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 2009
"Reconnecting to Resilience" A Historical Study of Slave Narratives with Implications for Social Work Practice with African American Youth from High Risk Environments, Barbara E. Milton II
Essays on the Impacts of the Great Moderation on Business Cycle Modeling, Andre R. Neveu
Computer-Aided Reasoning about Knowledge and Justifications, Natalia Novak
Youth in Out-of-Home Care: The Question of Psychological Agency, Lauren M. Polvere
Divided Men: The Masculinity/Marriage Dilemma in the Novels of George Eliot, Danny Sexton
Music for the (American) People: The Concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, 1922–1964, Jonathan Stern
Are Sisters Doing It (All) for Themselves? Elderly Black Women and Healthcare Decision Making, Carlene Buchanan Turner
The Outsourcing of National Defense, Christopher Weimar
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2008
Involvement of Inflammation in Tau Pathology and Mechanisms That Drive Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease, Lisette T. Arnaud
Essays on Dynamics of Financial Markets, Esin Cakan
Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant, Benjamin Enoma
Predicting Within-Source Agreement in Multisource Feedback Ratings: An Examination of Characteristics of the Rater Group and the Focal Manager, Christine Schrader Fernandez
L1 Acquisition of Japanese Particles: A Corpus-Based Study, Mari Fujimoto
Markers of Dyslexia in Adult Spanish-Speakers Who Report Severe Difficulty Learning English, Elizabeth Ijalba
Rigidity and Stability for Isometry Groups in Hyperbolic 4-Space, Youngju Kim
Employee Ownership and Participation Effects on Firm Outcomes, Brent Kramer
Complexity Issues in Justification Logic, Roman Kuznets
Turning Space into Place in the Sprawling “New City”: Shrinking Space, Visions of Place, Homeowners in Conflict, Lael Leslie
The Impact of a Home-Based Intervention Program on Maternal Reflective functioning in First-Time Mothers, Maia Rebecca Miller
Synergistic Surfactant Interactions and the Consequences on Phase Behavior, Interfacial Tension Reduction and Hydrophobic Surface Wetting, Makonnen Mateós Payne
Development of Lexical Tone Production in Disyllabic Words by 2- to 6-year-old Mandarin-speaking Children, Puisan Wong
The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Cognitive and Emotive Roots, Andrei G. Zavaliy
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2007
Provocative Enactments as Regulators of Underarousal and Its Associated Affects, Steven Bashkoff
Foraging Ecology of Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in the New York City Area, Andrew James Bernick
Post-error Slowing in Preschool Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Olga G. Berwid
Engaging the Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods, Kevin L. Ferguson
Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction between Common Sense and Science, Nada Gligorov
All That Is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Sinks Under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, Maria Gutierrez
The Paradoxes of Intimacy in Early Modern Drama, Brenda Marina Henry-Offor
Edward Durell Stone: Perception and Criticism, Mary Anne Hunting
Behavior and Ecology of the Mona Monkey in the Seasonally Dry Lama Forest, Republic of Bénin, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
The Qualitative Character of Spatial Perception, Douglas Meehan
A Dream Derailed?: The English-speaking Caribbean Diaspora in Revolutionary Cuba, Andrea Queeley
The Romantic Unconscious: Conflict and Compromise in the Research of Romantic Love, Joseph S. Reynoso
The Social Construction of Authorship: An Investigation of Subjectivity and Rhetorical Authority in the College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers
An Empirical Test of Terrie Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy of Delinquency, Jessica M. Saunders
Essays on Modeling of Blind Principal Bid Basket Trading Cost, Tin Shan Suen
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2006
The Paradoxes of Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender Relations in a Federal Bureaucracy, Linda B. Benbow
The Bloomberg Way: Development Politics, Urban Ideology, and Class Transformation in Contemporary New York City, Julian Brash
An Opera in Aid of the Reading of History, B. McEvoy Campbell
Urban Fervor: Los Angeles Literature and Alternative Religion, Christine M. Daley
"Feathered Glory": A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century, Denell Marie Downum
Demographic Issues in Infant Health in the 1990’s and Measurement Issues in Costing Medicaid Expansions, Danielle H. Ferry
The Technical Fix or the Systemic Solution for Urban Water Quality? A Case Study of Grassroots Activism on Behalf of New York City's Drinking Water, Mirele B. Goldsmith
Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara: Reframing Male Sexualities, Dong-Yeon Koh
Infinitely Often Dense Bases and Geometric Structure of Sumsets, Jaewoo Lee
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in Social Transitions: Caribbean Immigrant Women Negotiating United States Higher Education, Tracy A. McFarlane
Henry James’s "The Ambassadors": Anatomy of Silence, Marie Leone Meyer
Visible Effects: Narrative Spectacle and Affective Response in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Tanya Radford
Countable Short Recursively Saturated Models of Arithmetic, Erez Shochat
Empire's Footprint: Expulsion and the United States Military Base on Diego Garcia, David Stiefel Vine
Maze Learning and Recall in Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume proboscirostris Boulenger 1898 (Teleostei, Mormyridae): Sensory Bases, Alice G. Walton
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2005
Unshap'd Monsters: Political Farce on the London Stage, 1717-1737, Melissa Ann Bloom
“Neither in Nor Out of Blackwood's": The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose Address, Jonathan Hartmann
"I Harbor No Hate": A Study of Political Tolerance and Intolerance in Holocaust Survivors, Nancy Isserman
An Early Violin Sonata by Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition and Study, Johannes P. Knijff
Contracts in Athenian Law, Ellen Knopf
The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: “Albanian” Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece, Christopher M. Lawrence
Shades of Dispossession: Neoliberalism and the Social Production of Credibility, In Machu Picchu, Peru, Pellegrino A. Luciano
Splitting of Vector Bundles on Punctured Spectrum of Regular Local Rings, Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin
Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing, Tim McCormack
Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination, Anne P. Rice
Represent: The New York City Public Housing Resident Alliance and Its Struggle Against the Imposition of the Neoliberal Agenda, Gretchen Susi
Collaborating in Care: Developing a Model of Dialogic Empathy in Nursing Education, Kimberlee Jean Trudeau
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2004
Naming the Future: How Salvadoran Community Radio Builds Civil Society and Popular Culture, Diana Elizabeth Agosta
John B. Flannagan (1895-1942): A Reexamination of His Life and Work, Katherine Rangoon Doyle
International Regime, Domestic Politics and Telecommunications Technology: Jamaica in the Information Age, Judith A. Duncker
To Stand on Their Own: Women’s Higher Education in Contemporary Kerala, India, Alcira Forero-Pena
The Role of Dopamine in Motivational and Receptive Aspects of Female Mouse Sexual Behavior, Amber Bradshaw Hodges
Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos
An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell
Risk Premiums on Government Bonds: A Cointegration Approach and Error Correction Model, Onisiforos Iordanou
Bartolomeo di Tommaso da Foligno, Michael Patrick Johnson
Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality, Terence S. Kissack
"Optimal” Inflation Under Dollarization, Kazutaka Kurasawa
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2003
On String Topology of Three Manifolds, Hossein Abbaspour
Women's Envy in the Workplace: Contexts and Consequences, Para Ambardar
Economic Convergence — The German 1990 Economic and Monetary Union, Mary Louise Costanza Lo Re
Implicit Prosody in Silent Reading: Relative Clause Attachment in Croatian, Nenad Lovric
Identifying the First Person, Roblin Roy Meeks
Art or Propaganda: A Historical and Critical Analysis of African-American Approaches to Dramatic Theory, 1900–1965, Henry D. Miller
Clothes Talk: Youth Modernities and Commodity Consumption in Dakar, Senegal, Suzanne Scheld
Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction, Janine Marie Utell
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2002
Art to Educate: A History of Public Art in the New York City Public Schools, 1890–1976, Michele Cohen
Charles M. Kurtz (1855-1909): Aspects and Issues of a Cosmopolitan Career, Arleen Pancza Graham
No Relief: The Politics of Welfare Retrenchment, 1873-1898 and 1973-2002, Stephen Pimpare
The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain, Jeffrey Stephen Ruth
For "The Boys in Blue": The Art Galleries of the Sanitary Fairs, Evdokia Savidou-Terrono
Speech Perception and Lexical Effects in Specific Language Impairment: The Effects of Vowel Duration and Word Knowledge on Perception of Final Alveolar Stop Voicing, Frances L.V. Scheffler
Urban Youth Reimagine Trauma: Making Meaning of Experiences with Chronic Community Violence Through the Arts, Stephanie Urso Spina