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 2024

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Teaching in the “Home Language” Is not Enough: Navigating Spanish Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Dual Language Bilingual Program, Gladys Yacely Aponte

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Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Critical-Race Teacher Change Agents Are Challenging Whiteness in Elementary Schools, David R. Rosas

Dissertations from 2023

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Searching for Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women of Color Feminisms, Art, and Archiving, Wendy S. Barrales

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Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Crates, Jordan Bell

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Investigating Epistemic Violence in Schools Using Machine Learning (AI) to Explore the Effects of Culturally Inclusive Curricula on High School Students’ Racial-Ethnic and Civic Identities, Leylah M. Bighach

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Educating the Diaspora: In Search of Liberatory Educational Experiences, Daicy Diaz-Granados

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Coloniality, Western Science, and Critical Ethnic Studies in STEM Education, LaToya M. Strong

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This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School, Kimberly F. Vanderbilt

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Somebody Gave Somebody Some Kind of Heat About Something: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Politically Polarized Suburbs, Melanie Waller

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Feeling Otherwise: Affective Enactments of Teaching and Learning Among Youth Researchers and Early-Career Teachers in a Cross-Course University Collaboration, Karen Zaino

Dissertations from 2022

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Free Improvisation Pedagogy: An Arts Based Research Approach to Promoting Student Agency And Embracing Difference, Nicholas Catino

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Learning Beyond Measure: Critical Numeracy and Resistance to Racial Capitalism, Atasi Das

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Time-to-Degree: Bachelor’s Degree Completion for Latine First-Year and Transfer Students, Robert E. Kunicki

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Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative Project with Vietnamese American Youth, Khanh Le

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A Queens Community Teacher Storytelling Project: A Qualitative Research Study of Five Local Afro-Caribbean and Latina Public School Teachers and Community Teachers in New York City, José Alfredo Menjivar Ortéz

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Transforming Afterschool Programs into "Engines of Development": A Policy Analysis of the Federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Jane Quinn

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The Persistence of Exclusion in Developmental Math Courses in Community Colleges: The Search for Equity and Justice in Math Education, Dora P. Trujillo

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Maternal Wellness: Self, Matrescence, Obstetric Violence, and Self-Care, Vanessa V. Vales-Lewis

Dissertations from 2021

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Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu

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Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker

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Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras

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Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias

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Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas

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Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark

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Coalition and Creativity on the Bridges and Fringes with Immigrant Student-Contributors in Nonprofit Adult Education, Katherine E. Entigar

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The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond, Kashema Hutchinson

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Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova

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Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin

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A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum

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Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham

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Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni

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From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii

Dissertations from 2020

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The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik

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Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett

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Black Males Matter, the Educational Marathon Continues: The Relative Impact of Student-, Family-, and School-Level Domains on the Educational Outcomes of Black Males, Shawn F. Brown

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Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness, AnaMaria Correa

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Positioning and Repositioning: Transnational Identity (Re) Construction and (Re) Negotiation by American-Senegalese Children, Aminata Diop

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A Teacher Educator's Narrative Journey into Mindfulness, Al-Karim H. Gangji

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The Use of a Modified Hess’ Cognitive Rigor Matrix to Assess Students’ Depth of Knowledge in Key Concepts of Gas Stoichiometry and Chemical Equilibrium, Maria Greene

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Modeling Where it Matters: Redesigning Mathematics Education with Adolescent Girls of Color, Kara L. Imm

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Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo

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Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks

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Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson

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Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke

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A Quantitative Examination of Black and Hispanic Students’ Time-to-Graduation, Ferdinand A. Verley II

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Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies, Sara Vogel

Dissertations from 2019

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Tensions, Dilemmas, and Radical Possibility in Democratizing Teacher Unions: Stories of Two Social Justice Caucuses in New York City and Philadelphia, Chloe Asselin

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Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite

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A Space to Learn, Amy R. Goods

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Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins

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Teaching for Whose America?: Corporate Education Reform and Students Labeled as Disabled, Barbara A. Hubert

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Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez

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Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk

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Transforming Through Power: Teachers and the Negotiation of Authority in Schools, Madhu Narayanan

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Promoting Inclusion in a "Struggling School": Supporting Co-Teachers Through Critical Appreciative-Inquiry Based Professional Development, Louis Olander

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A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz

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Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole

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Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee

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The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson

Dissertations from 2018

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Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele

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Exacerbating Inequality: Public Schooling in the Era of Neoliberal Standardization, Johanna Panetti Barnhart

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Finding Light in the Caves: Achieving Professional and Personal Bliss on a Journey in Cheeseworld, Mitchell Bleier

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“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Cioe Peña

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Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett

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“I feed you. I clothe you. I send you to school”: Barriers to Involvement of Low-Income Minority, and Immigrant Parents for the Academic Achievement of Their Children, Myrtle Dickson

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Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner

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The Tuskegee Revolt: Student Activism, Black Power, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington, Brian P. Jones

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Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan

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P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan

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Development and Transfer of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Special Education Teachers, Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis

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A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner

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Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community, Angelica Ortega

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Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride

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When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge

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Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald

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Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright

Dissertations from 2017

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The Racial Politics of Elementary School Choice for Black Parents Living in Brooklyn, NY, Shannon N. Allen

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Using Video in a Collaborative Teacher Team Within a Special Education School: A Case Study, Belinda Akua-Kisiwaa Amoako

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Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, and Praxis in NYC Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile

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The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro

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Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork

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Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton

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Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo

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Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners, Marie L. Cerat

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Enhancing and Evaluating Scientific Argumentation in the Inquiry-Oriented College Chemistry Classroom, Annabel D'Souza

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Escribiendo para desahogarme: Release and Resistance in a Middle School Bilingual Writing Workshop, Carla Espana

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Seeing and Being Seen: A Multimodal Inquiry of Multilingual High School Newcomers and Their Contributions to Educational Communities, Ivana Espinet

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Translanguaging Practices for Educational Equity: Moments in a Bilingual Middle School Classroom, Luz Y. Herrera

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Networked: New York City’s Charter Schools and the New Profiteers, Christina Johnson

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The Impact of Teacher Perception of Professional Learning Communities on Student Algebraic Achievement, Tyrone John

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Perspectives on Emotional Climate Associated with Classroom Interactions, Hiro Komatsubara

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Dominance & Survivance: Urban Latino Communities and Education in Racial Neoliberal Urbanism, Edwin Mayorga

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Critical Play: Agency, Interdependency, and Intersectionality in an Early Childhood Classroom, Maria Persons

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Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler

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“Just Get it Done”: How the New York City High School Admissions Process is Re-defining the Work & Identities of Professionals in Screened High School-Programs, Heather Rippeteau

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University Education for the Creation of the Black Middle Class: Kigali, Rwanda, Chrystina L. Russell

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"Resisting from Within": (Re)imagining a Critical Translingual English Classroom, Kate Anna Seltzer

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Labeling Histories: Mental Disability in American Schooling, Kylah Torre

Dissertations from 2016

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Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Character Building Initiatives at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound High School, Adeola A. Alexander

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Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction in an RtI Framework: Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in the Secondary Classroom, Lisa Auslander