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
A study of programs designed to stimulate students' independent reading Welsh, Elizabeth K. Education 1992 Doctor of Education
The effects of computer-based instruction on college students' comprehension of classic research Welsh, Josephine Amy, 1966- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
The role of the counselor within the Virginia community college system Welter, William Lloyd, 1932- Education 1975 Doctor of Education
Russian-American relations in northeast Asia during the nineteenth century Wenger, Donald Blinn, 1925- History 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Aspects of the biology and systematics of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur) Wenner, Charles A. Marine Science 1972 Master of Arts
Making a living on the continental slope and in the deep sea : life history of some dominant fishes of the Norfolk canyon area Wenner, Charles Anthony, 1943- Marine Science 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
The faunal assemblages, community structure and life history patterns of decapod crustacea from the middle Atlantic bight Wenner, Elizabeth Lewis. Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Childrearing in the early Chesapeake : the Tucker family and the rise of republican parenthood Wentworth, Linda Clark, 1959- History 1984 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's essay For the old batchellor on avarice : a critical edition Wentworth, Mary Beth, 1950- English 1973 Master of Arts
The Claphamite fathers and sons : a study of two generations Wentzel, Nancy Lee. History 1981 Master of Arts
Morphological study of Dbx1+ respiratory rhythm-generating neurons in preBoetzinger complex in neonatal mice Weragalaarachchi, Krishanthi Tharanga Harshani. Applied Science 2012 Master of Science
From the middle of nowhere : place-making on my supermodern American road Werner, Maxwell Allen, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
An inquiry into some aspects of Nat Turner's rebellion Werner, Randolph Dennis. History 1971 Master of Arts
An isolating and repressive force : the image of the southern lady in the work of Lee Smith Wesley, Deborah Rae, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
A systems based stress reduction psychological education program for emergency veterinary personnel : development and evaluation Wessells, D. T. Education 1982 Doctor of Education
The empathic accuracy of subordinate and superordinate in the social work bureaucracy West, Beverly Louise, 1948- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The money our fathers were accustomed to : banks and political culture in Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1800-1850 West, Carroll Van, 1955- History 1982 Doctor of Philosophy
Women state legislators and political culture West, Diana Burghard, 1967- Government 1997 Master of Arts
Siblings of elementary gifted students : the sibling relationship, self-concept and classroom behavior West, Karen Elizabeth Poe, 1946- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
Radiation-induced luminescence in terbium-doped silicate glasses West, Michael Stuart, 1965- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Use of ponds and lakes by resident Canada geese West, Phillip D. Biology 2003 Master of Arts
Nicole and the gardens in Tender is the night West, Suzanne Whitmore Jones, 1950- English 1975 Master of Arts
Indian woman and revolutionary men : representing the body politic in the satirical prints of the American Revolution Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976- History 2007 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A descriptive study of the reproductive biology of the veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa) in the Chesapeake Bay Westcott, Erica S., 1977- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
The SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase subunit Slx5 functional interacts with the SUMO E3 ligase Siz1 Westerbeck, Jason William. Biology 2011 Master of Science
Similarities in analgesia produced by cervical probing and intracranial stimulation to the mesencephalic grey matter Westlake, Kathleen Casey, 1948- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
Subversion of the material world in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales Weston Sue, 1963- English 1992 Master of Arts
Distribution of macrobenthic mollusca and amphipoda in relation to a sharp thermal front : Cape Hatteras region, North Carolina Weston, Donald Paul, 1953- Marine Science 1979 Master of Arts
Distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates on the North Carolina continental shelf : with consideration of sediment, hydrography and biogeography Weston, Donald Paul, 1953- Marine Science 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Narrative mastery and representational violence in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Weston, Elizabeth, 1971- English 2000 Master of Arts
Pionic and muonic x-rays in liquid He4 Wetmore, Robert John. Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
Variation between sparrows in the ability to extract buried seed Whalen, David Michael, 1972- Biology 1998 Master of Arts
Basal food web dynamics in a natural eelgrass (Zostera marina) community : cage-free field experimentation Whalen, Matthew A., 1984- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Activities of a county supervisor Whaley, Frances Treakle. Education 1946 Master of Arts
History of Woodrow Wilson Parent Teacher Association Wheeler, Lucille. Education 1954 Master of Education
--All united like sisters-- : education, friendship, and the bonds of womanhood at Litchfield Female Academy, 1782-1833 Whelan, Amy E. History 2009 Master of Arts
Plumage as a habitat for bacilli Whitaker, Justine M., 1978- Biology 2004 Master of Arts
The role of the Department of Planning and Budget in shaping higher education in Virginia Whitaker, Russell E., 1942- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
An analysis of the relationship between organizational climate of elementary schools and student self concept Whitaker-Braxton, Beverly, 1943- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
Living on the periphery : a study of an eighteenth-century Yamasee mission community in colonial St. Augustine White, Andrea Paige, 1975- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Effects of mercury on condition and coloration of belted kingfishers White, Ariel Elizabeth, 1982- Biology 2007 Master of Science
A molecular phylogeny of the genus Bonamia based on sequence data of the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene complex White, Delonna M., 1982- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
The reception of David Mamet's Oleanna : the politics of interpretation and received opinion White, Emily Kathleen, 1973- English 1997 Master of Arts
The ceramics from 44JC298 : an undocumented late-eighteenth century domestic site, James City County, Virginia White, Esther Celeste, 1962- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Reproductive biology of tautog, Tautoga onitis, in the lower Chesapeake Bay and coastal waters of Virginia White, Geoffrey Gordon, 1971- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
Airborne cues as a factor in frequency-dependent mate selection in Mormoniella vitripennis White, Harry Coleman, 1953- Biology 1976 Master of Arts
An administrative survey of the public schools of Nansemond County, Virginia White, Hugh Vernon, 1894- Education 1940 Master of Arts
Antecedents of maternal-infant attachment : a longitudinal study White, Jacqueline Jeanne, 1954- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
A study of the status of women counselors in the Virginia community college system White, Patricia Elizabeth Clifton, 1945- Education 1976 Doctor of Education