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 2010
The Impact of Mood Disorders on Cognitive Function in Post-menopausal Women Undergoing Treatment for Early-stage Breast Cancer, Margery E. Frosch
The Effect of Teaching Attending to a Face on Joint Attention Skills in Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tina Rovito Gomez
The Piano Works of Páll Ísólfsson (1893–1974): A Diverse Collection, Nina Margret Grimsdottir
Madness, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Music Theater Works: Four Interpretive Essays, Megan B. Jenkins
Colombian Artists in Paris, 1865-1905, Maya Jiménez
Railroads and Economies of Scale and Scope in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: 1850-1880. Chandler Revisited, Michael Kalson
Mátyás Seiber’s Twelve-Tone Technique, Bettina Lee
Doing Good by Doing Well? The Political Economy of the Medical Biotechnology Industry in the United States, Volker Lehmann
Three Essays on the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Haitao Liang
Experiences with Infant Mortality as Reported by Middle Class Black Women in Their Own Words, Lisa Paisley-Cleveland
Semi-Supervised Learning for Connectionist Networks, Rebecca Robare
The Influence of Cross-Linguistic Input and L2 Proficiency on L2 Reading Comprehension Among Spanish-Speaking Adults Learning English as a Second Language, Astrid Sussette Rodríguez
Design and Performance Analysis of Genetic Algorithms for Topology Control Problems, Cem Safak Sahin
"If You See Something, Say Something": The Power of the 'War on Terrorism' to Name What We See, Polly Sylvia
Default Risk, Zeynep Topaloglu
"Because I'm Neither Gringa nor Latina, Because I Am Not Any One Thing": Children of Colombian and Dominican Immigrants Negotiating Identities Within (Trans)National Social Fields, Debora Upegui-Hernandez
Estandarizacion linguistica y construccion nacional: La norma espanola y la norma americana (1823-1857), Laura Villa
Essays in Corporate Finance, Milos Vulanovic
Stability and Change in New York State Regents Mathematics Examinations, 1866-2009: A Socio-Historical Analysis, Robert Stephen Watson
“We Went to the Hills": Four Afghan Life Stories, James M. Weir
Music and National Identity: A Study of Cello Works by Taiwanese Composers, Yu-Ting Wu
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2009
Making up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women Engaged in Direct Selling, Erynn Masi Casanova
Structural Studies of Biopolymers Using Computer Simulations, Optical and Magnetic Spectroscopy, Subhasish Chatterjee
Anger Et Cetera: Understanding the Emotions in Ethics, Damien DuPont
Eduardo Chibás: The Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics, Ilan Ehrlich
The Church and Convento of Santo Domingo Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca: Art, Politics, and Religion in a Mixtec Village, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries, Alessia Frassani
The Gatekeeping Behind Meritocracy: Voices of NYC High School Students, Arlene Melody Garcia
Breach of Trust: Customary/Commercial Documents and Practices of Private Law in an Egyptian Port, Christine Hegel
Biodegradation of Fuel Oxygenates in Northeastern United States Aquifers with an Analysis of Underground Storage Tank Leaks, Gordon Hinshalwood
Beyond Observation: Literature and Science in Kafka, Rilke, Mann and Musil, Katya Ilina
Creating Collaborative Partnerships to Support Teacher Growth: Mapping the Partnership Process, Lynda Kennedy
Navigating the Gaze: Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces at School, Patricia Krueger
Raising Children the American Way: Court-Mandated Parenting Education in Alameda, California, Nicole D. Laborde
Memorial Laws: Social and Media Construction of Personalized Legislation, 1994-2005, Faith H. Leibman
Resisting Regulation: LGBTQ Teens and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender in High Schools, Darla Linville
"A Kind of Construction in Light and Shade": An Analytical Dialogue with Recording Studio Aesthetics in Two Songs by Led Zeppelin, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum
"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
"Zum Einsatz des Leben fuer Deutschland": Girls' popular fiction during the Third Reich, Kathryn L. Payne
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
Forsaken Generation: Stress, Social Suffering and Strategies Among Working-Class Pensioners in Post-Socialist Moldova, Romania, Gerard A. Weber
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
Autonomy and subjugation: The dynamics of emancipation and race in the writings of precolonial German women authors, Traci S. O'Brien
