the Sociology of Risk, Amber Horning Ruf
Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic
Undocumented Youth Living Between the Lines: Urban Governance, Social Policy, and the Boundaries of Legality in New York City and Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk
The Literary Legacy of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Locke's "God" Problem: Predicating God and Liberty Amid the Secularizing Effect of "Uneasiness", Kathleen M. Ryan
Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan
Systematics and Biogeography of Orthaea Kloztsch (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae), Nelson Salinas
The Print Portfolio and the Bourgeoisie in Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Britany Lane Salsbury
Mothers' Mental Health Evaluations in Foster Care Practice: A Social Constructionist, Qualitative Data-Mining Study, Michelle Salvaggio
Right to Land and the Rule of Law: Infrastructure, Urbanization and Resistance in India, Preeti Sampat
The Finales of Robert Shumann's Piano Sonatas and Fantasie, Emiko Sato
Before Addiction: The Medical History of Alcoholism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lauren Saxton
Successful Implementation Of Solution-Based Casework; A Child Welfare Casework Practice Model?, Naomi Weisel Schear
Risk factors and costs influencing hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses: patterns of hospitalization, Michael T. Schmeltz
Self-Esteem as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Growth and Adaptation among Maltreated Early Adolescents, Hadar Schwartz
Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: Theory and Impact, Gerasimos Seriatos
Quantum State Discrimination and Quantum Cloning: Optimization and Implementation, Andi Shehu
The Archdiocese Of New York: Transition From Urban Powerhouse To Suburban Institution, 1950-2000 A Case Study, Henry A. Sheinkopf
Essays on the Economic Analysis of Transportation Systems, Hyoungsuk Shim
Ecological Aspects of the Music of John Luther Adams, David Arie Shimoni
Effect of the New York City Overdose Prevention Program on Unintentional Heroin-related Overdose Death, 2000-2012, Anne Elizabeth Siegler
Poetry And The Arab Spring, George A. Simon
Using a Multisystemic Approach to Examine Youth Risky Sexual Attitudes and Behavior, Chamane Melissa Simpson
Modern Era Centaur: the Fusion of Art and Religion, Isabel Sobral Campos
The Three-Quarter House: A Product of The Neoliberal City, Paulette Soltani
Essays in Health Economics of Cigarette Consumption, Yan Song
Pagh-Paan's No-ul: Korean identity formation as synthesis of Eastern and Western Music, Ji Hyun Son
Nuclear Pore Protein Nup211 Is Essential for Cell Cycle Progression and Cell Shape Maintenance in Fission Yeast, Ayisha R. Sookdeo
Assumptions underlying behavioral linkage revisited: A multidimensional approach to ascertaining individual differentiation and consistency in serial rape, Marina Sorochinski
A Cognitive-Based Indicator of Deviant Sexual Arousal: Concurrent Validation of the Emotional Stroop, Ashley H. Spada
Content Analysis Of Applied Learning From High FIdelity Patient Simulation Orientation to Critical Care, Patricia M. Span
The Importance of Bioacoustics for Dolphin Welfare: Soundscape Characterization with Implications for Management, Heather Ruth Spence
The intrinsic and synaptic properties of inverted pyramidal cells within the neocortex, Robert Michael Steger
Investigation of the Effects of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels on Youth and Adult Smoking Behavior in Southeast Asia, Jessica Brooke Steier
Learning Functional Prepositions, John Stewart
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (The Irish Musicians' Association) and the Politics of Musical Community in Irish Traditional Music, Lauren Weintraub Stoebel
Errant Memory in African American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Tristan Alexander Striker
The Impact of Bank Relationships on Corporate and Investment Decisions, Chih-Huei (Debby) Su
Education as a Site for Ethical Transformation and Activism, Lindsay Sudeikis
Who Stole the Daedalen Statue? Mythographic Humor in Ancient Greek Comedy, Alan Grau Sumler
Effects of Aerosol on Cloud Water Path: Statistical Method a Potential Source for Divergence in Observation-based Correlative Studies, Ousmane Sy Savane
Explicit Solutions of Imaginary Quadratic Norm Equations, Sandra Sze
Equations over hyperbolic groups, Alexander Kai-Chi Taam
The Ecology of School Readiness, Miriam Beth Tager
Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic, Angelina Maria Tallaj-García
A Light in the Darkness: Argentinian Photography During the Military Dictatorship (1976-1983), Ana Tallone
Senescent Changes in Orientation, Frequency, and 3-D Slant and Shape Perception, Danny Tam
On the Midnight Train to Georgia: Afro-Caribbeans and the New Great Migration to Atlanta, LaToya Asantelle Tavernier
Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools, Jonathan James Taylor
The Insulin/IGF Signaling Regulator Cytohesin/GRP-1 Modulates Sensitivity to Excitotoxicity in C. elegans, Nazila Tehrani
The Architecture of Nineteenth-Century Cuban Sugar Mills: Creole Power and African Resistance in Late Colonial Cuba, Lorena Tezanos Toral
Organizing Against Discrimination: The Chinese Hand Laundrymen Historical Niche and Ethnic Solidarity in America, Johnny Thach
Arab-American Lives In New York City: the Value Of Creative Non-Fiction Journalism To The Social Sciences, Sofie F. Tholl
Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada, Owen Toews
The Labyrinths of Venice: Environment and Identity in Anna Pavignano's Novel "Venezia, un sogno" and Other Works in Literature and Film, Viviana Torrero
Where's the Staying Power? Factors Influencing Dropping Out Among Black Students, Judy Touzin
Phylogeography of Southeast Asian flying foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Pteropus), Susan Man Shu Tsang
The Effect of Retention Interval on Temporal Control of Responding in Rats on the Peak Interval Procedure, Catherine Tsiris
Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes for a Moral Psychology of Fiction, Katherine Tullmann
Imperial Priests and Martyrs: Pretexts for State Violence and Religious Change in France, 1848-1871, Benjamin Tyner
Working Memory Deficits and Emotion Dysregulation in Youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Understanding Relationships and Treatment Implications, Jodi Zehava Uderman
Characterizing Migratory Signaling Pathways Of Transplantable Retinal Progenitor Cells And Photoreceptor Precursor Cells Toward Restoration Of Degenerative Retina ' A Systems Biology Approach, Uchenna John Unachukwu
Representation without Thought: Confusion, Reference, and Communication, Elmar Geir Unnsteinsson
Matrix Stiffness Regulates Glial Cell Morphology and Differentiation, Mateusz M. Urbanski
Siento una Flauta: Improvisational Idiom, Style, and Performance Practice of Charanga Flutists in New York from 1960 to 2000, Jessica Lynne Valiente
Attention in HIV, Kathleen Marie Van Dyk