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 2019

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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States, Shirley Reid

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Hermeneutics: A Literary Interpretive Art, David A. Reitman

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Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco

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The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen

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Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed

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Signals in the Black Stack / GEOMEtyr Design Manual, Jason T. Scaglione

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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani

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Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal

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Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi

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Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin

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Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles

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Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney

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“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson

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Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn

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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography, Katherine Vecchio

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What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece, Christian J. Vella

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The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland

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Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen

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Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker

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Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein

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The Crusader and the Dictator: An Exploration of Ideology and Neurodivergence in Contemporary Technology Practice, David J. Williams

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"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment in Poetry and the Ethics of Representation, Darren Wood

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The Position of a Woman: A Poetics of Grace Paley’s Political Storytelling, Jamie Zabinsky

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Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress, Callen Zimmerman

Theses and Capstone Projects from 2018

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Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree

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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison

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How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal

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Differences in the Role of Acculturation on the Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Asian Subgroups, Khadijah Ahmad

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Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look at Wayne's World, Glam, and the Losers of Rock and Roll, Michelle A. Arp

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School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration, Akeem A. Barnes

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Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio

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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement, Seon Britton

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The Exceptional Case of Plancia Magna: (Re)analyzing the Role of a Roman Benefactress, Barbara F. Caceres-Cerda

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Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll

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Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole, Alisha M. Collins

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Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa

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Chile’s Decree-Law 1094: A Source of Immigrant Vulnerability, Joao M. Da Silva

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Educational Attainment of Immigrant Students in the United States: Generational Struggle Towards Success, Robin Das

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Venezuela: Oil and Madness. Politics, Propaganda, and Realities of the Chavista Era, Alvaro E. de Prat

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Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon

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Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din

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The Influence of Slavery on the Black Body: Black Lives Matter’s Intersectional Methodology and New Advancements, Mone Dixon

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The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic

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Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle

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From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin

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Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg

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The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen

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From Establishment to Final Independence: A Study of the National Archives of the United States of America from 1934–1985, Daniel M. Frett

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Poetry, Photography and the Place of Longing: A Return, Victoria R. Gandolf

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A Discourse of True and False: An Analysis of the Publications of the AFL-CIO Between 1955-1965 as Archived in the Tamiment Library, John J. Gorham Jr.

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The Library of Pantainos: A Unique Ancient Library, Michael W. Handis

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Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers

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“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry

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Swimming in a Sea of No's: Controlling and Managing the New York Public Pools, Mette L. Jensen

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Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor

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Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash

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Music for AI Reports: Dual Prospects in Music Production, Achim Koh

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EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg

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A Sustainable “No Excuses” Charter School Model, Kelly Lerash

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Tangible Things: The Matter of Susan Howe, Thomas Lewek

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The Patterns and Prosecutions of Media Leakers, Julia M. Lipkins

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Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo

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Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla

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Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State, Joan C. Lopez

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Opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, Henry J. Manwell

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A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu

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Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel

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Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study on an Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo

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Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History, Brendan Murphy

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It’s a Family Affair: Parental Configuration, Educational Attainment, and Race, Sandra Murphy

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Explaining Animosity Towards the Roma: A Case Study of Twitter Communication in Italy during the Refugee Crisis, Mayuko Nakatsuka

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Nature versus Nurture, Matilda Nikehasani

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The Threats of Sea Level Rise: An Eco-Geopolitical Visual Analysis, Jorge L. Nowell-Enriquez

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Never Trust Anything That Bleeds for Seven Days and Doesn’t Die: Menstruation, Cultural Materialism, and Autoethnography, Anastasiya Panas

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Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis, Marcos Polonia

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Due Process and the Right to Legal Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Marielos G. Ramos

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Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts

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Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen

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The Unsuspected Francis Lieber, Richard Salomon

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Postcolonial Indian Nonfiction Cinema: The Documentaries of Satyajit Ray, Muzahid Sharif

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Everyday Violence and Women's Lives in Zambia: An Autoethnography, Amina Shikupilwa

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Weaponization of Data for Governmentality, Juliana Son

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The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, and Environments of Warning, Jordan Steingard

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Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle

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Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor

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Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento

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Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad

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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino

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The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler

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The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams

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Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson

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Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson

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Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf

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“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright

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The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff

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The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer

Theses and Capstone Projects from 2017

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Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning, Manju A. Adikesavan

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Heavy Ink: A Documentary on the Comicbook Revolution, Renzo Adler

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The Untold Story of Africa: What Advertising from Africa Reveals to the Rest of the World About the Continent, Rachael F. Afolabi

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Back to Square One: Understanding the Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Ahmed A. Ahmed