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
Intracellular Mechanisms Associated with Cocaine Induced Conditioned Place Preference, Stephanie K. Nygard
On the role of neuronal oscillations in auditory cortical processing, Monica Noelle O'Connell
Strategies for Discriminating and Comparing Unknown Unitary Transformations, Guy F. Okoko
Colloidal Quantum Dot Based Photonic Circuits and Devices, Nicky E. Okoye
Component Trees For The Exploration Of Macromolecular Structures In Biology, Lucas Oliveira
Coming Of Age During The Sixties: A Narration Of Lives Through Music And Battle, Jennifer L. Oliveri
Teachers at Work: Factors Influencing Satisfaction, Retention and the Professional Well-Being of Elementary and Secondary Educators, Patrick Edward O'Reilly
Changing attention to emotion: A biobehavioral study of attention bias modification using event-related potentials, Laura O'Toole
Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans, Allison Padilla-Goodman
The development and function of the nasopharynx and its role in the evolution of primate respiratory abilities, Anthony Santino Pagano
The "Social Factory" In Postwar Italian Radical Thought From Operaismo To Autonomia, David P. Palazzo
Flapper Fashion In the Context of Cultural Changes of America in the 1920s, Soo Hyun Park
Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne, Lucie Carmel Paul
The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Abstinence and Relapse Using an Animal Conflict Model, Joshua Alan Peck
Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence, Laila Pedro
The Sex of the Cell Dictates its Response, Carlos Ganesh Penaloza
Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on Prevention and Amelioration of Cisplatin-induced Ototoxicity: A Systematic Literature Review, Maryana Peravozchykava
A Systematic Revision of North American Tolypella A. Braun (Charophyceae, Charophyta), William Perez
Risk assessment of sexually abusive clergy: Utility of sex offender risk instruments with a unique offender subgroup, Anthony Perillo
A Review of Animal Studies for the Efficacy of D-Methionine in Reducing Threshold Shifts and Affecting Biochemical Changes after Exposure to Noise, Alexandra Petraru
Initial conditions in high-energy collisions, Elena Petreska
Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition, Natalya Petroff
The Salience and Perceptual Weight of Secondary Acoustic Cues for Fricative Identification in Normal Hearing Adults, Derek Petti
Moral Inscriptions: Politics and the Rhetoric of Responsibility, Steven Pludwin
Rendering the Unthinkable: (Un)knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, and Heterosexualized Trauma in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish
The Over-Education of the Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education and the Black Intellectual, Archie Lavelle Porter
Melodic Function and Modal Process in Gregorian Chant, Richard Porterfield
"Fits of Vulgar Joy": Play Anxiety in the Romantic Poets, Alison Powell
Promoting Wellness Through Mindfulness-Based Activities, Malgorzata Powietrzynska
Engaging Bad Governments: Resource Groups and Patterns of Engagement in Bangladesh, Nayma Qayum
La obra poetica de Jose de Jesus Dominguez estudio preliminar, texto y notas, Eric Samuel Quinones
Women's experiences of privacy, publicness and place in mediated space, Nelida Quintero
Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture, Paul Andrija Ranogajec
The Second Generation's Homeland Trips: A Parental Expectation for the U.S.-Born Children of Mexican Immigrants in the South Bronx, Alexia Raynal
"A New Way of Doing Politics": The Movement against CAFTA in Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner
The Historic Inability of the Haitian Education System to Create Human Development and its Consequences, Patrick Michael Rea
Systematics and evolution of Leandra s.str. (Melastomataceae, Miconieae), Marcelo Reginato
Developing a Culture of Citizenship in Elementary School Classrooms: How Democratic Schools Teach Children About Rules, Rights and Responsibilities, Mindi Reich-Shapiro
Becoming Transnational Citizens: The Liberian Diaspora's Civic Engagement in the United States and in Homeland Peacebuilding, Janet Elizabeth Reilly
Analysis And Performance Suggestions For Witold Lutoslawski's Grave: Metamorphoses For Cello And Piano, Marta Reilly
Magnetic Janus Particles and Their Applications, Bin Ren
Hot And Bothered: The Role Of Arousal And Rejection Sensitivity In Dual Process Sexual Decision Making For Gay And Bisexual Men, H Jonathon Rendina
Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton, Edward Rice
Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages, Justin Richards
Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel, Joseph J.B. Rienti
All At One Point: The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Thomas Rinaldi
How Much Value is Added by Value Added Models? An Analysis of Teachers’ Performance Over Time Using New York State Assessment Data, Mariana Ristea
The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop's Music, 1975-1991, Patrick Rivers
Civilization of the Living Dead: Canonical Monstrosity, the Romero Zombie, and the Political Subject, Nicholas Walter Robbins
The Influence of Advanced Cognitive Ability on the Development of Psychological Defenses and in Understanding and Managing Affect: A Study of Latency-aged Gifted Students, Kahlila Ife Robinson
Maniera Devota/mano Donnesca: Women, Virtue And Visual Imagery During The Counter-Reformation In The Papal States, 1575-1675, Patricia Rocco
Divine Omnipotence In Descartes' Philosophy, Alfredo Rodriguez
Assessing Young Males' Perspectives On The Cultural Competency Of Juvenile Justice Staff And Predicting Psychosocial Functioning, Crystal Catherine Rodriguez
Provisional Fictions: Discontinuous Selves and the Making of Meaning, Tara Roeder
Selva simbólica selva simbiótica apuntes para una ecocritica latinoamericana, Liza Pamela Rosas-Bustos
Neurophysiological bases of frequency discrimination in children with Auditory Processing Disorder or Specific Language Impairment, Christine Rota-Donahue
Variable Pressure Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ionic Liquids and Electrophoretic Probe Design, Armando Julio Rua
Kafka's German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity, Abraham Ariel Rubin
Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic", Dianne Rubinstein
The Degree of Certainty System in Written Spanish in Mexico, Jaseleen Ruggles
Neuroimmune Crosstalk: A Role for Neuropeptide Y in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Henry H. Ruiz
Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan
Essays On Savings Behavior Of Low-Income Households In Colombia, Luz M. Salas
Lipid dependence in Ras-driven tumors, Darin Salloum
Law Without Recognition: The Lack of Judicial Discretion to Consider Individual Lives and Legal Equities in United States Immigration Law, John Clark Salyer
Existence: An Unholy Trinity. An account of Indeterminate Existence, Salas Sanchez-Bennasar
The "Feminized" City: New York and Suffrage, 1870–1917, Lauren C. Santangelo
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics from slow pools of soil organic matter in a temperate forest: pyrogenic organic matter and and root litter, Fernanda Dos Santos
Metabolic Checkpoints in Cancer Cell Cycle, Mahesh Saqcena
Nikolai Medtner's First Piano Concerto: A Metrotectonic Analysis, Aleksandra Sarest
Gauge/ Gravity Correspondence, Bulk Locality and Quantum Black Holes, Debajyoti Sarkar
Sentiment and Geopolitics in the formulation and realization of the Balfour Declaration, Janko Scepanovic
TV Audience Fragmentation: Measurement, Causes, And Economic Consequences, Jaroslaw Marek Schellner
Quantitative Evaluation of Microglial Activation and Vascularization in Suicide, Tatiana Pavlovna Schnieder
God and Gratuitous Evil, Michael Schrynemakers
'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence, David Sclar
Religion Is Not The Answer: How to Turn Restlessness Into Meaningful Change - The Egyptian Conundrum, Alain C. Seckler
The Legal System and Memory for Analogue Traumatic Experiences, Daisy A. Segovia
Backward C inside a Circle: Free Culture in Zines, Alycia Sellie
Media and Message in Modern Political Thought: From the Age of Print to the Age of Digital Reproduction, Asaf Shamis
Constitutively Embodied Emotions, Daniel Shargel
Intelligent Nano/Microgels for Cell Scaffold and Drug Delivery System, Jing Shen
Precarious Wife: Narratives of Marital Instability in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Emily G. Sherwood
The Radical Possibilities of Being Human: Exploring the Risk, Violence, and Rewards of Knowing and Being Known (A Survival Guide for Liminal Feminists), Parvoneh Shirgir
Inventing Burke: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party, 1790-1918, Hannah Z. Sidney
October in Galicia, Karen J. Siegel
Timbral Transformations in Kaija Saariaho's From the Grammar of Dreams, Karen J. Siegel
Disseminating Devotion: The Image and Cult of the Black Christ in Colonial Mexico and Central America, Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
The Reproductive Body: Exploring Reproduction Beyond Gender, Ilyssa Ann Silfen
New York Fashion Industry Goes To The Fair, Luisina Silva
Intra- and intergenerational effects of migration and the role of the psychosocial environment in the development of perinatal depression, Hannah R. Simons