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 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
Phylogeny and Population Genetics of the Endangered Dwarf Bear-poppy, Arctomecon humilis Coville (Papaveraceae) Using Microsatellite Markers, Joshua Simpson
Special Representations, Nathanson's Lambda Sequences and Explicit Bounds, Satyanand Singh
Dynamics and Divisions at the Salons of The Rose-Croix: Statistics, Aesthetic Theories, Practices, and Subjects, Mary Slavkin
Verbal Behavior In Individuals With Generalized Anxiety Disorder And Depressive Disorders, Tzachi Slonim
A Derivation of the Tonal Hierarchy from Basic Perceptual Processes, David Smey
Existing But Not Living: Neo-Civil Death And The Carceral State, CalvinJohn Nagel Smiley
Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism: The Historical and Political Thought of Hans Kohn in America, Brian Matthew Smollett
How Silently Sheela-Na-Gig Speaks: Memory, Mythos, and the Female Body, Amber C. Snider
The Moral Philosophy of William Wollaston, Yael Sofaer
Ecological Niches, Species Distributions, And Biogeographic Processes In Rodents On Neotropical Sky Islands, Mariano Soley
Some complexities in English article use and acquisition, Victoria Somogyi
"She said plain, burned things": A Feminist Poetics of the Unsayable in Twentieth Century Literary & Visual Culture, Leah Souffrant
The Arena and Stadium Experience: The Individual, the Venue and the Culture Industry, Anthony Paul Sparacino
We Work, We Eat Together: Anti-authoritarian Mutual Aid Politics in New York City, 2004-2013, David Spataro
Social Context and Perceived Belonging: A Comparative Study of Children of Immigrants in New York and Madrid, Jessica Sperling Smokoski
The Advance of the Mobile Woman: Representations of British Women's Physical Mobility, 1660-1820, Amanda Booth Springs
Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity, Alyson Kay Spurgas
What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014, Amy Starecheski
Facial Affect Recognition and Social Functioning in Individuals at Risk for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Marta Ewa Statucka
Water Conservation to Reduce Wet Weather Pollution Loads to the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY, Suzanne Carol Stempel
"For the Voices": The Letters of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart
The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice, Jennifer Stock
Motivic integration over nilpotent structures, Andrew Ryan Stout
Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York, Jennifer Hope Sugg
Stable Commutator Length in Amalgamated Free Products, Timothy Susse
Common Knowledge: The Epistemology of American Realism, Mark Sussman
Control of Light-Matter Interaction via Dispersion Engineering, Harish Natarajan Swaha Krishnamoorthy
Committing to the Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments, Karinne Keithley Syers
Adolescents' and young adults' moral thinking in typical everyday-life moral dilemmas, Yoko Takagi
Essays On Robust Estimators For Non-Identically Distributed Observations In Spatial Econometric And Time Series Models, Suleyman Taspinar
Emotional Expression and Perception in Three Ethnic Groups: Is There an In-group Advantage?, Ella Björt Teague
(de)VOICED: Human Rights Now. (An Environmental Community-Based Participatory Action Research Project), Lauren J. Tenney
The Congo as a Case Study: The Making of Unipolarity, Justin Tepper
Lean, Green, and Lifetime Maximizing Sensor Deployment on a Barrier, Peter Michael Terlecky
Redefining Diaspora Consciousness: Musical Practices Of Moroccan Jews In Brooklyn, Samuel Reuben Thomas
Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus, Ashley Caroline Thorne
Millennial Libertarians: The Rebirth of a Movement and the Transformation of U.S. Political Culture, Kaja Tretjak
Automated Learner Classification Through Interface Event Stream And Summary Statistics Analysis, Edgar E. Troudt
The Possibility For Peaceful, Global, Participatory Governance: A Political Evolution Enabled by the Internet and Manifested by Crowds, Frederick Thomas Tucker
Xenakis in America, Charles Wolcott Turner
Space & Distance As I Require: The Journals and Prose Fragments of Philip Whalen 1950-1966, Brian Unger
Blogging Through Motherhood: Free Labor, Femininity, and the (Re)Production of Maternity, Kara Mary Van Cleaf
Variation In Habitat Thresholds: An Analysis Of Minimum Habitat Requirements Of North American Breeding Birds, Yntze van der Hoek
Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood, Ian Henry VanderMeulen
The Silent Guerrillas: Under Slavery, In Peasant Politics, And Throughout The Industrial And Social Factories, Kevin Van Meter
Gay and Lesbian Travel Writing: A Present In Need of a Different Future, Michael Verdirame
Exploring the role of perceived religiosity on daily life, coping, and parenting for Jewish parents of children with autism, Frances Rebecca Victory
Cadê o mico? Where is the tamarin?: Locating monkeys in the politics of land and conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Analía Villagra
The relationship of adaptive and pathological narcissism to attachment style and reflective functioning, Petra Vospernik
The Effect Of Malintent On Visual Attention, David Brian Wallace
Quantum Crystallography of Hydronium Cations, Sonjae Sycoria Wallace
An experimental investigation into the mechanisms of bacterial evolution, Zhenmao Wan
On the Same Page: The Strong Teacher Professional Community at the Heart of a Good New York City Public Middle School, Nathan Warner
Cognitive and Emotional Abnormalities in People with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Philip Watson
Systematic Comparison Of Cross-Lingual Projection Techniques For Low-Density Nlp Under Strict Resource Constraints, Joshua Waxman
Clue, Code, Conjure: The Epistemology of American Detective Fiction, 1841-1914, Jennifer Weiss
Comparing Hitler and Stalin: Certain Cultural Considerations, Phillip W. Weiss
Standard Deviations: Reality, Reproducibility, and Politics in Performance Art since 1989, Jonah Westerman
A Feminist Inheritance? Questions of Subjectivity and Ambivalence in Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Robert Gober, Marisa White-Hartman
Computational analyses of the components of Sinorhizobium meliloti ExoR-ExoS/ChvI pathway: the ExoR and ExoS proteins, Eliza M. Wiech
Ralph Shapey and the Search for a New Concept of Musical Continuity, 1939-66, Barry Wiener
On Becoming a Teacher (or Not): Students of Color's Perceptions of Teachers' Work, Consideration of Teaching as a Career, and Implications for Diversifying the Teaching Force, Amanda Lee Winkelsas
Affective Language and Attitudes Toward Public Policy, Rachel A. Wolitzky
At the Threshold: Edgard Varese, Modernism, and the Experience of Modernity, Robert Jackson Wood
Venomic Characterization of the Terebridae and Novel Terebrid Neuropeptides, Mary Elizabeth Wright
Identification and characterization of protein phopshatases regulating the Sma/Mab pathway in C. elegans, Sheng Xiong
Numerical Study of Canopy Flows in Complex Terrain, Xiyan Xu
Fabrication and Characterization of Sol-Gel Based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery, Reeta Yadav
Guatemalan Spanish As Act Of Identity: An Analysis Of Language And Minor Literature Within Modern Maya Literary Production, Kenneth Yanes
Clothing and Social Movements: The Politics of Dressing in Colonized Tibet, Dicky Yangzom
Text Extraction From Natural Scene: Methodology And Application, Chucai Yi
Adding Students' Voices to the Discourse on Effective Teaching, Jennie H. Yi
Psychic Collapse and Traumatic Defense: How the Mind Mediates Trauma Living in the Body, Patricia Kim Yoon
Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany, Ilgin Yorukoglu
Self-referentiality in Constructive Semantics of Intuitionistic and Modal Logics, Junhua Yu
On the Merits of Deploying TDM-based Next-Generation PON Solutions in the Access Arena As Multiservice, All Packet-Based 4G Mobile Backhaul RAN Architecture, Syed Rashid N. Zaidi
Reconstructing the Nation: African American Political Thought and America's Struggle for Racial Justice, Alex Zamalin
Wild NYC: Building Biodiversity in Fresh Kills and City Parks, Melissa Zavala
Mechanisms Of Deadenylation Regulation Under Different Cellular Conditions, Xiaokan Zhang
Identification and Characterization of Protein Kinase C Substrates in Human Breast Cells, Xin Zhao
The Effect of Population History on Hominoid Intraspecific Cranial Shape Diversity: Combining Population Genetic and 3D Geometric Morphometric Data, Julia Marie Zichello