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
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
Essays on Non-GAAP Earnings Disclosure, Hangsoo Kyung
Conflict and Playmaking: The impact of a recess enhancement program on elementary school playgrounds in New York City, Elizabeth Lake
Exploring platform (semi)groups for non-commutative key-exchange protocols, Ha Lam
A meta-analysis of the prediction of violence among adults with mental disorders, Hing Po Lam
Combinatorial Properties of Polyiamonds, Christopher Larson
If You See Something, Say Something: A Look at Experimental Writing on Art, Charlotte Lucy Latham
Attitudes of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Students Towards Noise in Youth Culture, Lillian Law
Attitudes of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Students Towards Noise in Youth Culture, Lillian Law
The Influence of Naive and Media-Informed Beliefs on Juror Evaluations of Forensic Science Evidence, Victoria Zoe Lawson
Occupy Wall Street's Challenge to an American Public Transcript, Christopher Neville Leary
Counterfeiting: A Challenge to Forensic Science, the Criminal Justice System, and Its Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation, Pauline Elizabeth Leary
Hydrodynamic and Mass Transport Properties of Microfluidic Geometries, Thomas F. Leary
Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary, Fiona Hsiao Yen Lee
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, Jang Wook Lee
The Relative Impact of Identity on LGBT API Outness: A Quantitative Analysis, Jessica Lee
Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon
Secrets of a Toy-box: A Study of Claude Debussy's La Boîte à joujoux, Mirna Lekic
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, David Alan Lempert
CITED2-Mediated Mechanotransduction and its use for Chondroprotection, Daniel J. Leong
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach to the Mega-Novel, David J. Letzler
Teaching in the Shadow of Sekou: Reflective Practice, Culturally Relevant and Student-Centered Pedagogy and the Research to Performance Method, Brian Gregory Lewis
Analysis Of DNA Motifs In The Human Genome, Yupu Liang
How to ask questions in Mandarin Chinese, Woan-Jen Liing
The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States, Laura Limonic
The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma, Ruth Lipman
The Role of the Striatal Neuropeptide Neurotensin in the Methamphetamine-induced Neural Injury in Mice, Qingkun Liu
Spontaneous Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Two Dimensional Electronic Systems, Wei Liu
Synthesis, Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic and Dielectric Nanoparticles and Nanocomposite Films, Xiaohua Liu
Control of Exciton Photon Coupling in Nano-structures, Xiaoze Liu
Development of Mesoporous Silicas, Responsive Polymer Microgels, and Related Nanocomposites, Yingyu Li
Rotational Form And Sonata-Type Hybridity In The First Movement Of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Charity Lofthouse
