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 2019
Essays on Paid Family Leave in the United States, Beila R. Leboeuf
Facial Identification: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research, Jungwon Lee
Structural Studies on Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Activation of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase, Kwangwoon Lee
Reverse the Curse: Colonialist Legacies of the Magic Poem, Karen E. Lepri
Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation or Relocation: Barbuda as a Case Study, Martha B. Lerski
Sex, Scents, and Cephalopods: Factors That Affect Social and Reproductive Behavior in Chambered Nautilus and Oval Squid, Naomi J. Lewandowski
Intimate Partner Violence Among Expectant Adolescent Couples: Psychological and Relational Predictors and Sexual Risk, Jessica Lewis
Essays in Health Economics, Chiao-Han Lin
The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link
In Her Own Hands: How Girls and Women Used the Piano to Chart their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, and Shape Music in America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin
The Superstitious Heuristic in Strategic Decision-making, Jing Liu
The Moving On Program and Supportive Housing Residents with Histories of Homelessness, Kimberly Livingstone
Place-Making by Black and Latinx Students in Predominantly White Institutions: Participatory Design and Meaning Making Through a Social Enterprise, Joshua P.H. Livingston
A Purely Defeasible Argumentation Framework, Zimi Li
Basis for a Critique of International Human Rights and Constitutional Law: Foundations, Speech Acts and Analytic Limitations, Luis H. Llanos Gil
Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez
Claiming the Remains of the Past: The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects to Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, Pierre Losson
Sylvia Plath and "the bigger things": War, History, and Modernism at Midcentury, Reagan Lothes
The Impact of Racial Microaggressions and Major Discriminatory Events on Mental Health, Florence Lui
Objectively-measured and Subjectively-perceived Financial Literacy, Wenyi Lu
A Narrative Inquiry of Associate Degree Nursing Students' Stories About Their Experience of Academic Misconduct, Bridget Anne Maley
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Supramolecular Assemblies in Biology and Bionanotechnology, Anjela Manandhar
Cognitive Models of Defense Behaviors in Hosts of Brood Parasites, Thomas J. Manna
Stabilizing Forces in Acoustic Cultural Evolution: Comparing Humans and Birds, Daniel C. Mann
Love and Revolution: Queer Freedom, Tragedy, Belonging, and Decolonization, 1944 to 1970, Velina Manolova
Art and War: Republican Propaganda of The Spanish Civil War, Jason Manrique
Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks
The Evolution of the Centaur in Italian Renaissance Art: Monster, Healer, Mentor, and Constellation, Trinity Martinez
Getting the Benefit of the Doubt: The Effect of Randomization Ratio on the Placebo Response, Taiki Matsuura
The Role of Fluids in Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Deposit, NY, Peter D. Matt
Magic Performances: Rituals and Practice in Italian Theatre and Culture, 1520–1650, Erika Mazzer
Perceptions of Sexual Violence: An Investigation of Sexual Harassment, Sexual Coercion, and Sexting, Jennifer J. McMahon
Effects of Primary and Secondary Cigarette Smoke on Auditory Function: A Systematic Review, Hilary McManus
Anxieties of Incorporation: U.S. Territorialization and the Western Imaginary from the Louisiana Purchase to Moby-Dick, Diana Meckley
The Growing Middle Class and the Absence of Democracy in China, Danni Mei
Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction, Rosemery Membreno
Remembering Vienna: Mapping Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors from Austria, Katharina Menschick
Vanishing Leaves: A Study of Walt Whitman Through Location-Based Mobile Technologies, Jesse A. Merandy
The Ferguson Effect in Contemporary Policing: Assessing Police Officer Willingness to Engage the Public, Christopher Mercado
The Origins of the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Stephanie Mercedes
Affordances in the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Pedagogies of Writing, Reading, and Making, T. Meyerhoff
The Urban Domestic: Homosocial Domesticity, Literature, And Culture in 19th and 20th Century New York City, Krystyna Michael
Coordination, Collaboration, and Delegation in EU Migration Management, Nicholas R. Micinski
La vigencia de lo r/Real: la memoria traumática y el relato policial postdictatorial en Argentina y Chile, 1996–2015, Jelena Mihailovic
Weaving Modern Forms: Fiber Design in the United States, 1939–1959, Sarah Mills
Articulation of the Japanese Moraic Nasal: Place of Articulation, Assimilation, and L2 Transfer, Ai Mizoguchi
Dermatoglyphic Measures in Relation to Depressive Symptoms Among Non-Clinical Adolescents and Young Adults, Yosefa A. Modiano
Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk
El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y El Guzman de Alfarache, Cristina Morales Segura
This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus, Eleanor A. Morikawa
Demographic Factors as Domains for Adaptation in Linguistic Preprocessing, Sara Morini
Across Curriculums: A Need for Audiology Instruction for Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Jenna M. Morishita
HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive, Kayla Morse
The Interaction of Attention and Memory on the Reorienting Negativity, John C. Moses
Caring Choices? Supporting and Dreaming with Students in New York City’s Stratifying High School Admissions System, Megan R. Moskop
Clinical Characteristics and Neuroanatomical Predictors of Acute Antidepressant Outcome for Patients with Comorbid Depression and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Jeffrey N. Motter
Dance of Exile: The Sakharoffs’ Visual Performances in Montevideo (1935–1948), Pablo Munoz Ponzo
Improving Measurement and Expanding Meta-Analytic Knowledge: Social and Emotional Learning in Elementary and Early Childhood, Dana M. Murano
The Role and Regulation of Alternative Polyadenylation in the DNA Damage Response, Michael R. Murphy
An Investigation of Alkylboron Transmetallation in Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki Reactions, Benjamin Murray
The Family, Political Theory, and Ideology: A Comparative Study of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Engels, David M. Murray Jr.
The "I" of the Artist-Curator, Natalie Musteata
The Origin of Power in the Need to Cooperate: Parallels Between Political and Economic Power, David Nagy
Dynamics of the Family lambda tan z^2, Santanu Nandi
Transforming Through Power: Teachers and the Negotiation of Authority in Schools, Madhu Narayanan
Critical Visuality: Workshops for the Examination of Media, Aily R. Nash
Chemotaxonomy of Theobroma and Herrania (Malvaceae) and Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) species, Adam Negrin
What is the Relationship among Team Psychological Safety, Nursing Agency, and Rapid Response System Activation?, Grace Mingsum Ng
Quantum Uncertainty Reduction (QUR) Theory of Attended Access and Phenomenal Consciousness, Anatoly V. Nichvoloda
Efficient Private Information Retrieval, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
Topological Insulating States in Photonics and Acoustics, Xiang Ni
Understanding Human Cognitive Control via fMRI Analysis, Xiuyan Ni
Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton
Effects of Innovations in Health Care Provision and Financing, Hoda Nouri Khajavi
Essays on the Economic Consequences of Capital Controls, Richard J. Nugent III
The Right to Run: Decoding Sexism Against Women Politicians and Fighting for a New Paradigm for Intersectional Left Feminists, Charlene A. Obernauer
Examining Relations between Executive Functions and Decoding: A Meta-analytic Investigation, Teresa Ober
Existentialmd.com: Building Towards an Embodied Internet Aesthetic, Natasha Ochshorn
Sedimenting Territory: A Political Geology of Oil, Earth, and Spatial Politics in Turkey, Zeynep Oguz
Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States and Nepal: A Comparative Study, Abin Ojha
Semi-supervised Regression with Generative Adversarial Networks Using Minimal Labeled Data, Greg Olmschenk
Cyborgean Horizons: Gender, Disability and Technology in Olympic and Paralympic Sport, An Intersectional Approach, Stephanie O'Neill
Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
A Politics of Boundlessness, Fernando Orellana
Imagining Africa: An Analysis of Tropes and Motifs in Turn of the Century Black Music, Shane Ortale
A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements, Jason W. Ostrowe
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, Sofia Oviedo
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
Getting at the Surface: A Promoter and Coding Sequence Characterization of an Odorant Receptor, Irena G. Parvanova