Theses published by graduate students in the Institute of 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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Thesis: Nietzsche’s Will to Power as that Which Eternally Recurs, Joshua Aaron Ackerman
Thesis: Rape, Consent, and the U.S. Military, Siris Fernandez
Thesis: TikTok as a Digital Activism Space: Social Justice Under Algorithmic Control, Brittany Haslem
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
Thesis: Hieronymus Bosch's Dismantled Triptych and the 'Devotio Moderna', Mary E. Tippett
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: Integrating Empathy Pedagogy with Feminist Thought and Social Justice Praxis, Ashlyn Elizabeth Brown
Thesis: Riverology: Promoting Stewardship of Rivers Through Youth Participation in Science and Art, Robin R. Dunbar
Thesis: Experiences with Flood and Perceptions of Flood Risk among Members of the Filipino American Community in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Anjelica Pascual Petsch
Thesis: Media Effects on Cultural Perceptions as Seen in Food Media and Food Cultures, David Williams Tortolini
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Thesis: Cecily Brown and Maureen Gallace: Teaching Covert Feminism in Public School, Danielle Salyers
Thesis: Titian’s Poesie: The Visual Allegories of Morality and Religion, Holli M. Turner
Thesis: Drag Incorporated: The Homonormative Brand Culture of RuPaul's Drag Race, Nathan T. Workman
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thesis: Emergency Departments and Care for Marginalized Populations, Irvin B. Harrell
Thesis: Harbored: Like Museums, Videogames Aren't Neutral, Stephanie Hawthorne
Thesis: Must Stay Woke: Black Celebrity Voices of Dissent in the Post Post-Racial Era, Lily Kunda
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Thesis: Social Controls Through the Mirror of Columnists' Narratives: A Content Analysis for Framing in Media, Daphne Canan
Thesis: “El Negro Sin La Oreja”: A Dialectical Approach to the Blackness in Dominican Identity, Kevin E. Nicholes
Thesis: Teaching Excellence: The Use of Heroes in Moral Education, Shaun Douglas Respess
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Thesis: It Could Have Been Great: An Examination of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Paintings and the Great Synthesis of the Arts, Deanna Brooks
Thesis: No Witnesses: Protest Policing and the Media at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Robert David Frenzel
Thesis: "We Can't Do It Without You!" Crowdfunding As Cultural and Economic Negotiations Within Neoliberal Culture, David Zachary Gehring
Thesis: Interweaving Visual Language of the Spiritual and the Secular: Goya, Spanish Spiritualism, and the Sublime, Stirling Cushman Goulart
Thesis: Juridical, Religious and Globalization Perspectives on the Constitutions of Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring, Lora Hadzhidimova
Thesis: "We Are Still in Apartheid:" Girls' Perspectives on Education Inequality in Democratic South Africa and Models for Social Change, Rebekah Lindsey Joyce
Thesis: Collisions of Local and Global: Transnationalizing a South African Domestic Workers' Union, Moriah Elise Shumpert
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Thesis: Crosswords at a Crossroad: The Puzzle Turns 100. What Is the Clue to Its Survival?, Lynn J. Feigenbaum
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
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
Thesis: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”: A Director's Notebook, Natasha Bunnell
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Thesis: Wei Jingsheng and the Democracy Movement in Post-Mao China, Merle David Kellerhals Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Thesis: Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer
Thesis: The Emperor Julian (A.D. 331-363): His Life and His Neoplatonic Philosophy, Anthony W. Nattania
Thesis: Eldorado: The Poes in Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
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
Thesis: Overall Laughing One and the Experiences, Anina Porter Adams
Thesis: Playdance, Gary Ryan Brown
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
Thesis: Spire and Tower: The History, Architecture and Art of Two Norfolk, Virginia Churches, Judith L. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: Die Geburt der Tragoedie, Joseph Barnett Metzler III
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Thesis: Matoaka, June Nan Cooper
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: The Adams Image in American History, Mary Helen McCoy
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim