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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Dissertations from 2017

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"Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime": Liberal Carceral Logics and the Reproduction of Settler Colonial Violence in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land

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The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation, Daniel Douglas

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The Queer Allure of Digital Sociality, Benjamin Parrish Haber

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Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to the Home Country, Sou Hyun Jang

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The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa

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Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss

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Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran

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Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler

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Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera

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Aesthetic Geographies: Art, Crises, Urban Imaginaries, Erin Siodmak

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Community, Identity, and Tradition within a Progressive Christian Congregation, James W. Skinner

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Culture and Class in Marginalized Minority Educational Attainment, Alan R. Takeall

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Sewing Garments, Sowing Lives: Two Generations of Migrant Workers' Back and Forth to the Chinese Coast, Alice Tzou

Dissertations from 2016

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Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India, Natascia Boeri

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Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos D. Burgos

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Ecological Transitions of U.S. Elementary School Students: Their Short– and Long–Term Educational Outlooks, Anthony Buttaro Jr.

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“Love” Across the Strait: Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Women and Taiwanese Men, Paoyi Huang

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Obesity over the Life Course: Perspectives in Health and Mortality, Noura E. Insolera

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Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy, Jinwon Kim

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Where Have All The Feminists Gone?: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Students' Attitudes Toward Gender Equality, Erin Maurer

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Race and Gender in the Advancement to Partnership: Perceptions of Black Female Lawyers, Tsedale M. Melaku

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The Relative Impact of Psychosocial Well-being and Mental Health on the Relationship between Economic Circumstance and Religiosity, Veronica Momjian

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Empty Metal Jacket: The Biopolitical Economy of War and Medicine, Sandra Lee Trappen

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The Price of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Class Structure, and Language Endangerment in Shanghai, Fang Xu

Dissertations from 2015

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Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana, Visnoonand Bisram

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The Myth of the Unteachable: Youth, Race and the Capacity of Alternative Pedagogy, Cathy R. Borck

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Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network, John D. Boy

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Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Perry Bullock

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"Managers" in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs, Jonathan Ryan Davis

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Searching for a Place to Stand: Redefining Citizenship, Community, and the Right to Public Space in the Era of "Stop, Question, and Frisk", Jan N. Haldipur

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Labor Market Trajectories of Black Women in the United States, 1980 to 2010, Danielle Jackson

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Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Global Toolkits and Urban Reinvestment in Buenos Aires, Jacob H. Lederman

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No Shortcuts: The Case for Organizing, Jane Frances McAlevey

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Surviving the Gauntlet: Adult Undergraduates in American Higher Education, David Bernard Monaghan

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Income Inequality And Vulnerabiility To Flood Hazard In Brazil, Rebecca Rasch

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Undocumented Youth Living Between the Lines: Urban Governance, Social Policy, and the Boundaries of Legality in New York City and Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk

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On the Midnight Train to Georgia: Afro-Caribbeans and the New Great Migration to Atlanta, LaToya Asantelle Tavernier

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The Measure of a Man: The Role of Measurement in Shaping Our Understanding of College Graduation along Ethnic Lines, Andrew Middleton Wallace

Dissertations from 2014

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Don't Push Me Over the (Knowl)Edge: The Social Correlates of Latino High School Dropouts, Robert Charles Baskerville

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Collective Memory, Women's Identity and the Church, Jo Ana Elise Brown

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Sharps, Squares, and Scalpers: Gambling in the Urban Underground, AnneMarie Cesario

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(Remember) The Future: The Preemptive Governance of Memory in the Age of Mass Catastrophe, Kimberly J. Cunningham

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When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern, Elaine B. Douglas-Harrison

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The intern economy: Laboring to learn in the music industry, Alexandre Frenette

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Planetary Improvement: Discourses and Practices of Green Capitalism in the Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein

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Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism, Keisha La'Nesha Goode

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Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Esoteric Practitioners in New York City, Karen Gregory

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A Gift We Can't Keep Giving: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Consequence of Educators' Unpaid Labor, Jared Martin Hanneman

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Run for Health: Health(icization), Supplements, and Doping in Non-Elite Road Running, April D. Henning

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The Kids Are All Right Online: Teen Girls' Experiences With Self-Presentation, Impression Management & Aggression On Facebook, Alison Michelle Hill

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Assembling Autism, Kate Suzanne Jenkins

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Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon

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The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States, Laura Limonic

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New Portlandia: Rock n' Roll, Authenticity and the Politics of Place in Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Ross London

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America is Not the Heaven We Dream Of: Race, Gender, and Refugee Status among Liberians in Staten Island, New York, Bernadette M. Ludwig

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Confucius, Yamaha, or Mozart? Cultural Capital and Upward Mobility Among Children of Chinese Immigrants, Wei-Ting Lu

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The Other Tribeca: Immigrant Work and Incorporation amid Affluence, Elizabeth A. Miller

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Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding, Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman

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Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans, Allison Padilla-Goodman

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Existing But Not Living: Neo-Civil Death And The Carceral State, CalvinJohn Nagel Smiley

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Social Context and Perceived Belonging: A Comparative Study of Children of Immigrants in New York and Madrid, Jessica Sperling Smokoski

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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity, Alyson Kay Spurgas

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Blogging Through Motherhood: Free Labor, Femininity, and the (Re)Production of Maternity, Kara Mary Van Cleaf

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On the Same Page: The Strong Teacher Professional Community at the Heart of a Good New York City Public Middle School, Nathan Warner

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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany, Ilgin Yorukoglu

Dissertations from 2013

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"Banding Together": Biosociality, Weight Loss Surgery, and Neoliberal Discourses Around Obesity, Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin

Dissertations from 2012

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Strategic Citizenship: Dual Marginalization and Organized Transnational Political Mobilization among Ecuadorian and Dominican Migrants, Howard Caro-Lopez

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Oh Canada, Your Home on Native Land: Settlement, Development, and Conflict in Southern Ontario, Shana Siegel

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The Creeks, Beaches, and Bay of the Jamaica Bay Estuary: The Importance of Place in Cultivating Relationships to Nature, Kristen L. Van Hooreweghe

Dissertations from 2011

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The Relationship of Race and Social Integration on the Health Status of Older Adults in An Urban City, Thomas T. Jordan

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Mother Country: Reproductive Tourism in the Age of Globalization, Lauren Jade Martin

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Becoming Normal: The Social Construction of Buprenorphine and New Attempts to Medicalize Addiction, Julie C. Netherland

Dissertations from 2010

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"If You See Something, Say Something": The Power of the 'War on Terrorism' to Name What We See, Polly Sylvia

Dissertations from 2009

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Making up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women Engaged in Direct Selling, Erynn Masi Casanova

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Are Sisters Doing It (All) for Themselves? Elderly Black Women and Healthcare Decision Making, Carlene Buchanan Turner

Dissertations from 2008

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Turning Space into Place in the Sprawling “New City”: Shrinking Space, Visions of Place, Homeowners in Conflict, Lael Leslie

Dissertations from 2006

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The Paradoxes of Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender Relations in a Federal Bureaucracy, Linda B. Benbow

Dissertations from 2001

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Crime Legends in Old and New Media, Pamela Donovan

Dissertations from 2000

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Redemption and Recovery: An Ethnographic Comparison of Two Drug Rehabilitation Programs, a Faith Community and a Therapeutic Community, Daniel E. Hood

Dissertations from 1999

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Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere, Russell Lee Rockwell

Dissertations from 1995

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Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, and the Mass Media: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Deviance, Steven M. Gorelick

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Social Consequences of Delayed Childbearing and Infertility, Joan Liebmann-Smith

Dissertations from 1993

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Saving the Environment: Science and Social Action, Patricia D'Andrade

Dissertations from 1991

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The Dynamics of Program Development: A Case Study in Urban Mental Health Services, John Kastan

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Taxi Driving: A Study of Leasing in New York City, Allen Russell Stevens

Dissertations from 1989

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Children's Video Usage: A Comparative Study of Nine to Eleven-Year-Olds Living in London and New York, Seth P. Welins

Dissertations from 1986

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Viewers' Perceptions of Gender Roles on Television, Susan Barbara Prager

Dissertations from 1985

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Trouble-shooters and Trouble-makers: Witchfinding and Traditional Malawian Medicine, Arnold Paul Wendroff

Dissertations from 1981

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A Path Model for Black and White Educational Achievement, David George Null