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
The Knowing Body: Participatory Artistic-Embodied Methodologies for Re-Imagining Adolescence, Madeline Fox
Moral Motivation and the Authority of Morality: A Defense of Naturalist Moral Realism, Lily Eva Frank
Principals' Perceptions of Teacher Ineffectiveness in Elementary Classrooms and How They Relate to Specific Content Areas, Steven Franklin
The intern economy: Laboring to learn in the music industry, Alexandre Frenette
Cisgenderism in Gender Attributions: The Ways in Which Social, Cognitive, and Individual Factors Predict Misgendering, Erica Jayne Friedman
Discovering Regularity in Point Clouds of Urban Scenes, Sam Friedman
I Hope I Don't See You Tomorrow: A Phenomenological Ethnography Of The Passages Academy School Program, Lee Adam Gabay
Upon the Plains of the Soul .'. The Liberating Logos of Joao Guimaraes Rosa in "Grande Sertao: veredas", Jizelda Galvao
Yes we can: A dyadic investigation of cognitive interdependence, relationship communication, and optimal behavioral health outcomes among HIV serodiscordant same-sex male couples, Kristine Elizabeth Gamarel
The Effect of tDCS on CD-1 Mouse Behavior Post Induced Sensorimotor Cortex Injury, Michelle Gardella, Natalia Gozias, Kristina Laktionova, and Tricia Roehrig
Conceptual Roles and Conceptual Explanation: How Internalism Can Provide Everything We Need From A Theory of Concepts, and Why Externalism Can't, Cressida Gaukroger
Leaders, Ideas, National Interests, And Economic Strategies: Explaining The Regional Integration Decisions Of Mexico And Brazil, Roberto Genoves
Agreeable Despair: Modernism and Melancholy, Derrick James Gentry
Canvas: A fast and accurate geometric sentence alignment system using lexical cues within complex misalignment settings, Hussein M. Ghaly
The Lived Experience of Young Adult Burn Survivors' Use of Social Media, Marie S. Giordano
The New Star of 1572 and the Ascendancy of the Mathematical over the Causal Epistemology of Natural Philosophy, Douglas William Godley
Our Day Has Finally Come: Domestic Worker Organizing in New York City, Harmony Goldberg
Planetary Improvement: Discourses and Practices of Green Capitalism in the Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein
The Double-Edged Sword: Smallpox Vaccination And The Politics Of Public Health In Cuba, Stephanie Haydee Gonzalez
Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism, Keisha La'Nesha Goode
Fiscal Decentralization: Does The Source Of Revenue Matter?, Pallavi Jain Govil
Queen of the Underworld: The Biography of Sophie Lyons (1848-1924), Barbara M. Gray
Mapping Forest Canopy Structure with On-Demand Fusion of Remotely Sensed Data, Gordon M. Green
Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Esoteric Practitioners in New York City, Karen Gregory
El bilinguismo Espanol-Ingles y la nueva politica educativa en Espana: Analisis ideologico-linguistico, Victor M. Meirino Guede
Internalizing Disorders in Early Childhood: Professional Development Framework for Teachers, Danielle Guttman
Homeostasis-Driven Responses to Consumer Sensations, Rhonda Hadi
"The Last Of The Great Bohemians": Film Poetry, Myth, And Sexuality In Greenwich Village And The Atlantic, 1930-1975, Thomas Winfield Hafer
Different Placements of Spirit: African American Musicians Historicizing in Sound, Casey Hale
Todesfuge, Casey Hale
Paleoecology of Late Cretaceous methane cold-seeps of the Pierre Shale, South Dakota, Kimberly Cynthia Handle
Senecan Tragedy and Virgil's Aeneid: Repetition and Reversal, Timothy Hanford
A Gift We Can't Keep Giving: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Consequence of Educators' Unpaid Labor, Jared Martin Hanneman
Saudi Aramco and the Politics of Cultural Heritage, Anahid Hanounik Huth
Speech Act Theoretic Semantics, Daniel W. Harris
Early Ballet in the United States: The Importance of Florence Rogge, Choreographer, E. Laura Hausmann
The Process of Separation for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Evaluating Risk of Indirect and Physical Abuse Relating to Interpersonal Events, Brittany E. Hayes
Performing Modernity in Turkey: Conflicts of Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Köçek Dancer, Brittany Giselle Haynes
Using otoacoustic emissions to evaluate efferent auditory function in humans, Simon Henin
Run for Health: Health(icization), Supplements, and Doping in Non-Elite Road Running, April D. Henning
"La Feminista Nuyorquina" Contextualizing Latina Experience in the Space of Radical U.S. History: Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Presence in New York City, Maribi Henriquez
From Berlin to Broadacres: Central European Influence on American Visionary Urbanism, 1910-1935, Margaret Herman
"My People is a People on its Knees": Mexican Labor Migration from the Montana Region and the Formation of a Working Class in New York City, Rodolfo Hernandez-Corchado
Translator, traitor: A critical ethnography of a U.S. terrorism trial, Maya Hess
Fabrication and Assembly of Patchy Particles with Uniform Patches, Zhenping He
An Approach To Understanding Through Practice: Contextual Analysis Of A High School--College Latina/o And Latin American Studies Collaborative Program, Gabriel Antonio Higuera
The Kids Are All Right Online: Teen Girls' Experiences With Self-Presentation, Impression Management & Aggression On Facebook, Alison Michelle Hill
Development and Applications of Mass Spectrometric Methods for Phosphorylation Analysis, Hsin-Pin Ho
Factlessness & Faultlessness: Individual Differences & Dimensions of Philosophical Dispute, Geoffrey Scott Holtzman
Musical Rhetoric, Narrative, Drama, and Their Negation in Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Ryan Michael Howard
Planar Waveguide Structures for Post-EDFA Broadband Near Infrared Optical Amplifiers, Islam Hoxha
Place Connections: A Study of the Dynamics and Planning Process of Remigration in Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Lystra Huggins
Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539, Ellen A. Hurst
An Innovative RAN Architecture for Emerging Heterogeneous Networks: "The Road to the 5G Era", Shahab Hussain
Martingales for Uniformly Quasisymmetric Circle Endomorphisms, Yunchun Hu
Finance and Empire: 'Gentlemanly Capitalism' in Britain's Occupation of Egypt, Jared Paul Iacolucci
I Didn't Consent to That: Secondary Analysis of Discrimination Against BDSM Identified Individuals, Larry Iannotti
Reorienting American Liberal Judaism for the Twentieth Century: Stephen S. Wise and the Early Years of the Jewish Institute of Religion, Shirley Idelson
Research Components in Curriculum of Doctor of Physical Therapy Programs, Stephen Ingrassia, Gary Mulligan, Roman Tverdovskiy, and Andy Zhu
El oficio de la escritura y la estetica en la obra de Roberto Bolano, Ainoa Inigo
The Kalophonic Settings Of The Second Psalm In The Byzantine Chant Tradition Of The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries, Arsinoi Ioannidou
Roma in Lima: Italian Renaissance Influence in Colonial Peruvian Painting, Christa Irwin
Pittsburgh's Response to Deindustrialization: Renaissance, Renewal and Recovery, 1946-1999, Mariel P. Isaacson
Optical Properties of Solar Cells Based on Zinc(hydr)oxide and its Composite with Graphite oxide Sensitized by Quantum Dots, S. M. Zakirul Islam
Transport And Optical Properties Of Low-Dimensional Complex Systems, Andrii Iurov
The Influence of an Appetitive Conditioned Stimulus on Interval Timing Behavior, Joseph Daniel Jacobs
Assembling Autism, Kate Suzanne Jenkins
The Asymptotic Dirichlet Problems on manifolds with unbounded negative curvature, Ran Ji
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