Theses and Capstone Projects from 2025
Stolen Moments: Jazz and the Opportunity to Capture Hip Hop Fans, Fahiym Abdul-Wasi
Spirometry: For the Winds in Us, Kendall Allison
The Language of Development: A Case Study Analysis of Climate Development in Central America, Alexandra Altomare
Manny the Barber: Transitioning the Neurodivergent from High School to Workplace, Julia Barlas
Double Exposure: Motherhood and Filmmaking, Eddy Berzak
Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner
CUNY in the News: A History of Reporting on the Humanities at the City University of New York, Jacqueline R. Cahill
Podcast: One to Grow On – Why Black Studies Matter When Working and Living in Black Communities, Celia E. Ceballos
The Material Folklore of Occult Zines, Jacqueline G. Coffey
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
The Crisis of Safety, Well-being, and Belonging Facing LGBTQ Children: Mad/Crip of Color Critique Towards a Curriculum of Radical Care, Jameson Goetz
Scripted for Surveillance: Parole Revocation Hearings and the Performance of Procedure in New York, Kelsey G. Greeff
The Power of Music to Empower Health and Wellbeing: In Support of a Music Therapy Discipline at Lehman College, City University of New York, Felicity A. Howlett
A Benjaminian Rumination of Grasses and Tomatoes in Contemporary Anatolian Film, Ceren Izci
Making Waves: Comfort Women Justice Movements Across Generations, Julia A. Jacobellis
Creating School: Writing and Reading Texts for Children, Carlyn Kolker
Liberated Learning Spaces: A Visual Playlist, Tarilyn R. Little
Counter-Hegemony in the Captive State: Recasting Katrina’s Carceral Legacy through Conjuncture, Joseph S. Muratore
Gendered Censorship: The (Un)successful Attempts to Silence Women's Bodies and Minds in "Closed" Communities, Devorah L. Paltiel
Hope by a Thousand Cuts: Fashion Ethics from Cutting Fabric to Cutting a Fashion Film, Sarah G. Porterfield
American Utopia: The Evolution of David Byrne’s Viewpoint of America from 1977 to Present, Morgan A. Prince
Love Amid the Rage: Feminist Affect in Women's Life-Writing, Genesis Siverio
Critical Race Theory Pedagogy of Black American Horror Television in Lovecraft Country and Them, Yosra Thabet
Brownsville Taught Me: Reframing the Public Memory of Brownsville’s History, Amyleth J. Vargas
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2024
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
Racial-Sexual Normativity in/as Narratives of “the Human”, Jeri Brand
A Journey to a Black Woman’s (Read Black Girl’s) Joy and Her Story of Coming Home, Brittany Lauren Brock
The Four Seasons: Integrating the Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, Katie Buonanno
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
Placemaking and Placewashing in Manhattan's Chinatown: Capitalist vs. Community Interests, Mary Chu
Loneliness and the Urban American (Non-)Romantic, Sarah C. Cook
Culturally and Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Jessica Correa
The Art of Mathematics: Modernizing K-12 Mathematics Education in the USA, Lirak Drenica
Wuwei Praxis, Zachary L. Gelnaw-Rubin
The Migration of South Asians from India to Guyana: The Journey, Struggles in a New Land, Reasons for Changes Over Time and Their Cultivation of a New Culture., Cynthia C. Harry
Power and the Press: Reimagining the World by Producing Information Together, Jen Hoyer
A Pearl Ravaged: The Paradox of Haiti and Its Socioeconomic Origins, Isabel Ishibe Exel
"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh
Math Anxiety and Avoidance of Mathematics at The College Level: Undergraduate and Their Sense of Not Belonging in Math Classrooms, Kay C. Lashley
Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod
Consciousness and Physicalism, Brian McGowan
Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left, Lydia Mokdessi
Me and Mathematics: “Doing What You’re Talking About”: In Dialogue with My Family, Eden Morris
Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan
The Film, the Stadium and the Jail: The Post-Industrial Transformation of Downtown Durham, Seth Rose
From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff
Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined, Christina Trupiano
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Spain's Vision of Empire through Conquest, Ideology, and Law in the Sixteenth Century, Penelope Yau-Wen
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2023
Conservative and Cultural Clashes with Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Bryan Z. Anderson
Is Gifted Education and Its Program a Brand?, Farzana Begum
music lessons, Cecilia-Rose Louise Bender
Justice, Pandemics, and Museums in Cyberspace: Archaeology Museums’ Decolonization Projects During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Besse
Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi
The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona
John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim
Cartographic Subjectivity in Fernand Deligny’s lignes d’erre, Anya Komar
White Supremacist Print Culture and the Creation of White Working-Class Ideology in 1860s New York City, Anna Meyer
Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian
Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy
Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam
Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face, Gregory Kent Oswald
Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Francesca Paradiso
MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media, Patricia K. Paul
The Possibilities and Limitations of Parent Organizations to Advance Equity, Nildania Perez
Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano
A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho
Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers
Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel
Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith
Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller
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
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
“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold
Ornamentalism: Costuming and the Portrayal of the Chinese Woman in Film, 20th-21st Century, Andrea Yepez
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2022
Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin
The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici
Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers and Bankers in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee
The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen, Christian P. Bagrow
