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 Randolphs of Turkey Island : a prosopography of the first three generations, 1650-1806 Cowden, Gerald Steffens, 1940- History 1977 Doctor of Philosophy
Seasonal changes in fecundity of oysters crassostrea virginica (gmelin) : from four oyster reefs in the James River, Virginia Cox, Carrollyn, 1961- Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
Staff development practices used in Virginia's public schools : a comparative analysis of personnel perceptions from rural and other districts Cox, Herbert O., 1943- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
Slavery and a low country South Carolina merchant-planter elite : the dilemma of Henry Laurens Cox, Samuel P., 1959- History 1993 Master of Arts
The relationship between college freshmen resident students' levels of maturity and the attribution of causality for a stimulus person's behavior Cox, Terry Bradford, 1949- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
A study of the effects of the Downing parent group education program upon parental self-concept, parental manifest anxiety, and the behavior of offspring in an alternative education environment Cox, William Dale, 1946- Education 1976 Doctor of Education
County government in New Kent Cox, William Jennings, 1901- Government 1937 Master of Arts
A study of teacher effectiveness training upon secondary school teachers and their pupils Cox, William Norwood, 1936- Education 1978 Doctor of Education
The malleability of spatial ability under treatment of a FIRST LEGO League-based robotics unit Coxon, Steven Vincent. Education 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Effect of temperature on active and resting metabolism in polychaetes by Philip E. Coyer. Coyer, Philip Exton, 1948- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Beowulf : Worda and Worca Coyne, Christina M., 1969- English 1995 Master of Arts
Food habits and body composition of some dominant deep-sea fishes from temperate and tropical regions of the Western North Atlantic Crabtree, Roy E., 1954- Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Energetically costly mate sampling and female zebra finch choice Crabtree, Timothy Ryan, 1980- Biology 2004 Master of Arts
Black female landowners in Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877 Craddock, Hannah Catherine. History 2012 Master of Arts
Relationships between job description, role behavior, and effectiveness of elementary school assistant principals in Virginia public elementary schools Craig, Elsie W., 1941- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
Lucia True Ames Mead : American publicist for peace and internationalism Craig, John M., 1955- History 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Land use and wetland function: a sensitivity analysis of the VIMS nontidal wetland functional assessment method by Martha Craig. Craig, Martha, 1966- Marine Science 1992 Master of Arts
A qualitative investigation of the counseling experiences of college-aged women with a history of self-injury Craigen, Laurie Marie. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A two dimensional jet flowing into a semi-infinite flow field with an ambient velocity Crane, Michael Leonard, 1947- Marine Science 1973 Master of Arts
A proposed curriculum guide for the seventh grade of the Matthew Whaley School Crank, Mary Eugenia. Education 1955 Master of Arts
A formal analysis of the clay pipes from Green Spring Crass, David Colin, 1958- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
A conservative enigma : Barry Goldwater and the Republican Party, 1953-1974 Craven, Michael John, 1968- History 1994 Master of Arts
The Virginia Preschool Initiative : parents' perceptions of parental involvement Crawford, Elizabeth Outlaw. Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Fundamentalist fervor : the political activism of America's Protestant fundamentalists Crawford, Lori Taylor, 1961- Government 1990 Master of Arts
Envisioning Black childhood : Black nationalism, community, and identity construction in Black Arts movement children's literature Crawford, Meredith Meagan, 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
A study of the relationship between student achievement and home socialization Crawley, Janet Carter, 1949- Education 2002 Doctor of Education
The effects of mediation on relationships between families of students with disabilities and school personnel Creasey, Mary Suzanne, 1952- Education 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the effects of the return of World War II veterans on collegiate football in the Southern Conference Creekmur, Louis. Physical Education 1952 Master of Arts
The oxidation of -cyclodextrin via the photolysis of 6- -cyclodextrin benzoyl formate Creswick, Heather Alison, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
Edwin M. Stanton and the Lincoln assassination Crewdson, Robert L., 1961- History 1986 Master of Arts
Lord Byron's opinions on religion Cridlin, Roberta, 1909- English 1934 Master of Arts
School-based prereferral intervention practices Crockett, D. Elizabeth. Education 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty sense of academic optimism and its relationship to students' achievement in well performing high schools Cromartie, Michael Tyrone, 1974-, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
The imposter phenomenon in the classroom : personality and cognitive correlates Cromwell, Barbara H., 1933- Education 1989 Doctor of Education
Dynamic load balancing via thread migration Cronk, David. Computer Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Management in the airline industry Crooks, David S. Business Administration 1975 Master of Arts
Organizational restructuring : community response to natural disaster Crooks, John G., 1957- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Organic toxic substances monitoring in Virginia Croonenberghs, Robert Emile. Marine Science 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Breeding ecology, success, and population management of the piping plover (charadrius melodus) at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia Cross, Robert Richard, 1952- Biology 1996 Master of Arts
Burden in spousal caregivers : a correlational study of the effect and interaction of stressors, vulnerability, pschological resources, and social supports on the development of burden in spousal caregivers of the chronically ill Crossen-Powell, Sheila Marie, 1948- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
Foraging ecology of the common yellowthroat, the prairie warbler and the white-eyed vireo Crowder, Otis Bland, 1951- Biology 1976 Master of Arts
They lie interred together : an analysis of gravestones and burial pattern in colonial Tidewater Virginia Crowell, Elizabeth Anne, 1954- History 1986 Master of Arts
Wishlist or reality? : the committee on the future of the Virginia community college system and its report, Toward the year 2000 Crowther, Elizabeth Hinton, 1956- Education 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between conceptual level and moral development of substance abuse prevention professionals working in higher education and their comprehensiveness of programming Crozier, Mary Katherine. Education 2001 Doctor of Education
Constructing a reputation in retrospect in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Crummy, Elizabeth Anne, 1966- English 1991 Master of Arts
The tale of Sir Tristam : its role in Malory's Le morte Darthur Crump, Barbara Ann, 1949- English 1978 Master of Arts
Tweakable blockciphers secure against generic exponential attacks Crump, Elizabeth Ann, 1983- Computer Science 2007 Master of Science
The National Committee for Citizens in Education : a descriptive analysis Crutchfield, Elizabeth Lewis, 1931- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Indispensably necessary : cultural brokers on the Georgia frontier, 1733-1765 Crutchfield, Lisa Laurel, 1971- History 2007 Doctor of Philosophy