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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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Thesis: Changes in Perceived Guilt as a Function of False Heart Rate Feedback, Darryl Lee Hawkins

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Thesis: Genetic Studies of Cave and Spring Populations of the Freshwater Amphipod Crustacean Gammarus Minus Say, Steven Wolf Hetrick

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Thesis: Imre Nagy and the First Phase of the Hungarian Revolution, William B. Liverman

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Thesis: Intimacy and Content of Self-Disclosure as a Function of Target-Status, John Richard McCallum

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Thesis: The Norman Conquest in English Historical Thought, Ann Gutting Mercer

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Thesis: Application of Satellite Data and Lars' Data Processing Techniques to Mapping Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp, Jeffrey Allan Messmore

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Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in Lynnhaven Estuary, Don W. Oswalt

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Thesis: Benjamin Butler and the Bureau of Negro Affairs in Tidewater, Virginia, 1861-1865, Steven Frank Petrine

Thesis: An Engineering Solution to Improve Water Quality in a Tidal Lagoon, Richard Warren Price

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Thesis: The Trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita: A Case Study in Command Responsibility, L. H. Redford

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Thesis: The Effect of Iron Supplementation on the Endurance Capacity of the Female College Athlete, Barbara B. Sachon

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Thesis: Seasonal Distribution of Higher Marine and Aquatic Fungi in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Scott Schatz

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Thesis: Microbenthic Algal Production of an Intertidal Sandflat in Little Creek Harbor, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Clayton Barry Shedrow

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Thesis: Mob Violence in Prerevolutionary Norfolk, Virginia, Edward A. Smyth

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Thesis: From the Fourth Dimension to Human Liberation: Betty Friedan's Concept of Woman's Role in American Society 1963-1973, Maryann Intermont Ustick

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Thesis: Processes Controlling the Distribution of Methane in the Cariaco Tranch, Venezuela, Denis A. Wiesenburg

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Thesis: Feeding and Food Preferences by Three Sympatric Species of Cyprinodontid Fishes, Lawrence J. Baer

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Thesis: Quantitative and Qualitative Seasonal Analysis of the Surface Zooplankton of Magothy Bay, Virginia, Malcom E. Browne

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Thesis: Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, John F. Callan

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Thesis: The Emergence of the Jacksonians: Rhode Island, a Case Study, 1827-31, James Michael Callow

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Thesis: The Synthesis and Characterization of the 2,2'-Bisacylazide of 2,2'-Diphenyldicarboxylic Acid, Subrata Chatterjee

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Thesis: The Thermal and Photolytic Rearrangements of Isatoic Acid Diazide, Ana Alejandre Ciereszko

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Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Dahn E. Crandall

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Thesis: An Investigation of Littoral Transport Between Virginia Beach and Sandbridge, Virginia, Richard C. Cunningham Jr.

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Thesis: A Taxonomic Study of Members of the Family Entrobacteriaceae with Gas Chromatography, Madeline Ducate

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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.

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Thesis: The Effect of Pre-Exposure to Sucrose on the Acquisition and Extinction of a Conditioned Aversion, Shirlee Fenwick

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Thesis: The Ecology of the Dominant Tick Species in the Northwestern Portion of the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Mary Keith Garrett

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Thesis: Temperature Dependent Behavior in Goldfish: (Carassius Auratus): Some Implications for Memory Processes, Jean M. Hamberg

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Thesis: American Policy and the Netherlands East Indies, 1940-1945, Buford A. Harris

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Thesis: Observations on the Distribution and Composition of Zooplankton in Portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, Virginia, O. Clair Hillard Jr.

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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

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Thesis: Studies on the Causes of Tree Distribution in a Forest Type in the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas A. Janszen

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Thesis: A Comparison of Selected Isokinetic Training Velocities on the Development of Muscular Power in College Women, Julia P. Knight

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Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Craney Island Disposal Area in Hampton Roads, Virginia, David Wallace Laist

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Thesis: The United States Naval Influence in South Russia, 1917-1922, Beverly A. Lowe

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Thesis: The Effect of Various Doses of Caffeine Upon the Maximal Muscular Endurance of College Females, Roberta Jane Perkins

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Thesis: The League of Nations and the Jews of Europe: 1919-1939, Jay M. Pilzer

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Thesis: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Different Teaching Methods Upon the Learning of Beginning Badminton Skills, Helen H. Tedder

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Thesis: General Douglas Macarthur and the Philippine Army, James Allen Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 1973

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Thesis: A Study of the Causes of the Negro Migration of 1922-1923 from Rural Georgia to Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed

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Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Coastal Waters, Elizabeth W. Atkinson

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Thesis: The Concept and Theory of Value-Added Taxation, Stacy R. Barnes

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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.

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Thesis: The Concept of Authority in James Otis and Thomas Paine, Mark Allan Brown

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Thesis: The Changing Positions of Patrick Henry, Jeanne Buyrn

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Thesis: A Comparative Limnological Survey of Brackish-Water Lake and a Fresh-Water Lake at Mount Trashmore, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Gene Ramon Cocke

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Thesis: John M. Daniel Editor of the Richmond Examiner and Gadfly of the Confederacy, Raymond K. Cooley

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Thesis: Cytogenic Studies of a Chesapeake Bay Population of Molgula Manhattensis (Dekay) (Ascidiacea: Stolidobranchia), Elizabeth A. Crawford

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Thesis: Seismic Refraction Study of Post-Pliocene Stratigraphy, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Brian Fraser

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Thesis: Father Coughlin: The Progenitor of Social Reform in the Catholic Church, Robert J. Galvin

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Thesis: Investigation of the Halocline Structure in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Samuel Bowen Heltzel

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Thesis: A Zooplankton Study of Stumpy Lake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Jose E. Hernandez

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Thesis: Governmental Elites in Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal of the Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman

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Thesis: American Diplomacy Toward China, 1945-1948, Margo E. Horner

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Thesis: Edinburgh, 1540-1571: Life in an Urban Society, Susan Walker Johnson

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Thesis: Complexes of the 2,2'-Bisacylhydrazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine and the Dipicolinic Acid Dihydrazide Ligand Systems, William Leo Johnson III

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Thesis: Food and Feeding of Fishes from Magothy Bay, Virginia, Joseph J. Kimmel

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Thesis: The Virginia Resolutions of 1826: States Rights Versus Federal Internal Improvements, Robert J. Morrison

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Thesis: The Economic Aspects of Water Pollution by Naval Vessels in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, John Edward O'Connor

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Thesis: A Simulation Model of Peromyscus Leucopus in an Area of the Great Dismal Swamp, James E. Paschal Jr.

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Thesis: Phytoplankton Succession in the Lafayette River, Estuary, Norfolk, Virginia, Thomas W. Purcell lll

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Thesis: Community Structure and Production in a Marsh on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Michael Bassett Robblee

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Thesis: Evolution of Platt Shoals Northern North Carolina Shelf: Inferences from Areal Geology, Philip C. Sears

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Thesis: Bourgeois Pacifism in Germany Before and During World War I, Andrew Verner

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Thesis: Particle Size Distribution and Small-Scale Bed-Forms on Sand Waves, Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Virginia, John T. Wells

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Thesis: Phycosociology of the Estuarine Eulittoral of Smith Island Virginia: A Quantitative Approach to Seasonal Periodicity, William M. Willis

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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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

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Thesis: Phytoplankton Distribution in Waters Off the Northeastern Coast of the United States, Sharon H. Craft

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Thesis: The Synthesis and Characterization of the 2,2'-Bisacylazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine, Magdy Adly Guirguis El-Fayoumy

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Thesis: A Study of Precipitin and Soluble Antigen Fluorescent Antibody Technique in the Detection of Dirofilaria Immitis in Canines, John H. Ellsworth

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Thesis: Diurnal Studies at a Station on an Urban Estuary in Norfolk, Virginia, Burton Marc Golue

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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

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Thesis: John Kirkwood Mitchell and Confederate Naval Defeat, Wayne Dixon Lett

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Thesis: Morphologic Time Series From a Submarine Sand Ridge on the South Virginia Coast, John F. McHone Jr.

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Thesis: Surface Water Turbidity in the Entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, James R. Melchor

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Thesis: Determination of Nutrient Levels and Proposed Predictive Models for Phosphate in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, John R. Montgomery

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Thesis: The Fur and Skin Trade of Colonial Virginia, Shirley-Virginia Parrish

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Thesis: Motivation and the Poor Worker, Charles Barry Pfitzner

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Thesis: Ben Butler and the Occupation of Norfolk, 1862-1865: A Reappraisal, Kenneth H. Schwartz

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Thesis: The Urban Gestation: City Building in Wilmington, Delaware, Dennis Signorovitch

Thesis: Plant Succession in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Susan Woodward Walker

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Thesis: The Influence of the Summer Thermocline on Estuarine Classification in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, William G. Weiss Jr.

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Thesis: A Physical Hydrographic Study of the Lafayette River, E. Glenn White

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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Thesis: The Creole Affair: Climax of the British-American Fugitive Slave Controversy, 1831-1842, Alice Lee Anderson

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Thesis: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of an Unsteady Pressure Measuring System, Ramesh R. Batki

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Thesis: Spectroscopic Measurement of the Electron Temperature in the Tenuous Argon Ion Laser Plasma, Dane Danijel Bicanic

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Thesis: Negroes' Freedom of Contract in Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper III

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Thesis: An Evaluation of a Stable Isotope of Dysprosium for Labeling and Tracing Sedimentary Particles, Charles Glenn Boone

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Thesis: An Empirical Test of Linder's Trade Hypothesis, James Norman Carnes

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Thesis: American Press Reaction to Intervention in Nicaragua, Raymond O. Eason

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Thesis: The Later Years of the American Colonization Society (1850-1865), John Hamilton Haley

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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

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Thesis: Methodist Missions to the Plantation Slaves of the South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson

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Thesis: Observations on the Hydraulic Regime of the Ridge and Swale Topography of the Inner Virginia Shelf, Barry W. Holliday

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Thesis: Reformers and Bosses in the Progressive Era: The Changing Face of Norfolk Politics, 1890-1920, James Sidney Kitterman Jr.

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Thesis: Portsmouth, Virginia: The Growth and Burdens of Property Taxes 1952-1967, Nicholas C. Kyriakides

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Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh

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Thesis: Static and Dynamic Buckling of Shallow Arches, David D. Loendorf