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 2022
Legislating Against Liberties: Congress and the Constitution in the Aftermath of War, Harry Blain
The Moral Economy of Ordinary Belarussians and a Critical Examination and Re-Evaluation of the 2020 Post-Electoral Uprising, Geoffrey Blank
The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development, and Modernity in Zanzibar, Caitlyn Bolton
Thickened Surfaces, Checkerboard Surfaces, and Quantum Link Invariants, Joseph W. Boninger
Faith Community Nurse Self-Care: A Qualitative Study, Linda Bradley
Recovering Authenticity: Care, Conversation and Value, Shannon M. Brick
Fostering College Students’ Fact-Checking Skills: Three Studies Assessing Lateral Reading Instruction in a General Education Course, Jessica E. Brodsky
Control of Nonlinear Properties of van der Waals Materials, Rezlind Bushati
Strategies Anti-Racist Supervisors Use to Disrupt Racism in Social Work Practice, Sarah Ross Bussey
Epistemic Priors, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Humor, Paul Butterfield
Falling Forward: The Governance of School Reform, Race, and the Contest for a Dignified Future in Newark, N.J., Claire Cahen
Drift Net: The Social and Political Agency of the Migratory Text, Chris Campanioni
The Impossible Situation? Impasse as Psychotherapeutic Paralysis, Possibility, and Progress, Leo Cancelmo
Pop/Art: The Birth of Underground Music and the British Art School, 1960–1980, Andrew Cappetta
The Effects of Near-Threshold Color Manipulation on Perceptual Decision-Making and Confidence Report, Trevor Caruso
Strength and Vulnerability in Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel for Cello and Marimba: An Analysis through Performance and Composition, Andrea Casarrubios
Diet and Nutrition of Lemurs in the Lean Season, Santiago Cassalett
Free Improvisation Pedagogy: An Arts Based Research Approach to Promoting Student Agency And Embracing Difference, Nicholas Catino
Molecular Mechanism of Rapamycin Resistance in Cancer Cells, Sohag Chakraborty
Novel Strategies For Glutamate Clearance in the Glia-Deprived Synaptic Hub of C. elegans, Joyce Chan
Just Between You and Me: Private Financial Transactions Signal Communal Traits and Enhance Others’ Willingness to Cooperate, Lennay Chapman
Structural and Biochemical Investigations of the Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteriophage Lambda and Escherichia coli, Jillian D. Chase
Analog Matters: Labels, Cassettes, and Alternative Economies in Argentina’s Independent Music Scenes, Maria Agustina Checa
Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989, Lukasz Chelminski
Disrepair, Displacement and Distress: Finding Housing Stories Through Data Visualizations, Jennifer Cheng
Essays in Macroeconomic Policy, Meng-Ting Chen
Blockchain: Key Principles, Nadezda Chikurova
Sunbelt Schooling: Publics and Politics of Education Advocacy in Phoenix, Arizona, Matthew Chrisler
Conformation of the U12-U6atac snRNA Complex of the Minor Spliceosome and Binding by NTC-related Protein RBM22, Joanna Ciavarella
Audiologists' Perspectives on Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Rachael L. Cleary
Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution, Davide Giuseppe Colasanto
Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies, Beth A. Cooper
Literaturas en exhibición: Autores-show y posturas precarias en el siglo XXI hispanoamericano neoliberal, Sara Cordon Hornillos
Consciousness, Culture, and Comradeship: Narratives of South African Exile and Anti-Apartheid Activism in West Berlin, Claudia R. Crowie
Teaching Revolution: Women Primary School Teachers, Race, and Social Reproduction in Cuba, Angela M. Crumdy
Property in Pieces: Land, Oil and Uncertainty in a Mexican Ejido, Margaret Cruz
Data for Power: A Visual Tool for Organizing Unions, Shay Culpepper
Tell Me A Story: The Normative Power of Storytelling, Zoe Cunliffe
Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames
Learning Beyond Measure: Critical Numeracy and Resistance to Racial Capitalism, Atasi Das
Essays on Impacts of Women Empowerment on the Health Outcomes of Children, Sagnik Das
Happiness From a Different Perspective, Suparna Das
May the Word 'Shout' Be No More! Silence and the Hellenistic Voice, Noah Davies-Mason
Investigating Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials as a Novel Biosignature for Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Elizabeth R. Davis
Charge Transport and Spin Dynamics of Color Centers in Diamond, Damon Daw
A Case for Comprehensive Work-Based Learning and Career Education for New York City’s Public High School Students, Jacqueline De La Cruz
Carceral Calisthenics: Physical Culture in The Hood, Albert L. de la Tierra
Brujas of Yesterday, their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Biomarker, Treatment, and Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Retention, Fernand A. De Los Reyes
Stability of Two-Dimensional Magnetic Skyrmions, Amel Derras-Chouk
Collective Behavior of Dissipatively-Coupled Photonic Oscillator Networks, Jiajie Ding
The Cultural Battle Against the Dollar: Struggles over Hoarding and Democracy in the Twilight of Argentina's Soy Boom, Charles Dolph
Clowning with Identity: Embodied Selves and Others in Comedy's Gendered Character Performances, Allison Douglass
Coercive Control and Trauma-Coerced Attachment in Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Mixed-Method Examination, Kendra Doychak
cVEMP Frequency Tuning in Adults Aged 60 and Above: A Systematic Review, Kiersten P. Dudman
Essays in Monetary and Macroprudential Policies, Mikheil Dvalishvili
Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism, Nicholas Kade Edwards
Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC, Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot
Three Lenses of Contrapower Sexual Harassment, Michael L. Ekema
“The People are Tired, and Just Want to Have Fun”: Mahraganat Music and the Struggle for Sonic Presence in Post-2013 Egypt, Mohammed Elfeky
A Repository of Books by Women from the Arab World Translated to English, Nadia El Mouldi
Individual Differences in Coping with Large Multimodal Conflicts in a Spatial Orientation Paradigm, Cassandra J. Engstrom
Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy, Philipp E. Erfurth
Dynamics of Cubic Rational Maps Under Certain Constraints on Critical Points, Arkady Etkin
A Polypharmacological Approach to Relapse Prevention in an Animal Model of Heroin Addiction, Scott T. Ewing
Process of the Memoir and the Burden of Memory, Samantha L. Fabal
Reducing Fear Overgeneralization with Safety Learning: Attention Bias as a Moderator, Boyang Fan
Biomimetic and Medical Applications of Hollow Nanoscale Structures, Justin Fang
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and School Climate with a Sociocultural Narrative Inquiry Approach, Isabella Fante
Coded Matrix Multiplication, Xiaodi Fan
Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, Alaina Claire Feldman
Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Phenomenology at the Energy Frontier, Jorge Fernandez Soriano
Exploring Social Identity Threat and Safety Cues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Cisgender Women in OB/GYN Care, Rachel Fikslin
Disposizione Scenica per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra: An Insight into Verdi’s Sense of Drama and a Valuable Tool for Contemporary Performance, Giordana Rubria Fiori
Female Spaces and Exceptional Women Under Fascism: Anna Banti’s Early Writings (1930s–1940s), Matilde Fogliani
Navigating College While Homeless: A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Young Adult Experience, Bertha Fountain
On the Bathysphere Logbooks, Brad Fox
Fathers Are Fathers Are Fathers: How Sociocultural Context and Sexual Orientation Influence the Gendering of Children, Sarah M. Frantz
Cerebrovascular Impairment as a Potential Target for Neuromodulation Therapy in Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Naomi L. Gaggi
The Politics of Feminist Citizenship: Violence, Law, and Affect in Post-Revolution Tunisia, Ola Galal
Modelling and Forecasting Methods in Financial Economics, Shuo Gao
Liquidity Commonality with Factor Models, Ernesto Garcia III
Sepulcros abiertos: Cadáveres en las narraciones de la Guerra de la Independencia de Venezuela, Víctor E. García Ramírez
Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way?, Elizabeth Garza
American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City, Diane F. George
Gobernar es Prever: Health Management Self-Efficacy Among a National Sample of Latinx Adults, Giselle Gerardi
Generation of Mycobacterium smegmatis Model Systems for Testing Inhibitors of the Mycobactin Siderophore of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Gabrielle A. Germain
Staging Retro-Perspectives: Performing Age, Memory/loss, and Queer Desire in the Later Works of Split Britches (2009–2020), Benjamin Gillespie
Diversion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Nonprofit Organization, Leah E. Glass
The Silent Holocaust and Other Myths: The Jewish Body and Intermarriage in the Fiction of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Samuel Gold
Empirical Essays on Contingent Convertible Capital Securities, Andrea Golfari
The Important Role and Contradictions of Italian Women Image in Fashion, Magazines and Cinema during the Fascist Period, Lu M. GomezdelaTorre