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 1969
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: The Poetry of Hart Crane: An Analysis of the Concept of Regeneration, Shirley S. Hafezi
Thesis: The Fragmented Individual in the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom, Jahaila Morris Harper
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: The Stage Yankee in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Sue Farquharson Law
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: Eros Philia and Agape in Herman Melville, Mary Barnes
Thesis: Population Excitation Mechanism of the First Negative System of Nitrogen, Robert Lynn Bridigum
Thesis: The Crystal Prison of Elinor Wylie: The Conflicts of Her Life in Her Poetry, Frances F. Carney
Thesis: Universality Through Particularity: Theme and Technique in the Short Poems of William Carlos Williams, Barbara J. Finfrock
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: The Bloomsbury Group: Agent of Evolution, Rashelle Altschul
Thesis: Falstaff, a Product of Historical and Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt
Thesis: Experiment in Municipal Reform: The Prohibition Party in Norfolk Politics 1892-1896, G. Clifford Boocks
Thesis: Pope as a Maker of Ballads, Mary M. Dossin
Thesis: Robert Browning's Treatment of Nature in His Poetry, 1841-1855, Mary B. Gard
Thesis: Sandburg's Ambivalence Toward the City, Gloria Grant
Thesis: The Growth of Norfolk Naval Air Station and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Metropolitan Area Economy in the Twentieth Century, Ira R. Hanna
Thesis: The Family Tree of Fanny Burney's Evelina, Frances McEntee Martin
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: Thomas Shadwell: The Sentimental Characteristics of His Comedies, Ramona Hartley Hamby
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