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 1972
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: Ben Butler and the Occupation of Norfolk, 1862-1865: A Reappraisal, Kenneth H. Schwartz
Thesis: The Urban Gestation: City Building in Wilmington, Delaware, Dennis Signorovitch
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: The Influence of the South on United States China Policy, 1946-49, Arnest Clayton Thompson
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: Simulation and Analysis of a Second-Order System with an Added Finite Pole and/or Zero, William Robert Bodwell
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: A Study of Thin-Film Superconducting Junctions, William P. Korink
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: The Bad Neighbor Policy: James Rockwell Sheffield and United States-Mexican Relations 1924-1927, Herbert L. Salyer
Thesis: The Total State: A Study of Totalitarianism Based on Selected European Novels of the Twentieth Century, Catherine Arveson Thoma
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
Thesis: The Changing Attitudes Towards the Jews of England 1066-1660, Bernard Glassman
Thesis: A History of the Hampton Roads Longshoreman's Association, Esther Levinson
Thesis: Admiral Mark L. Bristol and American Naval Involvement in Turkey, 1919-1923, Donald Walter Patterson
Thesis: The Temperance Movement in Norfolk, Virginia, 1880-1916, David G. Stevens, Jr.
Thesis: Towards the Concept of the Long Run Average Cost Curve, David D. Whitehead
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Thesis: Experiment in Municipal Reform: The Prohibition Party in Norfolk Politics 1892-1896, G. Clifford Boocks
Thesis: The Growth of Norfolk Naval Air Station and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Metropolitan Area Economy in the Twentieth Century, Ira R. Hanna
Thesis: The Coming of the Mexican War: Joel Poinsett and Anthony Butler in Mexico, 1825-1836, Gallais E. Matheny
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Thesis: The Evolution of the Virginia Antimiscegenation Laws, Frank F. Arness
Thesis: Slavery and the Presbyterian Church Before the Civil War, Bernie S. Bass
Thesis: The Political Thought of a Southern Negro Editor, 1921-1940: P. B. Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Laurel K. Gutterman
Thesis: The Failure of Acculturation: The Sioux Indians and Wounded Knee, 1890-91, Michael Isenberg
Thesis: The Strafford Incident: A Study in Historiography, Zelda B. Silverman
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Thesis: Norfolk and Anglo-American Relations, 1805-1815, William Frey Carson
Thesis: Norfolk and the K.K.K. in the Nineteen Twenties, Nancy B. Cuthbert