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).
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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 1999
The Writings of Russell Sturgis and Peter B. Wight: The Victorian Architect as Critic and Historian, Marjorie A. Pearson
Contemporary Romanian Theatre: Artistry, Honesty, and Adaptation in the Plays of Iosif Naghiu, Dumitru Radu Popescu and Marin Sorescu, Eric Pourchot
Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere, Russell Lee Rockwell
A Theater of Anxiety: The Irrepresentable in Shelley's "The Cenci" and in Musset's "Lorenzaccio", Remy Joseph Roussetzki
John Brougham: The American Performance Career of an Irish Comedian, 1842–1880, Dana Rahm Sutton
The Women of the Ten, Twent', Thirt': Popular Melodrama Theatre in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Barbara Meredith Waldinger
Creating Art and Artists: Late Nineteenth-Century American Artists' Studios, Karen A. Zukowski
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1998
Feeding Ecology and Aspects of Life History in Microcebus Rufus (Family Cheirogaleidae, Order Primates), Syivia Atsalis
Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context, Barbara Bevington
Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, Peter F. deCataldo
A Developmental Study of the NMDA Receptor, Katherine M. Flynn
Adult Attachment and Maternal Representations of Gender During Pregnancy: Their Impact on the Child's Subsequent Gender Role Development, Leslie A. Gibson
"To Sew or To Sow?” European Gender Images and Development in Rural Ecuador, Barbara Grunenfelder-Elliker
Ana Mendieta, the Iowa Years: A Critical Study, 1969 through 1977, Julia P. Herzberg
The Calamus Root: American Gay Poetry Since World War II, Walter Ralph Holland
The Ideal Catalogue House: Mail-Order Architecture and Consumer Culture, 1914–1930, Evie T. Joselow
Tanbou Lwen Tini Bon Son: L'Oral Comme Reconstitution Historique dans L'Oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart, Frances J. Santiago Torres
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1997
The Administrative Efficiency of Hospitals and the Effect of Electronic Data Interchange: A Critical Evaluation of the Stochastic Frontier and the Data Envelopment Analysis Models to Efficiency Measurement, Dimitrios N. Tsaprounis
An Interpretive Analysis of Bela Bartok's Performance of His Own Music, Shu-Yuan Yang
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1996
(En)gendering Romanticism: A Study of Charlotte Bronte's Novels, Ariella Bechhofer Brown
Use of Verb Inflections in the Oral Expression of Agrammatic Spanish-Speaking Aphasics, Jose Gregorio Centeno
The Politics of Economic Integration in Latin America: A Case Study of the Andean Group, 1969–1995, Julio J. Chan-Sanchez
I Couldn't Kill It Any Other Way: Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Deirdre Mary Day-MacLeod
An Examination of the Socio-Economic Determinants of Punishment Using Abductive Polynomial Networks, Farrukh Behzad Hakeem
Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Election Administration and Voter Participation in New York, Ronald Joseph Hayduk
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Paul Howard Kirby
Tonal and Nontonal Elements in the Recent Chamber Music of Ned Rorem, Paul Howard Kirby
Tina Modotti's Vision: Photographic Modernism in Mexico, 1923-1930, Sarah Margaret Lowe
An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction, Ismail Sirtalan
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1995
Automatic and Controlled Information Processing in Alzheimer's Disease, Linda S. Carozza
Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, and the Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue
Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, and the Mass Media: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Deviance, Steven M. Gorelick
Social Consequences of Delayed Childbearing and Infertility, Joan Liebmann-Smith
Measurement of Fungal Biomass in Wooden Art Objects Using ATP Photometry and Energy Charge, Fernando Nieto
From Idyll to Exile: The Transformed Self in the Early Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Powers
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1994
The Spectacle of Suffering: Repetition and Closure in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel, Rebecca E. Martin
Some Consequences of Semantic Externalism, Consuelo Preti
Modal Properties and Spontaneous Emission Factor in Unstable-Resonator Semiconductor Lasers, Gang Yao
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1993
The Romance of Narrative: Design and Desire in the Odyssey, the Aithiopika, and Don Quixote, Susan Brockman
Saving the Environment: Science and Social Action, Patricia D'Andrade
Perceptions of Patients Meeting the Criteria for a Diagnosis of "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities": Exploration of Social Situation and Need, Beth Miriam Lewis
Psychoanalysis and Constructionalism: Clinical and Metapsychological Implications, Richard H. Loewus
Long Chain Molecules in the Molten State: Surface Adsorption, Near Surface Structure, and Mutual-Diffusion, Xiaofeng Zhao
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1992
Elite Reproduction and Ethnic Identity in Belize, Karen Judd
The Politics of Memorialization: Creating a Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York City, Rochelle G. Saidel
The Application of Liquid Junctions for Characterization of Semiconductor Materials, Wu-mian Shen
Richard Nixon's Position on Communist China, 1949-1960: The Evolution of a Pacific Strategy, Glenn Michael Speer
Acting Hysteria: An Analysis of the Actress and Her Part, Lydia Stryk
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1991
Pygmalion Goes to School: The Effects of Goal Setting, the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Self-Efficacy on Trainee Performance, James Michael Benton
Claes Oldenburg: Sculpture, 1960-1968. A Catalogue Raisonne. (Volumes I and II), Susan Ginsburg
The Dynamics of Program Development: A Case Study in Urban Mental Health Services, John Kastan
The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, Burt Joseph Kimmelman
The Psychological Determinants of Occupational and Non-Occupational Risk-Taking Among Law Enforcement Officers, William F. McCarthy
Structural and Functional Studies of the Tryptophan Operon of Bacillus pumilus, Miriam V. Rivas
Taxi Driving: A Study of Leasing in New York City, Allen Russell Stevens
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1990
Improvisation for Actor Training and Performance in 20th Century America (with Special Emphasis on the Spolin and Sills Tradition), Jeff David Brone
Influences of the Post-World War II Era on the American Political Theater, 1968–1972, Lydia Alix Gerson
Class Culture and Generational Change: Immigrant Families in Two Connecticut Industrial Cities During the 1930s, Ivan Greenberg
Conflicting Attributions in the Continental Motet Repertory from ca. 1500 to ca. 1550, Young-Han Hur
Biological Activity and Conformational Analysis of Nikkomycins and their Analogs, Eduardo Krainer
The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, Mary Aileen Mallery
Visual-Spatial and Set-Shifting Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease, Sarah A. Raskin
The American Academy of the Fine Arts, New York, 1802-1842. (Volumes I and II), Carrie J. Rebora
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1989
Mrs. Trollope's American Novels, Linda Abess Ellis
Escaping the Alphabet: The Reading of Silence in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Patricia Laurence
Theoretical Studies of the Energies and Geometries of Strained Hydrocarbons, Mitchell Alan Miller
Amino Acids and N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate as Neurotransmitter Candidates in the Monkey Retinogeniculate Pathways, Ricardo A. Molinar-Rode
On the Stochastic Sequential and Nonsequential Production Planning Problem, Shivaji Rao
Serial, Parallel and Delay Strategies in the Processing of Structurally Ambiguous Language Constructions, Harvey Slutsky
Children's Video Usage: A Comparative Study of Nine to Eleven-Year-Olds Living in London and New York, Seth P. Welins
The Theatre of Adrian Hall, Jeannie Marlin Woods
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1988
Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama, Gayle Austin
The Politics of Experience: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s, Maurice Berger
Cold Type: Computerized Typesetting and Occupational Subcultures in the New York City Newspaper Industry, Eve Fay Hochwald
The Relationship Between Family-Environmental Processes and Academic Achievement Among Three Hispanic Groups in the United States, Manuel Martinez-Pons
A Comparison of the Symbolic Function in Delicate Self-Mutilators with Joyce Mcdougall's Conceptualization of the Symbolic Function in Psychosomatic Illness and Sexual Perversion, Thomas Richard Negron
Prediction of Treatment Response in Chronic Pain Patients: The Relationship Between Illness Behavior and Self-Concept, Andrew Bruce Rosenblum
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1987
A Muted Cry: White Opposition to the Japanese Exclusion Movement, 1911–1924, Bruce A. Abrams
Ives on His Own Terms: An Explication, a Theory of Pitch Organization, and a New Critical Edition for the "3-Page Sonata", Carol Kitzes Baron
Gestus in the Theaters of Brecht and Beckett, Barry Joseph Batorsky
The Experience of Public Art in Urban Settings, Roberta Degnore
The Impact of Presentence Investigations on Plea Bargained Dispositions in Kings County Supreme Court, Joseph G. Enright
Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian Explanations of Political Actions in the Middle East, Bethamie Horowitz
An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard's "Libra", Jeffrey Lynn Miller
Sinfonia Brevis (Original Composition), Jeffrey Lynn Miller
Voice-Leading Patterns in the Fugal Expositions of J. S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", William Jonathan Michael Renwick
Precursors of Creativity: Metaphor, Symbolic Play and Categorization in Early Childhood, Jay A. Seitz
Eustache Deschamps' "L'art de dictier", Deborah M. Sinnreich
Social Security, Savings, and Labor Supply of the Elderly in Japan, Tetsuji Yamada
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1986
Working at Home and Being at Home: The Interaction of Microcomputers and the Social Life of Households, Jamie Horwitz
Working at Home and Being at Home: The Interaction of Microcomputers and the Social Life of Households, Jamie L. Horwitz
Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension, Ann Dibella Jablon
Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension, Ann DiBella Jablon
Structural and Topological Contributions to the Electronic Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (Fractal, Electrode, Impedance), Michael Kramer
Viewers' Perceptions of Gender Roles on Television, Susan Barbara Prager