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 needs of the Negro schools of Virginia Bush, Leslie Eley. Education 1922 Master of Arts
A union of church and state : the Freedmen's Bureau and the education of African Americans in Virginia from 1865-1871 Butler, Aaron Jason, 1978- Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Liberty's kids : toys, children's literature, and the promotion of nationalism in the early nineteenth-century United States Butler, Amelia M., History 2014 Master of Arts
Williamsburg and urbanization in antebellum Virginia : a place-- a process-- a parade of change that continues forward Butler, Elisabeth Frederick. History 2005 Master of Arts
The development of an operating system for the Microdata 32/S Butler, George Edward, 1955- Applied Science 1979 Master of Science
Keeping up appearances : British identity and 'prestige' in South America, 1910-1925 Butler, Matthew Elliott Street. History 2006 Master of Arts
What mean? : the postmodern metafiction within William Gaddis's The Recognitions Butler, Sean, 1965- English 1992 Master of Arts
The college going choice in Virginia : a study in the demand for higher education Butler, Thomas Edward, 1949- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
The effects of peer facilitator self-disclosure upon adolescent self-disclosure in a group interview Butler, William Arthur, 1946- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
An analysis of growth and respiratory changes with age of mycelial mats of Alternaria solani (Ell. and G. Martin) L. R. Jones and Grout Butman, William Leslie, 1947- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
The Puritan experiment in Virginia, 1607-1650 Butterfield, Kevin, 1975- History 1999 Master of Arts
Status, dominance, or prestige? : domains of self-esteem as moderators of reactions to an embarrassing situation Buttermore, Nicole Reed, 1980- Psychology 2004 Master of Arts
America's other peculiar institution : exploring the York County Free Black register as a means of social control, 1798-1831 Butts, Andrew Jefferson, 1974- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Economies and diseconomies of scale in the American two-year colleges Butts, Duncan Roger, 1930- Education 1988 Doctor of Education
Quasi-elastic electron scattering from a high-momentum nucleon in deuterium Butuceanu, Cornel, 1969- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The development of a computer assisted assessment device for use in screening children referred for psychoeducational evaluations Buxton, Michael J., 1953- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
Integrative analysis of ecosystem processes in the littoral zone of lower Chesapeake Bay : a modeling study of the Goodwin Islands National Estuarine Research Reserve Buzzelli, Christopher P. Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Sediment inorganic nitrogen stocks and root-rhizome ammonium uptake by eelgrass (Zostera marina l.) in the lower Chesapeake Bay Buzzelli, Christopher P. Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
Behavior and ecology of sea turtles from Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Byles, Richard Allan, 1946- Marine Science 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
The ultrastructure of Chrysaora quinquecirrha strobilae Bynum, Mary Ann Ott, 1940- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
C.C. Spaulding & R.R. Wright--companions on the road less traveled? : a reconsideration of African American international relations in the early twentieth century Byrd, Brandon R. History 2011 Master of Arts
Making, mending, and half-soling : an analysis of three nineteenth century Virginia shoemakers Byrd, Sarah Virginia. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Middle school students' participation in extracurricular activities : relationships to school identification and achievement Byrd, Stenette. Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Life history of the spotfin killifish, Fundulus luciae (pisces cyprinodontidae), in Fox Creek marsh, Virginia Byrne, Donald M. 1949- Marine Science 1976 Master of Arts
The effect of critical thinking skills instruction on achievement and attitudes of elementary students differing in learning style preferences Byrne, Joan S., 1934- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
Reactions of DI-(1-naphthyl) diazomethane with beta-cyclodextrin Cabell, Margaret Frances, 1969- Chemistry 1991 Master of Arts
The synthesis of benzophenane 3,5-dicarboxylic acid for the double capping of β-cyclodextrin Cabral, Jaydee Dones, 1972- Chemistry 1995 Master of Arts
The role of coercion in population planning : the evidence from four Asian states Cagey, Clarke Martin, 1971- Government 1994 Master of Arts
Addressing the learning needs of struggling adolescent readers : the impact of a reading intervention program on students in a middle school setting Caggiano, John Anthony. Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Faculty perceptions of principal support and change orientation in Virginia high schools Cagle, Karen E. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Nanoscale mechanical characterization of graphene/polymer nanocomposites using atomic force microscopy Cai, Minzhen, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The dissemination of rumor among the Cherokees and their neighbors in the eighteenth century Cail, Marion A., 1977- History 2000 Master of Arts
U.S. Vietnam policy and NATO Calandro, Alan Peter, 1963- Government 1989 Master of Arts
Hydrozoa of southern Chesapeake Bay Calder, Dale R. Marine Science 1970 Doctor of Philosophy
Ecology of marine invertebrate fouling organisms in Hampton Roads, Virginia Calder, Dale R. Marine Science 1966 Master of Arts
A study of the interference in selective attention on the Stroop test Calder, Elizabeth Secord, 1941- Psychology 1967 Master of Arts
A study of dropouts at the Matthew Whaley School Caldwell, Jean Genelle. Education 1951 Master of Arts
Common elements and differences in provisions for compulsory school attendance Calevas, Ann Elizabeth. Education 1956 Master of Arts
Improvements in triploid Crassostrea virginica production : characterizing the diploid parent Callam, Brian R. Marine Science 2013 Master of Science
Kinematics and fluid dynamics of the ventilatory cycle in carp (Cyprinus carpio) Callan, William Todd. Biology 2005 Master of Science
Cross-shore and longshore sediment size distribution on Southern Currituch Spit, North Carolina Calliari, Lauro Julio, 1951- Marine Science 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Kulikoff versus Buttenhoff-Lee [sic] : an evaluation of African-American populations in the Chesapeake 1740-1800 Callum, Beresford R., 1959- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Getting back to one's roots : a study of the self-discrepancies prevalent in the propensity to view the self as an object in the eyes of others Calogero, Rachel Marie, 1976- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
The House of Life and In Memoriam : the relationship of death to love and art Calvano, Cathleen Marie, 1964- English 1990 Master of Arts
In vitro and in vivo effects of chemotherapeutants on the oyster parasite, Perkinsus marinus Calvo, Gustavo W. Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Educational efficiency in Virginia public school divisions Calzini, Clinton Robert. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The power of African American parent perceptions on student achievement Camm, Melody Luretha, 1964- Education 2009 Doctor of Education
Comparison of simultaneous and successive tachistoscopic presentation of binary patterns Camp, David Sumner, 1936- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
Flush communication channels : effective implementation and verification Camp, Tracy, 1964- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
The effect of Phragmites australis invasion on community processes in a tidal freshwater marsh Campana, Michael Leadbeater, 1972- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science