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 2025
The Influence of Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Curriculum Content on Career Interests for Social Work Students, Sabretta G. Alford
Mineral Landscapes: British Art and Extraction, 1937–1975, Tobah Aukland-Peck
Investigating DNA Damage Caused by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species via Guided-Ion-Beam Scattering and Computational Techniques, Jonathan Benny
Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner
Navigating Climate Action: The River as Teacher for Eco-Literacy, Educational Regeneration and Creative Participation, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
The Double Victimization of Black Women at the Crossroads of Oppression, Carmerina Carrero
Destabilizing the Nuyorican: Rivera’s Women and Nuyorican Cinema, Judith R. Escalona
A Historical Analysis of Saturday Night Live's Engagement in American Presidential Politics, Isabel Fox
Filmology, Richard N. Gladstein
Category Learning Reorganizes Internal Representations of Visual Artworks, Aishwarya Gurung
Embracing Language Diversity: An Exploration Elementary Teachers' Perception of African American English, Manijeh Hart
Palimpsests of the Mind: Memory, Anamnesis, Temporality, Selin Kalostyan
When College is Not Working Out: Obstacles to Community College Completion, Elisabeth Lackner
Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front, Dario Marcucci
The Jamaica Now Leadership Council: A Study of Stakeholder Participation in the Revitalization of Downtown Jamaica, Queens, Melva M. Miller
Consequences of Oxidative DNA Damage: Base-Pair Dissociation, Singlet Oxygenation and DNA-Protein Crosslinking, May Myat Moe
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
The Alphaproteobacterial General Stress Response: Investigating Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Regulatory Mechanisms, Danielle Swingle
My Wings Are Not Broken: Black Males, Carcerality, and Education, Crystal M. Welch-Scott
The Role of Secondary and Tertiary Structure in the Cap-Independent Translation of FGF-9 and HIF-1-alpha, Amanda Michelle Whittaker
Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence, Chunyu Yuan
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Essays on Empirical Economics, Dorian Abreu
The Effects of Environmental Changes on the Biodiversity and Macroecological Patterns of Bird Assemblages in the United States, Marlen Acosta Alamo
la VIDA: Towards a Motivated Goal Reasoning Agent, Ursula Addison
What Exactly Does Identity Have to do with Teaching? Exploring the Connection Between a Teacher's Racialized Identity and their Teacher Identity, Lizette Aguilar
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics: Assessing Recreational Marijuana Laws, Dragos Ailoae
Controlling Emotional Text to Speech Using Complex Adverbial Phrases, Zainab T. Akande
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Ege Aksu
Computational Approaches to Linguistic Challenges in Arabic Speech Recognition, Enas Albasiri
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos
A Praxis of Radical Collectivity: Centering Justice and the Poetics of Racialized Progressive Leadership, Alisa Algava
Analysis of Victim/Villain Narratives Presented Under Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Frameworks: The Kosovo Case, Kristi Allaj
Seeing Safety in Red: Expressions of Interpersonal Gratitude Affects Conservatives’ Political Attitudes in the United States, Kyle M. Anderson
Bad Becomings: Autobiographical Writing, Queer/Trans Theory, Melancholia, Jacob Elias Aplaca
Teaching in the “Home Language” Is not Enough: Navigating Spanish Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Dual Language Bilingual Program, Gladys Yacely Aponte
Synthesis And Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) and Suzuki Polycondensation (SPC), Hamid Ardolic Jr.
Evolution of the Extant and Fossil Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae), Julia L. Arenson
Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Vanadium Doped Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), Qudsia Ashraf
Development of the Hearing Emotion/Activity Restrictions on Teenagers (Heart), Robin G. Axelrod
Trends and Predictors of Internet Use for Health-Related Purposes Among Adults in the United States of America, Paul Ayamah
Recognizing Elder Abuse in Mongolia: Experiences of Family Physicians, Ariunsanaa Bagaajav
Studying Lake Surface Temperature Variabilities at Regional and Global Scales Using Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations, Abdou Rachid Bah
Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease, Dhaneesha R. Bahadur
Original vs. Simplified Miranda Rights: The Impact on Miranda Rights Comprehension and Subsequent Waiver Decisions, Sydney Baker
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study, Whitney Barnett-Rhodes
Mind Your Business or Be Your Brother's Keeper? Managing Vulnerability in the New York City Subway, Maria Barrera-Vilert
Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist
Counter-Archives in Digital Spaces, Patricia Belen
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Fragmentation and Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England, Israel Ben-Porat
Establishing a Murine Model of Malaria-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Demonstrating the Contribution of Extrinsic Apoptosis to Tubular Necrosis, Johanna Bensalel-Lyampe
Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha
Active Galactic Nuclei - The Arrhythmic Beat of a Galactic Heart, Henry James Best V
The Redemption of History: Poetics and Politics in the Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino
Integrating In Vitro and In Silico Approaches to Gain Insight into the Mechanism of Amyloid Fibrillogenesis, Marvin M. Bilog
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Enantioenriched Secondary Alkyltricyclohexyltin Nucleophiles, Meruyert Binayeva
Repurposing BT-11 to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease: Exploring the Glutathione-s-transferase LANCL2 as a Target, Emily Birnbaum
Resilience, Resistance, and Nation-Building Among Internally Displaced Persons: Kites as a Means of Transcending Displacement, Michelle Black
Expanding the Corpus of Vocalized Hebrew Text: Compiling an Unvocalized Text Corpus and Building an Online Interface for Vocalization Annotation, Rachel Shanblatt Bloch
Relationship Quality, Predictors, and Outcomes in Adolescent Age-Gap Relationships: An Exploratory Study, Alexandra Bonagura
Diaspora Documentation of West Albay Bikol, Nhia Borja
Quantics Tensor Trains: The Study of a Continuous Lattice Model and Beyond, Aleix Bou Comas
Racial-Sexual Normativity in/as Narratives of “the Human”, Jeri Brand
The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s, Amanda W. Brennan
Imaging Markers of Future Neurodegeneration Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Daniel Brennan
Examining Visual Processing of Hierarchical Figures through Behavioral Measures and Pupillometry in Relation to Autistic Traits in Adults, Chloe Brittenham
A Journey to a Black Woman’s (Read Black Girl’s) Joy and Her Story of Coming Home, Brittany Lauren Brock
Questionable Intelligence: Secrecy and Espionage in Richard Nixon’s Life, Maayan Brodsky
The Four Seasons: Integrating the Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
Assessing Job Vulnerability and Employment Growth in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Prudence P. Brou
Effect of Magnetic Draping on Satellite Galaxies in Clusters, Vanessa Brown
Henry James and the Act of Speech from Drama to Dictation, Mary Claire Brunelli
A Machine Learning Approach to Discovering Physical Models of Galaxy Formation, Festa Bucinca
The Effects of Mood and Anxiety Sensitivity on Attentional Engagement and Disengagement in Sleep Disturbance, Kara L. Buda
“Back from Cuba with Machetes and Cameras” Feminist Contour Lines through the Venceremos Brigade: 1969-1971 and Today, Nicolette Bull
"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, Katie Buonanno
Reviewing Inclusive Sex Education Curriculum: A Policy Analysis of California’s Healthy Youth Act (2015), Patrick P. Buzzell
Alianzas Antimodernas: Estudios del Cine Español del Proceso 15M, Pedro Cabello del Moral
Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art, Caitlin Cacciatore
'Since No Expressions Do': Queer Tools For Studying Literature, Filipa G. Calado
The Charge Forward: An Assessment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in New York City, Christopher S. Cali
Examining Mental Health Differences Between Traditional and Nontraditional College Students from 2017-2022, Terrence A. Calistro Jr.
Turning Movements into Markets: How Corporations Co-Opt Cultural Values for Profit, Anthony J. Capote
Molecular Roles of Two Small Inner Membrane Proteins in E. coli Lipid Homeostasis, Andrea L. Cardenas Arevalo
Twenty Years of Community-Based College Success: Oral Histories from Practitioners, Partners, and Peer Mentors Supporting City University of New York (CUNY) Students, Benjamin J. Carey
Measuring Intersectional Strength and Stigma Among Racially Minoritized Gender Diverse Young Adults, Joseph Carter
Ghost Bikes of Queens, Brianna Caszatt
From Stars to Moons: Investigating Stellar Rotations, Planetary Interactions, and Exoplanetary Prospects, Rosario Cecilio-Flores-Elie