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
Predictors of social support and well-being for low income women Wright, Debra Lee, 1967- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Married, but at whose house? : Parson Rose and the colonial Virginian wedding Wright, Emily Helen, History 2013 Master of Arts
Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of a radiation-induced defect cener in anthracene crystals Wright, Emmitt O., 1932- Physics 1967 Master of Arts
The use of counselor selection instruments and measures of creativity in the construction of prediction equations for counselor trainee selection Wright, Lenard Joseph, 1947- Education 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
A synthesis of general principles in the field of human development Wright, Nelle Blanche. Psychology 1947 Master of Arts
The effects of salinity pulses of varying duration and intensity on three freshwater submerged aquatic vegetation species Wright, Rebecca. Marine Science 2012 Master of Science
Organization and doctrine in the Continental Army, 1774 to 1784 Wright, Robert K., 1946- History 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Too little, too late : the campaign of 1777 in the Hudson highlands Wright, Robert K., 1946- History 1971 Master of Arts
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Holocene sedimentation on the Lanyang Plain and adjacent continental shelf, northwestern Taiwan Wu, Chia-Yu. Marine Science 2013 Master of Science
Surface processing by RFI PECVD and RFI PSII Wu, Lingling, 1970- Applied Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Nonlinearity parameters of polymers Wu, Meng-Chou, 1951- Physics 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Chinese immigrants to America : thematic dimensions Wu, Sui, 1960- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Discovering new vulnerabilities in computer systems Wu, Zhenyu, 1982- Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
A new packet filter : fast packet filtering by exploiting CISC and SIMD ISA Wu, Zhenyu, 1982- Computer Science 2007 Master of Science
First principles calculations of piezoelectricity and polarization rotation in Pb(Zr[subscript 0.5]Ti[subscript 0.5])O3 Wu, Zhigang, 1973- Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Intertidal zonation of marine algae at Gloucester Point, Virginia Wulff, Barry Lee, 1940- Marine Science 1967 Master of Arts
Taxonomy and distribution of western Atlantic Bittium (Gastropoda: Mesogastropoda) Wulff, Ella May Thomson, 1944- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts
Patterns of habitat utilization in 0-age summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) Wyanski, David M., 1957- Marine Science 1990 Master of Arts
The mandate for social justice advocacy in counselor education : using service learning to train masters' students as social justice advocates Wyatt, Kristi-Anne Lee, 1979- Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Direct vs. indirect aggression tactics as a function of domin-specific self-esteem Wyckoff, Joy Plumeri Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Institutional origin : labor market signaling in higher education Wyer, Jean Conover, 1950- Education 1980 Doctor of Education
Regional variations in third world development Wynn, Robert Dempsey, 1970- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Social implications in Negro poetry : a study in Negro poetic expression Wynne, Robert Baker, 1906- Sociology 1933 Master of Arts
Surface impedance of superconducting radio frequence (SRF) materials Xiao, Binping, Applied Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Assessing genetic variation within and among native populations and hatchery stocks of Crassostrea ariakensis using microsatellite markers Xiao, Jie, 1976- Marine Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Adaptive and secured resource management in distributed and internet systems Xiao, Li. Computer Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Comparison of full-wave and ray-tracing analysis of mode conversion in plasmas Xiao, Yanli, 1982- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Towards secure message systems Xie, Mengjun. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Advanced topographic characterization of variously prepared niobium surfaces and linkage to RF losses Xu, Chen, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Improving energy efficiency and security for pervasive computing systems Xu, Fengyuan, Computer Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Magnetic order and dimensional crossover in optical lattices with repulsive interaction Xu, Jie, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Suspended sediment concentration profiles in the bottom boundary layer Xu, Jingping, 1963- Marine Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Linking land to ocean : flux and fate of water and sediment from the Yangtze River to the East China Sea Xu, Kehui, 1977- Marine Science 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A cross-cultural comparative study of teacher effectiveness : analyses of award-winning teachers in the United States and China Xu, Xianxuan. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Japanese business in the United States : unintentional definition of the other Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1991 Master of Arts
The role of bacteria-particle interactions in marine snow dynamics Yam, Emily M., 1979- Marine Science 2007 Master of Science
Interminority relations in the early 1990s in California : conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans Yamazato, Akiko, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Exploiting cache locality at run-time Yan, Yong, 1963- Computer Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Investigating the executive flexibility model Yanchus, Nancy Jane, 1969- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Comecon : its function as a Soviet political instrument Yando, Lisa Elizabeth, 1968- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Characterizing the degradation of nylon-11 and PVDF in a flexible oil pipe and cure monitoring of chemflake vinylester Yang, John Chen, 1973- Chemistry 1996 Master of Science
Magneto-optics and magneto-transport studies on thin films for sensor applications Yang, Kaida, 1984-, Applied Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Time-resolved magnetic flux and AC-current distributions in superconducting YBCO thin films and multifilaments Yang, Ran. Applied Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Synthesis and characterization of hydrogen-rich polyimide materials for radiation shielding Yang, Sha, 1980- Chemistry 2005 Master of Science
Characterization of transient behaviors in a colliding pulse mode-locked (CPM) laser Yang, Wei, 1973- Physics 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Variational inverse methods for transport problems Yang, Zhaoqing, 1960- Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Microstructures of poly(vinyl acetate) studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Yao, Hongyang, 1966- Applied Science 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the guiding center approximation. Yao, Qun Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy