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
Women's experiences of privacy, publicness and place in mediated space, Nelida Quintero
Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture, Paul Andrija Ranogajec
The Second Generation's Homeland Trips: A Parental Expectation for the U.S.-Born Children of Mexican Immigrants in the South Bronx, Alexia Raynal
"A New Way of Doing Politics": The Movement against CAFTA in Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner
The Historic Inability of the Haitian Education System to Create Human Development and its Consequences, Patrick Michael Rea
Systematics and evolution of Leandra s.str. (Melastomataceae, Miconieae), Marcelo Reginato
Developing a Culture of Citizenship in Elementary School Classrooms: How Democratic Schools Teach Children About Rules, Rights and Responsibilities, Mindi Reich-Shapiro
Becoming Transnational Citizens: The Liberian Diaspora's Civic Engagement in the United States and in Homeland Peacebuilding, Janet Elizabeth Reilly
Analysis And Performance Suggestions For Witold Lutoslawski's Grave: Metamorphoses For Cello And Piano, Marta Reilly
Magnetic Janus Particles and Their Applications, Bin Ren
Hot And Bothered: The Role Of Arousal And Rejection Sensitivity In Dual Process Sexual Decision Making For Gay And Bisexual Men, H Jonathon Rendina
Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton, Edward Rice
Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages, Justin Richards
Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel, Joseph J.B. Rienti
All At One Point: The New Physics of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Mark Thomas Rinaldi
How Much Value is Added by Value Added Models? An Analysis of Teachers’ Performance Over Time Using New York State Assessment Data, Mariana Ristea
The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop's Music, 1975-1991, Patrick Rivers
Civilization of the Living Dead: Canonical Monstrosity, the Romero Zombie, and the Political Subject, Nicholas Walter Robbins
The Influence of Advanced Cognitive Ability on the Development of Psychological Defenses and in Understanding and Managing Affect: A Study of Latency-aged Gifted Students, Kahlila Ife Robinson
Maniera Devota/mano Donnesca: Women, Virtue And Visual Imagery During The Counter-Reformation In The Papal States, 1575-1675, Patricia Rocco
Divine Omnipotence In Descartes' Philosophy, Alfredo Rodriguez
Assessing Young Males' Perspectives On The Cultural Competency Of Juvenile Justice Staff And Predicting Psychosocial Functioning, Crystal Catherine Rodriguez
Provisional Fictions: Discontinuous Selves and the Making of Meaning, Tara Roeder
Selva simbólica selva simbiótica apuntes para una ecocritica latinoamericana, Liza Pamela Rosas-Bustos
Neurophysiological bases of frequency discrimination in children with Auditory Processing Disorder or Specific Language Impairment, Christine Rota-Donahue
Variable Pressure Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ionic Liquids and Electrophoretic Probe Design, Armando Julio Rua
Kafka's German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity, Abraham Ariel Rubin
Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic", Dianne Rubinstein
The Degree of Certainty System in Written Spanish in Mexico, Jaseleen Ruggles
Neuroimmune Crosstalk: A Role for Neuropeptide Y in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Henry H. Ruiz
Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan
Essays On Savings Behavior Of Low-Income Households In Colombia, Luz M. Salas
Lipid dependence in Ras-driven tumors, Darin Salloum
Law Without Recognition: The Lack of Judicial Discretion to Consider Individual Lives and Legal Equities in United States Immigration Law, John Clark Salyer
Existence: An Unholy Trinity. An account of Indeterminate Existence, Salas Sanchez-Bennasar
The "Feminized" City: New York and Suffrage, 1870–1917, Lauren C. Santangelo
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics from slow pools of soil organic matter in a temperate forest: pyrogenic organic matter and and root litter, Fernanda Dos Santos
Metabolic Checkpoints in Cancer Cell Cycle, Mahesh Saqcena
Nikolai Medtner's First Piano Concerto: A Metrotectonic Analysis, Aleksandra Sarest
Gauge/ Gravity Correspondence, Bulk Locality and Quantum Black Holes, Debajyoti Sarkar
Sentiment and Geopolitics in the formulation and realization of the Balfour Declaration, Janko Scepanovic
TV Audience Fragmentation: Measurement, Causes, And Economic Consequences, Jaroslaw Marek Schellner
Quantitative Evaluation of Microglial Activation and Vascularization in Suicide, Tatiana Pavlovna Schnieder
God and Gratuitous Evil, Michael Schrynemakers
'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence, David Sclar
Religion Is Not The Answer: How to Turn Restlessness Into Meaningful Change - The Egyptian Conundrum, Alain C. Seckler
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
