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
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
Re-framing Informal Family Caregiving, Magdalena T. Ornstein-Sloan
Help-Seeking Latina Victims of Domestic Violence and the Programs That Serve Them in New York City, Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez
Let Fall: Hysteria and the Psychoanalytic Act, Matthew W. Oyer
Bullying Prevention in New York City Public Schools: School Safety Agents' Perceptions of Their Roles, Gabriel R. Paez
Classical Transport in Disordered Systems, Antonios Papaioannou
Language-Mixing in Discourse in Bilingual Individuals with Non-Fluent Aphasia, Avanthi Paplikar
A Geometric Model of Twisted Differential K-theory, Byung Do Park
Value Congruence and Unethical Decision-Making: The Dark Side of Person-Organization Fit, Chad C. Parson
Some 2-Categorical Aspects in Physics, Arthur Parzygnat
Psychological Perspectives on the Under-Representation of African Americans and Females in Entrepreneurship: The Relationship between Perceptions of Fit and Intentions to Leave, Rachel Pascall-Gonzalez
Phylogeny, Systematics and Biogeography of Short-Tailed Opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis), Silvia E. Pavan
The Context of Alkmeonid Inscriptions and Monuments: A Catalogue of Material and Literary Evidence for the Alkmeonidai, Cameron G. Pearson
NMR Studies of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Jing Peng
Interaction of Spliceosomal U2 snRNP Protein p14 with Its Branch Site RNA Target, William Perea Vargas
Ways of Thinking about Illness Representations of Cancer, Ian Zachary Pervil
Seeing and Perceptual Content, Ben S. Phillips
Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War U.S. Television, 1957–1964, Melissa Phruksachart
A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City, Christine A. Pinnock
Actions, Reasons and Self-Expression: A Defense of Subjectivist-Internalism about Reasons, Carolyn P. Plunkett
Crossing The Great Divide: An Investigation of Data and Memory, Julia Pollack
Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente, Michael Polson
The Effects of Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies on Managerial Job Performance, Raphael Y. Prager
Cervantes' "Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados": A Theater of Tradition and Innovation, Michael K. Predmore
Three Essays in Intuitionistic Epistemology, Tudor Protopopescu
Quaternion Algebras and Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds, Joseph Quinn
Jules Verne Constructs America: From Utopia to Dystopia, Dana L. Radu
The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, Heidi M. Rafferty-Reijm
Intraindividual Variability as a Predictor of Cognitive Decline in Elderly, Wendy S. Ramratan
Mechanisms of Immune Activation and Suppression by Parasitic Wasps of Drosophila, Johnny R. Ramroop
"They have sold the clouds": Queering Indigenous Politics in Colombia, Taylor O. Ramsey
Brainstorming Solutions for the Unintended Consequences of Antibiotics and the Development of Resistant Bacteria, Rajini D. Ramsukh
Specific Binding Affinity of the Non-Catalytic Domain of Eukaryotic Like Type IB Topoisomerase of vaccinia Virus, Benjamin R. Reed
Effect of an Internet-Based Education Program on Self-Care Agency in People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Darcel M. Reyes
An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson, Antoine N. Rideau
The Bauhaus Wall Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product, Morgan Ridler
A Comparative Perspective between FARC Guerrilleras and Chechen Black Widows, Denise Rivera
The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure, Lara Rossana Rodriguez
Tobacco Cessation and the Household Budget: A Longitudinal Analysis of Consumption and Heterogeneity in the United States, Erin R. Rogers
An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB, Devon Rolleri
The Relation of Analysis to Performance of Post-tonal Violin Music: Three Case Studies, Karen E. Rostron
The Impact of Modality Expectancy on Memory Accuracy for Brand Names, Daniel Rubin
A Meaning Hypothesis to Explain Speaker's Choice of the Sign Look, Nadav Ayal Sabar
Provisional Capital: National and Urban Identity in the Architecture and Planning of Bonn, 1949-1979, Samuel L. Sadow
Genocide in Rwanda: Understanding Why They Died, Joseph Sambou
An Analysis of Technological Features Enabled Management of Information Facets, Jim Samuel
Masculinidades en Crisis y Prácticas de Resistencia Feminista en la Literatura y el Cine Españoles de Autoría Femenina, Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra
Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Informed Consent with Adolescents, Blanca I. Santana
Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta. An Analysis of Anger in Italian and Spanish Women Writers of the Early Modern Era, Luisanna Sardu Castangia
Developing Italy: Photography and National Identity during the Risorgimento, 1839-1859, Beth Saunders
Mobilizing for Capitalism: How Islamic Civil Society Makes a Market Economy Possible in Turkey, Dean G. Schafer
Risk Factors of Eating Disorders and the Modern Orthodox Jewish Family, Susan D. Schmool
An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques, Maxwell B. Schwartz
The Photographic Universe: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Photography, Media, and Digital Culture, Martha Schwendener
Locked In: Melancholia in the Modern American Prison Literature of R. Dwayne Betts and Jarvis Jay Masters, Johnna Scrabis
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Energy Transfer in an Organic/Inorganic Composite of Zinc Oxide and Graphite Oxide, Jeff A. Secor
The Motivic Economy in Nikolai Medtner's Sonata Romantica, Nellie S. Seng-Quinn
Deciphering the Role of Gfi1b Gene Target Rgs18 in Erythro-megakaryocytic Lineage Divergence, Ananya Sengupta
Development of New Radiolabeling Methods and Insights on Ionizing Radiation Interactions with Nanoparticles, Travis Shaffer
Gendered Expression Online: Exploring Gendered Communication on Facebook and in a Collaborative Editing Task, Christina M. Shane-Simpson
Richard A. Posner: A Study in Judicial Entrepreneurship, Sean J. Shannon
The Critical Social Ecology of Student Success in Higher Education: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study of Undergraduates' Experiences and Outcomes at the City University of New York (CUNY), Leigh Shebanie McCallen
The Regulation of the Phosphatidate Phosphatase Gene PAH1 and Its Regulatory Role on Cell Homeostasis, Goldie Libby Sherr
Consciousness, Perception, and Short-Term Memory, Henry F. Shevlin
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions, Participation, and Belonging, The Netherlands and Denmark, 1960s-80s, Andrew D.J. Shield
Yellow Dust Abode: The Hawley-Suski Letters, 1942-1945, Roxanne Shirazi
Neurodevelopmental Defects Associated with Gestational Exposure to Low Levels of DBP in Mice, Françoise Sidime
Social Ties and State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia, David Siegel
“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype, Rondi Silva
Sustainable Molecular Gelators: Beta-D-Glucoside Derived Structuring Agents and Their Material Application, Julian R. Silverman
Autophagy and Lipid Homeostasis in C. elegans, Melissa J. Silvestrini
Classics and Rockefeller Center: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Use of Classicism in Public Space, Jared A. Simard
Queering by Example: Sex Education in the Age of Vlogging, Zoe M. Simpson
Synthesis and Characterization of Segmented Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers via Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET), Gagandeep Singh
A Passage from Brooklyn to Ithaca: The Sea, the City and the Body in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
Perceptions of Money: Relationships between Remembered Parental Rejection, Extrinsic Life Aspirations and Maladaptive Attitudes toward Money, Rebecca J. Smith
Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media, Hanna L. Smokoski
Problem and Adaptive Behavior Levels in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders as Predictors of Sibling Adjustment, Hallie Solarsh
Can People Successfully Return to Nature?, Nicholas A. Sollogub
