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 2006
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
Visible Effects: Narrative Spectacle and Affective Response in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Tanya Radford
The Ground Axiom, Jonas Reitz
Countable Short Recursively Saturated Models of Arithmetic, Erez Shochat
Empire's Footprint: Expulsion and the United States Military Base on Diego Garcia, David Stiefel Vine
Maze Learning and Recall in Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume proboscirostris Boulenger 1898 (Teleostei, Mormyridae): Sensory Bases, Alice G. Walton
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2005
Unshap'd Monsters: Political Farce on the London Stage, 1717-1737, Melissa Ann Bloom
“Neither in Nor Out of Blackwood's": The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose Address, Jonathan Hartmann
"I Harbor No Hate": A Study of Political Tolerance and Intolerance in Holocaust Survivors, Nancy Isserman
An Early Violin Sonata by Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition and Study, Johannes P. Knijff
Contracts in Athenian Law, Ellen Knopf
The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: “Albanian” Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece, Christopher M. Lawrence
Shades of Dispossession: Neoliberalism and the Social Production of Credibility, In Machu Picchu, Peru, Pellegrino A. Luciano
Splitting of Vector Bundles on Punctured Spectrum of Regular Local Rings, Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin
Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing, Tim McCormack
Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination, Anne P. Rice
Represent: The New York City Public Housing Resident Alliance and Its Struggle Against the Imposition of the Neoliberal Agenda, Gretchen Susi
Collaborating in Care: Developing a Model of Dialogic Empathy in Nursing Education, Kimberlee Jean Trudeau
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2004
Naming the Future: How Salvadoran Community Radio Builds Civil Society and Popular Culture, Diana Elizabeth Agosta
John B. Flannagan (1895-1942): A Reexamination of His Life and Work, Katherine Rangoon Doyle
International Regime, Domestic Politics and Telecommunications Technology: Jamaica in the Information Age, Judith A. Duncker
To Stand on Their Own: Women’s Higher Education in Contemporary Kerala, India, Alcira Forero-Pena
The Role of Dopamine in Motivational and Receptive Aspects of Female Mouse Sexual Behavior, Amber Bradshaw Hodges
Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos
An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell
Risk Premiums on Government Bonds: A Cointegration Approach and Error Correction Model, Onisiforos Iordanou
Bartolomeo di Tommaso da Foligno, Michael Patrick Johnson
Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality, Terence S. Kissack
"Optimal” Inflation Under Dollarization, Kazutaka Kurasawa
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2003
On String Topology of Three Manifolds, Hossein Abbaspour
Women's Envy in the Workplace: Contexts and Consequences, Para Ambardar
Economic Convergence — The German 1990 Economic and Monetary Union, Mary Louise Costanza Lo Re
Implicit Prosody in Silent Reading: Relative Clause Attachment in Croatian, Nenad Lovric
Identifying the First Person, Roblin Roy Meeks
Art or Propaganda: A Historical and Critical Analysis of African-American Approaches to Dramatic Theory, 1900–1965, Henry D. Miller
Clothes Talk: Youth Modernities and Commodity Consumption in Dakar, Senegal, Suzanne Scheld
Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction, Janine Marie Utell
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2002
Art to Educate: A History of Public Art in the New York City Public Schools, 1890–1976, Michele Cohen
Charles M. Kurtz (1855-1909): Aspects and Issues of a Cosmopolitan Career, Arleen Pancza Graham
No Relief: The Politics of Welfare Retrenchment, 1873-1898 and 1973-2002, Stephen Pimpare
The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain, Jeffrey Stephen Ruth
For "The Boys in Blue": The Art Galleries of the Sanitary Fairs, Evdokia Savidou-Terrono
Speech Perception and Lexical Effects in Specific Language Impairment: The Effects of Vowel Duration and Word Knowledge on Perception of Final Alveolar Stop Voicing, Frances L.V. Scheffler
Urban Youth Reimagine Trauma: Making Meaning of Experiences with Chronic Community Violence Through the Arts, Stephanie Urso Spina
Vigilance or Tolerance?: Ambivalence and Attitude Accessibility in Response to Terrorist Threats, Julie Tison
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2001
Crime Legends in Old and New Media, Pamela Donovan
Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915, Andrew L. Erdman
The Police Officer as Survivor: The Psychological Impact of Exposure to Death in Contemporary Urban Policing, Vincent E. Henry
Mothers of Sexually Abused Children and the Concept of Collusion, Patricia A. Joyce
Clinical Process Related to Outcome in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder, Cara F. Klein
The Influence of Family and Community Ties on the Demand for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, Kenneth Allen Knapp
L1 Lexical, Morphological and Morphosyntactic Attrition in Greek-English Bilinguals, Linda Ann Pelc
Private 'I's: Investigating Men's Experiences with Pornographies, Michael Charles Putnam
The Emergence of Dialogic Identities: Transforming Heteroglossia in the Marquesas, F.P., Kathleen C. Riley
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2000
Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Physics: A Study of Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1929-1930 Manuscripts and the Roots of His Later Philosophy, Anton Alterman
Ética y estética de la narrativa femenina hispanoamericana contemporánea: un diálogo con las teorías bajtinianas del discurso literario, Aranzazu Borrachero
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative Clause Attachment in English and Spanish, Eva M. Fernandez
Redemption and Recovery: An Ethnographic Comparison of Two Drug Rehabilitation Programs, a Faith Community and a Therapeutic Community, Daniel E. Hood
Morphology and Photocatalysis of Titanium Dioxide Aerogels, Sean Kelly
Painted Slang: The Caricatural Aspects of French Painting, 1850–1880, Melina V. Kervandjian
Robert Henri and the American Southwest: His Work and Influence, Valerie Ann Leeds
The American Colonization of the Philippines and the Self-examination, Self-presentation and Re-presentation of American Identity, Jennifer Marie McMahon
De la pantalla al papel: el cine mudo y la narrativa vanguardista española, Maria Montoya
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire, Richard E. Zeikowitz
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1999
Deflating Deflationism, Bradley Philip Armour-Garb
The Contribution of Interaural Intensity Differences to the Horizontal Auditory Localization of Narrow Bands of Noise, Matthew H. Bakke
In the Face of Violence: Rape Crisis Workers Talk About Their Lives, Shantih E. Clemans
Robert Henri and Cosmopolitan Culture of Fin-de-Siecle France, Linda Jones Gibbs
The Development of the Meanings of Think and Know Through Conversation, Lea Kessler Shaw
The Structure and Procedures of Hostage/Crisis Negotiation Units in United States Police Organizations, Robert Joseph Louden
Investigation of the Glucose-Induced Inactivation of Maltose Permease in Saccharomyces, Igor L. Medintz
The Writings of Russell Sturgis and Peter B. Wight: The Victorian Architect as Critic and Historian, Marjorie A. Pearson
Contemporary Romanian Theatre: Artistry, Honesty, and Adaptation in the Plays of Iosif Naghiu, Dumitru Radu Popescu and Marin Sorescu, Eric Pourchot
Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere, Russell Lee Rockwell
A Theater of Anxiety: The Irrepresentable in Shelley's "The Cenci" and in Musset's "Lorenzaccio", Remy Joseph Roussetzki
John Brougham: The American Performance Career of an Irish Comedian, 1842–1880, Dana Rahm Sutton
The Women of the Ten, Twent', Thirt': Popular Melodrama Theatre in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Barbara Meredith Waldinger
Creating Art and Artists: Late Nineteenth-Century American Artists' Studios, Karen A. Zukowski
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 1998
Feeding Ecology and Aspects of Life History in Microcebus Rufus (Family Cheirogaleidae, Order Primates), Syivia Atsalis
Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context, Barbara Bevington
Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, Peter F. deCataldo
A Developmental Study of the NMDA Receptor, Katherine M. Flynn
Adult Attachment and Maternal Representations of Gender During Pregnancy: Their Impact on the Child's Subsequent Gender Role Development, Leslie A. Gibson
"To Sew or To Sow?” European Gender Images and Development in Rural Ecuador, Barbara Grunenfelder-Elliker
Ana Mendieta, the Iowa Years: A Critical Study, 1969 through 1977, Julia P. Herzberg
The Calamus Root: American Gay Poetry Since World War II, Walter Ralph Holland
The Ideal Catalogue House: Mail-Order Architecture and Consumer Culture, 1914–1930, Evie T. Joselow
The Role of Political and Sexual Identity in the Works of Klaus Mann, James R. Keller
