Graduate Research

Students in the MA program at Old à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã University complete original research projects, often resulting in a thesis. Using primary sources from archives, records repositories, and digital databases that they locate, organize, and analyze to produce new findings in their field. Their investigations are supervised by Department faculty, and the final theses are available via the and/or ODU's .

Some of the most recent examples of student research theses are listed below:
2022
  • by Andrew William Hoffman
2020
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  • "," by Bradley Moore
  • "," by James Wilkerson
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2019
  • "," by Violet Galante
  • "'," by Lela Dawn Gourley
2018
  • "'," by Julie Sliva Davis
2017
  • "," by Samantha Edmiston
  • "," by Clara Amy Van Eck
2016
  • "," by Bryan Patrick Bennett
  • "," by Maggie Kontra Emmens
  • "See and Hear James 'Catfish' Cole: Identity, Manhood, and the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, 1952-1967," by John School Hinton
  • "," by Robert Nicholas Melatti
  • "'," by Charles Ross Patterson II
2015
  • "," by Kevin Lang Ringelstein
  • "," by Robert Franklin Unger
2014
  • "Set Adrift by the Confederacy: the Civil War Occupation of Virginia's Eastern Shore," by Paige Kelly Solomon
  • "The Role of Agricultural and Land Policies in the Failure of the British Mandate for Palestine," by Beth Ann Lynx
  • "Bracero Families: Mexican Women and Children in the United States, 1942-64," by Rachael F. Delacruz
  • "The World of Goods in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia," Ronald C. Merritt
2013
  • "Strike a Pose: Propaganda in Augustus' and Mussolini's Imperial Imagery," by Coleen Syler Parker
  • "Ecclesiastical Homogeny and Splintering Spirituality: White Ecumenical Christianity and the Church in Norfolk, Virginia's Civil Rights Movement," by Joshua Wesley Wilson
2012
  • "," by Lisa Kelly Pennington
  • "The Forgotten Sixty-Ninth New York National Guard Artillery Regiment in the American Civil War," by Christopher M. Garcia
2011
  • "," by Lisa Hilleary
  • "The Death of Jefferson Davis," by Kasey J. Dell
  • "The Bound 'Giddy Multitude': Runaway Indentured Servants, Convicts, and Slaves in Colonial Virginia," by Nicole K. Dressler

TOP 10 MOST DOWNLOADED THESES*

Title of Dissertation Downloads
5 by Charles Ross Patterson II 7729
by Michael Anthony Balis 4386
by Emmet Edward Bottoms 3632
by Kevin Lang Ringelstein 3274
by Michael J. Davye 2526
by Lela Dawn Gourley 2466
by Clara Amy Van Eck 2314
by Violet Galante 2047
by Martha Lingua Wheless 2032
by Michael Brian Connolly 1982

* As of October 2022