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 2023
Publishing the Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper and its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman
Civil Society Organizations Serving Children in Vietnam: Opportunities and Constraints Working with Government Agencies, Trang P. Kelly
The Archival Impulse: English Family Record Keeping and Archives, ca. 1450–1700, Maura Kenny
The Making of Counter-Insurgent Geographies in Post-Revolutionary Cairo, Baltaga and Maslaha at Bulaq Abule’lla, Omnia Khalil
Propensity Score Analysis and Machine Learning: A Comparison and Application to Post-Secondary Education Data, Khudodod Khudododov
Power and Authority in Karl Marx, Niccoló Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes, Ekim Kilic
Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim
Into the Unknown: Exploring the Role of Uncertainty in Threat-Safety Discrimination, Maia Kinney-Petrucha
SERS for the Detection of Trace Materials, Omari Kirkland
Identity and Complexity in Chaya Czernowin’s INA, Eliav Kohl
Demarcating Psychopathologies: Nosology, Validity, and the Taxonomic Problem in Psychiatric Medicine, Julia Zentz Kolak
Cartographic Subjectivity in Fernand Deligny’s lignes d’erre, Anya Komar
Analyzing Relationships with Machine Learning, Oscar Ko
The Impact of Semantics and Syntax on Lexical Retrieval in Individuals With Aphasia, Marta M. Korytkowska
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions with Enantioenriched Electrophiles, Iv Kraja
Who Are Our Teachers? The Impact of the Composition Teaching Practicum on Writing Studies, Maxine Krenzel
Does the APOE-ε4 Allele Differentially Influence Cognition: A Longitudinal Investigation in Healthy Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease, Aditya Kulkarni
Illuminating the Drivers of Genomic Diversification in Lamprologine Cichlids of the Lower Congo River, Naoko P. Kurata
Defining Twice Exceptional Learners: A Study of Self-Concept, Alyssa D. Landau
Incarceration-Related Stigma and Caring Self-Efficacy Among Long-Term Care Nurses, Sandra D. Langston
Topics for He but not for She: Quantifying and Classifying Gender Bias in the Media, Tyler J. Lanni
Posthuman Lessons for Writing and Well-Being: Reparative Practices, Anna A. Larsson
Losses and Gains of Teletherapy: The Impact of the Pandemic on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Dan-Bi Lee
Visualizing Dopamine Activity in Deletion of D2 Receptors in Medium Spiny Neurons, Kunhee Lee
Examining the Effect of Training Using Natural and Noise-Vocoded Sentences on Noise-Vocoded Speech Perception in Normal-Hearing Listeners, Alexis Leiderman
The Queer Life of Lorena Hickok, Samantha D. Leyerle
From Prostitution to Sex Trafficking: Dilemmas of Victim Service Workers Helping Chinese Immigrant Women at the Courts, Yen-Chiao Liao
Essays on Tax Impacts on Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Regional Disparity, Mei Li
Essays on Structural Transformation and Inequality, Yaoqi Lin
Audiological Management of Children with Down Syndrome: A Toolkit for Caregivers, Natalie Lisiewicz
Essays in Health Economics, Chuxin Liu
A Race-Police Regime: NYPD Technology and Urban Governance in New York City, Elliott Liu
Evaluation of Symmetric Functions and Boolean Functions over Stochastic Input, Naifeng Liu
Structural Identification of Pair Trades, Yi Liu
Seeing Africans in China: Defining Race and Racial Hierarchy in Contemporary China, Xuemeng Li
Rewiring the Spokes: The Future of U.S. Bilateralism in Asia, Gian Marc Lombardo
Fantasmas compartidos: Posmemoria, herencia y reescritura de la Guerra Civil española en México y España, Mayte Lopez Sanchez
Understanding Victim-Offender Overlap Among Youth in Custody in the United States and Taiwan, Tzu-Ying Lo
Variations in Family Child Care: Providers' Experiences Crafting Spaces In-Between School and Home, Eleanor Luken
Structural Anomaly Detection, Shoufu Luo
Leveraging Bio-Inspired Molecules for Cancer Theranostics, Douglas S. MacPherson
Haunted Homelands: Mary Hunter Austin's Search For Belonging in California's Central Valley, Aimee M. Maddalena
Birthing, Nursing, and Grieving: An Anthropological Archaeology of Healing Shrines in North Lebanon, Sarah Mady
Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”, Laura Malhotra
Environmental Drivers of Dispersal in Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), Amanda Mancini
Engineered PLGA Nanofibers for Drug Delivery, Andrew Mancuso
Misogyny in Contemporary Populist Authoritarianism, Maxine Mannheim
Optimized Peptide Nanomaterials as Delivery Vehicles for Hydrophobic Metal-Based Anticancer Agents, Yaron Marciano
Urban Space, Genre and Subjectivity in African and Latin American Cinema, Matthew Marcus
Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception, Matthew Martin
Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence, Kurt M. Masiello
Evaluating Neural Networks as Cognitive Models for Learning Quasi-regularities in Language, Xiaomeng Ma
How Do Authoritarian Regimes Win Re-Election During an Economic Recession?, Mst Sarmin Akter Mazumder
The Lived Experience of Using Opiates Among Young Adults, Catherine Mbewe
Using Bayesian Generalized Structural Equation Modeling to Analyze Latent Agreement, Sydne T. McCluskey
"How" as a Signal of an Invariant Meaning, Andrew S. McCormick
Brainwaves, Memory, and Reward, Rebecca McCune
Characterization of Pathological Tau Mutants, Charles J. McDonald
Mediated Locality: Assembling the Independent Music Scene in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Meegan
Leveraging Local Perturbations to Map Allosteric Networks of Phosphatases, Tamar (Skaist) Mehlman
Late Talkers: Maternal Input and Attention Allocation in Mother–Child Dyad Play, Toby B. Mehl
The Nawat Language Revitalization in El Salvador and How Its Digital Activism Transcends Borders, Sergio J. Mendoza Gallardo
Transnational Ritual Poetics of Blackness in Performance, Nina A. Mercer
White Supremacist Print Culture and the Creation of White Working-Class Ideology in 1860s New York City, Anna Meyer
Hypo-Cathexis and Impotence in the Facilitating Environment of the Anthropocene: Towards Digital Humanities, Brian W. Millen
Illness Intrusiveness and Psychosocial Adjustment Among Older Adults with Multimorbidity, Irina Mindlis
Electrophysiological Signatures of Stress Adaptability in the BNST-VTA Pathway, Yuka Miura
A Digital Toolkit for Teachers About Artificial Intelligence, Benjamin Moerch
Dynamics of Spin and Charge of Color Centers in Diamond under Cryogenic Conditions, Richard G. Monge
Soundness and Completeness Results for the Logic of Evidence Aggregation and its Probability Semantics, Eoin Moore
From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers on the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat, and Politics, Kevin Morris
Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian
Examining Metacognitive Access to Low-Level Ensemble Representations, Vladimir Mudragel
Only for the Pleasure of Telling: Filling the Void in Pasolini's Trilogia della vita, Courtney Munson
Artists, Activists, and Therapists Making Meaning of Collective Violence in Lebanon: A Community-Engaged Participatory Research Study, Nawal Muradwij
Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy
Extreme E-Service Learning: Remote Learning for Undergraduate Students and Telehealth Intervention for Children with Autism, Madiha S. Muzammal
Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in the Dorsolateral Striatum Following a High Fat Diet, Tikva Nabatian
Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815, Cody E. Nager
Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam
Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction, Emma Navarro
A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease: Sex-Dependent Mechanisms Altered by the HDAC Inhibitor RG2833 in a Transgenic Rat Model, Kelechi Ndukwe
A Field of Relations: A Mixed Analysis of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” with Voyant, a Text Analysis Tool, Asma A. Neblett
English Learners In NYC, Raquel Neris
Cost-Effective and Performance-Preserving Secured Application Management in Cloud Environments, Minh Nguyen
Creative Figures: Portraiture and the Making of the Modern American Artist, 1918-1930, Sasha Nicholas
Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668, Nathan D. Nikolic
Speakers and Addressees as Creative Interpreters, Svitlana Novikova
Marriage Stories: Legal Reform and the Novel in France and Britain, 1780–1860, Tatiana Nunez-Bright