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 2025
The Georgian of Heritage Speaker Children, Cass Lowry
Understanding Why Individuals Maltreated as Children Do Not Retrospectively Self-Report, Kristin S. Lynch
Spatiotemporal Profile of Thalamic Atrophy and Behavioral Outcomes During the First Year of Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Catherine S. Lyons
Socialist Sensibilities: Film and the Remaking of Egypt, Tamara Maatouk
Essays on Asset Pricing and Investor Choice, Austin MacDonald
À la poursuite de Céline à New York, Gabriel Maginier
Non-Perturbative Aspects of Gauge Theories Through a Complex Parametrization, Antonina Maj
Essays on Climate Risks, Policy Shocks, and Housing Markets, Li Ma
Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front, Dario Marcucci
Giving Voice to the Frames of War: A Digital Humanities Framework for Evaluating War Crimes Databases, Leila Markosian
Herejías en la Ciudad Global: legados de tercermundismo, asimilación y desplazamiento urbano en las narrativas literarias contemporáneas latinx y afroportuguesa (2000-2022)., Ricardo Martín Coloma
Re/Inventing Desire: Asexuality as a Tool for Utopian Intimacies, Amaranta Martinez Martinez
Exploring the Role of Ecological Traits in Shaping Spatial Patterns of Genetic Diversity, Rilquer Mascarenhas da Silva
Nonlinear Optics Through Femtosecond Light-Matter Interactions, Shah Faisal B. Mazhar
In a Dark Wood Amid the Storm: Literary Representations of Midlife in the Social and Political Turbulence of a Kindred Era, Robert McCreanor
Vamos a Vencer-We Will Overcome: The Sonic Performances of Afro-Cubans in Tampa, Jadele E. McPherson
On the Ambiguity of Wh-Expressions in Thai, Naparat Meechanyakul
Underlying Mechanisms of Quantum Emission in Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Enrique Alejandro Mejia IV
Between Structure and Agency: Professional Identity Development in Social Work's Neoliberal Transformation, Johan Melchior
China and Russia in Africa: The Case of Togo, Eli J. Messanh
Vital Signs: Tibetan in the Linguistic Landscape of Jackson Heights, Olivia Mignone
The Jamaica Now Leadership Council: A Study of Stakeholder Participation in the Revitalization of Downtown Jamaica, Queens, Melva M. Miller
The Role of Alternative mRNA Translation Initiation in the Metabolic Reprogramming of Metastatic Breast Cancer, Erna Mitaishvili
Consequences of Oxidative DNA Damage: Base-Pair Dissociation, Singlet Oxygenation and DNA-Protein Crosslinking, May Myat Moe
Spin High-Harmonic Generation Through Terahertz Laser-Driven Phonons, Negin Moharrami Allafi
Solvation Thermodynamic Mapping Approaches for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Vjay Molino
Tradition, Individuality, and Innovation in Western Classical Music Performance: A Quantitative Analysis of Bach’s Fourth Cello Suite Prelude, Clare Monfredo
Let's Make a Scene! East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding, Stefano Morello
Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management in Edge Systems, Motahare Mounesan
The Weight of Complicity: A Network Analysis of Ecocide in Palestine, Marilyn Moy
Counter-Hegemony in the Captive State: Recasting Katrina’s Carceral Legacy through Conjuncture, Joseph S. Muratore
Whose Innovation? Philanthropic and School-Based Visions of High School in the XQ Super School Competition, Brett G. Murphy
“Justice, Justice Pursue”: Coworker Reactions to Religious Workplace Accommodations, Joshua A. Nagel
Images of Truth: True Doxa in Plato's Republic, Sai Ying Ng
Tracing Reverberations: Vietnamese Refugee Mothers' Adaptations to Complex Structural Forces and Intergenerational Engagements, Kim Khanh Nguyen-Nalpas
Love and Power: Narrative Resistance in the Contemporary Literature and Film of the Americas, Tania Nicolaou
Toward More Intelligible Simultaneous Multi-channel Speech Enhancement and Recognition, Zhaoheng Ni
Systematics and Biogeography of the Milkweed Butterflies, Renato A. Nunes
Freedom Dreams of Young Black Boys: A Qualitative Study Among Black Male Elementary School Learners, Lamar Ok
Stereotype Engineering, Ian Olasov
Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks, Cristina Onea
Behavioral Biomarkers of Vulnerability in the ABA Model, Nora Ozer
Essays on Educational Policies, Mehlika Ozsoy
Online Resources for Oral Communication Courses, Sean P. Palmer
Gendered Censorship: The (Un)successful Attempts to Silence Women's Bodies and Minds in "Closed" Communities, Devorah L. Paltiel
The Question of Money: State, Protest, and Informal Currencies in the Wake of Greece’s Economic Crisis, Helen Panagiotopoulos
Characterizing Malaria Infections in Caribbean Lizards: Parasite Niche Expansion & Host Response, Sarah J. Pangburn
Examining Relatability, Alexia Papigiotis
The Spontaneous Flora of New York City; and Systematics of Larix (Pinaceae), Lydia T. Paradiso
From Stories to Strategy: Oral Histories as Qualitative Evidence For Neighborhood Planning, Randip K. Parhar
How Argentina Won the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup: A Data Story, Aniruddha Parthasarathy
Some Puzzles Concerning Gujarati Nominalized Verbs in Before and After Sentences, Priya P. Patel
Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury, Vaidehi Hemkumar Patel
Retinal Precursor Cell Enriched Multiomic and Pseudo-Time Analysis of Developing and Reprogrammed Photoreceptors, Brendon M. Patierno
Treating “Endemic Neglect”: Race, Psychiatry, and Modjeska Simkins’s Fight for Medical Civil Rights at the South Carolina State Hospital (1910-1985), Bradford Charles Pelletier
Comparing Campaigns to End the Subminimum Wage with a Multiple Streams Approach, Chris Peraino
Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse, Jeremiah Perez-Torres
Excitons and Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Materials Heterostructures - Applications as Qubits, Time Crystals, and Superfluids, Gabriel Pimenta Martins
Exotic and Familiar: Constructing Martinique, 1763–1902, Remi D. Poindexter
Flotsam and Jetsam: The Role of MLB Integration in the Wreckage of the Negro Leagues, Nastasia Pollas
Hope by a Thousand Cuts: Fashion Ethics from Cutting Fabric to Cutting a Fashion Film, Sarah G. Porterfield
Multi-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Characterization of Novel Materials, Tawhid Pranto
Between the Buffer and the Black Box: ed(1), Invisible Text, and Delegation in Word Processing, Kai Prenger
“Earth Took of Earth”: Melancholy and Earth in Late Medieval English Literature, Emily A. Price
American Utopia: The Evolution of David Byrne’s Viewpoint of America from 1977 to Present, Morgan A. Prince
Elucidating the Roles of Eukaryotic Initiation Factors Involved in DAP5 Mediated Translation, Jacob NK Quartey
Improving the Assessment of Functional Ability in Older Adults, Aneela Rahman
Nonlinear Diffusion, Hydrodynamic Cascades and Jamming in Kinetically Constrained Systems: Insights from Lattice Gas Models, Abhishek Raj
Mad at the System: The Mental Health Act UK: Power and Control of Racialized Women, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar
Potential Role of a Ruthenium-Based Compound Ru-IM in the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Rachele Rameau
Investigating the Behavior of Dwarf-Hosting Cosmic Filaments in Regions of Average Density Within the Universe, Manuel E. Ramirez Hernandez
Crafting Sovereignty: Race, Ancestral Memory, and Contemporary Art in Peru, 1970–1990, Horacio Ramos Cerna
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
Starspot Inference Using Light Curve Inversion Techniques, Mohammad Refat
The Role of Water in Peptide Behavior and Peptide-Based Water-Responsive Crystals, Janel Jannette Rivera Cancel
Moving the Needle: The Policy of Change on Syringe Access, New York City and State, 1988–2023, Joyce Rivera
Non-Linear Heart Rate Variability: Investigating Cardiac Complexity of Psychopathic Traits, Khaya A. Roach
Wielding the Border: A Genealogy of U.S.-Mexico Bordering Practices and the Purposes They Serve, Nicholas J. Rodrigo
Collaborative Memory and Metamemory: The Impact of Normative and Informational Motivations on Conformity, Karen Rodriguez
Belonging Against the Odds: Exploring Restorative Justice Practices as Pathways to Foster Belonging in New York City Transfer Schools, Miguel Rodriguez
Cueing Motions in a String Quartet, An Exploratory Study of Motion Trajectories, Maren Rothfritz
Inhibition of Return and Attentional Blink: Aspects of a Singular Attentional Process?, Kathleen Rowe
Characterization of the Attentional Profile in Women and Girls with a Fragile X Premutation Allele, Shira Russell-Giller
Writing Architecture: Space and Structure in Edith Wharton, Yael Hameiri Sainsaux
Decades of Division: Analyzing Hate Crimes in the USA (1991–2022), Sangeeth Sajan Baby
The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, Golnaz Salehkarimi
Final Report: An Overview of the Communications Intern Position at WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), Hannah P. Salzer
Toward a Generalizable Perceptual Hashing Framework for Image Manipulation Detection, Priyanka Samanta
Receptions of Mental Health Emergency Services in New York City, Daniel R. Samost
Refining Orbits and Revealing Origins: A Study of Giant Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars, Angeli Sandoval
Digital Odyssey: Navigating Culture, Structure, and Agency in the Transformation of a Public University, Lisa Santa-Coloma
Essays in Public Economics, Zachary Santamaria
Unpacking the Orders, Leonard J. Santos
The Evolution of the Electrical Market: A Texas Journey, David A. Sastre Perez
