Theses & Dissertations Digitization Project

William & Mary Libraries worked for two years on a project to digitize and catalog W&M dissertations and theses going back to 1920 and up until 2015.  The project helps to accomplish many goals:

  • share the developments and research conducted here with scholars around the world
  • preserve the scholarly record
  • increase the impact of theses and dissertations
  • raise the profile of graduate students
  • grow the reputation of William & Mary
  • demonstrate the institution’s impact on local and global communities

As of October 22, 2018, you are now able to view the dissertations and theses included in this retrospective project as well as those which have been submitted electronically since 2016 in W&M ScholarWorks, the university's open access institutional repository.

Below, please find a list of W&M theses and dissertations which have been digitized as part of this retrospective conversion project . The information includes the authors associated with the project, along with their degree-granting department and year of completion. If you wrote a thesis and/or dissertation between 1920 and 2015 would like to opt-out of the project by restricting access to your work to on-campus access only, then you will need to contact scholarworks@wm.edu with your name, date of graduation and thesis or dissertation title. Theses and dissertations will continue to be made available through interlibrary loan (ILL) to other libraries, as they were when they were available in print. If you are a copyright holder for one of these works, and would like to provide additional information about a work, or discuss rights and access to the work, please contact us at scholarworks@wm.edu.

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Title Author Department Year Degree
The political process of interdependence between the U.S. and Japan Alleva, Diane Florence, 1965- Government 1989 Master of Arts
Secretory vesicle formation and dictyosome morphology in tetrasporangia of the marine red alga Polysiphonia denudata (Dillwyn) Kutzing Alley, Charles Dickson, 1949- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Autobiographical images : photography and identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior and China men Allison, Nancy Etta, 1959- English 1993 Master of Arts
The ground state of two-dimensional Hubbard-like models Allman, Eric C., 1973- Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Politics and the writings of Vassily Aksyonov Allred, William S., 1961- Government 1989 Master of Arts
Recolonization of meiobenthos in oiled azoic subtidal muddy sands of the York River estuary, Virginia Alongi, D. M. (Daniel M.) Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
Empowered to confront : power and confronting sexism Alt, Nicholas Peter, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Intention, subject gender, victim and perpetrator gender, and the attribution of responsibility and blame. Ambady, Nalini. Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Who flourishes in college? : using positive psychology and student involvement theory to explore mental health among traditionally aged undergraduates Ambler, Virginia Miller, 1966- Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Most probable magnetohydrostatic equilibria for tokamaks and reversed field pinches Ambrosiano, John. Physics 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Analysis of the electronic kinetic energy in xenon difluoride Amendola, Michael Fiore, 1972- Chemistry 1996 Master of Arts
Studies in microwave and RF capacitively coupled excimer lamp Ametepe, Joseph D. Applied Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
The college investment decision for nontraditional students : factors affecting the choice of post-secondary enrollment and quality Amiri, Shahram. Education 1993 Doctor of Education
The effect of sodium on the growth and development of an estuarine species of Phlyctochytrium (Chytridiales) Amon, James P. 1943- Marine Science 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies of Labyrinthula spp. in culture Amon, James P. 1943- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
Modifications of the nucleon properties in the nuclear medium Amore, Paolo, 1968- Physics 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
By little and little : the idea of progress in sixteenth- century England Amos, N. Scott. History 1986 Master of Arts
Propagation of Rayleigh waves in thin-films Ananda, Agus Anugrah, 1966- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Electroweak interactions and exchange currents in nuclei Ananyan, Sergei M., 1966- Physics 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Contextual variables of the counselor internship experience from the perceptions of the interns : contributions to their psychological development Ancellotti, Teresa B. Education 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Expectancy-value classes as predictors of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupational choice : differences related to ability, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status Andersen, Lori, Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of transition in plantation economy : George Washington's whiskey distillery, 1799 Anderson, Anna Catherine Borden, 1971- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Blue notes and brown skin : five African-American jazzmen and the music they produced in regard to the American civil rights movement Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Bioremediation of tributyltin contaminated sediment using Spartina alterniflora in a created tidal wetland Anderson, Britt-Anne, 1974- Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
Far from everybody's everything : literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction Anderson, Crystal Suzette. American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies in CPT violation and 331 models Anderson, David L., 1980- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Porcupines and potsherds : archaeology and education for students in a museum setting : a critical approach Anderson, Emily Catherine, 1970- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
The distribution of dissolved silica and particulate biogenic silica in the James, York and Rappahannock estuaries, Virginia Anderson, Gary F., 1954- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
An analysis of the Army education program Anderson, George Lester Education 1953 Master of Education
Political factors affecting the development and growth of the Norfolk Division, The College of William and Mary (1930) into Old Dominion College (1962) Anderson, Gerald Benton, 1925- Education 1988 Doctor of Education
A political biography of John Witherspoon from 1723-1776 Anderson, John Thomas. History 1979 Master of Arts
On the anatomy and phylogeny of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) Anderson, M. Eric. Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Living, learning, and leading from the middle : African American women administrators in student affairs Anderson, Melinda R. Jones, 1977-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
To save an empire : the Earl of Dartmouth as American secretary 1773-1775 Anderson, Nancy Briska, 1940- History 1968 Master of Arts
Aspects of the breeding and foraging biology of American oystercatchers at fisherman island national wildlife refuge, Virginia Anderson, Robert L., 1946- Biology 1988 Master of Arts
Indicting Christendom : Roger Williams from the wilderness Anderson, Thomas L., 1975- History 2001 Master of Arts
A comparative study: two methods of teaching French 101-102 at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1959-1961 Anding, Virginia Nelson, 1937- Education 1962 Master of Arts
Spontaneous pulse formation in bistable systems Andrews, George A., 1956- Applied Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Virtual path bandwidth distribution and capacity allocation with bandwidth sharing Anewalt, Karen Marie, 1972- Computer Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Relationship of VMH, Amygdala, and taste under two feeding schedules Angelo, Winifred Lee, 1946- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
Gone to the dogs : inter-species bonds and the building of bio-cultural capital in America, 1835-present Anglin, Merit Elfi, American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
An analysis of the personal need systems of obese college freshmen Annaloro, Lila Louise, 1957- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
An experiment in developing in fourth grade children the ability to use English through experiences with folklore materials Ansell, Bessie Jennings, 1896- Education 1945 Master of Arts
The changing girl : sex education and prescriptions of white girlhood Ansley, Laura M. History 2012 Master of Arts
Tavern' by the saltpan : New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682-1782 Antczak, Konrad A., Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
An environmental model predicting the relative recruitment success of blue crab, Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun), in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Applegate, Andrew Jackson, 1957- Marine Science 1983 Master of Arts
The vascular flora of Fort Eustis, City of Newport News, Virginia Appler, Phyllis Ann Kline, 1947- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
The development of political consciousness in the South African novel April, Leah Catherine, 1959- Government 1985 Master of Arts
The synthesis and photochemistry of anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonyl- -cyclodextrin Aquino, Angela Marie, 1966- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts