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 2025
Hope, Imagination, and Prison Abolition, Maggie Fife
Britten’s Violin Concerto and His Early Period—Score Analysis and Pacifist Narrative, Magdalena Filipczak
American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy, Todd Fine
Craft Schools: Forming American Craft Culture Through Sites of Collective Pedagogy, 1970–1985, Michelle Millar Fisher
Dónde Están: Searching for Desaparecidos of the Argentine Dirty War, Paula Fleischer
Seeing and Sanctioning Structural Unfairness, Grace Flores-Robles
Killer App: Uber, Worker Ownership, and the Materialization of Change, Erik Alexander Forman
A Historical Analysis of Saturday Night Live's Engagement in American Presidential Politics, Isabel Fox
Constructing a Parameterized Stimuli Space Suitable to Induce Controlled Changes in Human and Machine Perceptual Systems, Andrew Frankel
Quaternion-Enhanced AI for Robust and Scalable Modeling in Computational Science Under Uncertainty, Vladimir Frants
Performance Practice as Compositional Style: Wet Ink’s Collaborative Work, Carrie Frey
Revolutionary Love and Rage: Destabilizing Colonialism, White Supremacy, & Transphobia, Valerie Fryer-Davis
Predicting the Dynamics of Complex Networks from Structural Phenomena, George Furbish
Crisis Narratives and the Vicissitudes of Haitian Foodways: A Critical Comparison of Three Food Items, Marc S. Gabriel
Satellite-Host Galaxy Co-evolution with Next-Generation Regulator Models, Austen Gabrielpillai
Case Disposition and Collaborative Decision-Making Among Drug Court Teams in Chile, Sebastian Galleguillos
La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985, Sonja Gandert
Modernity and the Promise of Democracy: A Democratic Reading of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Gabriel Garber
Tracing My Roots: An Exploratory Data Visualization and Analysis of Jewish Immigration and Assimilation to New York City, Jamie E. Gelberg
Cultural Evolution in Tiers: On Birdsong and Functional Layering in Learned Traits, Franny C. Geller
Quantified Lives: Data, Bias, and the Cost of Categorization, Colin F. Geraghty
Memory Interference in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Omar Ghazy
Movement Image: Black Freedom in Experimental Film and Video, 1965–1985, Kirsten M. Gill
Charter Schools in New York State: A Primer, Paolo Giovine
Filmology, Richard N. Gladstein
An Interactive Walkthrough of Richard Kostelanetz’s Library, Martin Glick
The Crisis of Safety, Well-being, and Belonging Facing LGBTQ Children: Mad/Crip of Color Critique Towards a Curriculum of Radical Care, Jameson Goetz
Systematics, Biogeography, and Comparative Morphology of Emerald and Tigertail Dragonflies (Anisoptera: Synthemistidae & Corduliidae), Aaron M. Goodman
Agents of Alignment: Political Realignment as Social Movement Strategy, Matthew Miles Goodrich
Relevant Deformations of Brane Brick Models, Georgios P. Goulas
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Identity and Disagreement, Dana E. Grabelsky
Problems and Paradigms in the Central Sahel of Africa, Georgia Graham
Exploring the Enstatite Chondrites: Modal Abundances, Metamorphic History, and Volatile Challenges, Mabel Gray
Back to the Margins: The Re-Marginalization of Feedback Research in Composition and Rhetoric, Robert A. Greco
Scripted for Surveillance: Parole Revocation Hearings and the Performance of Procedure in New York, Kelsey G. Greeff
The Psychophysiology of Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathic Traits in Youth, Ines Guariguata
Essays on Information and Economic Interaction, Weichao Guo
Category Learning Reorganizes Internal Representations of Visual Artworks, Aishwarya Gurung
Structural Insights into eIF2D’s Mechanism in Translation, Dominique Gutierrez
Woman Naturally is Ambitious: Sarah Josepha Hale, Gender, and Success in Antebellum America, Jeanne G. Gutierrez
Enjoyment in the Classroom: Reciprocal Student-Teacher Dynamics in Israeli Math Education, Yonaton Gutterman
Unifying Comprehension and Competence Through Merge: A New Linking Hypothesis Connecting Electrophysiological Data to Linguistic Intuitions, Kevin Patrck Guzzo
Peripheral Realisms: Travelled Visions of the French and British Fin de siècle, Manon Hakem-Lemaire
Global Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Migration: An Analysis of Five Immigrant Memoirs, Grace Halvorson
Exploring Guyanese Identity in NYC: A Research Exploration, Shivanie E. Hariram
Picturing Americans: Indigeneities and Modern Visuality (1873-1929), Maria Beatriz Haro Carrion
Embracing Language Diversity: An Exploration of Elementary Teachers' Perception of African American English, Manijeh Hart
Governing Inhabitance in Palestinian Jerusalem: Bureaucracy, Belonging, and Majoritarianism at the Center of Life, Thayer Hastings
Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Patterns of Parasitic Infection in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus imitator), Megan C. Henriquez
Spiritualized Machines: Die Brücke, Expressionism, and Wilhelmine Modernity, Joseph Henry
Gestoras económicas: Dote, consumo y ahorro en la ficción latinoamericana (1872–1905), Laura Herrera Liendo
Beyond Country: Southern Language and Identity in North Mississippi, Meredith Hilliard
Disability Theatre Communities: Engaging Artists and Audiences in Contemporary International Performance, Joseph Paul Hill
Unveiling the Vital Role of Blue Carbon in Mangroves: Understanding Environmental Influences, Jahnelle Howe
Reproductive Liberation on Ice (?): A Qualitative Exploration of Black Women’s Egg Freezing Experiences, Frances M. Howell
The Power of Music to Empower Health and Wellbeing: In Support of a Music Therapy Discipline at Lehman College, City University of New York, Felicity A. Howlett
Understanding How Genetic Mutations Induce Oligodendrocyte Progenitors to Become Cancer Cells, Dennis Huang
From IT-Startups to Tech Giants: How Social Connections Influence Investors’ Perspective on Valuations in the Technology Space, Linmei Huang
Silver-Alloyed CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells on Flexible Stainless-Steel Substrate, Zhi Huang
Banking and the Wider Economy: Essays on Capital and Cross-Border Risks, Morgan Hunt
SLA Evaluation and Composition in Reconfigurable Cloud-Based Services, Michael Iannelli
ChatGPT Didn’t Write This: Evaluating the Impact of LLMs with a Case Study in Grading CUNY Language Immersion Program Student Essays, Benjamin Inbar
From Tarmac to Timetable: A Data-Driven Study of Airline Delay Performance in Nigeria, Kelechi V. Iwuagwu
A Benjaminian Rumination of Grasses and Tomatoes in Contemporary Anatolian Film, Ceren Izci
Navigating Precarity and Pushing for Protections in South Florida's Ride-Hail Sector, Pamela Izvanariu
Making Waves: Comfort Women Justice Movements Across Generations, Julia A. Jacobellis
Unveiling the Precision of Physiological Signals in Prediction Error During Fear Learning: Insights from Associative Strength and Generalized Uncertainty, Haja H. Jallo-Jamboria
Testing Toxicity: Two Approaches to Toxicity Detection, Nelson E. Jarrin
A Novel Closed Monoidal Structure on the Nucleus of a Profunctor, Samantha K. Jarvis
Survey of the Diagnostic, Rehabilitative, Educational, and Inter-professional Changes in the Profession of Audiology, Leah Joshowitz
Effects of Acidification and Habitat Loss on Coastal Nitrogen Cycling Dynamics, Beryl M. Kahn
Palimpsests of the Mind: Memory, Anamnesis, Temporality, Selin Kalostyan
Staging Labor: Evolving Performance of Work in Post-Reform China, Bindi Kang
Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss, Gagan Kaur
The Elephant (and Donkey) in the Room: The Effects of Political Ideology on Diversity Training Effectiveness, Luke P. Kayga
The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922, Hratch Kestenian
Creative Coding Communities: Exploring the Relationship Between Scratch Use and Child Well-Being, Nikita Khalid
Caedmon Records & The Power of Youth: How Audiobooks Revolutionized Children’s Literature, Faihaa Khan
Before Melville's Masts: Sex in the Age of Sail, Matthew A. Knip
Quantum Entanglement Correlations in the Proton on the Light-Front, Eric Kolbusz
Creating School: Writing and Reading Texts for Children, Carlyn Kolker
Essays on Textual Information and Financial Markets: Evidence from News Sentiment, Corporate Disclosure, and Market Dynamics, Mingyuan Kong
Processing of Diphthongs by Turkish English Bilinguals: An ERP Study, Ecem Kopuz
When College is Not Working Out: Obstacles to Community College Completion, Elisabeth Lackner
Teaching and Technology: "You Can't Just Do the Same Thing Online", Sakina Laksimi
Biogenesis of the Abundant Lipoprotein Lpp During Lipoprotein Maturation Stress in Escherichia coli, Emily J. LaMarre
Menstrual Math: The Price of Bleeding, Gabrielle Langston
Transferred Debt: The Political Development and Implementation of Monetary Sanctions in New York, Angela LaScala-Gruenewald
Reframing Abstraction in Asian American Art: Race, Identity, and Politics Beyond Representation, 1960–1982, Chaeeun Lee
Re-envisioning Digital Agency: From Representationalism to Interpretant-Driven Epistemology, Michael C. Lee
Challenging Colonial Imaginaries: History, Pedagogy, and Consciousness-Raising in Contemporary France, Deborah Leter
The Impact of Voluntary Disclosure of Customers’ Names on Firm Value, Mu Li
Liberated Learning Spaces: A Visual Playlist, Tarilyn R. Little
Essays on Bank Liquidity Provision, Jingdan Liu
Essays on ESG Disclosure Policies, Zhuolin Li
Proximity and Partition: Geographies of Childhood, Choice, and Co-Location in New York City Schools, Caroline Loomis
