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 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
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
Thesis: Portrait of the Scientific Journals in Germany: 1930-1936, Paul Eugene Gesling Jr.
Thesis: A Humanistic Consideration of the Farm Security Administration Photographs Made in Virginia, Brooks Johnson
Thesis: Living Reflections, Lorane Leavy
Thesis: The Oneida Community: Its Apologists and its Critics, Nancy C. Morris
Thesis: Noetic Infinity and Intelligible Matter: Reexamination of the Fundamental Structure of the Philosophy of Plotinus, Atsushi Sumi
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: The Adams Image in American History, Mary Helen McCoy
Thesis: Nineteenth Century English Choral Music, Ann Boley Parker
Thesis: The Great Day: A Fantasy Play in Five Acts, Six Scenes by Vladimir Kirshon, Christopher Lee Philips
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: In Favor of Capital Punishment: A Blending of Philosophical Perspectives, James Charles Donnelly
Thesis: Psyche and Time: The Phenomenology of Time Consciousness, Sharon Fleet Hartman
Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster
Thesis: Valuing in the Arts, Nonna B. Runner
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: The William H. Sheppard African Art Collection at Hampton Institute, Richard A. Singletary
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: "The Tide of the Unconscious" Jung, Bosch and the Archetypes of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Andrea R. Peck
Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: The Carter Administrative Elite: A Background Analysis, Susan Adomaitis Armstrong
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: Faust in His Study: The Paradox of Visual Representations and Poetic Possibilities, Donna Ramsey