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
Foreseeing Identity in Blank Interstices: New-wave African Migration to the United States and a New Theory of Diaspora, Bernard D. Lombardi
New Portlandia: Rock n' Roll, Authenticity and the Politics of Place in Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Ross London
Albert Camus' political thought: from passion to compassion, Angel López-Santiago
America is Not the Heaven We Dream Of: Race, Gender, and Refugee Status among Liberians in Staten Island, New York, Bernadette M. Ludwig
Data-driven Synthesis of Animations of Spatially Inflected American Sign Language Verbs Using Human Data, Pengfei Lu
Confucius, Yamaha, or Mozart? Cultural Capital and Upward Mobility Among Children of Chinese Immigrants, Wei-Ting Lu
Representational Implications of the Phonologization of Contour Tones, Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay
Dollar Democracy: The Politics of Dollarization in Latin America, Cori Madrid
The Application of Dispersion Staining and Infrared Microspectroscopy to Analyze Physical Evidence in Developing Countries, Thiti Mahacharoen
El humanismo civico en Castilla a mediados del siglo XV: la Batalla campal de los perros contra los lobos de Alfonso de Palencia, Ruben Maillo-Pozo
Entre Dos Islas: Dialogos Musico-Literarios Entre Manhattan Y Quisqueya. El Rol De La Musica Popular En La Literatura Dominicana Contemporanea, Sharina Maillo-Pozo
Iron regulates mRNA translation initiation through RNA iron responsive element (IRE), Jia Ma
Psychological Contracts in Information Exchanges, Stanislav Mamonov
Exploring The Illusion Of Transparency When Lying And Truth-Telling: The Impact Of Age, Self-Consciousness, And Framing, Jason Mandelbaum
How Childhood Obesity Predicts Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study, Rachel Lynn Manes
The interaction between arsenic and struvite during coprecipitation and adsorption processes, Ning Ma
Occupy Mall Street? How the Court Conditioned Public Space Where People Go, Anthony Maniscalco
"Do you live on Spruce Street or are you straight?" The Boundaries of Philadelphia's Gayborhood and the Production of Queer Identities, Lauren Elisabeth Manley
Design of Well-Defined Mesoporous Silicas via Surfactant Templating Method Enhanced by the Use of Swelling Agents, Tiffany Man
Households, Landscapes, and Post-Collapse Continuity in Postclassic Jalieza, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Elise Marie Maragliano
Works in Progress: Child Characters in Victorian and Postcolonial Fiction, 1814 - 2006, Kiran Mascarenhas
Oxocarbenium Ion and Alkene Metathesis Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Cyclohexanes, Clayton Errol Mattis
The Perceived Religiousness of the Repertoire of the Muslim Minority in France, Brian Mawyer
The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive, Jonathan Conrad Maxwell
Otoscopic and Tympanometric Outcomes in Haitian Children, Ellen May
Emerging Musical Structures: A method for the transcription and analysis of Electroacoustic Music, Mario Mazzoli
The Representation of Nonmonogamy on Feminist Blogs, Caitlin M.
"With the Class-Conscious Workers Under One Roof": Union Halls and Labor Temples in American Working-Class Formation, 1880-1970, Stephen McFarland
From Backlash To Mobilization: Muslim American Prayer Spaces In Post-9/11 New York, George E. Melissinos
A psychoanalytic exploration into the memory and aesthetics of everyday life: Photographs, recollections, and encounters with loss, Dimitrios Mellos
In and Out of Uniform: The Transition of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans into Higher Education, Vienna Messina
Nature's Goodness: An Aristotelian Account, Nathan K. Metzger
Reliability-Based Progressive Collapse And Redundancy Analysis Of Bridge Systems, Feng Miao
Asymptotic Invariants and Flatness of Local Endomorphisms, Nikita Miasnikov
Aging Out of the Spectrum of Cultural Visibility, Darthea M. Miller
The Other Tribeca: Immigrant Work and Incorporation amid Affluence, Elizabeth A. Miller
Why Should One Reproduce? The Rationality and Morality of Human Reproduction, Lantz Fleming Miller
Musical Landscapes: Theophile Gautier and the Evolution of Nineteenth Century French Poetry, Dana Milstein
The Computational Complexity of Some Games and Puzzles With Theoretical Applications, Vasiliki Despoina Mitsou
School Librarians and the Common Core: How They Can Help Teachers and Students Through the New Standards, Enito Mock
Ethnic Language Maintenance: A Case Study of Second-Generation Iranian Americans in the Northeastern States, Maryam Moeini Meybodi
Public Space--Urban Spaces Of Multiple And Diverse Publics, Antti Moelsae
Physiological Correlates of Emotion Regulation in Depersonalization Disorder, Kai-Mosadi Monde
In Harm's Way: How Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land, Katera Ya'Shea Moore
Executive Dysfunction and Reward Dysregulation: Interactions in Drug Addiction, Kristen Paula Morie
Age-related Aspects of Mirror-use by Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Rachel A. Morrison
International norm echoing in rebel groups: The cases of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Jennifer A. Mueller
"When I Heard about the March": Testimonies and Participatory Archiving in Peacebuilding, Carolina Muñoz Proto
Origins of the Movement and the Development of Protest: The Birmingham Campaign, 1963, James Munro
Work-Life Experiences for People with Mobility Disabilities in New York City, Jessica A. Murray
Design And Optimization Of A De Novo Protein Charge Separation Dyad, Andrew C. Mutter
The Grammar of Choice: Charles Dickens's Existential Idea of Religion, Hai Na
Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding, Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman
The Meaning, Experience, and Value of 'Common Space' for Women and Children in Urban Poor Settlements in India, Anupama Reddy Nallari
Not By Accident: How Egyptian Civil Society Successfully Launched A Revolution, Helen-Margaret Nasser
The Presentation of Trans in Everyday Life: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Gendered Performance, Elijah C. Nealy
Conditional Discriminative Functions of Meaningful Stimuli and Enhanced Equivalence Class Formation, Roxana I. Nedelcu
Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama, Linda K. Neiberg
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
The Politics of Transportation Megaprojects, Patrizia Christa Nobbe
A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Rock Music, Drew F. Nobile
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies on Lithium and Sodium Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries, Tetiana Nosach
Foraging Ecology of Shorebirds at a Stopover Site: Niche Dynamics, Aggression and Resource Use in Delaware Bay, Ivana Novcic
Intracellular Mechanisms Associated with Cocaine Induced Conditioned Place Preference, Stephanie K. Nygard
On the role of neuronal oscillations in auditory cortical processing, Monica Noelle O'Connell
Strategies for Discriminating and Comparing Unknown Unitary Transformations, Guy F. Okoko
Colloidal Quantum Dot Based Photonic Circuits and Devices, Nicky E. Okoye
Component Trees For The Exploration Of Macromolecular Structures In Biology, Lucas Oliveira
Coming Of Age During The Sixties: A Narration Of Lives Through Music And Battle, Jennifer L. Oliveri
Teachers at Work: Factors Influencing Satisfaction, Retention and the Professional Well-Being of Elementary and Secondary Educators, Patrick Edward O'Reilly
Changing attention to emotion: A biobehavioral study of attention bias modification using event-related potentials, Laura O'Toole
Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans, Allison Padilla-Goodman
The development and function of the nasopharynx and its role in the evolution of primate respiratory abilities, Anthony Santino Pagano
The "Social Factory" In Postwar Italian Radical Thought From Operaismo To Autonomia, David P. Palazzo
Flapper Fashion In the Context of Cultural Changes of America in the 1920s, Soo Hyun Park
Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne, Lucie Carmel Paul
The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Abstinence and Relapse Using an Animal Conflict Model, Joshua Alan Peck
Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence, Laila Pedro
The Sex of the Cell Dictates its Response, Carlos Ganesh Penaloza
Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on Prevention and Amelioration of Cisplatin-induced Ototoxicity: A Systematic Literature Review, Maryana Peravozchykava
A Systematic Revision of North American Tolypella A. Braun (Charophyceae, Charophyta), William Perez
Risk assessment of sexually abusive clergy: Utility of sex offender risk instruments with a unique offender subgroup, Anthony Perillo
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
Initial conditions in high-energy collisions, Elena Petreska
Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition, Natalya Petroff
The Salience and Perceptual Weight of Secondary Acoustic Cues for Fricative Identification in Normal Hearing Adults, Derek Petti
Moral Inscriptions: Politics and the Rhetoric of Responsibility, Steven Pludwin
Rendering the Unthinkable: (Un)knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, and Heterosexualized Trauma in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish
The Over-Education of the Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education and the Black Intellectual, Archie Lavelle Porter
Melodic Function and Modal Process in Gregorian Chant, Richard Porterfield
"Fits of Vulgar Joy": Play Anxiety in the Romantic Poets, Alison Powell
Promoting Wellness Through Mindfulness-Based Activities, Malgorzata Powietrzynska
Engaging Bad Governments: Resource Groups and Patterns of Engagement in Bangladesh, Nayma Qayum
La obra poetica de Jose de Jesus Dominguez estudio preliminar, texto y notas, Eric Samuel Quinones
