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
An examination of shoaling wave parameters Weishar, Lee. Marine Science 1976 Master of Arts
Synthesis and characterization of polyimide residuum, friable balloons, microspheres and foams Weiser, Erik Saul, 1972- Applied Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Gamma-ray imaging detector for small animal research Weisenberger, Andrew Gerard, 1957- Applied Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Sensitivity to nonverbal communication among schizophrenic subtypes Weinstein, Steven E., 1957- Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
On the proof of Cauchy's theorem Weinstein, Raoul Louis, 1940- Mathematics 1965 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
The influence of environmental salinity on hemocyanin function in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Weiland, Alan Lawson, 1950- Biology 1976 Master of Arts
The social mean : freedom and restraint in William Wycherley's plays Weidman, James Ray, 1950- English 1974 Master of Arts
Candidate recruitment in American state legislatures Weidie, Stuart, 1964- Government 2002 Master of Arts
Improving security and privacy in online social networks Wei, Wei, Computer Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
First principles structure calculations using the general potential LAPW method Wei, Su-Huai, 1957- Physics 1985 Doctor of Philosophy
Completely bootstrapped tokamak Weening, Richard Henry, 1960- Physics 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
The child of decrepitude : sexual incompetence in Tristram Shandy Weeks, Nancy Joe, 1953- English 1977 Master of Arts
A procedure to measure the effects of covert death anxiety on the physiological and affective responses of student nurses Weeks, John Luther, 1933- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
Level and instability of global and domain-specific self-esteem as differential predictors of aggression Webster, Gregory Daniel, 1976- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Plaids and broadswords of the Altamaha Weber, Robert K., 1973- History 1998 Master of Arts
The relationship between cooperating teachers' feedback styles and the intrinsic motivation of student teachers Weber, Richard N., 1952- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
HIV status and perceptions of people living with AIDS Weber, Molly Allison, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Stopover ecology of the blackpoll warbler, Dendroica striata, during spring migration on the coastal plain of Virginia Weber, Magill, 1974- Biology 2000 Master of Arts
Cell phases during endoreduplication induced by Colcemid or radiation in cultured human lymphocytes Weber, Kenneth Eugene, 1943- Biology 1979 Master of Arts
A literature of combat : African American prison writers of the Vietnam era Weber, John William, 1978- History 2002 Master of Arts
The shadow of the revolution : South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the evolution of modern American labor relations Weber, John William, 1978- History 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The concept of human nature in New England Weber, Jerry Dean, 1961- History 1987 Master of Arts
A study of the relationship between sex-role identification and characteristics attributed to an effective administrator among black and white women school administrators Webb, Hattie Driver, 1940- Education 1984 Doctor of Education
The relationship between cultural/ethnic identity and individual protective factors of academic resilience Weaver, Dale E. Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The importance of family in the community of New Poquoson Parish, York County, Virginia, in the late seventeenth century Weatherwax, Sarah Jane, 1960- History 1984 Master of Arts
The preservation and deconstruction of Hawaiʻi plantation style architecture : Aiea, Waipahu, and Ewa Way, Jessica Margaret. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The frontier, food remains, and archaeological meaning Watts-Roy, Jeffrey Lee, 1969- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
The effects of a locus of control group guidance program upon children's self-esteem, classroom behavior, and locus of control Watts, George William. Education 1980 Doctor of Education
The effects of mortality and time constraints on productivity in yellow-crowned night herons (nycticorax violacea) Watts, Bryan D. (Bryan David), 1960- Biology 1987 Master of Arts
On the occurrence and origins of hopanoids in the Chesapeake Bay Wattayakorn, Gullaya, 1949- Marine Science 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Impact of large scale substrate roughness on giant magnetoresistive thin films Watson, Shannon M., 1977- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Vascular flora of Three Ridges Mountain, Nelson County, Virginia Watson, Francis D., 1952- Biology 1981 Master of Arts
Addie Bundren and her linguistic dilemma Watson, Amy Zakrzewski, 1965- English 1992 Master of Arts
The Negro Building : African-American representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Watkins, Sarah, 1968- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The thermographic nondestructive evaluation of iron aluminide green sheet Watkins, Michael L., 1959- Applied Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Reproductive biology of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay Watkins, Elizabeth Shaw, 1974- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
Sources of sedimentary organic matter in the Mississippi River and adjacent Gulf of Mexico Waterson, Elizabeth J., 1977- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
The Sino-Soviet dispute in Africa, 1974-1978 Waters, Charles Andrew, 1959- Government 1982 Master of Arts
Rydberg atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields Waterland, Robert Leonard, 1958- Physics 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Partial year tagging models : accounting for changing tag visibility and delayed mixing Waterhouse, Lynn, 1985- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Direct determination of trace metals in saline water samples using GFAAS Wassell, Michael Joseph, 1961- Chemistry 1994 Master of Arts
Plough deep while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and to keep : an analysis of plow ownership in eighteenth century York county Virginia Waske, Zachary John, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Symptom-specific and nonsymptom-specific factors in eating disorders : a comparision of bulimics, dieters, and normals Washychyn, Jill, 1965- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Factors influencing the accessibility of the HIV/AIDS schema Washington, Tracee, 1974- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
The diaries of Henry A. Washington, 1842-1845 Washington, H. A. 1820-1858. History 1979 Master of Arts
An investigation of the effects of breach of confidentiality of adolescents' level of trust Warrick, Carolyn Bosta, 1945- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
The nesting ecology of several species of herons and the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) in three heronries in Virginia Warren, Barbara Susan, 1953- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
Transport analysis in polymeric liquids and films : investigations in ionic mobility isolation techniques and permeability control Warner, Julia D., 1975- Applied Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Let all things be done decently and in order : gender segregation in the seating of early American churches Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts