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
Suburban Heat Islands: The Influence Of Residential Minimum Lot Size Zoning On Surface Heat Islands In Somerset County, New Jersey, Jennifer Renee Cox
The Sound Patterns Of Camuno: Description And Explanation In Evolutionary Phonology, Michela Cresci
The Role of Water in the Rise, Prominence, and Decline of Nabataean Petra, Dennis Cummins
(Remember) The Future: The Preemptive Governance of Memory in the Age of Mass Catastrophe, Kimberly J. Cunningham
The Lived Experiences of Nurses Caring for Dying Pediatric Patients, Danna Leigh Curcio
The Effect Of Morphological Awareness On Reading Comprehension: A Study With Adolescent Spanish-English Emergent Bilinguals, Rebecca Curinga
Integration or Interrogation? Franco-Maghrebi Rap and Hip-Hop Culture in Marseille, Jenna Catherine Daley
Characterization of Somatosensory Processing in Relation to Schizotypal Traits in a Sample of Nonclinical Young Adults, Maureen Patricia Daly
Development of Cell-Active Inhibitors and Activity-Based Probe of Cysteine Cathepsins, Dibyendu Dana
Recruitment of the ribosomal 40S subunit to the 3'untranslated region of a viral mRNA, via the eIF4 complex, facilitates cap-independent translation, Sohani Das Sharma
Acting Wide Awake: Attention and the Ethics of Emotion, Jacob Davis
Science Identity Transformations Through Place-Based Teaching And Learning In The Natural World, Amy DeFelice
Influences of Motor Control Instruction and Taping on Center of Pressure and Scapulothoracic Kinematics During Reaching for Individuals with Hemiparesis, Michelle De Guzman, Tatyana Farber, Anna Kochanova, and Jonathan Lazarus
Wordsworth, Ruins, and the Dialectics of Melancholia, Colin Dekeersgieter
Striving for Integration: Referential Activity and Object Relational Level in a Sample of Bisexual Women, Lauren DeMille
Comparative Phylogeography, Phylogenetics, and Population Genomics of East African Montane Small Mammals, Terrence Constant Demos
Battles with Words: Literate and Linguistic Resistance in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature and Everyday Life, Melissa A. Dennihy
Mechanism of Phospho-alpha-Tubulin-driven Motility in Human Breast Epithelial Cells, Shatarupa De
Can All Religions Live In Peace?, Antony Das S. Devadhasan
Mechanisms of regulation of mRNA 3' processing by p53 pathway, Emral Cakmak Devany
A Study of Twenty Two Caliber Long Rifle and Nine Millimeter Parabellum Bullet Ricochet from Common Substrates, Peter Diaczuk
Mapping Italian Women's Filmmaking: Urban Space In The Cinema Of The New Millennium, Laura Di Bianco
Comparison of an Intermittent vs. Continuous Walking Program in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis Using the 6 Minute Walk Test: A Randomized Crossover Pilot Study, Stefanie DiCarrado, Bridget Dungan, Elizabeth Huallpa, and Jacob Potrzeba
Enhancing Self-monitoring and Self-reflection through a Self-regulatory Skills Intervention Embedded in a Middle School Mathematics Curriculum, Gregory DiGiacomo
The Interplay Of Syntactic Parsing Strategies And Prosodic Phrase Lengths In Processing Turkish Sentences, Nazik Dinctopal-Deniz
Polymerase alpha components associate with telomeres to mediate overhang processing, Raffaella Diotti
Archives Of Transnational Modernism: Lost Networks Of Art And Activism, Anne Donlon
When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern, Elaine B. Douglas-Harrison
Environmental Progress Under China's New Leadership, Arielle Dumornay
Depressives and the Scenes of Queer Writing, Allen Durgin
Optical Spectroscopy of Xenon-Related Defects in Diamond, Yury Dziashko
When Less Can Be More: Dual Task Effects in Stuttering and Fluent Adults, Naomi Nechama Eichorn
The Effects of Morning Versus Evening Stretching Exercises in Hamstrings Flexibility Gains, Camron Einerman, Emily Eleff, Ana Ilijeska, and Aliza Zinberg
The Status of Neonatal Hearing Screening in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review, David Engelman
Mental Representations, Social Exclusion, And Neurobiological Processes In Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multi-Level Study, Jeffrey K. Erbe
Feisty Kids on the Conservative Block: How Business Mobilized against Organized Labor in the Seventies, Ryan Eustace
Gentle Introduction Resource, James Anderson Laird Evans
2D & 3D Nanomaterial Fabrication With Biological Molecular Frameworks, Kristina Ivana Fabijanic
Does End Of Life Terminology Influence Decisional Conflict In Surrogate Decision Makers?, Dawn Fairlie
Ulu Al Amr & Authority: The Central Pillars of Sunni Political Thought, Hisseine Faradj
Automated Classification of Argument Stance in Student Essays: A Linguistically Motivated Approach with an Application for Supporting Argument Summarization, Adam Robert Faulkner
Inter-Religious Relationships and Anxiety in the Regulation of Automatic Inter-Religious Prejudice, Karla J. Felix
Dynamic Asset Allocation: A Bayesian Approach, Yalan Feng
"Women Have the Right to Fight!": The Contested Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism and Anti-Rape Politics in the Trials of Inez Garcia, 1974-1977, Megan Elizabeth Feulner
Multimodal Emotion Perception in Borderline Personality Disorder, Virginia Fineran
The Evolution of and Starburst-AGN Connection in Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and their Link to Globular Cluster Formation, Stephanie L. Fiorenza
Role of the Polyadenylation Factor CstF-50 in regulating the BRCA1/BARD1 E3 Ubiquitin (Ub) Ligase Activity, Danae Fonseca
LGBTQ Experiences with the Courts: The Role of Gender Nonconformity and Assertiveness, Alexis Forbes
Phylogenetic Trees and Their Analysis, Eric Ford
Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars, Jean Ashley Foster
HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements, Toni Ashlie Foster
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