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.

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Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2014

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The Meaning, Experience, and Value of 'Common Space' for Women and Children in Urban Poor Settlements in India, Anupama Reddy Nallari

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Not By Accident: How Egyptian Civil Society Successfully Launched A Revolution, Helen-Margaret Nasser

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The Presentation of Trans in Everyday Life: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Gendered Performance, Elijah C. Nealy

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Conditional Discriminative Functions of Meaningful Stimuli and Enhanced Equivalence Class Formation, Roxana I. Nedelcu

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Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama, Linda K. Neiberg

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The Characterization Of Pb2+ Toxicity In Rat Neural Development: An Assessment Of Pb2+ Effects On The Gaba Shift In Neural Networks And Implications For Learning And Memory Disruption, Lorenz Simon Neuwirth

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The Politics of Transportation Megaprojects, Patrizia Christa Nobbe

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A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Rock Music, Drew F. Nobile

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies on Lithium and Sodium Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries, Tetiana Nosach

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Foraging Ecology of Shorebirds at a Stopover Site: Niche Dynamics, Aggression and Resource Use in Delaware Bay, Ivana Novcic

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Intracellular Mechanisms Associated with Cocaine Induced Conditioned Place Preference, Stephanie K. Nygard

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On the role of neuronal oscillations in auditory cortical processing, Monica Noelle O'Connell

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Strategies for Discriminating and Comparing Unknown Unitary Transformations, Guy F. Okoko

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Colloidal Quantum Dot Based Photonic Circuits and Devices, Nicky E. Okoye

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Component Trees For The Exploration Of Macromolecular Structures In Biology, Lucas Oliveira

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Coming Of Age During The Sixties: A Narration Of Lives Through Music And Battle, Jennifer L. Oliveri

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Teachers at Work: Factors Influencing Satisfaction, Retention and the Professional Well-Being of Elementary and Secondary Educators, Patrick Edward O'Reilly

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Changing attention to emotion: A biobehavioral study of attention bias modification using event-related potentials, Laura O'Toole

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Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans, Allison Padilla-Goodman

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The development and function of the nasopharynx and its role in the evolution of primate respiratory abilities, Anthony Santino Pagano

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The "Social Factory" In Postwar Italian Radical Thought From Operaismo To Autonomia, David P. Palazzo

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Flapper Fashion In the Context of Cultural Changes of America in the 1920s, Soo Hyun Park

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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne, Lucie Carmel Paul

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The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Abstinence and Relapse Using an Animal Conflict Model, Joshua Alan Peck

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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence, Laila Pedro

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The Sex of the Cell Dictates its Response, Carlos Ganesh Penaloza

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Roles of Igh Intronic Enhancer Eμ in Clonal Selection at the Pre-B to Immature B Cell Transition and in the Elimination of Autoreactive B Cells, Cheng Peng

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Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on Prevention and Amelioration of Cisplatin-induced Ototoxicity: A Systematic Literature Review, Maryana Peravozchykava

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A Systematic Revision of North American Tolypella A. Braun (Charophyceae, Charophyta), William Perez

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Risk assessment of sexually abusive clergy: Utility of sex offender risk instruments with a unique offender subgroup, Anthony Perillo

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An Examination of Western Representation of the Muslim Brotherhood Through Various Media Outlets, Popular Literature and How has Recent History and Outside Influences Affected the Viewpoint Presented to the Public?, Lynn Andrew Perkins

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Development of a model of participation of community-based, discretionary activities by people who use wheelchairs, Anita Perr

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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

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Initial conditions in high-energy collisions, Elena Petreska

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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition, Natalya Petroff

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The Salience and Perceptual Weight of Secondary Acoustic Cues for Fricative Identification in Normal Hearing Adults, Derek Petti

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Moral Inscriptions: Politics and the Rhetoric of Responsibility, Steven Pludwin

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Rendering the Unthinkable: (Un)knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, and Heterosexualized Trauma in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish

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The Over-Education of the Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education and the Black Intellectual, Archie Lavelle Porter

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Melodic Function and Modal Process in Gregorian Chant, Richard Porterfield

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"Fits of Vulgar Joy": Play Anxiety in the Romantic Poets, Alison Powell

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Promoting Wellness Through Mindfulness-Based Activities, Malgorzata Powietrzynska

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Engaging Bad Governments: Resource Groups and Patterns of Engagement in Bangladesh, Nayma Qayum

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Comparative Modeling and Functional Characterization of Two Enzymes of the Cyclooxygenase Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster, Yan Qi

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La obra poetica de Jose de Jesus Dominguez estudio preliminar, texto y notas, Eric Samuel Quinones

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Women's experiences of privacy, publicness and place in mediated space, Nelida Quintero

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Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Private Development and State Building in the Contemporary West Bank, Kareem Rabie

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Metal Nanoparticles Immobilized on Basic Supports as Catalysts for Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation Reactions of Relevance to Cleaner Fossil Fuels and Alternative Sources of Energy, Reena Rahi

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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture, Paul Andrija Ranogajec

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The Second Generation's Homeland Trips: A Parental Expectation for the U.S.-Born Children of Mexican Immigrants in the South Bronx, Alexia Raynal

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"A New Way of Doing Politics": The Movement against CAFTA in Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner

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The Historic Inability of the Haitian Education System to Create Human Development and its Consequences, Patrick Michael Rea

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Systematics and evolution of Leandra s.str. (Melastomataceae, Miconieae), Marcelo Reginato

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Developing a Culture of Citizenship in Elementary School Classrooms: How Democratic Schools Teach Children About Rules, Rights and Responsibilities, Mindi Reich-Shapiro

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Becoming Transnational Citizens: The Liberian Diaspora's Civic Engagement in the United States and in Homeland Peacebuilding, Janet Elizabeth Reilly

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Analysis And Performance Suggestions For Witold Lutoslawski's Grave: Metamorphoses For Cello And Piano, Marta Reilly

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Implicit Bias about Disabilities: Does it Exist for Forensic Interviewers and Could It Affect Child Credibility Decisions in Child Abuse Investigations: An Exploratory Study, Elizabeth Reiman

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Magnetic Janus Particles and Their Applications, Bin Ren

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Hot And Bothered: The Role Of Arousal And Rejection Sensitivity In Dual Process Sexual Decision Making For Gay And Bisexual Men, H Jonathon Rendina

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Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton, Edward Rice

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Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages, Justin Richards

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Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel, Joseph J.B. Rienti

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All At One Point: The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Thomas Rinaldi

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How Much Value is Added by Value Added Models? An Analysis of Teachers’ Performance Over Time Using New York State Assessment Data, Mariana Ristea

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The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop's Music, 1975-1991, Patrick Rivers

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Civilization of the Living Dead: Canonical Monstrosity, the Romero Zombie, and the Political Subject, Nicholas Walter Robbins

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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

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Maniera Devota/mano Donnesca: Women, Virtue And Visual Imagery During The Counter-Reformation In The Papal States, 1575-1675, Patricia Rocco

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Divine Omnipotence In Descartes' Philosophy, Alfredo Rodriguez

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Assessing Young Males' Perspectives On The Cultural Competency Of Juvenile Justice Staff And Predicting Psychosocial Functioning, Crystal Catherine Rodriguez

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Provisional Fictions: Discontinuous Selves and the Making of Meaning, Tara Roeder

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Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: The Effects of Conspicuous Compassion on Identity Signaling and Charitable Behavior, Zoe Rogers

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Selva simbólica selva simbiótica apuntes para una ecocritica latinoamericana, Liza Pamela Rosas-Bustos

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Neurophysiological bases of frequency discrimination in children with Auditory Processing Disorder or Specific Language Impairment, Christine Rota-Donahue

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Variable Pressure Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ionic Liquids and Electrophoretic Probe Design, Armando Julio Rua

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Kafka's German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity, Abraham Ariel Rubin

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Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic", Dianne Rubinstein

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The Degree of Certainty System in Written Spanish in Mexico, Jaseleen Ruggles

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Neuroimmune Crosstalk: A Role for Neuropeptide Y in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Henry H. Ruiz

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Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan

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Essays On Savings Behavior Of Low-Income Households In Colombia, Luz M. Salas

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Lipid dependence in Ras-driven tumors, Darin Salloum

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Law Without Recognition: The Lack of Judicial Discretion to Consider Individual Lives and Legal Equities in United States Immigration Law, John Clark Salyer

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Existence: An Unholy Trinity. An account of Indeterminate Existence, Salas Sanchez-Bennasar

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The "Feminized" City: New York and Suffrage, 1870–1917, Lauren C. Santangelo

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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

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Metabolic Checkpoints in Cancer Cell Cycle, Mahesh Saqcena

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Nikolai Medtner's First Piano Concerto: A Metrotectonic Analysis, Aleksandra Sarest

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Gauge/ Gravity Correspondence, Bulk Locality and Quantum Black Holes, Debajyoti Sarkar

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Sentiment and Geopolitics in the formulation and realization of the Balfour Declaration, Janko Scepanovic

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TV Audience Fragmentation: Measurement, Causes, And Economic Consequences, Jaroslaw Marek Schellner

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Quantitative Evaluation of Microglial Activation and Vascularization in Suicide, Tatiana Pavlovna Schnieder

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God and Gratuitous Evil, Michael Schrynemakers

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'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence, David Sclar

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Religion Is Not The Answer: How to Turn Restlessness Into Meaningful Change - The Egyptian Conundrum, Alain C. Seckler

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The Legal System and Memory for Analogue Traumatic Experiences, Daisy A. Segovia

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Backward C inside a Circle: Free Culture in Zines, Alycia Sellie

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Media and Message in Modern Political Thought: From the Age of Print to the Age of Digital Reproduction, Asaf Shamis

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Constitutively Embodied Emotions, Daniel Shargel

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Intelligent Nano/Microgels for Cell Scaffold and Drug Delivery System, Jing Shen