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 2014
Ovid's Pentheus: An In-Depth Guide for Students and Teachers to a King's Anger and Fiery Oration, Benjamin Joffe
Successful Aging: Use Of Communication Technology In An Adult Day Program, Wendy Johnson
Essays on Financial Market Volatility: Applications of Time-Varying Dynamics, Emily Johnston
The Shadow Banking System in the United States, Bhakti Joshi
"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda, Matt Kandel
Telework and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Underexplored Roles of Social Identity and Professional Isolation, Lauren Mondo Kane
The Struggle for Recognition: Muslim American Spokesmanship in the Age of Islamophobia, Nazia Kazi
Right Without Might: Prophecy and Enervation in the American Political Tradition, Jonathan Keller
Standard Deviations: Genre, Gender, and the Cartographical Imagination in Popular British Literature, 1830-1880, Taylor R. Kennamer
Use of an Interdependent Group Contingency to Improve Homework Completion, Homework Accuracy, and Achievement of High School Students with Disabilities, Maria Carrino Kennedy
Committed to the Cause? Violent and Financial Criminal Behaviors of Domestic Far-Rightists, Ashmini G. Kerodal
The function of the phospholipid flippase Atp8a1 in neurotransmission, brain development and autistic behavior, Daniel Joseph Kerr
The Transnational Latin American Regionalism Of Mario Vargas Llosa And Milton Hatoum, Michele C. Kettner
The Interplay of Visual Attention and Saccade Planning in Active Vision, Afsheen Khan
Access To Healthcare For Vulnerable Asian Subgroup Populations In The United States, Deborah Kim-Lu
Working Women: Contemporary Cinematic Costumes in "Desk Set" and "Working Girl", Karen Hummel Kinsley
Ethnomedical, Ecological and Phytochemical Studies of the Palauan Flora, Christopher Kitalong
Biological motion processing in typical development and in the autism spectrum, Aaron Krakowski
Psychometric Properties of a Multichannel Battery for the Assessment of Emotional Perception, William H. Krause
Bass in Your Face: A Case-Study Exploration of Networked Culture, Samantha Phyllis Kretmar
Phylogeny, taxonomy and morphological evolution in Conostegia (Melastomataceae: Miconieae), Ricardo Kriebel
Jean Sénac, Poet of the Algerian Revolution, Kai G. Krienke
Teaching Gaze Shifting in the Context of Requesting and Joint Attention to Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ivana Krstovska-Guerrero
An Investigation of Factors that Create and Mitigate Confirmation Bias in Judgments of Handwriting Evidence, Jeffrey Paul Kukucka
An ethnobotanical, ecological and LC-MS-based chemometric investigation of Phaleria nisidai, a traditional adaptogen containing diterpene esters from Palau, Micronesia, Daniel Kulakowski
Claiming the Right to the City: Towards the Production of Space from Below, Mehmet Baris Kuymulu
Essays on Non-GAAP Earnings Disclosure, Hangsoo Kyung
Conflict and Playmaking: The impact of a recess enhancement program on elementary school playgrounds in New York City, Elizabeth Lake
Exploring platform (semi)groups for non-commutative key-exchange protocols, Ha Lam
A meta-analysis of the prediction of violence among adults with mental disorders, Hing Po Lam
Combinatorial Properties of Polyiamonds, Christopher Larson
If You See Something, Say Something: A Look at Experimental Writing on Art, Charlotte Lucy Latham
Attitudes of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Students Towards Noise in Youth Culture, Lillian Law
Attitudes of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Students Towards Noise in Youth Culture, Lillian Law
The Influence of Naive and Media-Informed Beliefs on Juror Evaluations of Forensic Science Evidence, Victoria Zoe Lawson
Occupy Wall Street's Challenge to an American Public Transcript, Christopher Neville Leary
Counterfeiting: A Challenge to Forensic Science, the Criminal Justice System, and Its Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation, Pauline Elizabeth Leary
Hydrodynamic and Mass Transport Properties of Microfluidic Geometries, Thomas F. Leary
Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary, Fiona Hsiao Yen Lee
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, Jang Wook Lee
The Relative Impact of Identity on LGBT API Outness: A Quantitative Analysis, Jessica Lee
Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon
Secrets of a Toy-box: A Study of Claude Debussy's La Boîte à joujoux, Mirna Lekic
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, David Alan Lempert
CITED2-Mediated Mechanotransduction and its use for Chondroprotection, Daniel J. Leong
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach to the Mega-Novel, David J. Letzler
Teaching in the Shadow of Sekou: Reflective Practice, Culturally Relevant and Student-Centered Pedagogy and the Research to Performance Method, Brian Gregory Lewis
Analysis Of DNA Motifs In The Human Genome, Yupu Liang
How to ask questions in Mandarin Chinese, Woan-Jen Liing
The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States, Laura Limonic
The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma, Ruth Lipman
The Role of the Striatal Neuropeptide Neurotensin in the Methamphetamine-induced Neural Injury in Mice, Qingkun Liu
Spontaneous Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Two Dimensional Electronic Systems, Wei Liu
Synthesis, Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic and Dielectric Nanoparticles and Nanocomposite Films, Xiaohua Liu
Control of Exciton Photon Coupling in Nano-structures, Xiaoze Liu
Development of Mesoporous Silicas, Responsive Polymer Microgels, and Related Nanocomposites, Yingyu Li
Rotational Form And Sonata-Type Hybridity In The First Movement Of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Charity Lofthouse
Foreseeing Identity in Blank Interstices: New-wave African Migration to the United States and a New Theory of Diaspora, Bernard D. Lombardi
New Portlandia: Rock n' Roll, Authenticity and the Politics of Place in Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Ross London
Albert Camus' political thought: from passion to compassion, Angel López-Santiago
America is Not the Heaven We Dream Of: Race, Gender, and Refugee Status among Liberians in Staten Island, New York, Bernadette M. Ludwig
Data-driven Synthesis of Animations of Spatially Inflected American Sign Language Verbs Using Human Data, Pengfei Lu
Confucius, Yamaha, or Mozart? Cultural Capital and Upward Mobility Among Children of Chinese Immigrants, Wei-Ting Lu
Representational Implications of the Phonologization of Contour Tones, Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay
Dollar Democracy: The Politics of Dollarization in Latin America, Cori Madrid
The Application of Dispersion Staining and Infrared Microspectroscopy to Analyze Physical Evidence in Developing Countries, Thiti Mahacharoen
El humanismo civico en Castilla a mediados del siglo XV: la Batalla campal de los perros contra los lobos de Alfonso de Palencia, Ruben Maillo-Pozo
Entre Dos Islas: Dialogos Musico-Literarios Entre Manhattan Y Quisqueya. El Rol De La Musica Popular En La Literatura Dominicana Contemporanea, Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Iron regulates mRNA translation initiation through RNA iron responsive element (IRE), Jia Ma
Psychological Contracts in Information Exchanges, Stanislav Mamonov
Exploring The Illusion Of Transparency When Lying And Truth-Telling: The Impact Of Age, Self-Consciousness, And Framing, Jason Mandelbaum
How Childhood Obesity Predicts Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study, Rachel Lynn Manes
The interaction between arsenic and struvite during coprecipitation and adsorption processes, Ning Ma
Occupy Mall Street? How the Court Conditioned Public Space Where People Go, Anthony Maniscalco
"Do you live on Spruce Street or are you straight?" The Boundaries of Philadelphia's Gayborhood and the Production of Queer Identities, Lauren Elisabeth Manley
Design of Well-Defined Mesoporous Silicas via Surfactant Templating Method Enhanced by the Use of Swelling Agents, Tiffany Man
Households, Landscapes, and Post-Collapse Continuity in Postclassic Jalieza, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Elise Marie Maragliano
Works in Progress: Child Characters in Victorian and Postcolonial Fiction, 1814 - 2006, Kiran Mascarenhas
Oxocarbenium Ion and Alkene Metathesis Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Cyclohexanes, Clayton Errol Mattis
The Perceived Religiousness of the Repertoire of the Muslim Minority in France, Brian Mawyer
The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive, Jonathan Conrad Maxwell
Otoscopic and Tympanometric Outcomes in Haitian Children, Ellen May
Emerging Musical Structures: A method for the transcription and analysis of Electroacoustic Music, Mario Mazzoli
The Representation of Nonmonogamy on Feminist Blogs, Caitlin M.
"With the Class-Conscious Workers Under One Roof": Union Halls and Labor Temples in American Working-Class Formation, 1880-1970, Stephen McFarland
From Backlash To Mobilization: Muslim American Prayer Spaces In Post-9/11 New York, George E. Melissinos
A psychoanalytic exploration into the memory and aesthetics of everyday life: Photographs, recollections, and encounters with loss, Dimitrios Mellos
In and Out of Uniform: The Transition of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans into Higher Education, Vienna Messina
Nature's Goodness: An Aristotelian Account, Nathan K. Metzger
Reliability-Based Progressive Collapse And Redundancy Analysis Of Bridge Systems, Feng Miao
Asymptotic Invariants and Flatness of Local Endomorphisms, Nikita Miasnikov
Aging Out of the Spectrum of Cultural Visibility, Darthea M. Miller
The Other Tribeca: Immigrant Work and Incorporation amid Affluence, Elizabeth A. Miller
Why Should One Reproduce? The Rationality and Morality of Human Reproduction, Lantz Fleming Miller