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
A Man to Preserve or Reform the Nation: Masculinity as Political Rhetoric in English Novels during the Revolution Controversy, Janne Burger Gillespie
The Immigration Experience Among Elderly Egyptian Immigrants In The United States, Ihab Girgis
Effectiveness of a Partial Read-Aloud Test Accommodation to Assess Reading Comprehension in Students with a Reading Disability, Michelle Marie Giusto
Refugees And Relief: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee And European Jews In Cuba And Shanghai 1938-1943, Zhava Litvac Glaser
Aerosol and Urban Heat Island Effects on Warm Cloud-Top Shortwave Infrared Reflectance and Visible Albedo, Heather Glickman-Eliezer
Counting the Blades of Grass: Series, Punctum, and the Averted Gaze in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Lane Glisson
"Beyond Chingones and Chingados: Performing Masculinities in Contemporary Mexican Theatre", Zaida Godoy Navarro
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Expanding International Regimes, Thomas R. Goggin
Of Truths, Secrets, and Loyalties: Political Belonging and State Building in Poland after State Socialism, Saygun Gokariksel
El transnacionalismo y la identidad judia en la obra de Isaac Goldemberg, Jose Goni
Pennsylvania Academic Career/Technical Training Alliance Initiative: Engaging Youth in School and Work, Marna Goodman
Incipient Speciation in Freshwater Fish Species from Two Isolated Watersheds, Paula Gore Miller
Roman Tragedy and Medicine: Language and Imagery of Illness in Seneca and Celsus, Michael Patrick Goyette
Understanding Failure: Social Workers Reflect on Their Licensing Examination Experience, Scott Graybow
The Effects of Morpho-Phonemic and Whole Word Instruction on the Literacy Skills of Adult Struggling Readers, Susan Gray
Mobilizing The Collective: Helhesten And The Danish Avant-Garde, 1934-1946, Kerry Greaves
Beyond Information: College Choice as a Literacy Practice, Jeremy Samuel Greenfield
Biophysical Characterization of a De Novo Elastin, Kelly Nicole Greenland
What's "Black" Got to Do With It: An Analysis of Low-Income Black Students and Educational Outcomes, Derrick E. Griffith
Expanding the Structural Biologist's Tool Chest by Chemical and Biocompatible Modification of Peptides: from Characterizing Marine Snail Toxins to OutPHOXIng Tryptophan, Alexander Grigoryan
The American Monster, Dara Beth Gross
The City Meditations, Nicholas Grosso
Ni Francaise, Ni Juive, Ni Arabe: The Influence of Nineteenth Century French Judaism on the Emergence of Franco- Jewish- Arab Literature, Deborah Rosalind Gruber
The World Bank, Amartya Sen and Cultural Heritage as Development in Jordan, Mark Guarnaccia
Nepantla and Ubuntu Ethics Para Nosotros: Beyond Scrupulous Adherence Toward Threshold Perspectives of Participatory/Collaborative Research Ethics, Monique Antoinette Guishard
Studies On Bell's Theorem, Veli Ugur Guney
Essays On The Impacts Of Quantitative Easing On Financial Markets, Joanne Guo
Microfossils as proxies for Holocene climate in semi-enclosed basins: the Hudson River estuary, New York, USA and the Marmara Sea, Turkey, Damayanti Gurung
Testing Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Using Data from Patient Experience Surveys, Thomas Arthur Hagerty
Courage to Speak, Fortitude to Listen: A Model for the Study of First-Person LD Narratives, Charles Christian Haitz
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
College Graduation Rates of Hispanic Students: A Review of the Literature, Jessica Hall
View from the front gate: A comparative study of NYC Schools from a college admissions perspective, Sharon Hardy
Eye Tracking and Performance Evaluation: Automatic Detection of User Outcomes, Allen V.R. Harper
Population Genomics of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in New York City, Stephen Edward Harris
The State of the Oligocene Icehouse World: Sedimentology, Provenance, and Stable Isotopes of Marine Sediments from the Antarctic Continental Margin, Daniel William Hauptvogel
Employee Environmentally Friendly Behaviors in and out of Organizations and across Cultures, Lilia Hayrapetyan
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, and the Scholar's Art, Stefania Heim
To be or not to be a Math Person: Math Identity Dissonance in Ninth Grade Students, Noah Samuel Heller
Women Are Like Silk and Men Are Like Gold: A Cross-Country Comparison of Institutional Responses to Honor Violence, Alana Michele Henninger
Floral Interactions in Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, New York, Jack Henning
Immigration & Naturalization Policy Innovation Through Bureaucratic Reorganization, Neil Hernandez
Essays on International Payout, Governance, and Information, Richard Clifton Herron
The Effects of Cooling During Gait on Gait Endurance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis Using the Six Minute Walk Test, Meghan Higgins, Esther Sosowsky, and Elisheva Zinberg
The Audiometric Profile of Young Adults Who Report Difficulty with Speech Perception in Noise, Michael R. Higgins
Highly-selective Chemiresistive Sensing and Analysis of Vapors Using Functionalized Nanotubes, Deon Hines
Another One Busts The Dust, Keiko Hiranaka
Dangerous Spaces: The Structural Context of Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa, Alexandra Hiropoulos
Attitudes Towards Music Levels at Orthodox Jewish Weddings, Evan Hirschhorn
On the Threshold: Breadwinning, Capitalism and the Absent/Present Father in the Works of Three Late 20th-Century U.S. Novelists, Nancy J. Hoch
Negotiating limits: Boundary management in the Bondage/Discipline/Sadomasochism (BDSM) community, Karen Marie Holt
"To organize the sovereign people": Political Mobilization in Pennsylvania, 1783-1808, David William Houpt
Friction, Avalanches and phase transitions in granular media., Aline Hubard
Maturation of Speech Discrimination and Attentional Requirements in Late Childhood, Judith Ann Iannotta
Do cultural and perceptual factor matter?: An investigation of factors impacting intelligence test scores of Latinos/Hispanics in the United States, Mary E. Ignagni
Explorations of Perceived Product Efficacy, Veronika Ilyuk
A Critique of Western Liberalism, Siddhant Issar
Pierre Matthieu en España. La biografía política en las traducciones de Juan Pablo Mártir Rizo y Lorenzo Van der Hammen., Adrian M. Izquierdo
A Gender Approach to Vulnerability and Natural Disasters, Ema Izquierdo
The Ecology Of Winter Flounder From An Otolith Perspective, George William Jackman
Labor Market Trajectories of Black Women in the United States, 1980 to 2010, Danielle Jackson
Variability, Stability, and Flexibility in the Speech Kinematics and Acoustics of Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter, Eric S. Jackson
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Farmer's Bane Or Boon?, Jeeva Mary Jacob
Musical Regularity And Rhythmic Patterns: A Quantitative Analysis Of Birdsong Structure, Eathan Ezra Janney
No Rush To Motherhood: The Lived Experience Of African American Never Pregnant Sexually Active Female Teens, Monique Jenkins
Bad Apple: Complexities of New York City Food Aid Programs, Rose Meagan Jimenez
Sex-dependent Role of Interleukin-1 Signaling in Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors in Mice: Phenotyping Male and Female IL1-R1 Null Mutant Mice, Jennifer Anne Johnson
Law Enforcement Innovation and Diffusion: A Network Analysis of Police Accreditation, Jeremiah Paul Johnson
Mental Discipline and Musical Meaning, Alice Harriet Jones
Sensitizing Jurors to Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Identification: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Henderson Instructions, Angela M. Jones
Accessing Medicinally-Relevant Scaffolds Via Organocatalyzed Cascade Reactions, Joshua Hadley Jones
The Voting Rights Act Under Siege: The Development of the Influence of Colorblind Conservatism on the Federal Government and the Voting Rights Act, Melanie Adrienne Jones
The Impact of French Opera in Nineteenth-Century New York: The New Orleans French Opera Company, 1827–1845, Jennifer C. H. Jones Wilson
Black Like Me? A Narrative Study of Non-Anglophone Black U.S. Immigrant Selves in the Making, Yvanne Joseph
Cultural Evolution In Natural Populations: A Quantitative Bioacoustic Analysis, Chenghui Ju
Technological Revolution in Astronomy, Michael Julio
Participatory Action Research As Professional Development In Multicultural Education: What Are The Effects On A Staff In A New York City Public School?, Jimmy Ivan Kalamaras
Geometry and Statistics of Jammed Granular Matter, Mark Robert Kanner
Whistles of Sympatric Species of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the Bahamas: Acoustic Characteristics and Contextual Use, Jennifer Daisy Kaplan
Olfaction As The Paradigm For Perceptual Philosophy, Andreas Keller
The Role of the VTA NMDA Receptors, VTA DA Cells and VTA Terminal Regions in Reward-Related Learning, Karen Kest
The Role of ATP and Cleavage Factor Phosphorylation in pre-mRNA 3' Cleavage Reaction, Asya Khleborodova
Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students, Magdalena Kieliszek
Gender and Trauma from World War I to the War in Iraq: Narrative in the Aftermath of Loss, Jenny Young Kijowski
Death and Photography in East Asia: Funerary Use of Portrait Photography, Jeehey Kim
The Odyssey of North Korean Defectors: Issues and Problems in the Migration Process, You Gene Kim
The Ties that Bind: Gender, Race, and Empire in Caribbean Indenture Narratives, Alison Joan Klein
The Effects of Maximal Strength Training on Gait and Balance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pretest Posttest Pilot Study, Janet Klein, David Park, Charles Wright, and Michael Zervas
Regulation of the Vacuolar ATPase activity, Paulina Konarzewska
Psychosocial Sequelae Of Homicide Among Murder Victims' Family Members: An Appraisal Of Depression, Grief, And Posttraumatic Stress, Sarah Kopelovich
Development of Instructional Competencies for Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Abigail Kotowski
Interactions Between Descending and Somatosensory Inputs in Humans, Lisa Krivis, Ann Mackey, Maureen McDonough, and Denise Uttaro
TCR Alpha LCR and non-LCR cis-elements contributing to tissue specific expression of the TCR Alpha gene in thymic and peripheral T cells, Martina Kucerova-Levisohn
Attenuation Of Methamphetamine And Nmda-Induced Toxicity By Leptin In Murine Striatum, Nawshin Hoque Kutub
Effecting Moral Change: Lessons from the First Emancipation, Howard Landis
