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/Theses/Capstones from 2024

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Cinema and Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Image-Making in the Americas and the Caribbean, Natalie M. Erazo

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Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS, Nicolle Marquez

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023

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An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino

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Overview of the Intern Position at SexGenLab and the Importance of Public Scholarship, Elizabeth S. Chapin

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How the U.S. Mainstream Media Perpetuates Cis White Masculine Hegemony, Yelena Dzhanova

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The Queer Comedy Boom: The History of LGBTQ+ Stand-up Comedy, Marcelle Karp

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The Queer Life of Lorena Hickok, Samantha D. Leyerle

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Uprooting Patriarchy: Meditations on Gender, Masculinities, and Healing Through Buddhist Practices, Noah Souder-Russo

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022

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A History of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, 1975–2015, Clarisa Gonzalez

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Lactating Justice: Constructing a Society Economically Focused on Optimizing Health through Human Lactation, Shadley Hobour

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An Overview and Assessment of the Editorial Assistant Position at Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amy M. Iafrate

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A Qualitative Exploration of Discourses in Fan Community, /r/boyslove, Jessica Lin

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My Favorite Thing is Monster Theory: Horror Comics and deMONSTRating Difference in Emil Ferris’s "My Favorite Thing is Monsters", Jennifer Rossberg

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Exploring the Boundaries of Queerness from Academia to Activism, Jillian M. (Silvia) Miranda

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Let ‘Em Talk: An Exploration of and Challenge to the White Supremacy and Colonization of Black and Brown Girls in United States Public Schools, Keara Small

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021

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Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): Postfeminist Beauty Messaging and Resistant Media Texts, Margarita Artoglou

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Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont

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The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe

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Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, Alexandra Johnson

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Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Juwon Jun

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What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams

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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities, Jyun-Jie Yang

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020

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If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams

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“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar

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Cracks in the Bathroom Stall: A Discourse Analysis on Transgender Bathroom Usage at Garden Spot High School, Kirsten D. Corneilson

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Legitimizing Violence at the European Border: Gendered Misrepresentations at Sea and the Vulnerable Other, Michela Demelas

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Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students, Lo Ferguson

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¿Cómo Traducimos "Ni Una Más" al Inglés?: Latin American Manifestation of the Phenomenology of Femicide, and the United States’ Subsequent Internal Neglect, Suemi Mendez

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Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019

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“Let’s Call Painful Sex Disorders Sexual Disabilities Instead”: A Feminist Disability Critique of Feminist Representations and Medical Representations of Sexual Disorders of Pain, Oyku Akin

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Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian

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Refusing White Privacy, Olivia Dunbar

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Feminist and Anti-Feminist Discourses on Abortion in Haiti from 2010 to 2019, Katia Henrys

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“The Least Sexually Confident Women in the World”: International NGOs and the Racialized Politics of Obstetric Fistula, Googie S. Karrass

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Paradoxes of Feminist Stances in “New Turkey”: Reconceiving NGO-State Relationships in the Case of KAMER, Irem Kilic

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Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?, Emilie Kristine Krumsvik

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HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive, Kayla Morse

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Sexual Harassment of Professional Women: Joan Williams's The Wintering and Her Apprenticeship with William Faulkner, Naoko Ohri

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Black Amerinquen, Kayla Marie Rodriguez

Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018

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"It's like They're Right There Next to You": Maintaining Girls' Camp Friendships via Mobile Media, Elise Bragard

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Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities, Melanie D. Chin

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Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase

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Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers, Dana Glaser

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Dolls Who Speak: Sex Robots, Cyborgs and the Image of Woman, Victoria E. Pihl Sorensen

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A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang

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Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward