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
Career patterns of collegiate administrators in Virginia Rowland, Hugh Carrington, 1951- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
Therapeutic intervention with suicidal adolescents : a problem-solving approach Bradley, William Worth, 1948- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
Catastrophes in the Elmo bumpy torus Punjabi, Alkesh R. Physics 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Bonds of friendship and mutual interest : Virginia's waterways improvement companies, 1784-1828 Perez, L. Jeffrey (Lawrence Jeffrey), 1960- History 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Solid state NMR characterization of structural and motional parameter distributrions in polyamidoammonium dendrimers Malyarenko, Dariya Ivanovna, 1972- Applied Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Experimental studies of muonium production and the muonium-antimuonium transition in free space Hsieh, Cheng-shong. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Carbon nanosheets and carbon nanotubes by RF PECVD Zhu, Mingyao, 1975- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of a cognitive-behavioral program designed to increase the reading comprehension skills of learning disabled students Reilly, Jane Pindar, 1943- Education 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
Investigation of tributyltin water/sediment interactions Unger, Michael A. Marine Science 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of selected nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds (NCACs) on physiological properties in Escherichia coli Catallo, W. James 1959- Marine Science 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Understanding and leveraging virtualization technology in commodity computing systems Le, Duy, Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Laser backscatter measurements of the lower atmosphere McCormick, M. Patrick. Physics 1967 Doctor of Philosophy
Making an impression : women printers in the southern colonies in the revolutionary era King, Martha Joanne, 1963- History 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Use of pattern classification algorithms to interpret passive and active data streams from a walking-speed robotic sensor platform Dieckman, Eric Allen, 1986-, Applied Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Measurement of inclusive proton double-spin asymmetries and polarized structure functions Fersch, Robert G. Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of chlorinated sea water on the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Laird, Chae E. Marine Science 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of adsorbed oxygen in secondary emission from metallic substrates Walton, Scott Gregory, 1968- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Family counselors' experiences with multiculturalism in professional practice Holman, Angela Rowe, 1975- Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A statistical model to predict the incidence of pathogenic protozoa (Amoebida Acanthamoebidae) in oceanic sediments using surrogate variables Berman, Carl Robert, 1942- Marine Science 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Flush communication channels : effective implementation and verification Camp, Tracy, 1964- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterization of anti-tumor immunity in oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau), and the effects of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene on this immune response Seeley, Kenneth R., 1962- Marine Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Gaseous flux and distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons across the air-water interface of southern Chesapeake Bay Gustafson, Kurt E. Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
On the marshlands of empire : trade, diplomacy, and war on the southwestern frontier, 1733-1763 Foret, Michael James, 1953- History 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Automated peak identification for time-of-flight mass spectroscopy Chen, Haijian, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Microscopic dynamics and transport of hydrogen in proton conducting oxides Spahr, Erik J., 1981- Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Nutrition and feeding in striped bass Morone saxatilis larvae : lipid and fatty acid requirements and microencapsulated diets Ozkizilcik, Sureyya, 1965- Marine Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
They opened the door too late : African-Americans and baseball, 1900-1947 Trembanis, Sarah L., 1977- History 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Painleve singularity analysis applied to charged particle dynamics during reconnection Larson, Jay Walter, 1962- Physics 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Supporting feature-level software maintenance Revelle, Meghan Kathleen, 1981- Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The architecture of slavery : art, language, and society in early Virginia Boulton, Alexander O. History 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
Let us now praise service men : a history of the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945 Neel, Hildy Michelle. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Hadron structure from holographic QCD Abidin, Zainul, 1981- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Controls on the delivery of fluvial sediment to the coastal ocean : the Salinas River, California Farnsworth, Katherine L. Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
The Late Quaternary evolution of a twin barrier-island complex, Cape Charles, Virginia Finkelstein, Kenneth. Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the ²H(p,2p)n reaction at intermediate energy Punjabi, Vina Alkesh, 1952- Physics 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
A comparative study of professional school counselors' and school counseling interns' multicultural competence and moral development : exploring the gap between training and supervision Griffin, Dana Claudine, 1973- Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
First contact : early English encounters with natives of Russia, West Africa, and the Americas, 1530-1614 Perreault, Melanie Lynn, 1968- History 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Lamb wave diffraction tomography Malyarenko, Eugene V., 1969- Applied Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
CBT to CDT : toward a developmental paradigm for conceptualizing anger management Tate, Yvonne Bissonnette. Education 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies of ion wave propagation in inhomogeneous plasmas Hsieh, Shiew-luan Y. Physics 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Resin acid compounds in a kraft pulp and paper mill effluent and their distribution in bottom sediments near the outfall Unkulvasapaul, Manida, 1948- Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
The impact of cognitive development on compassion fatigue in emergency response personnel Jackson, Aaron Hugh. Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Osteology, phylogeny, and biogeography of the marine fish family Ephippidae (Perciformes, Acanthuroidei), with comments on sister group relationships Cavalluzzi, Martin Ray, 1960- Marine Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Routing and wavelength assignment in WDM optical networks Li, Guangzhi. Computer Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Application of effective field theory to the study of hypernuclei McIntire, Jeffrey William. Physics 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
The political image of William Pitt, first earl of Chatham, in the American colonial press, 1756-1778 Knight, Carol Lynn Homelsky, 1946- History 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterization of composite materials from temporal thermal response Emeric, Pierre R., 1967- Applied Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy