Theses published by graduate students in the Institute for the Humanities, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Thesis: From Donatello to Michelangelo: A Franciscan Angel, Kayla M. Bruce

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Thesis: Always Reppin' Padua: An Examination of Campanilismo in the Works of Andrea Mantegna, Sarah Kathryn Suddith Gorman

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Thesis: Nietzsche’s Will to Power as that Which Eternally Recurs, Joshua Aaron Ackerman

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Thesis: Rape, Consent, and the U.S. Military, Siris Fernandez

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Thesis: TikTok as a Digital Activism Space: Social Justice Under Algorithmic Control, Brittany Haslem

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Thesis: "I Want to Know What I'm Looking at": Surveilling Gender as a Response to Cultural Anxieties in Halloween, Sleepaway Camp, and Scream, Jennifer Jacinda McLawhorn

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Thesis: Hieronymus Bosch's Dismantled Triptych and the 'Devotio Moderna', Mary E. Tippett

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Thesis: Integrating Empathy Pedagogy with Feminist Thought and Social Justice Praxis, Ashlyn Elizabeth Brown

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Thesis: Riverology: Promoting Stewardship of Rivers Through Youth Participation in Science and Art, Robin R. Dunbar

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Thesis: Experiences with Flood and Perceptions of Flood Risk among Members of the Filipino American Community in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Anjelica Pascual Petsch

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Thesis: Media Effects on Cultural Perceptions as Seen in Food Media and Food Cultures, David Williams Tortolini

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Thesis: Cecily Brown and Maureen Gallace: Teaching Covert Feminism in Public School, Danielle Salyers

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Thesis: Titian’s Poesie: The Visual Allegories of Morality and Religion, Holli M. Turner

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Thesis: Drag Incorporated: The Homonormative Brand Culture of RuPaul's Drag Race, Nathan T. Workman

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Thesis: Emergency Departments and Care for Marginalized Populations, Irvin B. Harrell

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Thesis: Harbored: Like Museums, Videogames Aren't Neutral, Stephanie Hawthorne

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Thesis: Must Stay Woke: Black Celebrity Voices of Dissent in the Post Post-Racial Era, Lily Kunda

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Thesis: Social Controls Through the Mirror of Columnists' Narratives: A Content Analysis for Framing in Media, Daphne Canan

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Thesis: “El Negro Sin La Oreja”: A Dialectical Approach to the Blackness in Dominican Identity, Kevin E. Nicholes

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Thesis: Teaching Excellence: The Use of Heroes in Moral Education, Shaun Douglas Respess

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Thesis: It Could Have Been Great: An Examination of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Paintings and the Great Synthesis of the Arts, Deanna Brooks

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Thesis: No Witnesses: Protest Policing and the Media at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Robert David Frenzel

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Thesis: "We Can't Do It Without You!" Crowdfunding As Cultural and Economic Negotiations Within Neoliberal Culture, David Zachary Gehring

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Thesis: Interweaving Visual Language of the Spiritual and the Secular: Goya, Spanish Spiritualism, and the Sublime, Stirling Cushman Goulart

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Thesis: Juridical, Religious and Globalization Perspectives on the Constitutions of Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring, Lora Hadzhidimova

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Thesis: "We Are Still in Apartheid:" Girls' Perspectives on Education Inequality in Democratic South Africa and Models for Social Change, Rebekah Lindsey Joyce

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Thesis: Collisions of Local and Global: Transnationalizing a South African Domestic Workers' Union, Moriah Elise Shumpert

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Thesis: Regulatory Capture, the Chesapeake Bay, and Hampton Roads: What's on Your Plate, Ronnie David Gannon

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Thesis: Digital Identity Formation: How Social Networking Sites Affect Real World Authenticity, Matthew Joseph Montoya

Thesis: Las Vegas: Utopia of Escape for Everyman, Alison Cowand Napier

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Thesis: Crosswords at a Crossroad: The Puzzle Turns 100. What Is the Clue to Its Survival?, Lynn J. Feigenbaum

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Thesis: Digital Poetry From a Cyborg Perspective, Daniel James Hosmer

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Thesis: Behind the Silk Screen a Critical Analysis of Translators, (In)visibilty, and Alternative Translation Environments, Justin Charles Sprague

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Thesis: Decontextualizing Development: A Critical Examination of American Popular Discourse on Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Haines

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Thesis: Nawal Al Saadawi and Hanan Al Shaykh's Authorship: Between Arab and Western Reception, Diana M. Obeid

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Thesis: Internet Usage and Religious Authority: A Case Study of the Catholic Church of South Korea, Youngho Park

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Thesis: Feminisms in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Emily G. Brown

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Thesis: Poetic to Platonic Alētheia Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Truth in Greek Poetry and Philosophy, Justin B. Cecil

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Thesis: A Brand New Bond: Shifting Strategies for 007 in the Age of Conglomeration and Convergence, Katherine C. Skophammer

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Thesis: The Bachelor Primetime Construction of Romance, Fairy Tales, and Melodrama, Susan E. Beck

Thesis: Duchampian Authenticity and the Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill

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Thesis: Complexity, Fine-Tuning, and Multiple Universes: The Insufficiency of Scientific Theories for Determining Metaphysical Views, Ashley Graham Kennedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Thesis: Nature and Norfolk: The History of the Norfolk Botanical Garden, Cheryl S. White

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Thesis: Lost in Translation: Decoding Rabelais, E. Ashley Hall

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Thesis: Johann August Weppen's Der Hessische Officer in Amerika and David Christoph Seybold's Reizenstein: The American Revolution and the German Bürgertum's Reassessment of America, Virginia Sasser DeLacey

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Thesis: Idiomatic Expressions and Marital Relationships Over Three Stages of the Family Lifespan, Meredith T. Raynor

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Thesis: The New Deal in Art: The Fine Arts Project and the Evolution of Abstract Expressionism, Sarah Coon Stoops

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Thesis: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”: A Director's Notebook, Natasha Bunnell

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Thesis: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Postmodern Teleological Impasse, Michael P. Tarpey

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Thesis: The Synod of Dordrecht 1618-1619. The Influence of Calvinism on the Development of Freedom in the Netherlands in the Period 1560-1630, Joseph A. van Burik

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Thesis: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into the Nature of the Sacred, Ana Maria Janssen

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Thesis: Daughters of Charity: Catholic Women and Their Communities in Antebellum America, Linda Merritt McCubbins

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Thesis: Communication to Reduce Embarrassment Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures, Puvana Ganesan

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Thesis: Wei Jingsheng and the Democracy Movement in Post-Mao China, Merle David Kellerhals Jr.

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Thesis: Collapsing the Philosophy/Rhetoric Disjunct: Nietzsche, Plato and the Perspectival Turn, Ned Vankevich

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Thesis: Caged Gorillas, Sandra Dee Holcombe

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Thesis: Searching for Zarathustra: A Nietzschean Critique of Post-Traditional Ethical Theory, Joshua Knutsen

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Thesis: Downsizing America in the Twentieth Century: A Sociological and Theoretical Analysis of the Shrinking Middle Class, Terreea Lynne Adams

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Thesis: Passage or Pathology: Current Attitudes Toward Women's Aging in the Literature of Menopause, Kaaren Gearhart Ancarrow

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Thesis: The Role of Plant Foods Among Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century Virginia An Historical and Botanical Study, Timothy W. Cameron

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Thesis: Finding Godot: Postmodernism and Truth, Robert T. Gregory Jr.

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Thesis: Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer

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Thesis: Wittgenstein on Freedom of the Will, Grant Allen Marler

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Thesis: The Emperor Julian (A.D. 331-363): His Life and His Neoplatonic Philosophy, Anthony W. Nattania

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Thesis: Eldorado: The Poes in Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Thesis: Revolution, Song Lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Playscript, LeRoy C. Boyd III

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Thesis: The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane

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Thesis: Confederate Civil War Photographers Propagators and the Hero Myth, Ronald L. Crusan

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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Thesis: The Appropriation of Nietzschean Thought by Donald Kuspit in the Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality of Art and the Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, Frederic S. Bayersdorfer

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Thesis: Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl

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Thesis: The Role of Laughter in the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul D. Gerdes

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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Thesis: DOK: An Original Screenplay, Duncan Campbell

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Thesis: Women's Profiles, Robyn Lynn Cochran

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Thesis: Stand and Run, Andrea Gaye Evans

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Thesis: Beyond Sugar and Spice: Labeling Female Genitalia, Ethel E. Hellman

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Thesis: The Red Hawk's Cry, Malaika Anne King

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Thesis: The Falcon: A Play, Harold W. McKinney II

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

Thesis: Salvation at the Cinema: Religious References in American Science Fiction Films of the 1980's, Marjorie Roberts Tautkus

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Thesis: Overall Laughing One and the Experiences, Anina Porter Adams

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Thesis: Playdance, Gary Ryan Brown

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Thesis: "But Where Shall Understanding Be Found?" Searching for Sophia, Personified Wisdom, Kathleen Damiani

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Thesis: The Theology of Father Brown, Catherine Miles Flynn

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Thesis: The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone

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Thesis: Creativity its Phenomenology in Man and Nature, Margaret L. McCoy

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Thesis: Ninety-Nine and One-Half, Deborah R. Williamson

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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Thesis: Knowing God in William Blake: A Study to Find Meaning in His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, and Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel

Thesis: Vincent Van Gogh: The Artist and His Journey, Sheila F. Winborne

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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Thesis: Sojourn: A Time in Egypt, Deborah L. Miller

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Thesis: Spire and Tower: The History, Architecture and Art of Two Norfolk, Virginia Churches, Judith L. Smith

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Thesis: Essays for Undergraduate Liberal Arts Education, Hugo G. Walter

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Thesis: The Chimney Fireplace in Colonial Virginia, Catherine Howe Grosfils

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Thesis: Forced Sex in Battering Relationships: An Ethnographic Investigation, Leigh Hofheimer

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Thesis: Kingdom by the Sea: A Screenplay, John C. Jarvis Jr.

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Thesis: "Wretched, Bloody, and Usurping Boar"? An Evaluation of the Historicity of Shakespeare's Richard III, Kathryn Kiff

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Thesis: Die Geburt der Tragoedie, Joseph Barnett Metzler III

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Thesis: Meaning in the Historic and Artistic Milieu of the Jacobean Court Masque, John R. Bledsoe

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Thesis: Influences of Pre-Columbian Art in the Work of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, June-Marie Lam

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Thesis: Matoaka, June Nan Cooper

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Thesis: The Troubadour Poets: Their Influence on Their Times, Georgia M. Jarrell

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

Thesis: The Effect of Intuition on Creativity as Discussed by Several Individuals of Creative Genius, Mary Jean Campbell