As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Theses and Capstone Projects from 2025

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Deuce Redemption: Grindhouse Cinema, Moral Panic, And Urban Renewal, Robert Brenner

Theses and Capstone Projects from 2024

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Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz

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Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos

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Racial-Sexual Normativity in/as Narratives of “the Human”, Jeri Brand

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A Journey to a Black Woman’s (Read Black Girl’s) Joy and Her Story of Coming Home, Brittany Lauren Brock

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The Four Seasons: Integrating the Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody

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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, Katie Buonanno

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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

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Placemaking and Placewashing in Manhattan's Chinatown: Capitalist vs. Community Interests, Mary Chu

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Loneliness and the Urban American (Non-)Romantic, Sarah C. Cook

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Culturally and Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Jessica Correa

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The Art of Mathematics: Modernizing K-12 Mathematics Education in the USA, Lirak Drenica

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Wuwei Praxis, Zachary L. Gelnaw-Rubin

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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

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Power and the Press: Reimagining the World by Producing Information Together, Jen Hoyer

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A Pearl Ravaged: The Paradox of Haiti and Its Socioeconomic Origins, Isabel Ishibe Exel

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"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh

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Math Anxiety and Avoidance of Mathematics at The College Level: Undergraduate and Their Sense of Not Belonging in Math Classrooms, Kay C. Lashley

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Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod

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Consciousness and Physicalism, Brian McGowan

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Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left, Lydia Mokdessi

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Me and Mathematics: “Doing What You’re Talking About”: In Dialogue with My Family, Eden Morris

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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

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From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan

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The Film, the Stadium and the Jail: The Post-Industrial Transformation of Downtown Durham, Seth Rose

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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff

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Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined, Christina Trupiano

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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira

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Spain's Vision of Empire through Conquest, Ideology, and Law in the Sixteenth Century, Penelope Yau-Wen

Theses and Capstone Projects from 2023

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Conservative and Cultural Clashes with Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Bryan Z. Anderson

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Is Gifted Education and Its Program a Brand?, Farzana Begum

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music lessons, Cecilia-Rose Louise Bender

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Justice, Pandemics, and Museums in Cyberspace: Archaeology Museums’ Decolonization Projects During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Besse

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Situating the Child’s Voice within Children’s Fashion: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Child’s Engagement with the Clothing They Wear, Melinda Byam

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Teaching Beyond ‘Kings Leopold’s Ghost’: New Sources and Voices in a Global History Curriculum on the Democratic Republic, Jen Chapin

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Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi

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The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona

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John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech

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The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank

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Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis

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Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori

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Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani

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Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov

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Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim

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Cartographic Subjectivity in Fernand Deligny’s lignes d’erre, Anya Komar

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White Supremacist Print Culture and the Creation of White Working-Class Ideology in 1860s New York City, Anna Meyer

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Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian

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Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy

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Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam

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Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face, Gregory Kent Oswald

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Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Francesca Paradiso

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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media, Patricia K. Paul

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The Possibilities and Limitations of Parent Organizations to Advance Equity, Nildania Perez

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Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano

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A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho

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Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers

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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby

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You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel

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Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith

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Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller

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A Typological and Chemical Analysis of Roman Oil Lamps from Poggio del Molino, Brandon Tejo

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Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles

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Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist to Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson

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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

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Collect Cosmic Dust, Make It Into Bright Stars: The Use of Temporal Data in Regeneration of Life Space and Time via a Construction of the Political-Sociological Theory of Justice, Yi Wang

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“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold

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Ornamentalism: Costuming and the Portrayal of the Chinese Woman in Film, 20th-21st Century, Andrea Yepez

Theses and Capstone Projects from 2022

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Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin

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The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici

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Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers and Bankers in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee

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The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam

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Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen, Christian P. Bagrow

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The Social Construction of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Raya Balabanova

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North of the Grid: The Black Experience of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes

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Play: A Normative Theory of Agency and Culture, Maxaie Belmont

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A Case for Comprehensive Work-Based Learning and Career Education for New York City’s Public High School Students, Jacqueline De La Cruz

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Process of the Memoir and the Burden of Memory, Samantha L. Fabal

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Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, Alaina Claire Feldman

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The Important Role and Contradictions of Italian Women Image in Fashion, Magazines and Cinema during the Fascist Period, Lu M. GomezdelaTorre

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Graphic Novels in the Foreign Language Classroom: Teaching Central American History in the Target Language, Vanessa Elizabeth Guzmán

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The Cop in Your Head: Criminal Justice Education, Liberalism, and the Carceral State, Nicole Haiber

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Caribbean Immigrant Parents and Elementary School Choice in New York City, Keshia T. James

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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia, Max W. Kaplan

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Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age, Michael Krondl

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Who Taught You to Hate Yourself: Disentangling My Black Identity from White Christian Doctrine, Patrice Lorna Lebron

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Fragmentation and Fabulation: Reflexivity and the New Black Documentary, Joanna Lehan

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Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld

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Equitable Assessment for Elementary Dual-Language Learners, Joliette Mandel

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When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez

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Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott

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Historical Sisters: Black Feminist Actions Across History and Literary Studies, Jazz A. Milligan

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Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers, Andrea Negret

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From Perfect Victims to Collateral Damage: How Nigerian Women are Implicated in and Impacted by Contemporary French Anti-Trafficking Policies and Discourse, Oladunni Patricia Oduyemi

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When the Elite Control Public Education: A Critical Inquiry on Charter Schools, Marisela Palafox

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Control, Allegiance, and Shame in Male Qing Dynasty Hairstyles, Carolle Pinkerton

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Promoting Play-Based Learning Strategies in the Upper Elementary and Lower Middle School Classroom, Michelle L. Randall

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The College Experience Podcast: Connecting Student Services for College Success, Lucila Sanchez

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Girl Friends, Camila Santander

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Hudson Yards: Hybrid Capital's New Home, Massimo D. Scoditti

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The World is Your Pulpit: A Research-Based Performance on the Broder Singers, Amanda Seigel