Theses published by graduate students in the Institute of the Humanities, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University.

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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: 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 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

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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

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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 1993

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

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: The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Thesis: Die Geburt der Tragoedie, Joseph Barnett Metzler III

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Thesis: Matoaka, June Nan Cooper

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Thesis: The Adams Image in American History, Mary Helen McCoy

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim