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 Empirical Economics, Dorian Abreu
Targeting Strategies to Optimize the Therapeutic Potential of Gold Compounds Against HER2-Positive Breast Cancers, Afruja Ahad
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Ege Aksu
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
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
Development of the Hearing Emotion/Activity Restrictions on Teenagers (Heart), Robin G. Axelrod
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
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
Listening for Lemurs: Translating Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) Vocalizations into Conservation Insights Through Acoustic Monitoring, Carly H. Batist
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Fragmentation and Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha
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
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
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
Effect of Magnetic Draping on Satellite Galaxies in Clusters, Vanessa Brown
“Back from Cuba with Machetes and Cameras” Feminist Contour Lines through the Venceremos Brigade: 1969-1971 and Today, Nicolette Bull
Alianzas Antimodernas: Estudios del Cine Español del Proceso 15M, Pedro Cabello del Moral
'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
Turning Movements into Markets: How Corporations Co-Opt Cultural Values for Profit, Anthony J. Capote
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
The Impact of Sport-Related Concussions on the Vestibular System Utilizing the Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) Tool: A Systematic Review for Audiologists, Tina M. Ceriello
Comparative Animal Mucomics, Antonio R. Cerullo
Exciton Dynamics, Interaction, and Transport in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Saroj Chand
A Candidate Needs Approach to Job Advertisements, Yuliya M. Cheban-Gore
Identifying Graduate Students’ Instructional Strategies and Approaches Towards Teaching Employable Skills, Elizabeth S. Che
Placemaking and Placewashing in Manhattan's Chinatown: Capitalist vs. Community Interests, Mary Chu
Evaluating Climate Sentiment in SEC 10-K Filings: S&P 50 Companies, Ruby Chu
A Comparison of Temporary Threshold Shifts in Dentists, Hygienists, and Dental Assistants, Sabina E. Ciaccio
Clustering of Patients with Heart Disease, Mukadder Cinar
Modeling of COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes in Mexico: An Analysis of Demographic, Clinical, and Chronic Disease Factors, Livia Clarete
In My Softest & Most Liberatory Dreams: Reflections on Holding Complexity & Decentering Whiteness, Richard C. Clark
Mechanistic and Engineering Studies of LOV Photoreceptors in Yeast, Matthew M. Cleere
Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Usage of Hearing Protection in Volunteer Firefighters, Rachel S. Combs
Culturally and Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Jessica Correa
Turf War: Interstate Banking and Industry Consolidation, 1965–1998, Erin Cully
Learning from Their Flocks: Analyses of Power on Hudson River Valley Livestock Farms, Mark D. D'Alessandro
Rational Design of Peptide-Based Materials Informed by Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Dhwanit Rahul Dave
A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America, Aliaa Dawoud
Worldbuilding: A Theory of Resilience in Transgender and Gender Expansive Young People, Jennifer DeBower
Positron Emission Tomography in Oncology and Environmental Science, Samantha Delaney
Hagia Sophia: Politics of Space and Hauntology, Hazal Demir
Grieving: A Record of My Becoming, Neyshka Diaz Maldonado
Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, and Playing the Future in an Era of Algorithms, Rachel M.L. Dixon
Galina Ustvolskaya's Writing for Violin and Piano, 1952–1964, Patrick Doane
The True and Only Technic: Technological Ubiquity and its Critics, Heretics, and Zealots, Hampton A. Dodd
The Effects of Social Media Attention on Retail Investors’ Non-GAAP Trading, Huy Nguyen Do
Three Essays Applying Dynamic Models in Economics, Finance, and Machine Learning, Lucas C. Dowiak
Comprehension and Production of Contrastive Reference in Autism, Georgia Drakopoulou Kalantzi
The Art of Mathematics: Modernizing K-12 Mathematics Education in the USA, Lirak Drenica
Communication Challenges in Underwater Wireless Networks: MAC Protocols and Software Solutions, Dmitrii Dugaev
Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance, Archil Dvalishvili
The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance, Margit N. Edwards
Protein-Protein Interactions in Cell Cycle Proteins: An In silico Investigation of Two Important Players, Andriele Eichner
Understanding the Knowledge Production Function of the United Nations: The Case of the Sahel Crisis, Hussein E. Elshaar
Cinema and Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Image-Making in the Americas and the Caribbean, Natalie M. Erazo
Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, and the Coercive Pair Bond in a Primate Multilevel Society, Katarina D. Evans
Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre, Amir Farjoun
Language Play and Racial Dysphemism in the Marrakchi Language Space, Spencer Fausel
Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame, Daniel L. Feldman
The Effect of Personal Listening Devices on Subjective Hearing Status, Esther Feldman
Dancing in the Heart of the Empire, Talisa Feliciano
The Role of the Infralimbic-Basal Forebrain Pathway in Fear Extinction, Carolina Maria Fernandes Henriques
Looking for a Better Chair: The L Word and Learning How to Sit, Beans Fernandez
Más allá de la crisis y la emergencia: aproximaciones a los movimientos migratorios contemporáneos a través de la traducción y la comedia, Fabiola Fernandez Peer
A Municipal Modernity: Women, Architecture, and Public Health in Working-Class New York, 1913–1950, Jessica Fletcher
Interviews and Perspectives Among Community Members Working With Undocumented Female Border Crossers in the States Along the United States-Mexico Border, Melissa M. Frasco
Vast Planetary Abstraction: On the Impossible Modernist Epic, Caleb Shao-Ning Fridell
The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency, Maxwell J. Fuerderer
The Animated Cinema of Bruno Bozzetto, Emilia Gambardella
Wuwei Praxis, Zachary L. Gelnaw-Rubin
The Effect of Alpha Binaural Beats on Virtual Reality Experiences, Andronikki C. Gerohristodoulos
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Vinyl Triflates and An Investigation of the Synthesis and Reactivity of Activated Alkyltricyclohexylstannanes, Pejman Ghaemimohammadi
Struggles, Aspirations, and Survival Strategies: The Intersectionality of Lived Experiences of Migrant “Integration” into Lisbon, Lais Gomes Duarte
Crime Prediction Using Agent-Based Modeling, Yifei Gong
Sigma_n-correct Forcing Axioms, Benjamin P. Goodman
Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works, Michael A. Granger