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 2024
Essays on Monopoly Power in Housing Rental Markets, Goncalo Filipe Pessa Figueiredo Costa
Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive, Majel Peters
Teacher Perceptions of Restorative Justice Practices in New York City Schools, Brian Pew
Categorical Chain Conditions for Étale Groupoid Algebras, Sunil Philip
Is Aggression In The Eye Of The Beholder?: An Eye-Tracking Study, Kemar P. Pickering
Shear Viscosity of Quasi One-Dimensional BEC Tubes and Entanglement Negativity Conditions, Camilla Polvara
Historiography of The Body and Corporeality in Indonesian Theatre: The Search for Decolonial Aesthetics, Mohamad Ugoran Prasad
Values in Evidence-Based Policy: Bridging Socio-Political, Moral, and Epistemic Domains, Karyna Pryiomka
Trees in Urban Environments: How Soil Quality Impacts Tree Performance, Saidan Qi
Representaciones ideológicas de la lengua, la conversación y la comunicación en manuales de urbanidad del siglo XIX en México: guías para la civilización, el orden y el progreso nacional, Luis B. Quesada Nieto
Chipping the Blue Wall: The Effect of Dogs on Police Officer Receptivity to an Employee Assistance Program, Kenneth M. Quick
No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico, Carmín Quijano Seda
Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography and Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata
Resting-State EEG Microstate Features for Major Depressive Disorder Classification, George M. V. Quinn
Reviving Hysteria: The Nineteenth Century at the End of the Twentieth, Christina Quintana
Using Leaf Spectra to Elucidate the Taxonomy and Ecology of Living and Dried Plants, Natalia L. Quinteros Casaverde
Essays on Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance, Helia Rabie
Regulation of p21 Function by a Sense Long Non-Coding RNA Generated by Alternative Polyadenylation, Anthony Ramadei
Bodies for Catastrophe: A Montage Study of Palestinian Digital Labor, Francisco Ramos
The Impact of Early Teacher Bias and Academic Risk on Children’s Current and Future Academic Achievement, Damira S. Rasheed
Uses of the Intuition: The Role of Intuition in Birth Work (Towards An Intuitive Epistemology), Kayla R. Reece
Framing the Fight: Revolutionary Feelings in Virtual Communities, James Reilly
Aspects of Parity Breaking in Classical and Quantum Fluids, Dylan J. Reynolds
The Crisis of Market Society and the Fascist Solution in the Work of Karl Polanyi, Nicholas E. Reynolds
Understanding Tax Progressivity as a Mechanism of Gender Difference in Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income, Morgan A. Richards-Melamdir
Limit Theorems for L-functions in Analytic Number Theory, Asher Roberts
“Community Thinking Spaces”: Exploring the Openings and Possibilities of a School-Based Intergenerational Community of Practice, Lucy A. Robins
Mechanism of Host Recognition by the Bacteriophage Cystoviridae, Charles F. Robinson IV
The Effect of Working Memory Performance Under Stress on the Relationship Between Trauma History, PTSD Symptoms, and Intimate Partner Violence, Gabriella Robinson
Cuerpos Manchados: Rethinking Racial Difference Through the Grotesque Birthmark, Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales
Exploiting the Heavy Chain Glycans for the Improvement of Radioimmunoconjugates, Cindy Rodriguez
Dante’s Volgare and the Pastoral Presence: An Analysis of the Concept of Language in the Divina Commedia, Paola M. Rodriguez
LGBTQ+ Employees’ Disclosure and Selective Incivility Experiences: Implications for Their Health and Well-Being, Wiston A. Rodriguez
From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan
The Seat of Singular Gene Choice: Dissecting the Role of Odorant Receptor Enhancer Elements That Lead to Mammalian Olfactory System Expression, Alessandro M. Rosa
Investigating the Impact of Affect in Suicide-Specific Attentional Biases, Beverlin Rosario-Williams
Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Critical-Race Teacher Change Agents Are Challenging Whiteness in Elementary Schools, David R. Rosas
The Film, the Stadium and the Jail: The Post-Industrial Transformation of Downtown Durham, Seth Rose
Love in the Time of Dating Apps: Exploring Latino Young Adults’ Experiences Constructing Online Identity, Partner Preferences, and Plans for Happily Ever After, Dakota Z. Ross-Cabrera
Time Ripens on the Counter: A Literary History of the Americas, Judah Rubin
Moving Pictures of the Past: Nostalgia for Classical Hollywood in the Broadway Musical, 1960–1990, Curtis Russell
Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan
A Causal Inference Approach for Spike Train Interactions, Zach Saccomano
Winning the War While Losing their Souls: The Crisis of Honor and Discipline Within the French Army in Algeria, Thomas A. Schellhammer
The Intellectual Roots of Hindutva: Influences from Early German Romantics and Mahatma Gandhi, Johannes Scheuer
Studies of Oxidopyrylium Ylide Dimers and Their Utility in the Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Troponoids, Daniel V. Schiavone
Navigating Uncertainty in the Medically Unexplained: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis, Jenny Clark Schiff
From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff
Computerized Cognitive Training in the Treatment of Depression: Individual Differences and Perceptions of CCT, Sophie Schiff
44Ti/44Sc Generator Development and Radiolabeling Optimization for Medical Applications, Christine E. Schmidt-Kennelty
Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents, Jacqueline M. Scott
Family Fragments: Pressure and Proximity in First-Episode Psychosis, Cassandra B. Seltman
Radical Co-teaching: How Building Relationships Creates Radical Co-teaching Partnerships, Meagan L. Serrano
Voltage Set Points for Sodium Channel Inactivation: Intrinsic and Modulatory Mechanisms, Akshay Sharma
Structural Insights into Bacterial Helicase Loading at a Replication Origin by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, Abhipsa Shatarupa
Biomolecular Crystals as Functional Materials, Fahmeed Khan Sheehan
Evaluating the Reliability and Accuracy of Alchemical Binding Free Energy Methods and Calculations, Fnu Sheenam
Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature, Beth Sherman
Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre, Dohyun Shin
Gendering Diaspora Across Generations: Lebanese Motherhood and Daughterhood Post-Emigration, Janan Shouhayib
Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo
Strike a Pose: Performing Gestures of Female Madness Across Media Circa 1900, Elyse S. Singer
The BlackGIRL Project: Examining the Impact and Manifestation of Colorism among Black Adolescent Girls in the United States: A Critical Participatory Action Research Approach, Gina (Diagou) R. Sissoko
The Mystic Chords of Memory: The Civil War Musical as Historiography, Christine Snyder
Essays on Cryptocurrency Assets, Minwoo Song
Stop the Madness: Small Arms Related Internal Violence: Improving Micro-disarmament and Human Rights in Post Conflict Reconstruction, Paulette A. Southall
A Multilevel Approach to the Analysis and Visualization of Timbral Brightness in Post-Tonal Music, Stephen Spencer
United States Foreign Policy Towards South Africa: From Constructive Engagement to Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, Jennifer J. Squires
“Hattak Vpi Homma” mvt Miha Nanta Fehna? What Does “Native American” Really Mean?, Alex R. Steers-McCrum
Defining Resilience in Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Theory Informed Approach, Barbara Storch
Play in the Undercommons: The Transformative Power of Fugitive Practice in a Multiracial, International Teacher Inquiry Collective, Kushya Sugarman
Regulation of the Intracellular Trafficking of Ajuba by Cell Density and Cell Cycle-Dependent Mechanisms, Huanhuan Sun
Speeding Up Coded Distributed Machine Learning, Xian Su
Metric Schemas and Projections in Three Colombian Folk Genres, Lina S. Tabak
Claiming the Right to Belong: Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York, Susan J. Tanenbaum
Systematics and Comparative Genomics of the Petaluridae (Odonata: Anisoptera), Ethan R. Tolman
The Beautiful and the Bullshit: Speaker and Listener Mental Representations Influence Bullshit Receptivity, Ryan Tracy
God, Fatherland, Family: Integralismo and the Making of the Far-Right in Twentieth Century Brazil, Daniela M. Traldi
Prosodic Marking of Focus in Autistic and Neurotypical Adults, Nishtha N. Trivedi
Synthesis of C-Di- and C-Tri- Saccharides from Glycosyl Crotylating Agents, Steven Truong
Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined, Christina Trupiano
On the Lower Levels of the Ivory Tower: What Color Collars do Adjunct Faculty Wear?, Frederick Tucker
Development and Application of Magnus Expansion based Propagators for Problems in Spectroscopy and Quantum Dynamics, Taner M. Ture
Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay, Alexandra Tydings
Maternal Subjectivities in the 18th and 19th Century British Novel, Anastasia Vahaviolos Valassis
Deep Learning-Based Human Action Understanding in Videos, Elahe Vahdani
The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education, Jessica Velez Tello
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Altruistic Imperialism: The Co-optation of Mutual Aid by the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, Kelly T. Waltz
Context in Computer Vision: A Taxonomy, Multi-stage Integration, and a General Framework, Xuan Wang
Employment Outcomes in Higher Education, Yunxia Wei
Black Horror Film and the Role of Mood in Race Perception, Nicholas P. Whittaker
Neurochemical Signaling of Reward-Based Learning in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons, Kyla F. Wholley
Framing Teacher Migration: An Analysis of Jamaican Media Coverage from 2016–2023, Denise Wiley
Normative Orientations to Housing Activism and the Uneven Path to Nonprofitization in New York City, 1964–1989, Andrew Wilkes
The Black MAP Project: A Black People’s Epistemology of Healing, Britton Williams
Black Women and Social Movements: A Narrative Analysis, Nantasha Williams
