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
Settling Into Inequality: Resettled Afghans in the Washington DC Metro Area, Harry Frey
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies, Ricardo Gabriel
Hands. Words. Mirrors. A letter to my mother., Iliana Emilia García
“Here in America”: Broadway Musicals and the Making of Jewish Americans, Barrie Gelles
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Population Genomics, Ecology and Conservation of Asterias Sea Stars in the North Atlantic, Melenia I. Giakoumis
Social Identities and Campus Belonging as Predictors of Flourishing Among College Students, Christine Gilchrist
“Delicious Libation”: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888, Caroline L. Gillaspie
Audible Futures: Scenes of Sonic Encounter in Cold War Kurdistan, 1923–2023, Nicholas S. Glastonbury
Health Care Providers' Attributions of Blame for Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Acquisition Among Cisgender Women, Alison J. Goldberg
Political Theatre After Occupy: Participation, Interpellation, and the Search for New Subjectivities in the Theatre, Andrew J. Goldberg
Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film, Ethan Goldberg
The Landscape of Daughterhood: A Redefinition, Sarah Goldstone
The Effect of Race on Housing Stratification Among Latinos, Julia T. Gomez
Form in Hip-Hop Music: Sections, Songs, and History, Stephen M. Gomez
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Avoiding Success: How Does Fear of Success Impact Today's Workforce?, Bradley E. Gray
The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana, Edwin Grimsley
Staying, Flowing, Resounding: Children's Interactions and Space-Based Attachments on a Manu'a Island, Mariapaola Gritti
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
Social and Cultural Processes that Impact Physical Activity among South Asian Americans Managing Hypertension: A Mixed Methods Study, Sugandha Gupta
Phase Transitions and Thermal Stability of the Magnetic Dual Chiral Density Wave Phase in Cold, Dense QCD, William G. Gyory
“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023, Anna S. Harb
Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota, Anthony J. Harb
Metabolic Reprogramming in KRAS-driven Cancer Cells, Ahmet Hatipoglu
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Finding Autonomy Under the Russian Bear: Explaining Central Asia’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Hitch
Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing, Christopher Hoffman
Public Privacy and Info-Liberal Authoritarianism, Christopher Hongach
Babel, Daniel Horowitz
Design and Synthesis of Surface-Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, Hailin Huang
Navigating Through World’s Military Spending Data with Scroll-Event Driven Visualization, Hong Beom Hur
Icons in Lyari: Resonance, Visibility, and Global Blackness in an Indian Ocean Port Town, Zehra Husain
Accelerating Parameter Identifiability of Differential Models with Applications to Parameter Estimation, Ilia Ilmer
Recursive Functional Learning in Nonfluent Aphasia, Gerald C. Imaezue
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Studies Investigating the Role of the DLPFC in Memory and Metamemory, Casey M. Imperio
Regulating the Care Boom: Labor Standards Enforcement and Paid In-Home Care Work, Isaac Jabola-Carolus
The Effects of Music Therapy on Elderly Adults with Dementia, Jeante J. Jackson
Concerned Student: Institutional Violence and Embodied Abolition in the University of Missouri Protests, Gaurav Jashnani
Genres of Labor: Wageless Work and the Aesthetics of Stagnation, Martin A. Jensen
Electrochemical Resistive-Pulse Sensing in Biological Systems, Rui Jia
Determining the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Predictors on Ecological Niche Models, Erica Johnson
Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences, Hayden Daeshin Ju
Neural Network vs. Rule-Based G2P: A Hybrid Approach to Stress Prediction and Related Vowel Reduction in Bulgarian, Maria Karamihaylova
Evocative Visualization of Void and Fluidity, Tomiko Karino
The Queer Comedy Boom: The History of LGBTQ+ Stand-up Comedy, Marcelle Karp
Caring for Children with Mental Health Concerns: The Experience of Being a School Nurse, Jeannine Kaskoun
Examining the Role of Evidence-Based Suspicion in Racial Disparities in Wrongful Convictions, Jacqueline Katzman
Bearer Negotiable Instruments: Addressing a Financial Intelligence Gap and Identifying Criminogenic Weaknesses, Hollis B. Kegg
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