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
Effect of Absent Tactile Sensation on Multi-digit Coordination Underlying Hand Control, Michael P. Alcorn, Bruce Faulkner, Matthew Macina, and Brian Sherman
Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs, Patrick Michael Alexander
Homeland Security and Community policing: Shift in Federal Funding Post Sep. 11: From Community Policing to Homeland Security, Mohsen S. Alizadeh
Development Of A Naturalistic Observational Parenting Practice Assessment Tool For Externalizing Behavior Research, Thailyn L. Alonso
Intimate Relationships: Reality and Normativity, Jason V. Altilio
The Mystification of Christian Salvation: On the Anxiety of Redemption in Renaissance Poetry and Drama, Kimberly Paige Ambroziak
Exploring the Effects of Strain on Cross-national Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model, Catrin Andersson
Electrophysiological Markers of Short-term Visual Adaptation: An Examination Across the Schizophrenia Spectrum, Gizely N. Andrade
Guilty Stereotypes: The Social Psychology Of Race And Suspicion In Police Interviews And Interrogations, Sara C. Appleby
Adonis' Poetics of Vision and Modernity, Rasha Arabi
The Geometry and Combinatorics of Closed Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces, Chris Arettines
Gender, Money, and the Charity Organization Society: 1900-1919, Sarah H. Arnold
The Role of Dependence in Alcohol Reinforcement: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms, Michal Atzram
Narratives of Interiority: Black Lives in the U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
Assessing Theory of Mind in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Typical Development, Sarita Austin
Basic Cable: A Reluctant American Perspective on the Arab Spring Through Revolutionary Art, Philip Ayoub
Toward an Argumentation-based Dialogue framework for Human-Robot Collaboration, Mohammad Quamrul Azhar
Identifying Risk And Protective Factors Associated With The Relationship Between Developmental Delays And Behavior Problems In An Urban Sample Of Preschool Children, Jaclyn Weber Babcock
A Long-Term Follow-Up of Crossover Youth: Young Adult Outcomes for Maltreated Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Carly Lyn Baetz
Imagining What Could Be: The Role of Youth Leadership in Realizing College for All, Tara Bahl
Implications of Muscle Activation Patterns on Balance in the Elderly, Arielle Bailey, Goldie Baum, Hadassa Radzik, and Aruna Woods
Molecular-Genetic and Behavioral Analysis of the Functionality of Patterning in the Trigeminal Neuraxis, Dana Bakalar
The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
The Sensitive Psychopath: Assessing Construct Overlap Between Secondary Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder, Trevor H. Barese
Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency, Doris Barkin
On the Biology, Behavior, and Conservation of the Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus sp., Gregory Jeff Barord
Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Homeless Families: The Importance of Shelter Environment, Nisha Nicole Beharie
Effects of Reproductive Experiences on Age-related Neural and Behavioral Changes in Female Rats, Saranna Belgrave
Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment, Robert Joseph Bell
Functional Characterization Of The Plant 15-Cis-Zeta-Carotene Isomerase Z-Iso, Jesus Alonso Beltran Zambrano
Propagation of Non-Stationary Noise in Waveguides, Jonathan Samuel Ben-Benjamin
Mechanisms of Vocal Coordination in Zebra Finches, Jonathan I. Benichov
Retrospective Chart Review of Patients Following Unilateral Total Knee Replacement to Assess Achievement of Functional Milestones Based on Type of Anesthetic Used Intra-Operatively, William S. Benish, Lolline Chong, Elana Kram, and Danielle Krieger
Developmental Coordination Disorder: The Relationship Between Gait And Attention With Possible Implications For Early Identification And Intervention, Yocheved Bensinger-Brody
Parentification and Separation-Individuation in Siblings of Individuals with a Chronic Illness or Disability, Danielle Benveniste Stevens
Economies of Touring in American Theatre Culture, 1835-1861, Nicole Berkin
Eyewitness Identification Jury Instructions: Do They Enhance Evidence Evaluation?, Marlee Kind Berman
Reconsidering Organicism in Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought, Zachary Bernstein
Por Uma Vida Sem Catracas: The 'June Uprising' and Recent Movements in Brazil, Matthew Binetti
The Relationship between a Norm Referenced Measure of Theory of Mind and Preschoolers' Social Skills in the Classroom, Sarah Ellen Birch
Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana, Visnoonand Bisram
Systematic studies of Elaphoglossum section Polytrichia (Dryopteridaceae), Fernando Bittencourt de Matos
Counting Restricted Integer Partitions, David Dakota Blair
Investigating the Effects of Combining Treadmill Training with Trans-spinal Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Skill Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury, Jennifer Blake, Rebecca Bullen, Jeremy Pahl, and Samantha Scicchigno
English Negative Concord, Negative Polarity, and Double Negation, Frances Kathleen Blanchette
Techniques for Automatic Normalization of Orthographically Variant Yiddish Texts, Yakov Peretz Blum
American Dreamer: First-Time Homeownership and the Affective Geographies of Dwelling, Stephen Boatright
The Philosophical Side of Contemporary Art Forms, Kristina Bodetti
Institutionalizing Colonial Identity: A Case Study On The Indian Partition, Jamie Bodine
Population genomic inference of ecology, conservation, evolution, and demographic history of Atlantic seahorses and pipefishes (Syngnathidae), Joel Thomas Boehm
The Myth of the Unteachable: Youth, Race and the Capacity of Alternative Pedagogy, Cathy R. Borck
Modernity, Parallel Editing, and the Flâneuse: Examining the White Slave Narrative in Early and Contemporary American Cinema, Alex W. Bordino
José White Laffita (1835–1918): A Biography and a Study of His Six Études, Op. 13, Yavet Boyadjiev
Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network, John D. Boy
La Vie Dans Les Plis, Andre Rene Bregegere
L'Harmonie révée: An Analysis of Henri Pousseur's 'Votre Faust' And 'Les litanies d'Icare', Andre Rene Bregegere
Social-Ecological Resilience in the Viking-Age to Early-Medieval Faroe Islands, Seth Brewington
Some applications of noncommutative groups and semigroups to information security, Lisa Bromberg
Factors that Affect Treatment Compliance among Individuals with Mental Illness, Marsha Brown
On the Fringe of Italian Fascism: An Examination of the Relationship between Vinicio Paladini and the Soviet Avant-Garde, Christina Brungardt
Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Perry Bullock
The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel, Pamela Burger
Let The Record Show: Mapping Queer Art and Activism in New York City, 1986-1995, Tara Jean-Kelly Burk
Maude I. Kerns: Overlapping Interpretations of Art and Pedagogy in the Northwest and Along the Pacific Coast, 1890–1932, Mary Helen Burnham
The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana, Nicole Burrowes
The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace, Vanessa L. Burrows
Theory Development and Pilot Testing of a New Survey Instrument on Usability by Older Adults, Meriam Caboral-Stevens
Data Monitoring and Analysis in Wireless Networks, Yongjie Cai
An Electromyographic Comparison of the Functional Performance of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle in Prolonged Sitting Versus Standing Populations, Kerry Campagnola, Giusi Gerbino, Erica Johnson, and Adrienne O’Keefe
Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Revisited, Wenbo Cao
The emergence of L1 innovations in Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming, Agustina Carando
Force to change large cardinal strength, Erin Kathryn Carmody
Choosing To Learn In Two Languages: Why Non-Latino, English-Speaking Families Select Spanish/english Dual Language Bilingual Programs, Kathryn Louise Carpenter
The Influence of Forward Head Posture on Suprahyoid Activity During Oropharyngeal Swallowing: A Surface Electromyographic Analysis, Brianne Carroll, Sierra Hunt, Katherine Sheeleigh, and Mark Wnukowski
Algorithmic properties of poly-Z groups and secret sharing using non-commutative groups, Bren Cavallo
The Development Of The Eu's Counter Terrorism Policies In The Post 9/11 Era, Sinem Cevik
Ecomusicology: back to the roots of sound/music and environmental sustainability, Tiffany Challe
Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850, Ping-Ying Chang
Contemporary Art and Internationalism at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–1988, Rachel Chatalbash
Control of Cell Cycle Progression by mTOR, Amrita Chatterjee
Exploring Antecedents, Performance Outcomes And Psychological Processes Of Multi-Device Use, Chi-Wen Chen
Essays On Real Estate Investment Trusts, Jiajin Chen
Use of the Modified Emotional Stroop Task to Detect Suicide Risk in College Students, Yeunjoo Chung
The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Regulating Barrel Cortex Physiology, Philip Chu
The Relationship Between Maternal Depression And Negative Outcomes In Children: Parenting Deficits' Impact On Children's Emotional Regulation And Behavioral Expression, Gabrielle Francesca Cione
Three Essays on Income and Wealth Inequality, Damir Cosic
Teaching Community College Students Strategies For Learning Unknown Words As They Read Expository Text, Leslie Craigo
Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors, Frank Joseph Cretella
Sexual Victimization, Disclosure, and Accountability: Organizational Responses of the Boy Scouts of America to Child Sexual Abuse, Michelle Anne Cubellis
The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings
Saving Moral Realism: Against Blackburn's Projectivism, Paul James Cummins
The Symbiosis Between Villa-Lobos's Carnaval Das Crianças And Momoprecoce: A Comparative Study, Vanessa Rodrigues Cunha
Tonic And Phasic Inhibitory Mechanisms Mediating Sensorimotor Decision-Making In The Goldfish Auditory Startle Circuit, Paul C.P. Curtin
