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
Francisco da Costa y su Cancionero. Lirica y dramaturgia desde el exilio africano en el contexto de la unión ibérica., Vasiliki Velliou
Attitudes of Normal Hearing Listeners Towards Personal Sound Amplification Products: Sound World Solutions CS50, Marisa Viets
Geometric Separation and Packing Problems, Ivo Vigan
'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry, Ana Maria Vinea
Object Categorization in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Jaime Vitrano
Children First Reforms, Fair Student Funding and the Displacement of Accountability in the New York City Department of Education, Daniel Voloch
Educating Desire: Auto/bio/graphical impressions of addiction in/and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Peter Waldman
Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality, Leila Walker
The Measure of a Man: The Role of Measurement in Shaping Our Understanding of College Graduation along Ethnic Lines, Andrew Middleton Wallace
Dramatic Form and Embodiment: Robert Browning and the Epistemology of Romantic Drama, Laura Helen Wallace
Emotion Dysregulation: A Predictor For Cbt Treatment Outcomes In A Comorbid Ptsd And Sud Population, Jennifer Robin Wallach
Unhappy Together: Chinese Diaspora In Film, Jo Hsin Wang
Essays on Disclosure and Individual Investors, Yakun Wang
An Exploratory Study Of The Role Of Cooperating Teachers In Preparing Teacher Candidates For Academic Success With Students Of Color In High-Need Schools, Audra Michelle Watson
Does Financial Openness Affect Economic Growth in Asian Economies? A Case Study in Selected Asian Economies, 1980-2010, Hsinrong Wei
Civil War Incentives, Identities, And Group Allegiances In Syria's Contested Provinces: A Case Study On Civil War, Hilary Weitze
Biomolecule Mediating Synthesis Of Inorganic Nanoparticles And Their Applications, Zengyan Wei
Technology and the Glass Imagination: Isolation and Closeness from the Window to the Screen, Sarah Elizabeth Welsh
The Moduli Space of Rational Maps, Lloyd William West
Triple Stigma in Forensic Psychiatric Patients: Mental Illness, Race, and Criminality, Michelle Leigh West
The Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Parenting, Erin Ann Williams
Engendering Islands: Representations of Difference in the Seventeenth-Century French Caribbean, Ashley Meredith Williard
New Results on Randomized Matrix Computations, Jesse Lowell Wolf
The Fengsu-Driven Practice of Sending Infants to China: The Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in New York, Kitching Rhoda Wong
Environmental Expertise In The Age of Research: Institutional Process And Environmental Science In the American Far West, 1950-2014., Nathan D. Woods
Actuality Or Mystifying Spectacle? War In Cinema And Electronic Gaming, Christopher Robert Workoff
Taking the Venereal out of Venereal Disease: The Public Health Campaign Against Syphilis, 1934-1945, Erin Wuebker
Earnings Forecast and Stock Recommendation by Security Analysts, Cunyu Xing
Preconditioning For Matrix Computation, Xiaodong Yan
Optimal Measurements Tasks and Their Physical Realizations, Vadim Yerokhin
Why Do Victims Not Report?: The Influence of Police and Criminal Justice Cynicism on the Dark Figure of Crime, Seokhee Yoon
Accurate Deterministic Solutions for the Classic Boltzmann Shock Profile, Yubei Yue
Tales Of Language Loss And Language Maintenance: Elicited Ancestral Language Use In Lazuri-Turkish And Turkish-German Caregiver-Child Dyads During Structured Play, Peri Ozlem Yuksel-Sokmen
The Incidence and Evolution of Palatalized Consonants in Latvian, Linda Zalite
St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum, Mary Frances Zawadzki
Disorder Effects in Charge Transport and Spin Response of Topological Insulators, Lukas Zhonghua Zhao
Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Polyacetal & Design and Preparation of Superhydrophobic Photocatalytic Surfaces, Yuanyuan Zhao
Essays on The Economics of Aging, Zhendong Zhao
Some Bernstein Type Results of Graphical Self-Shrinkers with High Codimension in Euclidean Space, Hengyu Zhou
Auditor Size And Audit Quality: A Partner-Level Perspective, Yu Zhou
The Limits of Liberalism: France, The Veil, and Public Schools, Eleanor Doris Zupancic
Essays on the Economics and Methodology of Social Mobility, Benjamin Zweig
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2014
Cologne Carnival's "Alternative" Stunksitzung: Carnivalization? Meta-Carnival? Or Bakhtinian Restoration?, Erik Abbott
Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s, Ann Atsuko Adachi
The Amphibious Public: A historical geography of municipal swimming and bathing New York City, 1870 - 2013, Naomi Miriam Adiv
Chemistry of 6-Monobrominated Indigo, MBI, Hiroko Ajiki
Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions involving secondary and tertiary alkyl nucleophiles, Amruta Ajit Joshi
The Music and Multiple Identities of Kurdish Alevis from Turkey in Germany, Ozan Aksoy
Studies in Volatility, Nazli Sila Alan
Scheduling And Resource Allocation In Wireless Sensor Networks, Yosef Alayev
Ridiculous Geographies: Mapping the Theatre of the Ridiculous as Radical Aesthetic, Kelly Aliano
Marvel Comics and New York Stories: Anti-Heroes and Street Level Vigilantes Daredevil and The Punisher, Jesse Allen
Formative Assessment Through Written Feedback: Examining Elementary School Teachers' Written Feedback Beliefs and Practices, and the Effect of Models on Written Feedback, Caterina Almendral
Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Density on Lexical Access in Adults and Children with and without Specific Language Impairment, Diana Almodovar
Latinas Converting to Islam in New York: Habitus’ influence in modern identity formation, Amalia Alonzo
Synthesis of Biologically Important C-glycosides from Simple C-glycosyl Alkenes, Ahmad Sabri Altiti
The Developmental Trajectory of Contour Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Ted S. Altschuler
Computational Insights Into The Oxygen Evolving Complex Of Photosystem ΙΙ, Muhamed Amin
For Love and for Justice: Narratives of Lesbian Activism, Kelly Anderson
Supraspinal And Spinal Mechanisms Of Morphine-Induced Hyperalgesia, Caroline A. Arout
An algorithmic approach to the differential Galois theory of second-order linear differential equations with differential parameters, Carlos Eduardo Arreche Aguayo
Corticospinal Integration in Healthy Humans, Amanda Asmar, Leandra Manfredini, Kerri McLean, and Christina Scannapieco
Diaspora As Development Actors: A Source Of Human And Social Capital For Local Development In Turkey, Meryem Senay Ataselim
An Equine-Facilitated Prison-Based Program: Human-Horse Relations And Effects On Inmate Emotions And Behaviors, Keren Bachi
Conformational features of the human U2-U6 snRNA complex, Ravichandra Bachu
Women in Foreclosure: Social Reproduction & Mortgage Strain in the Subprime Era, Amy Baker
Attention shapes our expectations and perceptions: The neural mechanisms of top-down attention during adulthood and development, Snigdha Banerjee
Reclaiming Space: Buildings in Modernist Literature and Film, Sreenjaya Ria Banerjee
Minorities' Perceptions of Minority-White Biracials: The Role of Identification for Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses, Sabrica Barnett
Benefit and Quality of Life Improvement in Older Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients: A Review of the Literature, Theresa Bartoldus
Don't Push Me Over the (Knowl)Edge: The Social Correlates of Latino High School Dropouts, Robert Charles Baskerville
A Behavioral and Biopsychological Investigation of the Role of the Illusion of Control and Perseverative Chasing Between Problem and Non-problem Gamblers, Brett Evan Bauchner
Sovereign Debt and Tax Collection Dynamics in Argentina, Kyle Royal Bauser
Examining the association of medication complexity with health-related quality of life in older adults receiving community-based long term services and supports, Claudia Ann Beck
Cortical Modulation of Spinal Reflexes in Healthy Humans, Caitlin Bedell, Joseph Capogrosso, Kristin Thomas, and Charlotte Westmoreland
Consonantal voicing effects on vowel duration in Italian-English bilinguals, Ylana Beller-Marino
Evolution And Ethics, Franklin Roy Bennett
Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970, Jeremy Paul Benson
Dominican Gaga Music and Dance: The Remaking of a Spiritual Performance in the City of New York, Marimer Berberena
Clinical Implications of Binaural Interference: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Michael Bergen
A Comparison of Vocabulary Learning From Joint Reading of Narrative and Informational Books With Dual Language Learner Children, Deborah Bergman Deitcher
Bureaupathology and Organizational Fraud Prevention: Case Studies of Fraud Hotlines, Chelsea Ann Binns
Straight Record and The Paper Trail: From Depression Reporters to Foreign Correspondents, Magdalena Bogacka-Rode
Candida Albicans Als5p Amyloid In Host-Microbe Interactions: A Ceanorhabditis Elegans Study, Michael Bois
Message Passing Techniques For Statistical Physics And Optimization In Complex Systems, Lin Bo
The Interchange of Plain Velar and Aspirate in Kronos/Chronos: A Case for Etymological Equivalence, Roberto Peter Bongiovanni
Manuel de la Cruz Gonzalez: Transnationalism and the Development of Modern Art in Costa Rica, Lauran Bonilla-Merchav
A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind, Anton Borst
The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Savings and Investment, Andrew A. Bossie
The Relationship of Nursing Career Perception Congruence and Perceived Social Support on Hispanic Middle School Female Nursing Career Choice, Karen Vicino Bourgeois
Ecology of Terrorism: Cross-National Comparison of Terrorist Attacks, Katharine A. Boyd
The Long-Term Effects of Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Combined with Complex Decongestive Therapy (CDT) in the Treatment of Breast Cancer Lymphedema: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study, Olivia Bramlett, Igor Daysudov, Toshi Odaira, and Bethany Rodriguez