The phrase "a dissertation about the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the subject matter or focus of a dissertation in an academic context.
Example: "She is currently writing a dissertation about the impact of climate change on marine biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a thesis on the" or "a research paper regarding the".
(Ms. Liebert, a Ph.D. candidate in the art history department at Columbia, is working on a dissertation about the selves).
After completing a four-year law course, Mayberry took a master's in journalism, with a dissertation about the portrayal of women in the media.
He then dived into a dissertation about the female anatomy that is not suitable for print — or, for that matter, breakfast.
By contrast, Gina McKee's angular, academically-driven Viv is hard at work on a dissertation about "the corset" and thinks that waist is a "male construct".
I can imagine a future officer-scholar writing a dissertation about the dilemmas faced by McMaster and the other generals, both active-duty and retired, serving in the Trump administration.
Velia Ivanova is a PhD student in Historical Musicology, working on a dissertation about the legacy of prison ethnography in American music.
"Writing code is both". He received a PhD in computer science from Princeton last year, with a dissertation about ChucK, the general purpose programming language tailored for computer music.
From there Hardt went to Paris to write a dissertation about Italy during the Seventies under the guidance of fugitive philosopher-activist Negri.
Robert Yehl Sanford, Fla., April 20, 2009 The writer is the city manager of Sanford, Fla., and is writing a dissertation about fragmentation and the cost of government in the Dallas and Houston metropolitan area.
He was a Yale University graduate student at the time, working on a dissertation about Wagner's "Tannhäuser" (specifically, the composition process of the first version).
Tererai has completed her course work and is completing a dissertation about AIDS programs among the poor in Africa.
