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
Dwelling in space through knowledge of place : building on epistemological understandings of the seventeenth-century British Atlantic Bassett, Hayden Frith, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Production of cyclohexylene-containing diamines in pursuit of novel radiation shielding materials Bate, Norah G. Chemistry 2011 Master of Science
Prescription and practice : a comparison of child-care manuals, fashion journals and mail-order catalogues on the subject of children's dress 1875-1900 Bates, Christina Jean, 1952- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The roles of Merlin, Morgan, and Nyneve in Morte Darthur : the supernatural in Arthur's tragedy Bates, Glenda. English 1965 Master of Arts
QCD, deep inelastic scattering, confinement and quark-hadron duality in 1+1 dimensions Batiz, Zolta¡n, 1969- Physics 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Mysterious messages : Masonic imagery in Baltimore album quilts Battaile, Anne Bayne, 1977- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Field measurement of mixed grain size suspension in the nearshore under waves Battisto, Grace M. Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
Valuable possessions : wealth, prestige, and social mobility in the colonial Chesapeake Battle, Whitney L., 1971- History 2001 Master of Arts
The effectiveness of an intervention program to improve performance of low achieving students on the Literacy Passport Test Bauer, Harriet Elizabeth Reph, 1938- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
A study of the effects of a group education program, systematic training for effective parenting, upon parental self concept and assessment of child behavior Bauer, Marcia Thompson, 1932- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
From spirit to flesh : Psalm 51 and the practice of paraphrase under Henry VIII and Elizabeth Tudor Bauer, Susan Wise. English 1994 Master of Arts
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
A content analysis of the attention to microcultural factors in selected multicultural education college textbooks used in the United States Baugh, Sandra Farmer, 1947- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Microstructural characterization of an ultra-high performance polyimide Baugher, April Heather, 1968- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of overwash on the vegetation of a Virginia barrier island Baumann, Christine, 1950- Biology 1978 Master of Arts
Aggression changes and social influence during testosterone induced sex reversal in betta splendens Baura, Lori Linn, 1961- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
An investigation of the role of hormones and the hypothalamus in ovarian growth and vitellogenesis in Sceloporus cyanogenys Bayne, Cary Gresham. Biology 1970 Master of Arts
Age and growth of the blueback herring Alosa aestivalis (Mitchill) Beal, Kenneth Lee, 1942- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
Jamaica Kincaid and the rewriting of other as self Beal, Michelle Collette, 1972- English 1998 Master of Arts
An investigation into perception of the college environment and personality of occupants of various residence halls Beale, Charles Leroy, 1945- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
Exhorting or extorting? : George Whitefield's financial controversies Beales, Kristen Elizabeth, History 2014 Master of Arts
Smoking intervention strategy and relationship patterns of smokers Bear, Lisa M., 1979- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
Aspects of volume regulation in two estuarine invertebrates : Glycera Dibranchiata (Annelida) and Modiolus Demissus (Mollusca) Beardsley, Ana Marie, 1963- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Factors controlling tidal flat morphology in South San Francisco Bay between the 1890s and 2005 Bearman, Josh (Joshua Alexander), 1978- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
Thinking globally, acting locally : the struggle for community in revolutionary Newport Beatty, Joshua Fogarty, 1972- History 2002 Master of Arts
The fatal year : slavery, violence, and the Stamp Act of 1765 Beatty, Joshua Fogarty, 1972-, History 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Changes in minority carrier lifetime in silicon and gallium arsenide resulting from irradiations with 22- and 40-Mev protons Beatty, Marvin E. 1940- Physics 1966 Master of Arts
The relationship between teacher sense of efficacy and pupil control ideology in urban middle schools Beatty, Thomas Hall, 1956- Education 2002 Doctor of Education
Flannery O'Connor and the reader Beaty, Kelly Lynne Haggard, 1966- English 1997 Master of Arts
Analysis of (iso)surface reconstructions : quantitative metrics and methods Beauchat, Tracey Allen, 1967- Computer Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Gaheriet to Gareth : Gareth and unity in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur Beaulieu, Linda Stearns, 1947- English 1991 Master of Arts
Seasonal phenotypic change and its effect on some life-history characteristics in Daphnia retrocurva (Cladocera) Bebak, Julie Anne, 1957- Biology 1983 Master of Arts
Adjustment counseling with children of divorced parents Bebensee, Barbara A. Education 1979 Doctor of Education
The effects of rational emotive therapy on academic achievement for community college probation students participating in a study skills class Becherer, Jack John. Education 1982 Doctor of Education
An evaluation of hydrocarbon extraction techniques for tissue Becker, Colleen Gail, 1952- Marine Science 1979 Master of Arts
Phylogenetic implications of sporangial ultrastructure in the subfamily Lithophylloideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) Bedell, Mark T., 1973- Biology 1999 Master of Arts
The least preferred coworker score of the leader and the productivity of small interacting task groups in octants II and IV of the Fiedler Contingency Model Beebe, Robert John, 1944- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
The need for guidance in Pennington High School Beeler, Robert Emerson. Education 1950 Master of Arts
A study in Virginia politics : the Virginia House of Delegates, 1794-1796 Beeman, Richard R. History 1965 Master of Arts
A study of the relationship between student achievement and teacher-student interaction in secondary classrooms Beers, Barry. Education 1988 Doctor of Education
The response of freely growing laboratory populations of prairie deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) to the administration of synthetic FSH/LH-RH Beier, John Martin, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
The effects of high versus low imagery humor on spatial and verbal problem solving Belanger, Heather Gail, 1969- Psychology 1994 Master of Arts
Client advocacy in nursing : a contemporary perspective Bell, Bertha Roslyn, 1927- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
A nation's wail their requiem! : memory and identity in the commemoration of the American Civil War dead, 1865-1870 Bell, Diana Williams, 1980- History 2005 Master of Arts
Interpretation of nonverbal expression of emotion in relation to schizotypal characteristics Bell, Emily K., 1982- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
The struggle for the South Carolina backcountry, 1775-1776 Bell, Pierson J., 1984- History 2007 Master of Arts
Southern ambivalence : the relationship of Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris Bell, William R., 1952- English 1984 Master of Arts
Textile consumption and availability : a view from an 18th century merchant's records Bellais, Leslie Anne, 1961- History 1987 Master of Arts
Career-bound and place-bound orientation of educational executives : implications for organizational role change in the education of the deaf Bellefleur, Karen M. Notebloom, 1941- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
A comparative approach to slave life on Bermuda, 1780-1834 Bellhorn, Margaret Mary, 1965- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts