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 library barcode 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 top-level Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects page.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Optimization of CuInxGa1-xSe2 Solar Cells with Post Selenization, Zehra Cevher
The French Revolution in Early American Literature, 1789–1815: Translations, Interpretations, Refractions, Courtney Chatellier
Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities, Melanie D. Chin
Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners, Jiyoung Choi
The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency, Sooran Choi
Sociality and Stress in Female Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa: Behavioral Flexibility and Coping Mechanisms, Shahrina Chowdhury
The Social Construction of Protest: Print Media Coverage of the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Protests in New York City, Kirsten Christiansen
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Cioe Peña
Integration of BMP and Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling Regulates Multiple Homeostatic Functions in Caenorhabditis elegans, James F. Clark
The Inter-Subject Correlation of EEG in Response to Naturalistic Stimuli, Samantha S. Cohen
Noise Levels In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review, Esther Cohn
Toward a Science of Morals, Ross Taylor Colebrook
Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole, Alisha M. Collins
Forensic Analysis of Fiber Dyes via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mircea A. Comanescu
A Narrative Approach to Investigating the Contextual Nature of Adolescent Self-Regulation, Kelly Conover
The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography, Brendon E. Cook
The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895, Brendan Cooper
A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists’ Perception of Ethnic Identity Shifts in Immigrant Patients, Ricardo Corbetta
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Leadership Ineffectiveness: The Interactive Effects of Leader Personality, Job Demands, and Job Resources on Ethical Climate and Employee Turnover Intentions, Michelle D. Corman
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography, Melissa Coss Aquino
Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa
Culture Care Needs of Puerto Rican Women Receiving HIV Care from Nurse Practitioners in New York City, Michele Crespo-Fierro
Mahoma en dos textos aljamiados del siglo XVI: La filosofía perenne y el monomito de los moriscos, Emil L. Cruz Fernández
Strengths and Resiliencies of Black MSM in New York City Who Maintain HIV-Seronegativity, Jagadisa-devasri Dacus
Social Capital and Analyst Forecasts, Jing Dai
A Comparison of Quiz Grading Criteria, Exam Question Type and Novelty, and their Effects on Exam Scores, Samantha Dalfen
MicroRNA 1207-3P in Prostate Cancer, Dibash Das
Chile’s Decree-Law 1094: A Source of Immigrant Vulnerability, Joao M. Da Silva
Bias-Motivated Homicides: Toward a New Typology, Lindsey Sank Davis
A Contribution Toward a Global Monograph of Gyroporus: Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Biogeography, Naveed Davoodian
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Venezuela: Oil and Madness. Politics, Propaganda, and Realities of the Chavista Era, Alvaro E. de Prat
Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo
Baryons and Interactions in Magnetic Fields, Amol Deshmukh
Pregnancy Induced Alterations of Reproductive Tract Collagen and Elastin in a Murine Model, Basant K. Dhital
Essays on the Market Structure of the U.S. Health Care System, Ayse S. Diebel
Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon
Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, and the Afterlives of the Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature, Anahi A. Douglas
The Relationship Between Parenting and Child Trauma: An Intergenerational Investigation, Miriam A. Dreyer
Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury
The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic
Final Call: Rank-and-File Rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Under the Influence: Drinking and Immersion in New York City Theatre and Popular Entertainment, 1850 to Present, Chloë R. Edmonson
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin
Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg
Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg
Reading Comprehension Instruction for Young Students with High Functioning Autism: Forming Contextual Connections, Karen S. Engel
A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism, Cory A. Evans
The Color of Desire: Contradictions of Race, Sex, and Gay Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher B. Ewing
The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen
Determinants of the Acquisition and Display of Behaviors Associated with “Guilt” (Appeasement Behaviors) by Companion Dogs, Parvene Farhoody
Non-canonical Activation of CREB/crh-1 Mediates Neuroprotection in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Excitotoxic Necrosis, K. Genevieve Feldmann
The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Laura R Feola
Studying the Space of Almost Complex Structures on a Manifold Using de Rham Homotopy Theory, Bora Ferlengez
Ansiedades épico-criollas y el mecenazgo de Indias en el Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña, Andrea L. Fernandez
Resonant Texts: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, Paul Fess
Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, Chassitty N. Fiani
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn
Speech Perception in Mandarin- and Cantonese-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Sum Yee Fong
Difficult Subjects Scatting and Scattered: A Poetics of Dissolution in Black Expressive Culture, Tonya M. Foster
Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare, Bradley Fox
Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story, Angela Francis
"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
From Establishment to Final Independence: A Study of the National Archives of the United States of America from 1934–1985, Daniel M. Frett
Demystifying the Placebo Effect, Phoebe Friesen
Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner
English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization, Jennifer C. Gabriele
Rachmaninoff and the Flexibility of the Score: Issues Regarding Performance Practice, Tanya Gabrielian
Poetry, Photography and the Place of Longing: A Return, Victoria R. Gandolf
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Felix L. Garcia
Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959), Pablo Garcia Martinez
Haunted Stories, Haunted Selves: Ghosts in Latin American Jewish Literature, Charlotte Gartenberg
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Neural Bases of Metamemory Judgments, Alexandra M. Gaynor
Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation, Liam S. Geron
Re-Architecting Mass Storage Input/Output for Performance and Efficiency, Robert Gezelter
Synthetic Control and Dynamic Panel Estimation: A Case Study of Iran, Orkideh Gharehgozli
Three Essays on Capital Structure and Cross-Listing, Saeed Ghasseminejad
Mechanisms Adopted by Dengue-2 Viruses to Induce Autophagy in Mammalian Cells, Sounak Ghosh Roy
Examining the Effects of a Content-based Peer Feedback Writing Intervention in Community College Classrooms, Jennifer M. Gilken
Renal Risk Variants of Apolipoprotein L-1 Form Channels at the Plasma Membrane that Lead to a Cytotoxic Influx of Calcium, Joseph A. Giovinazzo
Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers, Dana Glaser
Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, Erin R. Glass
Perceived Knowledge and Defense of Political Attitudes, Matthew H. Goldberg
Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices, Emily Goldsmith
The Fragmented Mind: Working Memory Cannot Implement Consciousness, Javier Gomez-Lavin