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 2026
Riding Two Cities: A Data Visualization Capstone Comparing NYC's BMT Subway and Tokyo's Yamanote Line, Andreina R. Abreu
Computational and Functional Characterization of Terebrid Venom Peptides, Favour T. Achimba
Autoconvocadxs: interpretaciones biopolíticas y psicopolíticas del poder popular, el archivo y la memoria en la cultura popular de Puerto Rico, Jose A. Acosta-Seda
Whose Restoration? Community, Ownership, and Power in Restorative Justice Diversion, Josh G. Adler
“A chill wind sweeps the high places”: Audre Lorde’s and June Jordan’s Black Feminist Pedagogies for Remaking Higher Education, Maddie Albanese
The Influence of Chief Executive Officer Personality on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Completion, Nikisha Alcindor
Mapping Memory: Space and the Afterlives of Violence in Iraqi and American Fiction after 2003, Khaled al-Hilli
Separatism and Solidarity in Gay and Lesbian Communal Song during the Long 1980s U.S., Poe M. Allphin
Speculative Urbanism: Real Estate, Capital, and Subjectivity in Egypt’s Desert Frontiers, Nehal Amer
Implicit Attitudes Toward Hearing Aid Visibility: Conspicuous versus Inconspicuous Hearing Aid Colors, Orly R. Ames
Hip-Hop Hypocrisy: How Rap Music Culture and Its Lyrical Obsession with Luxury Fashion Compromises Black America, Jeffrey Ampratwum
Essays on Financial Derivatives, Market Structure and Inequality, Christos Angelopoulos
Exploring Minor Feelings: Asian and Asian American’s Racialized Emotions, Identity, and Mental Health Amidst COVID-19, Kristina Mirasol Arevalo
FBI National Stolen Art File: Lost Artifacts and Missing Data, Allison N. Arnold
Essays on Inheritance: Tax Policies and Household Outcomes, Twisha Asher
Cooling Deserts for Renters: Heat Equity Inside the NYC Housing System, Tahreem Ashraf
Parkinson’s Disease Phenotype Stratification using Multiple Correspondence Analysis, Kelly Astudillo
Systems Epistemology, Boris Ayala
Charles Olson’s Curriculum: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Teaching the Liberal Arts, Onur A. Ayaz
Neural Correlates of Recognition Memory and Metamemory in Breast Cancer Survivors: An Event-Related Potential Study, Dishari Zaman Azad
Three Degrees of Representation: How GenAI Filters, Retrieves, and Remixes Lesbian Film Data, Maria G. Baker
Inductive Biases in Field-Level Cosmological Inference from Galaxy Catalogs, James O'Connor Baldwin
Replanting Hawthorns: Towards a Diachronic Translation of À la recherche du temps perdu, Gerardo Bandera
Artistic Mediations Between the Mughal Empire and Medici Florence: A Cross-Cultural Study of Techniques and Iconography Through Hardstone Inlays, Matteo Bellucci
Monsters in the Gutter: Queerness and Family in Graphic Novels, Maren Beriss
Exploring the Influence of Ear-Level Devices on Adult Perceptions Across Professional, Social, and Educational Settings, Lucia R. Berry
Paper Government: How the State Governs Migration Through Extending Rights: A Study of Colombian Immigration Policy, 2016–2024, Andres Besserer Rayas
Storytelling on Tour: Creating National Theatre Stories of the Abbey and Habima in the United States, Shiraz N. Biggie
Metamaterials that Perform Computation Using Light, Aneek Biswas
Que tus ojos no se cansen de brillar, Gabriel E. Bouche Caro
Reimagining Puerto Rican Sonic Identity: Musical Style and Creation After Hurricane María., Gabriel E. Bouche Caro
Nanoparticles for Advancements in Radiopharmaceutical Technologies, Natalie Boykoff
Searching for M Dwarf Coronal Mass Ejections with TESS and SDSS-V, Andrea Bracamonte
The Legible City: "Placing" Brazilian Modernity from Far and Near, Tyler Bunton
Reimagining Safety and Justice: Experiences of and Resistance to Police Sexual Violence in New York City, Priscilla Bustamante
Still On Welfare, Still Divided: Understanding Support for the United States Welfare State, Ryan M. Camire
The Relationship of Tau Hyperphosphorylation with Nuclear Pathology and Oxidative Stress, Robert Candia
Investigating the Role of Phonology and Morphology in the Processing and Acceptability of Bilingual Code-Switching, Daniela Castillo
Exporting Dissent: Education and the Making of New York City's Dominican Community (1960–2002), Jayson M. Castillo
Evaluating Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Environmental Change, Annaliese Chang
Voces of Teachers and the Politics of Literacy: A Case Study of Multilingual Kindergarten in a Midwestern Urban District, Rachel Chapman
Scaling Limits of Critical Observables Through the High Dimensional Incipient Infinite Cluster, Pranav Chinmay
Technology Disruptions in Platform Ecosystems: AI, Market Adaptation, and Digital Resignation, Eunah Cho
The Distant Shore: Translating Memory and the Mnemonic Afterlife of Marinette Pendola’s La riva lontana, Richard Ciriello
Quiver of Affine Monoid of a Vector Space Over Finite Field, James Junie Chen Cleary
Elite Manipulation of Accountability Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of CICIG and MACCIH, Kevin E. Contreras
Revolutionary Governance, Culture, and the Party-State in Postcolonial Guinea: Political Thought and Practice Under Ahmed Sékou Touré, M. Sekani Corbie
Who Wants State Punishment When?, Nicolette Dakin
Music Appreciation in Cochlear Implant Users: A Questionnaire, Hanna Davidson
Gathering Knowledge, Sustaining Science: The Female Forager and American Mushroom Culture, 1880–1930, Madeline S. DeDe-Panken
Pauline Milk and Bread: Human Industry and Divine Truth in the Jesuit Mission in Japan, Maria I. De La Guardia
Building Blocks of Institutional Resilience: Governance, Crisis Preparedness, and Community Support in Non-Profit Schools, Karyn Elizabeth Delay
Kitchen Table Press: A Case Study of Regression to the Neoliberal Mean, Alaina DiSalvo
Covert Scrambling to the Edge in Tshangla: An Analysis of Wh- In-Situ, Tshering Y. Dorji
Building Fugitive Communities Through Refusal, Angela Dunne
Policing Sex Trafficking: 'They’re Never Taught, You Know', Anila S. Duro
Ligand-Guided Selection and Biochemical Characterization of DNA Aptamers Against the Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptors, Agbor Otu Egbe Vydaline
Development of Novel Anti-Cancer Colchicine Analogs: Synthesis and Configurational Studies, Orugbani S. Eli
The Emergence, Maintenance, and Diversity of Strains in Microbial Pathogen Populations, Brandon P. Ely
Mechanistic Studies of Aerobic Photochemistry: Gold Nanoclusters, Nanoparticles, and Solution-Phase Systems, Serah Essang
Distribution of Power in South Asia: Assessing Sino-Indian Conflict Propensity, Fatima Faisal
Gremlin Theory: A Film Art of Joe Dante, Frank Falisi
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: Doctrine, Implementation, Cannibalization, Noah S. Fischer
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Microglia-Mediated Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease, Anna Flury
Build, Freeze, Expedite, Renew: Messages on Housing in the 2025 New York City Mayoral Campaign, Elizabeth A. Foley
The Forgotten Workforce: Housing Affordability, Political Behavior, and the Missing Middle in New York City, Nate French
Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations? How Mexican Americans Think About U.S. Security Policy, Jesus J. Garcia-Gomez
How to Search for the Engram: Optogenetics and Network Dynamics, Claudia Garcia Jou
Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry and the Politics of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato
Visualizing Six Decades of Polish Migration: An Interactive Analytics Approach (1966–2024), Alexandra Gilarowski
Pedagogy of Care: Exploring Climate Justice Frameworks in CUNY Undergraduate Courses, Ismerlyn Gonzalez
Molding the Mosaic: Progressive Coalition Formation in the 2021 New York City Council Elections, Sam Goodson
New Fast Polynomial Root-Finders, Soo Go
An Inferential Analysis of Lexical Networks, Christopher D. Gravelle
The Behavior and Complexation of Technetium Under Conditions Relevant for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Rachel E. Greenberg
Essays on Behavioral Aspects of Retail Operations, Ceren Gultekin
Empirical Essays on Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, Ian Stewart Haberman
Measuring Islamic Republic Propaganda in Western Media Coverage of Iran: A Computational Framework, Leila Habibi
High-Sensitivity Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Exciton Dynamics in Nanomaterials, Siedah J. Hall
Buttressing Britain’s Financial Rise: Anglo-Dutch Brokers in Eighteenth-Century London, Jiwon Han
Fleshing Out the Modern Allegory: An Examination of Modernism's Corporeal Limits, Abigail R. Hebert
A Cat in the House: An Expert Consensus, Owner Survey, and Ethological Inquiry into Cat-Human Play, Julie Hecht
Conga Santiaguera: A Century of Innovation and Competition, Nick Herman
One Olivine Crystal at a Time: Unraveling the Volatile Budget and Timescales of the Deccan Traps Large Igneous Province, Andres Hernandez Nava
Lawyers, Litigation, and the Loosening of Religious Constraints in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, Megan E. Hills
The Hope Dionysos (After Augustus): A Post-Actian Reading of Dionysian Imagery, Jane Horman
Hammer of Eden: Visualization Software and Cultures of Executive Decision-making, Annie Horner
The Experiences of the Transfer of Learning Path: MSW's Perceptions of Organizational Influences, Alexis Howard
Social Capital and the Spread of Information on Twitter Related to Change in the Criminal Legal System, Sebastian Hoyos-Torres
Essays in Strategic Communication, Bohan Huang
Online Visual Query System for Real-Time Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Data Explorations with Error Bounds, Xueqi Huang
An Ecological Approach to School Climate, Safety, And Space: Accounts From Educators, Architects, And Guidelines, Mahnaz Izadi
1D Crust-Magnetosphere Coupling Model for Magnetars, Kennedy M. Jeter
Access Denied: Financial Aid Inequalities and the Economic Impact on DACA Students, Teresa D. Jordan
Development of the Active Participle Denoting Ongoing Aspect in Heritage Speakers of Levantine Arabic in the US, Reem Kanjawi-Faraj
Design of Lithium-Based Battery Electrolyte Compositions for Extreme Operating Conditions Using Alternative Solvents, Co-Solvents and Additives, Michael J. Keating
