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 2020
Dissertation: Role of Anisometric Particles in Ice-Templated Porous Ceramic Structure and Mechanical Properties, Mahesh Banda
Thesis: Engineering Management Competencies: A Framework for Present and Future Engineering Environments, Christopher Vaughn Barrett
Dissertation: Morally Injurious Experiences, Trauma-Related Guilt, and Substance Use among Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans, Allison T. Battles
Thesis: Diagnosis: Weirdo, James Corbett Beardsley
Dissertation: A Rule Based Control Algorithm for on-Ramp Merge With Connected and Automated Vehicles, Ehsan Beheshtitabar
Dissertation: Adjunct Faculty Job Satisfaction: Intangible and Financial Factors Affecting the Academic Majority, Courtney Jane Obis Belmonte
Thesis: Mechanism of Compaction With Wrinkle Formation During Automatic Stitching of Dry Fabrics and the Size Effect of Compression Molded Discontinuous Fiber-Reinforced Composites, Anibal Benjamin Beltran Laredo
Thesis: Effects of Religion on Crime in Hampton Roads, Alaina Yvonne Bierdz
Dissertation: The 23: Racial and Other Demographic Differences in the Assignment of Risk Factors for Individuals Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Virginia, Dominique Raquel Blanchette
Dissertation: Students at a Crossroads: TA Development Across Pedagogical and Curricular Contexts, Cassandra Ann Book
Dissertation: Black Teachers’ Collective Wisdom as Social Justice Pedagogy: A Black Feminist Narrative Analysis, Jacqueline Cora Boone
Thesis: Hardware Development for the Generation of Large-Volume High Pressure Plasma By Spatiotemporal Control of Space Charge, Nikhil Boothpur
Dissertation: An Examination of the Relationship Among Social Services Support, Race, Ethnicity and Recidivism in Justice Involved Mothers, Ne’Shaun Janay Borden
Dissertation: Development and Validation of the Students With Learning Disabilities School Counselor Self- Efficacy Scale: A Psychometric Study, Rawn Alfredo Boulden, Jr.
Dissertation: Aging, Gait Variability, and Adaptability, Collin Douglas Bowersock
Thesis: Conical Orbital Mechanics: A Rework of Classic Orbit Transfer Mechanics, Cian Anthony Branco
Thesis: Physical Education Teachers' Attitudes Towards Teaching Zumba to Children With Disabilities, Evelina C. Brandon
Dissertation: DOD Mission Engineering and Integration Explorative-Exploitative Architecture for Technology Innovation, Jose L. Bricio-Neto
Thesis: Pueblo Sovereignty and Voting Rights: Miguel Trujillo and a New Tactic for Self-Determination, Alexander Douglas Bright
Dissertation: Minority Counselor Multicultural Competence in the Current Sociopolitical Climate, Kathleen Brown
Thesis: Experiences in Physical Education and Sport: The Intersection of Identifying as a Female, an Athlete, and Visually Impaired, Margaret Buckley
Thesis: Biphasic Gene Electrotransfer Enhances Gene Delivery In Vitro, John Bui
Dissertation: Neglected Cultural Outcomes That Impact Hispanic-Serving Institution Policymaking, Amanda Kate Burbage
Thesis: Attitudes of Virginia Dental Hygienists Toward Dental Therapists, Helene Mesina Burns
Thesis: Rotorcraft Blade Angle Calibration Methods, Brian David Calvert Jr.
Dissertation: Disrupting Education: High School Principals’ Efforts to Lead Disruptive Innovation and the Influence of Isomorphic Mechanisms, Katie Cummings Catania
Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Kinetics Studies of New Cobalt Complexes for the Production of H2 in Acidic Media, Michael John Celestine
Dissertation: Cultural Capital, Habitus, College Persistence and Graduation Among Black Immigrant-Origin Undergraduates: A Basic Interpretive Qualitative Study, Erica M. Richards Chew
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy, Rajib Chowdhury
Dissertation: Structural Characterization of Organic Matter in Oil Shales Using Multiple Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Techniques, Wenying Chu
Thesis: Shifting Sources of Humanitarian Aid: The Importance of Network Resiliency and Donor Diversification, Mackenzie Marie Clark
Thesis: Constraining Respired Carbon Storage in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Over the Last 25 Thousand Years Using Benthic Foraminiferal Boron/Calcium Ratios, Brian James Close
Dissertation: Terrorists, Zombies, and Robots: The Political Unconscious, Thematics, and Affectual Structures of the Post-9/11 American Fear Narrative, Nathanael J. Cloyd
Thesis: Understanding the Association Between Social Networks, College Student Alcohol Use, and Protective Behavioral Strategy Use and Beliefs, Melissa Roberts Colangelo
Dissertation: Drivers of Rickettsial Pathogen Transmission and Spillover in Local Tick Populations in Southeastern Virginia, Alexandra Cumbie
Dissertation: Global Language Variation in Online Writing Instructional Spaces: English as a Lingua Franca Among Global Participants in a Massive Open Online Course, Angela May Dadak
Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang
Thesis: The Effects of Military Sexual Trauma and Depressive Symptoms on Reintegration, Rachel L. Davies
Dissertation: A Case Study Exploring the Nature of How Prekindergarten Teachers’ Mathematics Instruction Decisions Relate to Their Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Raleta Summers Dawkins
Thesis: A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction, Charlotte A. Dawson
Dissertation: International Student Recruitment, Retention, and Transfer Efforts at Top Community Colleges Hosting International Students in the United States, Alejandra Diaz-Rangel
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of Group Treatment Outcomes for Veterans with Substance Use Disorders, Robert “Tony” Dice
Dissertation: Innovative Approaches in the Discovery of Aquatic Mycobacteriophages, Janis H. Doss
Dissertation: The Association of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Scores and Variance in State Education Requirements, Patrick M. Doyle
Dissertation: Wicked Ideas for Wicked Problems: Marine Debris and the Complexity of Governance, Dawn Helene Driesbach
Dissertation: Copper and Cobalt Metal Conjugation Enhances Flaviviral Replication, and DENV/ZIKV Caused Thrombocytopenia Suppresses Integrin Signaling, Shovan Dutta
Dissertation: Onboard Autonomous Controllability Assessment for Fixed Wing sUAVs, Brian Edward Duvall
Dissertation: Simulation and Development of the Radial Time Projection Chamber for the BONuS12 Experiment in CLAS12, Nathan M. Dzbenski
Dissertation: How Principals Learn to Be Technology Leaders: A Critical Incident Qualitative Study, Leon R. Edwards II
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Examination of Microaggressions and Alcohol Use Among Emerging Adult Bisexual Women: The Role of Alcohol Demand, Sarah J. Ehlke
Dissertation: Sociopolitical Crisis and the Rise of a Social Justice Superintendent in Charlottesville, Sara Lourdes Epperly
Thesis: A Comparative Approach to Racial Stereotyping in South Africa and the United States and How It Has Obliterated the Black Image, Maylat Tedla Eyob
Dissertation: Investigating the Impact of the FAVA Well-Being Protocol on Perceived Stress and Psychological Well-Being With At-Promise High School Students, Renee L. Fensom
Dissertation: Trend Analyses of the Abundances of Atmospheric Molecules, Anton Fernando
Dissertation: Olfactory Behavioral Responses of Mosquito Vectors to Select Attractants and Floral Scents as Related to Circadian Rhythms and Photoperiod Regimes, Bernadette A. Ferraro
Thesis: A Parametric Analysis of a Turbofan Engine with an Auxiliary Bypass Combustion Chamber – The TurboAux Engine, Kaleab Fetahi
Dissertation: Investigating a Multimodal Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease, Sean M. Flannery
Dissertation: District Promotion Policies for Students with Disabilities: Examining Principal Interpretation and Implementation, LaToya Exum Floyd
Dissertation: The Effects of Interruption Relevance and Complexity on Primary Task Resumption and Mental Demand, Brandon Allan Fluegel
Thesis: Fighting for Power: Class Conflicts in Political Participation, David Foley
Thesis: Space-Based Countermeasure for Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, Robert Joseph Fowler IV
Dissertation: Mindfulness and Its Impact on Adaptive Coping and Psychological Well-Being: An Intervention for Undergraduate Students, Charles Bradley Freligh
Dissertation: Helping Employees Help the Environment: An Intervention to Increase Environmental Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB-E) Via a Subtle Stimulus, Rebecca C. Garden
Thesis: Parallelization of the Advancing Front Local Reconnection Mesh Generation Software Using a Pseudo-Constrained Parallel Data Refinement Method, Kevin Mark Garner Jr.
Dissertation: Towards Dynamic Vehicular Clouds, Aida Ghazizadeh
Dissertation: Inference and Estimation in Change Point Models for Censored Data, Kristine Gierz
Thesis: Colin and the Nachtmar, Elizabeth Sarah Golliher
Dissertation: Advances in the Understanding of Sourcing and Fate of Pyrogenic Organic Matter in the Environment, Aleksandar Ivaylov Goranov
Thesis: Global Conservation Status of Croaker and Drum (Family: Sciaenidae) and Role of the Maw Trade, Claire E. Gorman
Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, Spectroscopic, and Mesomorphic Studies of New Schiff Base Ligands and Titanium, Cobalt, Nickel and Copper Metal Centers, Raj K. Gurung
Thesis: Lateral-Torsional Instability and Biaxial Flexure of Continuous GFRP Beams Including Warping and Shear Deformations, Waverly G. Hampton
Dissertation: Autism Spectrum Disorder Students: A Survey of Rural Community College Educators, Pamela Love Hanks
Thesis: Network Approaches to Elucidate the Determinants of Protein Topology and Stability, Zeinab Haratipour
Dissertation: Cyber Defense Remediation in Energy Delivery Systems, Kamrul Hasan
Dissertation: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Hall A, Jefferson Lab, Mohamed Nuhman Hashir Rashad
Dissertation: Illuminating the Voices of Black Women Principals: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, Crystal L. Haskins
Dissertation: Faits Accomplis in the Shadow of Shifting Power, Joshua Adam Hastey
Dissertation: The Relationship Between the Earning of Career and Technical Industry Credentials and the Virginia Economy, Anjanette McFadden Hendricks
Thesis: Stratified Security Communities: Transatlantic Distrust and Identity Divergence, Afra Maike Herr
Thesis: The Effects of Hackberry Psyllids on Refueling Migratory Songbirds and Autumnal Seed Rain, Chance H. Hines
Dissertation: A Rhetorical Frame Analysis of Palestinian-Led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Discourse, Jennifer Megan Hitchcock
Dissertation: Designing for the One-Shot: Building Consensus on Design Processes for Academic Librarians, Kirsten Hostetler
Thesis: Attitudes of Virginia Dentists Toward Dental Therapists, Adaira Latrece Howell
Dissertation: Transformational Leadership Qualities Among Students Within Doctoral Higher Education Leadership Programs, Joshua Lee Howell
Thesis: The Impacts of Surface Gravity Waves on Buoyant Plume Dilution, Bruce William Husselbee
Thesis: The Open Heart Furnace, David Jacobson
Thesis: Compaction and Residual Stress Modeling in Composite Manufactured with Automated Fiber Placement, Von Clyde Jamora
Dissertation: Measurement of Pion-Pion Final State Interactions in η → π +π −γ with CLAS at Jefferson Lab, Torri C. Jeske
Thesis: Gender-Specific Mentorship for Collegiate Female Band Directors, Laura M. Johnson
Dissertation: Retaining Special Education Teachers: The Relationship Between School Leadership and Special Education Teacher Retention in a Low-Income School, Amanda Elizabeth Jones
Thesis: Assessment of Coordination and Proprioception in Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Taylor Kristina Jones
Thesis: The Effects of Optimism, Transformational Leadership, and Work Engagement on Work Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model, Chad Kenneally
Dissertation: Lignin: A Likely Precursor of a Significant Fraction of Humic Substances Via Oxidative Transformations, Seyyedhadi Khatami
Dissertation: Essay 1: How We Feel: The Role of Macro-Economic Sentiment in Advertising Spending-Sales Relationship; Essay 2: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Effect of Emotional Uncertainty and Arousal on Healthy Food Choices, Leila Khoshghadam
Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance, Jin Ho Kim
Dissertation: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, But Moderately Variable: The Influence of Environmental Variability on Coral Thermal Tolerance, Courtney Nicole Klepac
Dissertation: Governance Impact on Public-Private Partnerships for Member Countries of the World Bank Group, Kouliga Koala
Thesis: Trajectory Simulation With Battery Modeling for Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ege Konuk
Dissertation: A Quest to Identify the Emerging Leadership Skills in VUCA World and Investigation of Their Applications in Various Organizational Levels and Security Environments, Ali Can Kucukozyigit
Dissertation: Chief Academic Officers and the AACC's Leadership Competencies, Josh Philip Lavorgna