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.
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2025
The Double Victimization of Black Women at the Crossroads of Oppression, Carmerina Carrero
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2024
Not Sanitized for Your Protection: AIDS and the Politics of Trash, Emma Banks
“Back from Cuba with Machetes and Cameras” Feminist Contour Lines through the Venceremos Brigade: 1969-1971 and Today, Nicolette Bull
Grieving: A Record of My Becoming, Neyshka Diaz Maldonado
Cinema and Ritual: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Image-Making in the Americas and the Caribbean, Natalie M. Erazo
Looking for a Better Chair: The L Word and Learning How to Sit, Beans Fernandez
Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS, Nicolle Marquez
Uses of the Intuition: The Role of Intuition in Birth Work (Towards An Intuitive Epistemology), Kayla R. Reece
Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay, Alexandra Tydings
Altruistic Imperialism: The Co-optation of Mutual Aid by the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, Kelly T. Waltz
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly, Angela G. Boscarino
Overview of the Intern Position at SexGenLab and the Importance of Public Scholarship, Elizabeth S. Chapin
How the U.S. Mainstream Media Perpetuates Cis White Masculine Hegemony, Yelena Dzhanova
The Queer Comedy Boom: The History of LGBTQ+ Stand-up Comedy, Marcelle Karp
The Queer Life of Lorena Hickok, Samantha D. Leyerle
Uprooting Patriarchy: Meditations on Gender, Masculinities, and Healing Through Buddhist Practices, Noah Souder-Russo
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
A History of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, 1975–2015, Clarisa Gonzalez
Lactating Justice: Constructing a Society Economically Focused on Optimizing Health through Human Lactation, Shadley Hobour
An Overview and Assessment of the Editorial Assistant Position at Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amy M. Iafrate
A Qualitative Exploration of Discourses in Fan Community, /r/boyslove, Jessica Lin
My Favorite Thing is Monster Theory: Horror Comics and deMONSTRating Difference in Emil Ferris’s "My Favorite Thing is Monsters", Jennifer Rossberg
Exploring the Boundaries of Queerness from Academia to Activism, Jillian M. (Silvia) Miranda
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): Postfeminist Beauty Messaging and Resistant Media Texts, Margarita Artoglou
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe
Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, Alexandra Johnson
Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Juwon Jun
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
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar
Cracks in the Bathroom Stall: A Discourse Analysis on Transgender Bathroom Usage at Garden Spot High School, Kirsten D. Corneilson
Legitimizing Violence at the European Border: Gendered Misrepresentations at Sea and the Vulnerable Other, Michela Demelas
Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students, Lo Ferguson
Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian
Refusing White Privacy, Olivia Dunbar
Feminist and Anti-Feminist Discourses on Abortion in Haiti from 2010 to 2019, Katia Henrys
“The Least Sexually Confident Women in the World”: International NGOs and the Racialized Politics of Obstetric Fistula, Googie S. Karrass
Paradoxes of Feminist Stances in “New Turkey”: Reconceiving NGO-State Relationships in the Case of KAMER, Irem Kilic
Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?, Emilie Kristine Krumsvik
HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive, Kayla Morse
Black Amerinquen, Kayla Marie Rodriguez
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
"It's like They're Right There Next to You": Maintaining Girls' Camp Friendships via Mobile Media, Elise Bragard
Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities, Melanie D. Chin
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers, Dana Glaser
Dolls Who Speak: Sex Robots, Cyborgs and the Image of Woman, Victoria E. Pihl Sorensen
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
