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
Development of Chemical Probes for Two Pro-Metastatic Enzymes: Cysteine Cathepsins and Nek2 Kinase, Ashif I. Bhuiyan
The Relationship between Democratic Measures, LGBTIAQ* Rights Acceptance, and U.S. Foreign Aid Allocation in the Global South, Jacqueline Biergans
“Bending the Law” – Weimar Judiciary and the Political Bias Paradox of the Legal System, Irit Bloch
Stokes Vector Modulation of Optical Signals; Coherence, Noise, and Digital Signal Processing, Mario Bnyamin
Type of Glossing Affects Cognitive Load and Retrieval of Meaning During L2 Reading, Camilo Andrés Bonilla Carvajal
An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino
Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: Provider Perspectives, Elisabeth Brodbeck
Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories, Donald V. Brown Jr
Quantifying Separability in Limit Groups, Keino Brown
A Blackgirl Artivisionary Mosaic: Art-Based Participatory Refusals to School Punishment, Tyese A. Brown
An Explicit Construction of Sheaves in Context, Tyler A. Bryson
Nursing Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence Screening in the Emergency Department, Justin Cabrera
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Deep Learning to Illuminate Dark Protein Functional Space, Tian Cai
Epistemic Virtue and Receptivity to Science in Policing, Braden L. Campbell
Representaciones Ideológicas Del Lenguaje Entre la Población Mexicana en Nueva York, Maria del Rocio Carranza Brito
Understanding the Experiences and Associated Symptomology of Disclosers and Non-disclosers of Sexual Victimization, Kaitlin Carson
Beam-Based Target Alignment for Mu2e, Helenka Casler
Unlocking Potential: The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities, Navena F. Chaitoo
Overview of the Intern Position at SexGenLab and the Importance of Public Scholarship, Elizabeth S. Chapin
Spectacle on the Fringe: Masks, Materiality, and Movement in South Asia, Deepsikha Chatterjee
On the Order-Type Complexity of Words, and Greedy Sidon Sets for Linear Forms, Yin Choi Cheng
Agreement in Languages that Do Not Agree: The Processing of Accented Speech in Chinese-English bilinguals, Stanley Chen
Wanting Under Surveillance: A Critical Analysis of Young Women’s Sexual Desire, Jennifer Chmielewski
Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi
Play Makes Perfect: An Exploration of Game and Play Elements in Composition and Performance, Gabrielle Chou
Salty: A Diffractive Inquiry of Visceral Knowing and Embodied Aesthetics, Mei Ling Chua
Performance Modeling for Network Anomaly Detection and Sensor Networks, Jie Chu
Chromatic Dissensus: An Otherwise Archive of Natural Dyes, 1700–1856, Luke Church
Quality Management and Oversight of Texas Forensic Science Service Providers, Sarah P. Chu
TGF-b Signaling Mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans Response to Bacterial Pathogens, Emma J. Ciccarelli
The Role of Intersectional Stigma and Social Anxiety in Black, Latino, and Multiracial Young Sexual Minority Men, Jorge L. Cienfuegos Szalay
Disordered Protein Aggregates Are Linked to Changes in the Histone Post-Translational Modification Landscape in Disease and Non-Disease Models, Samantha Cobos
Examining the Effect of Talker Familiarity Using Familiar and Unfamiliar Talkers on Noise-Vocoded Speech Perception in Normal-Hearing Listeners: A Training Study, Daria N. Collins
Factors Associated with the Life Satisfaction of Gay and Bisexual Men and Their Variation by Race, Robert G. Considine
Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers, Lenore Costello
Understanding the Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-Term Memory, Kelly Cotton
Flamboyant Abundance: Performing Queer Maximalism, 1960–1990, Jack Owen Crawford
Bow Articulations in the Late Galant (1775–1812): An Analysis of Bow Strokes in Selected Violin Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven, Julia E. Danitz
Changes in the Epigenetic Landscape of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells with Time, David K. Dansu
The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona
New York City Yoga Studios Archive (NYCYSA), Allison Daugila
Memory, Violence, and Detours: Strategies of Resistance to Epidermal Invisibility within the French Republic, Claudine E. David
Identity, Access, and Equity: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of Mathematics Identity and Socialization in Pre-service Teachers, Ashley Renaire Davis
Lasting Inequalities: Gender Earnings Inequality Across Generations, Periods and Countries, Juliana de Castro Galvao
Allowed to Stay: An Exploration of DHS New Guidelines to Dismiss Certain Immigration Cases, Jazmin E. De La Cruz Sanchez
Examinations of the Close Relationship Processes and Health Framework Among Adult and Adolescent Sexual Minority Men, Trey Victor Dellucci
Towards Interpretable Machine Reading Comprehension with Mixed Effects Regression and Exploratory Prompt Analysis, Luca Del Signore
Motor Milestone Acquisition and Sleep-Related Learning and Development in Infancy, Aaron DeMasi
Characterization of the Conformational Binding of N-methyl Mesoporphyrin IX with DNA Model Telomeric G-Quadruplex Forming Sequences, Jessica Desamero
Nonlinear Processes in Room Temperature Exciton-Polaritons, Prathmesh Deshmukh
Discovering the Indian Diaspora in France and Beyond, Shweta Deshpande
Theorizing Racial Democracy, Teófilo de Souza Carmo Reis
Evidence-Based Practice in the Management of Tinnitus in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Rivka Deutsch
Second Generation Phenyloxadiazolyl Methyl Sulfones for Thiol-Specific Bioconjugations, Guillaume Dewaele-Le Roi
Improving Collagen-Mimetic Fibrils to Study Fibrillogenesis and Effects of Disease-Causing Mutations on Fibrillogenesis, Faizunnahar Dewan
Educating the Diaspora: In Search of Liberatory Educational Experiences, Daicy Diaz-Granados
Investigating Key Risk Factors Across Violent and Non-violent Extremists in the United States, Leevia Dillon
Freedom Song: Uncovering a Politics of Dignity in Black Feminist Thought and Praxis, Abegail M. Dobson
John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech
Abuse Victimization and Impulsivity in Incarcerated Males: Examining the Roles of Affective Instability and Trauma Symptoms, Jacqueline K. Douglas
Emancipatory and Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations of Enslaved Labor in US and Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
Extremism in America: Explaining Variations in Ideologically Motivated Fatal Violence, Celinet Duran
How the U.S. Mainstream Media Perpetuates Cis White Masculine Hegemony, Yelena Dzhanova
"A Decorator in the Best Sense": Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, the Fabric Curtain Partition, and the Articulation of the German Modern Interior, Marianne E. Eggler-Gerozissis
“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens, Damele Elliott-Hubbard
Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018, Luke P. Elliott-Negri
The Role of Nuclear Quantum Effects in Supercooled Water and Amorphous Ice, Ali H. Eltareb
Los Barrios Populares en el imaginario de América Latina durante el periodo neoliberal: La construcción de los mitos de las Villas, Favelas y Colonias populares en Argentina, Brasil y México, Roberto Elvira Mathez
Quantifying Temperature-, Pressure-, and Nuclear Quantum Effects on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Water-Mediated Interactions, Justin T. Engstler
Etiology of Injustice, Susan Erck
Extraction, Property, and Rights in Southeastern Arabian Seascapes c.1820–present, Scott Erich
Social Impacts of Robotics on the Labor and Employment Market, Kelvin Espinal
The Devil Is in the Details: Witchcraft Materiality and Systems of Belief in Early Modern France, Ryan Evelyn
Association Strength between Concepts as the Origin of the "Foreign Language Effect", Emilia Ezrina
Fuglede's Conjecture in Some Finite Abelian Groups, Thomas Fallon
The Impact of Overseas Study Experiences on Chinese Students’ Attitudes Toward the United States, Xufeng Fang
Genetic Determinants Involved in Acquisition of Iron in the Opportunistic Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus, Manal F. Farhat
Tunable Linear and Nonlinear Metasurfaces Based on Hybrid Gold-Graphene Plasmons, Matthew Feinstein
The Punitive Laboratory of Neoliberalism: A Cross-national Examination, Beth A. Fera
A Stronger Strong Schottky Lemma for Euclidean Buildings, Michael E. Ferguson
Beyond The Songs on The Vistula: Chopin and Poland, a Mythical Construction, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Nieto
Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence, Yesenny Fernandez
The Promise of Universalism Deferred: Political Economy of Social Policy in 21st Century Latin America, Juan C. Ferre
Automatic Analysis of the Frequency, Vigor, and Complexity of Spontaneous Locomotion Bouts of Mice with Loss and Gain of Function of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Smoothened in Cholinergic Neurons, Aleksandra Feshchenko
An Offer You Cannot Refuse: Understanding the Elusive Construct of "Voluntary" Plea Decisions, Melanie B. Fessinger
From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination, Agnieszka A. Ficek
Evolutions in Suicide Bombing: Exploring the Relationship Between the Tactic and Its Application by Non-state Armed Groups Across Various Conflict Zones Over Time, David E. Firester
Beat Construal, Tempo, Metric Dissonance, and Transgressing the Groove in Heavy Metal, Drew Fleming
Diagnosis and Management of Adults with Hidden Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review, Chana Flohr
Language And Conjuncture in Populist Strategy: Podemos And Contemporary Spanish Political Thought, Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier
Completive 'todo': Implications for Possessives, Existentials, and Locative Expressions, Carolina Fraga
Syntactic Parsing of Relative Clauses and Wh-Questions in L2 Italian, Pamela Franciotti
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Structural Perspectives: Mitigating Information Poverty among Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Populations in the Queens Public Library System, Richelle L. Frederick