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
Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers
“Investment in Inertia”: Language Ideologies of Instructors and Students of Spanish as a Heritage Language, Michael E. Rolland
Hydrodynamic and Physicochemical Interactions Between an Active Janus Particle and an Inactive Particle, Jessica S. Rosenberg
Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Based Complex Nanomaterials, Prashun G. Roy
Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
Thermodynamics of Learning With Parametric Probabilistic Models, Shervin Sadat Parsi
The Development of Novel Radioimmunoconjugates for the PET Imaging and Radioimmunotherapy of Cancer, Samantha M. Sarrett
Gender Role Conflict, Campus Climate, and Satisfaction among Male Undergraduate Nursing Students, Randelle Sasa
Metabolic Control of Proliferation and Differentiation in Oligodendrocytes, Sami Sauma
Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies: The Politics of Elite and Mass Engagement with Democratic Backsliding, Dean G. Schafer
You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel
“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media, Martha Schulenburg
Gaps of Speculation: Refusing Representation in Queer and Postcolonial Fiction, Sarah Schwartz
Transformation and Abstraction to Aid Comparison of Binary Executables Across Compilation Environments, Jeremy D. Seideman
Learning to Fly while Staying Grounded: How Forcibly Displaced Individuals Develop a Sense of Belonging in Disempowered Cities, Janina L. Selzer
Indigenous Performances in Contemporary Indian Urban Public Theatres: Coloniality, Globalization, and the State, Mayurakshi Sen
Voice Leading in Fugue, Yuval Shapira
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
Memetic Epidemiology: A Mathematical Model for Tracking the Spread of Linguistic Features across Western Europe, Benjamin Shavitz
Insidious Fibs: Early Stories of Henry James, Katherine Shloznikova
Modulatory Effects of Schreckstoff on the Startle Escape Response of Goldfish (Carassius auratus), Denis Shor
Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Abraham Silberstein
Pedagogies of Reform: The Role of Game-Based Learning in Recontextualizing Education, Hamad Sindhi
A Study of Geo-Regional Place-Consciousness in American Literature, Eugene Slepov
Reimagining the Inner Ear: A Morphometric Modeling Approach for Establishing Shape Change in the Evolution of the Human Otolith System, Christopher M. Smith
Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith
Police Academy Attrition Rates: A Long-Term Analysis of Female Candidates in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, and New Jersey, Shamus W. Smith
Pleasure and Power in a Cover Culture: Audiences, Musicians, and Venues in İzmi̇r’s Popular Music Scene, Yılmaz Onur Sönmez
A Multifaceted, Non-Militarized Approach to Security Dynamics in Protected Areas: From Foot Patrols, to Tourism, and Local Communities, Monique Sosnowski
Uprooting Patriarchy: Meditations on Gender, Masculinities, and Healing Through Buddhist Practices, Noah Souder-Russo
Caring for Individuals who are Experiencing Homelessness: An Audiologist’s Toolkit, Jenna Marie Sparacio
The Study of Excitons in 2D Novel Materials and Their van der Waals Heterostructures in the Magnetic Field, Anastasia Spiridonova
Notes on Insurgent Universality In Ambedkar’s Social and Political Thought: A Critique Of Postcolonial Anti-Universalism, Sitharthan Sriharan
Voiding the Unwanted Self: An Examination of Racialized Violence in the United States, Benjamin Stark
Digital Against the Digital, Gemma Stevanella
Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller
“Addiction” in U.S. Political Culture, Be Stone
Belief and Success Health Management Self-Efficacy: A National Survey of Black Adults, Stephanie Y. Store
Coloniality, Western Science, and Critical Ethnic Studies in STEM Education, LaToya M. Strong
Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling, Rebecca Strong
Developing a Scale to Measure Internalization of Oppression Among Latinx Living in New York City, Jeannette A. Sucre
On The Spectrum of Quaquaversal Operators, Josiah Sugarman
Exploring the Potential of Hearing Screening Smartphone Applications to Enhance Access to Hearing Healthcare: A Literature Review, Adam Sulaiman
Precarious, Abby Sumner
Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing, Sophia N. Sunseri
Factors Associated with Technology Adoption by Community-Dwelling Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth A. Sutton
On the Second Case of Fermat's Last Theorem over Cyclotomic Fields, Owen Sweeney
What is the ‘E’ in ESOL? Three Papers on Linguistic Borders, Normativity, and Race in Adult English Education, Kelsey Swift
A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model, Clarisse Taboy
Analyzing ‘Fight the Power’ Part 1: Music and Longevity Across Evolving Marketing Eras, Shokolatte Tachikawa
A Gift To My Self: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Women Who Choose Not To Have Children, Irina D. Tchania
A Typological and Chemical Analysis of Roman Oil Lamps from Poggio del Molino, Brandon Tejo
Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
A Sociology of Gab: A Computational Analysis of a Far-Right Social Network, Nga Than
Evaluating the Effect of CCTV on Crime Occurrence and Case Clearances in Fayetteville, North Carolina: A Microsynthetic Control Quasi-Experiment, Amanda L. Thomas
Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist to Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson
Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography, Aysha E. Todd-Stone
Pairings in a Ring Spectrum-Based Bousfield-Kan Spectral Sequence, Jonathan Toledo
Disclosure Harmonization and R&D Investment Efficiency, Lu Tong
Colonial Geographies of Gendered Violence and Mental Health in the United States and Puerto Rico, Lorraine Lizbeth L. Torres Colon
Race, Gender, Physical Activity, and Cancer: A Quantitative Investigation, Shawna A. Townsend
A Difference of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism, Ryan L. Tracy
Untangling the Nature and Timescales of Magmatic Processes Driving Eruptions at Quiescent Volcanoes: Examples from Momotombo, Nicaragua, and Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands, Samantha Tramontano
Literature, Development, and the Reaches of Literacy, 1979 to the Present, Stephen Tremaine
Typologies of Battering: Uncovering Patterns of Coercive Tactics Used by Abusive Men in a Mixed Methods Study, Abbie L. Tuller
Singlet Oxygen-Mediated Conformational Flexibility, Antioxidant, and Isomerization Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oliver Turque
How Smoking Became a Moral Issue: A Complex Systems Perspective on Moralization, Matthew Vanaman
Political Economy in Lettres d'une Péruvienne: Françoise de Graffigny as Philosophe and Reformer, Marguerite J. Van Cook
This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School, Kimberly F. Vanderbilt
A Quantum Approach to Language Modeling, Constantijn van der Poel
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Truth: How Client Assertion, Perception of Guilt, and Predictive Inaccuracy Influence Plea Recommendations, Anna D. Vaynman
“The American Dream” and The Second Wounding: An Exploration of the Institutions of America Through a Millennial Narrative of Self, Brittany B.C Vicars
Characterization and Modulation of the Emergent Material Properties of Biomolecular Condensates, Alfredo Vidal Ceballos
Styling Sweatshops: Seamstress Imagery, Industrial Capitalism, and Nationalist Agendas in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the United States, Alice J. Walkiewicz
Staging Nature: Performing Environmental Crises in War, Housing, and Labor, 1935–1990, Erik Barrett Wallenberg
Somebody Gave Somebody Some Kind of Heat About Something: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Politically Polarized Suburbs, Melanie Waller
Nanoscale Imaging of Electrocatalytic Nanomaterials by High-resolution Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Xiang Wang
André Mocquereau's Theory of Rhythm, Charles Weaver
Practices and Attitudes Towards Infant Hearing Protection at Orthodox Jewish Weddings, Rebecca Weiss
Synthesis of Fluoroorganics and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Building Blocks, Wei Wei
“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold
Multi-Target Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS) Against B-Cell Specific Antigens Expressed in a Single Lymphoma Cell Population, Nicole B. Williams
The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological, Eric Dean Wilson
An Affective Technology of Heimat: Whiteness, Nation Building and Social Media in Germany, Friederike Windel
Body Check: Transgressive Body Politics of Gina Pane, Orlan, and Deborah De Robertis, Avant-Garde Performance Artists in France, 1960s–Present, Patricia Anne Winter
Germanic Latin Lyric Diction: Regional Variations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, James A. Worley
Numbered, Weighed, Divided: Revolution and/as Apocalypse in the Modern Liberal Tradition, Asher J. Wycoff
Targeting HIF/Coregulator Complexes in Cancer: Characterizing Fragile Fold and Inhibitor Binding Sites of ARNT, Xingjian Xu
Capital Structure Decision and Separating Risk from Optionality, Yang Xu
Ejercicios de sí: escritura, cuerpo y deporte en el Cono Sur (1964–2019), Pablo Yankelevich
Stand-up Comedy Visualized, Berna Yenidogan