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.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Dahn E. Crandall
Thesis: A Taxonomic Study of Members of the Family Entrobacteriaceae with Gas Chromatography, Madeline Ducate
Thesis: Comparison of Interferon Produced in Vitro by Monkey Kidney Cells Demonstrating Interference Against Polio II, Coxsackie A-9, Influenza A2/Hong Kong/68, and Echo-9 Viruses, Archer Duncan Farmer Jr.
Thesis: The Ecology of the Dominant Tick Species in the Northwestern Portion of the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Mary Keith Garrett
Thesis: American Policy and the Netherlands East Indies, 1940-1945, Buford A. Harris
Thesis: Observations on the Distribution and Composition of Zooplankton in Portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, Virginia, O. Clair Hillard Jr.
Thesis: The Use of Color Infrared Aerial Photography in Determining Salt Marsh Vegetation and Delimiting Man-Made Structures of Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Robert E. Holman lll
Thesis: Studies on the Causes of Tree Distribution in a Forest Type in the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas A. Janszen
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Craney Island Disposal Area in Hampton Roads, Virginia, David Wallace Laist
Thesis: The United States Naval Influence in South Russia, 1917-1922, Beverly A. Lowe
Thesis: The League of Nations and the Jews of Europe: 1919-1939, Jay M. Pilzer
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: A Study of the Causes of the Negro Migration of 1922-1923 from Rural Georgia to Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Coastal Waters, Elizabeth W. Atkinson
Thesis: The Concept and Theory of Value-Added Taxation, Stacy R. Barnes
Thesis: A Seasonal Distributional Survey of the Epiphytic Diatoms of the Outer Banks Region of North Carolina with Respect to Temperature and Salinity, Charles Welles Belin Jr.
Thesis: The Concept of Authority in James Otis and Thomas Paine, Mark Allan Brown
Thesis: The Changing Positions of Patrick Henry, Jeanne Buyrn
Thesis: John M. Daniel Editor of the Richmond Examiner and Gadfly of the Confederacy, Raymond K. Cooley
Thesis: Cytogenic Studies of a Chesapeake Bay Population of Molgula Manhattensis (Dekay) (Ascidiacea: Stolidobranchia), Elizabeth A. Crawford
Thesis: Seismic Refraction Study of Post-Pliocene Stratigraphy, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Brian Fraser
Thesis: Father Coughlin: The Progenitor of Social Reform in the Catholic Church, Robert J. Galvin
Thesis: Investigation of the Halocline Structure in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Samuel Bowen Heltzel
Thesis: A Zooplankton Study of Stumpy Lake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Jose E. Hernandez
Thesis: Governmental Elites in Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal of the Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman
Thesis: American Diplomacy Toward China, 1945-1948, Margo E. Horner
Thesis: Edinburgh, 1540-1571: Life in an Urban Society, Susan Walker Johnson
Thesis: Complexes of the 2,2'-Bisacylhydrazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine and the Dipicolinic Acid Dihydrazide Ligand Systems, William Leo Johnson III
Thesis: Food and Feeding of Fishes from Magothy Bay, Virginia, Joseph J. Kimmel
Thesis: The Virginia Resolutions of 1826: States Rights Versus Federal Internal Improvements, Robert J. Morrison
Thesis: The Economic Aspects of Water Pollution by Naval Vessels in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, John Edward O'Connor
Thesis: A Simulation Model of Peromyscus Leucopus in an Area of the Great Dismal Swamp, James E. Paschal Jr.
Thesis: Phytoplankton Succession in the Lafayette River, Estuary, Norfolk, Virginia, Thomas W. Purcell lll
Thesis: Community Structure and Production in a Marsh on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Michael Bassett Robblee
Thesis: Evolution of Platt Shoals Northern North Carolina Shelf: Inferences from Areal Geology, Philip C. Sears
Thesis: Particle Size Distribution and Small-Scale Bed-Forms on Sand Waves, Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Virginia, John T. Wells
Thesis: Phycosociology of the Estuarine Eulittoral of Smith Island Virginia: A Quantitative Approach to Seasonal Periodicity, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: The Effects of the Cyclic 3'5'-Monophosphate of Adenosine and Its Dibutyryl Derivative on the In-Vitro Immunization of Mouse Spleen Cell Suspensions, James A. Blanks
Thesis: A Numerical Technique for Solving Rigid Body Impact on an Incompressible, Viscous Medium, Cecil Thomas Chapman
Thesis: Phytoplankton Distribution in Waters Off the Northeastern Coast of the United States, Sharon H. Craft
Thesis: The Synthesis and Characterization of the 2,2'-Bisacylazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine, Magdy Adly Guirguis El-Fayoumy
Thesis: A Study of Precipitin and Soluble Antigen Fluorescent Antibody Technique in the Detection of Dirofilaria Immitis in Canines, John H. Ellsworth
Thesis: An Assessment of the Validity of the Unemployment Variable as a Determinant of Changes in Money Wages in Wage-Estimation Models, James L. Jennings
Thesis: John Kirkwood Mitchell and Confederate Naval Defeat, Wayne Dixon Lett
Thesis: Morphologic Time Series From a Submarine Sand Ridge on the South Virginia Coast, John F. McHone Jr.
Thesis: Surface Water Turbidity in the Entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, James R. Melchor
Thesis: Determination of Nutrient Levels and Proposed Predictive Models for Phosphate in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, John R. Montgomery
Thesis: The Fur and Skin Trade of Colonial Virginia, Shirley-Virginia Parrish
Thesis: Motivation and the Poor Worker, Charles Barry Pfitzner
Thesis: Plant Succession in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Susan Woodward Walker
Thesis: The Influence of the Summer Thermocline on Estuarine Classification in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, William G. Weiss Jr.
Thesis: A Physical Hydrographic Study of the Lafayette River, E. Glenn White
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: The Creole Affair: Climax of the British-American Fugitive Slave Controversy, 1831-1842, Alice Lee Anderson
Thesis: Spectroscopic Measurement of the Electron Temperature in the Tenuous Argon Ion Laser Plasma, Dane Danijel Bicanic
Thesis: Negroes' Freedom of Contract in Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper III
Thesis: An Evaluation of a Stable Isotope of Dysprosium for Labeling and Tracing Sedimentary Particles, Charles Glenn Boone
Thesis: An Empirical Test of Linder's Trade Hypothesis, James Norman Carnes
Thesis: American Press Reaction to Intervention in Nicaragua, Raymond O. Eason
Thesis: The Later Years of the American Colonization Society (1850-1865), John Hamilton Haley
Thesis: A Graphic Analysis of Current Velocity Salinity Density and Temperature During Periods of EBB and Flood in the Entrance to Thimble Shoals Channel, Stanley Hecker
Thesis: Methodist Missions to the Plantation Slaves of the South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson
Thesis: Observations on the Hydraulic Regime of the Ridge and Swale Topography of the Inner Virginia Shelf, Barry W. Holliday
Thesis: Reformers and Bosses in the Progressive Era: The Changing Face of Norfolk Politics, 1890-1920, James Sidney Kitterman Jr.
Thesis: Portsmouth, Virginia: The Growth and Burdens of Property Taxes 1952-1967, Nicholas C. Kyriakides
Thesis: Static and Dynamic Buckling of Shallow Arches, David D. Loendorf
Thesis: The Relationship Between Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, Fay F. Moran
Thesis: The Christian Socialist Movement in England, 1848-1854, Elizabeth Burton Morley
Thesis: An Application of Spectroscopic Techniques to the Measurement of Electron Density and Temperature in a Brush Cathode Plasma, Ramabhai M. Patel
Thesis: The Commercial Development of Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City, Wayne H. Payne
Thesis: The United States and the 1954 Guatemalan Revolution: Intervention or Prevention, Michael Plunkett
Thesis: Phytoplankton Composition at Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Howard Poore Jr.
Thesis: Analysis of Littoral Transport by Wave Energy: Cape Henry, Virginia to the Virginia, North Carolina Border, Zvi Henry Weinman
Thesis: Trap Manifested Behavior Trap Reflected Density Trap Reflected Distribution and Foods Consumed by Raccoons (Procyon Lotor L.) in Two Natural Areas of Virginia, Elton L. Winslow
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: The Neo-Classical Contributions to the Theory of International Trade, Mohammed Arifeen
Thesis: Britain and the Free Trade Area Negotiations of 1956-1958, George Y. Ballentine
Thesis: Erasure of Sediment Surface Features by Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), Walter Richard Boehmer
Thesis: An Investigation of a Gas Measurement Technique Employing Ultraviolet Excitation, Alphonso Vincent Diaz
Thesis: An Experimental Study of Lateral Soil Pressures and Moments on Flexible Sheet Piles, James H. Donahue
Thesis: Excitation of Hydrogen Atoms by Fast Protons, Edward Ellis Fitchard
Thesis: An Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Current Meter for Study of Water Particle Motion, George Milton Hecker
Thesis: An Economic Base Study of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District, Toby Lee Jarman
Thesis: Income Velocity in the United States, 1961-1968, William F. Kennedy
Thesis: Grain Size Reconnaissance of the Virginia-North Carolina Inner Shelf Analysis by Settling Technique, Robert Bailey Sanford Jr.
Thesis: The Elasticity of Investment Demand: An Empirical Survey, Donald E. Schatz
Thesis: A Study of Elasto-Viscous Material Under Moving Rigid Wheel, Sou-nan Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Thesis: The Impact of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American-Japanese Relations, Mazika E. Anthony
Thesis: Selected Aspects of the Demand for Money Function, Geraldine Bocchieri
Thesis: Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim in Cuba: 1929-1933, Donald Ross Brimmer
Thesis: Some Summary Theories of Inflation Causation, Carl M. Colonna
Thesis: A Marriage of Convenience, Norfolk and the Navy, 1917-1967, Theodore A. Curtin
Thesis: An Analysis in Terms of Trade, Nobuhiro Hayashi
Thesis: The Rives Affair: The Study of a Southeast Virginia Railroad Controversy, 1830-1846, William F. Heyer
Thesis: Joseph Priestley: An Eighteenth Century Unitarian, Carol Lynn Knight
Thesis: Child Labor Reform Movement in Virginia: 1890-1938, Yukiko Maritani
Thesis: The Progress of the Japanese-American Commodity Trade and the Commercial Policy Since 1945, Akio Mitake
Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Selected Aspects of the Coffee Market, John Michael Morgan
Thesis: Patrick Hurley and China Policy, Bruce W. Platz
Thesis: Oil and Planning in the Economic Development of Iran, Jahangier Saleh
Thesis: Selected Theories of the Consumption Function, Thomas Cameron Whiteman
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: Population Excitation Mechanism of the First Negative System of Nitrogen, Robert Lynn Bridigum
Thesis: The Role and Influence of Executive Agents on Woodrow Wilson's Mexican Policy, 1913-1915, Robert J. Fischer