All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Dissertation: An Advanced Simulation Architecture for Testing Autonomous and Connected Vehicles Enabled by Virtual Reality, Defu Cui
Dissertation: The Mediation Effects of Adaptive Blindness Strategies on the Relation Between Institutional Betrayal From Military Sexual Assault and Mental Health Symptoms, Rachel L. Davies
Dissertation: A New Method to Determine the Posterior Distribution of Coefficient Alpha, John Mart V. DelosReyes
Dissertation: Global Energy Consumption: An Analysis of Variables That Shape Per Capita Usage, or How Pump Price, Urbanization, and Fossil Fuels Imports Impact Fossil Fuels Consumption Per Capita Across OECD Countries, Mila Demchyk Savage
Dissertation: Dealing With the Effects of COVID-19 Job Demands on Public Sector Employees’ Work Engagement and Job Burnout: The Role of Public Service Motivation, Servant Leadership, and Mission Valence, Phillip Joseph Dillulio
Thesis: OpenSim-Based Musculoskeletal Modeling: Foundation for Interactive Obstetric Simulator, Bahador Dodge
Dissertation: RoboRetrieve--In a Dual Role as a Hand-held Surgical Robot and a Collaborative Robot End-effector to Perform Spillage-free Specimen Retrieval in Laparoscopy, Siqin Dong
Thesis: Seeking Sabbath in Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm, Olivia Grace Dycus
Thesis: Fabrication of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components Using Stereolithography 3D Printing, Hannah Dyer
Thesis: Influence of Abiotic Drivers and Plant Community Interactions on Bald Cypress (Taxodium Distichum) Seedlings: Implications for Restoration, Victoria Ellis
Thesis: Assessing the Prevalence and Archival Rate of URIs to Git Hosting Platforms in Scholarly Publications, Emily Escamilla
Dissertation: Using Ozobots to Learn Character Traits, Kimberly Dawn Eure
Dissertation: Determining the Degree to Which Ideational Behavior Predicts Occupational Identity Achievement in Emerging Adult College Students Preceding Entry into the Fourth Industrial Revolution Workforce, Carrington M. Faulk
Thesis: African-American Parents’ Cultural Understandings of the Concept of Autism and Implications for Parental Communication and Health Management, Kellie J. Fennell
Thesis: Fusion Bonding Behavior of 3D Printed PA6/CF Composites Via Post Fabrication Compaction, Gonzalo Fernandez Mediavilla
Dissertation: Copula Based Models for Bivariate Zero-Inflated Count Time Series Data, Dimuthu Fernando
Thesis: Genotyping of the Tick-Borne Pathogen Rickettsia parkeri, Rebecca Lynn Ferrara
Thesis: An Evaluation of Network2work at Piedmont Virginia Community College, Cynthia M. Finley
Dissertation: Special Education Fiscal Effort and Juvenile Adjudication: A Financial Relationship Exploration, Sarah E. Finley
Thesis: High Functioning, Sean Fitzpatrick
Thesis: Evaluating Direct Filtration as an Alternative to Conventional Carbon-Based Advanced Treatment for Indirect Potable Reuse, Savannah M. Flemmer
Thesis: Focused on Freedom: Exploring the Potential of Grading Contracts to Support Writers in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom, Margaret McGregor Fluharty
Thesis: Effect of Acute Caffeine Ingestion on On-Field Performance in Division 1 Female Field Hockey Players, Nicole Danielle Fredricks
Thesis: An Exploratory Examination of the Cultural Understandings of Communication Competence Among Nigerian Immigrant Adult Children, Fredous Gambo
Thesis: Effects of Chewing Time on Gastrointestinal Discomfort, Substrate Use, and Performance During Running, Thomas Geaney
Thesis: Evaluating the Potential Use of Saltwater Quarries in the Florida Keys for the Semi-Wild Mariculture of Caribbean King Crab (Maguimithrax spinosissimus), Samantha Glover
Dissertation: The Influence of Mentorship on K-5 General Education Teachers: A Study of Southeastern Schools in Virginia, Katherine Ryan Goldburg
Dissertation: The Effect of Minority Stress on Sexual Minority College Students' Mental Health: The Role of General Social Support and Sexuality-Specific Social Support, Lee A. Golembiewski
Thesis: Always Reppin' Padua: An Examination of Campanilismo in the Works of Andrea Mantegna, Sarah Kathryn Suddith Gorman
Thesis: Exploring Methods to Reduce Stress in College Students: Dog-Assisted Therapy, Ashley A. Green
Dissertation: Pulsed Electric Field Ablation: Mechanisms of Differential Cell Sensitivity and Methods to Mitigate Neuromuscular Excitation, Emily Gudvangen
Dissertation: Systemic Risk Analysis of Human Factors in Phishing, Mark Guilford
Thesis: Age, Lower Extremity Muscle Strength, and Running Biomechanics in Healthy Female Recreational Runners, Heather McConchie Hamilton
Thesis: Predicting E-Cigarette Use Among Emerging Adults Using Perceived Social Norms and Outcome Expectancies, Stephen N. Hanson
Dissertation: Framework for Implementing Advanced Radar Plotting Aid Capability for Small Maritime Vessels, Jason Stark Harris
Thesis: U.S.-China Trade War: Phase One Agreement and Self-Enforcing Contracts, Hameedullah Hassani
Dissertation: Assessing the Impact of Substituting Interaction Types: An Empirical Study of the Interaction Equivalency Theory, Scott Alan Hauert
Dissertation: Teaching Social Determinants of Health in Physical Therapist Professional Education Programs: Exploring Curricular Approaches and Examining an Assessment Tool, Emily Jordan Hawkins
Dissertation: Towards a Formal Theory of Humor in Organizations, Richard Joseph Hayes
Thesis: And Then There Were Ghosts, Dan Heck
Dissertation: Strategies That Contribute to the Sustainability and Success of Community College Non-Credit Workforce Development Programs, Amy Lovin Henecke
Dissertation: Human Impact on Cyanobacteria and Their Genetics: Potential Implications on Health, Evolution, and the Environment, Megan Ann Hept
Dissertation: The Risk Perceptions and Evacuation Behaviors of College Students in Coastal Communities: Exploring the Functionality of the False Alarm and Desensitization Model, Saige Marisza Hill
Thesis: Biocrude Production From Lignin in Hydrothermal Medium: Effect of Rapid Heating and Short Residence Time, Kyoko Hirayama
Thesis: The Human That Is Not Human: Examining the Doppelganger Through David Hume, Brittnea Anne Holland
Dissertation: Machine Learning Approach to Activity Categorization in Young Adults Using Biomechanical Metrics, Nathan Q. C. Holland
Dissertation: Men, Women, and Italians: The Masquerade of Narrative and Identity in Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, Ruth A. Holmes
Dissertation: Complex Dynamics of Contention: Towards a Generative Model of Social Dissent, Travis Holmes
Dissertation: Chinese International Graduate Student Agency in a Neo-Racism Context: A Narrative Analysis, Minghui Hou
Thesis: Study of Microphonic Effects on the C100 Cryomodule for High Energy Electron Beam Accelerators, Caleb James Hull
Thesis: An Autoethnography on Teaching Antiracism in the Current Sociopolitical Environment, Taylor M. Jacobson
Dissertation: Third-Party Reactions to Performance Feedback, Daroon Mohammed Jalil
Thesis: Supporting Account-based Queries for Archived Instagram Posts, Himarsha R. Jayanetti
Dissertation: Biomechanical Adaptations While Performing Bilateral Drop Landings With a Unilateral Ankle Tape Application, Eric Daniel Jenkins
Thesis: The Civil War Conflict Between Anglophones/Francophones in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon, Myriam Jeter
Dissertation: The Lived Experiences of 911 Dispatchers With Compassion Fatigue: An Interpretive Phenomenology, Angela Johnson
Dissertation: Community College Academic Advisors’ Considerations of Ethical Issues Related to the Use of Learning Analytics, Anna Elizabeth Jones
Dissertation: An Ethnographic Case Study Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning, James H. Jones Jr.
Dissertation: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Teacher Education: Centering Black Epistemologies to (Re)Construct Elementary Language Arts Education for Linguistic and Racial Justice, Jasmyn Kymberly Jones
Dissertation: Exploring Culturally Responsive Equitable Problem-Solving Pedagogy: Theorizing, Developing & Teaching, Tisha Newton Jones
Dissertation: Dental Care Utilization Among U.S. Children Participating in Early Head Start Programs, Ahlam Ibraheem Joufi
Dissertation: Factors Influencing African American Women to Attend a Rural Community College and Persist to an Associate Degree, Lorraine Anita Justice
Thesis: Examining the Experience and Impact of Teen-to-Teen Crisis Line Work for Youth Volunteers: A Pilot Study, Taylor Kalgren
Dissertation: Human Psychology Factors Influencing Agile Team Autonomy in Post-Pandemic Remote Software Organizations, Ravikiran Kalluri
Thesis: Factors Moderating the Association Between Social Network “Drinking Buddies” and Personal Drinking, Karolina Kazlauskaite
Dissertation: Public School Superintendents in Virginia: Innovating in the Educational Context, Daniel Firing Keever
Thesis: Adaptation of Nirtrifiers and Heterotrophs to Low Dissolved Oxygen in an Activated Sludge Biological Nutrient Removal Pilot Plant, Shashank Khatiwada
Dissertation: Silently Correcting Your Grammar: Responses to Feedback and Adult Learners' Rural Writing Ecosystems, Jessica Marie Kubiak
Dissertation: Design and Construction of a Longitudinally Polarized Solid Nuclear Target for CLAS12, Victoria Lagerquist
Dissertation: Opportunities and Challenges from Major Disasters Lessons Learned of Long-Term Recovery Group Members, Eduardo E. Landaeta
Thesis: A New View of Chlorophyll Dynamics in the Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight from a Two-Year High-Resolution Spray Glider Survey, Francesco Lane
Dissertation: Can’t Let Go: Anxiety, Ontological Security, and French Foreign Policy Decision-Making During the Hollande Administration, Peter D. Langley
Thesis: Becoming the Family Archive, Temitope Abigail Larayetan
Dissertation: Two Essays on Retail Trading, Qiqi Liang
Dissertation: Detecting Malware With Securedeep Accelerator via Processor Side-Channel Fingerprinting for Internet of Things, Zhuoran Li
Dissertation: The Effects of Self-Regulated Learning on Community College Students Metacognition, Motivation and Achievement in Geoscience Courses, Melani A. Loney
Dissertation: Attitudes of Ethnic Minorities Towards National Defense and Security in the Triadic Nexus: The Case of Russian-Speakers in Estonia, Nikita Lumijoe
Dissertation: The Influence of Minority Stress, Coping, and a Pandemic on the Relationship Between Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: A Mixed Methods Study, James Michael Macchia
Dissertation: Tidal Flooding in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US: Water Quality Effects in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Alfonso Macias Tapia
Thesis: Some Stories from a Black Girl from the Bronx, Serenity Marshall
Dissertation: The Role and Contribution of Rural North Carolina Community Colleges in Social Capital Development, Tanya J. McGhee
Dissertation: Modeling the Impacts of Sea Level Rise in Coastal Virginia at Multiple Scales, George Murray McLeod IV
Dissertation: E-Cadherin Force Transmission and Stiffness Sensing, Mazen Mezher
Thesis: Experimental and Computational Aerodynamic Studies of Axially-Oriented Low-Fineness-Ratio Cylinders, Forrest Miller
Dissertation: Teaching Higher Education During a Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study of Instructor Decisions Associated with Switching from Face-to-Face to Online-Only Sessions, Steven M. Miner
Dissertation: Framing Automation Trust: How Initial Information About Automated Driving Systems Influences Swift Trust in Automation and Trust Repair for Human Automation Collaboration, Scott Anthony Mishler
Thesis: The Effect of Through Thickness Reinforcement Angle on the Disbonding Behavior in Skin-Stringer Configuration, Christopher John Morris
Dissertation: Chemical and Physical Interaction Mechanisms and Multifunctional Properties of Plant Based Graphene in Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites, Daniel W. Mulqueen
Thesis: Data-Driven Predictive Modeling to Enhance Search Efficiency of Glowworm-Inspired Robotic Swarms in Multiple Emission Source Localization Tasks, Payal Nandi
Dissertation: Optics Studies for Multipass Energy Recovery at CEBAF: ER@CEBAF, Isurumali Neththikumara
Thesis: Modified Vaccine Vectors to Understand Adjuvant Functions of Listeria During Chronic Schistosomiasis, Stephanie K. Norwood
Dissertation: Fabrication of Smooth SAC305 Thin Films via Magnetron Sputtering and Evaluations of Microstructure, Creep, and Electrical Resistivity, Manish Ojha
Dissertation: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Self-Identified Politically Conservative Students in Graduate Counseling Programs in Public Universities, Elizabeth A. Orrison
Thesis: The Effects of Lifting With Intent on Hip and Knee Moments During Back Squats, Kyle A. Parrish
Thesis: Nightmares and Self-Injury Among High-Risk Adolescents: Examining the Role of Emotion Regulation, Kinjal K. Patel
Thesis: Lithium Extraction From Aqueous Solution Using Magnesium Doped Lithium Ion-Sieve Composite, Ujjwal Pokharel
Dissertation: Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Modulates Electron Transport and Mitochondrial Structure and Function, Lucas Nelson Potter
Dissertation: Near Transfer After Direct Instruction: An Experimental Inquiry within Aviation Technician Training, Francis Eamonn Powers
Dissertation: Age-Related Differences in Motor Performance, Jessica Anne Prebor
Dissertation: Visual Literacies and Young Children’s Writing: Creating Spaces for Young Children’s Voices and Engaging in Authentic Writing Experiences, Elizabeth Presto