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
AIDS and the academic community : a study in university governance Dinius, Ann, 1936- Education 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Electrically-induced shifts of the gallium arsenide nuclear spin levels Dumas, Katherine Ann. Physics 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the factors which impact assistive technology implementation Bailey, Sheila Bradby. Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of urbanization and land use on PAH accumulation in wetland sediments Kimbrough, Kimani L., 1973- Marine Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Photochemical modification of polyethylene terephthalate surface Zhu, Zhengmao, 1976- Applied Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Inverse estimation of horizontal pressure gradients and vertical eddy viscosity profiles in shallow waters Bang, Bohyun, 1955- Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
NMR in amorphous vanadium alloys Mattix, Larry. Physics 1981 Doctor of Philosophy
Bacterial dynamics and community structure in the York River Estuary Schultz, Gary Edward, 1962- Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Locality enhancement and dynamic optimizations on multi-core and GPU Zhang, Zheng, Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Low-energy bedload transport by combined wave and current flow on a southern mid-Atlantic bight shoreface Green, M. O. Marine Science 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Tuscarora trails : Indian migrations, war, and constructions of colonial frontiers Feeley, Stephen D., 1974- History 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Stability and spectra of the bumpy theta pinch Cayton, Thomas E. Physics 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
An exploratory investigation of school counselors' experience in school reform : interviews with ten counselors Turner, Deborah Nackley, 1953- Education 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Relationships among queer theory pedagogy, sexual orientation competency, and multicultural environment in counselor education training programs Frank, Dennis Allen. Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Environmental stress in hard coral : evaluating lipid as an indicator of sub-lethal stress on short time scales Niebuhr, David Harold, 1961- Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Vibrational lifetimes of hydrogen and oxygen defects in semiconductors Sun, Baozhou, 1977- Applied Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Jealous neighbors : rivalry and alliance among the native communities of Detroit, 1701-1766 Sturtevant, Andrew Keith, 1979- History 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Control of integrable Hamiltonian systems and degenerate bifurcations Kulp, Christopher W., 1976- Physics 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Calming minds and instilling character : John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843-1860 Manzo, Bettina, 1943- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Anthony Burns and the North-South dialogue on slavery, liberty, race, and the American Revolution Barker, Gordon S. History 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterization of transient behaviors in a colliding pulse mode-locked (CPM) laser Yang, Wei, 1973- Physics 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between antibody redox structure and affinity in rainbow trout Ye, Jianmin Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Mechanisms of isosmotic intracellular regulation in marine molluscs DuPaul, William D. Marine Science 1972 Doctor of Philosophy
Thermal lattice Boltzmann simulations of variable Prandtl number turbulent flows Soe, Min, 1961- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Computational applications in stochastic operations research Kaczynski, William H. Applied Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Forgotten masters : institutional slavery in Virginia, 1680-1860 Oast, Jennifer Bridges, 1974- History 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Analysis of the U.S. Coast Guard mentor program Sutton, Anne Monaco, 1975- Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Collective effects in stellar dynamics and plasma physics Hohl, Frank, 1934- Physics 1967 Doctor of Philosophy
Temporal and spatial heterogeneity in diatom populations of the lower York River, Virginia Manzi, John Joseph, 1945- Marine Science 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
More or less than kind : brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature Blanchard, Jennifer P. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Muon transfer from munni deuterium to carbon Viel, David William, 1963- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Nitrate reduction at the groundwater-salt marsh interface Tobias, Craig 1967- Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of science and scientists in marine environmental policy and management Topalian, Teny, 1953- Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Analysis and approximation of optimal co-scheduling on CMP Jiang, Yunlian. Computer Science 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Physiological consequences of high water flow on the coral Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander, 1786) Carpenter, Lawrence W., 1956- Marine Science 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Catastrophes in the Elmo bumpy torus Punjabi, Alkesh R. Physics 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Completion of partial operator matrices Bakonyi, Mihaly Applied Science 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Female instruction and improvement : education for women in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1785-1835 Johansen, Mary Carroll, 1966- History 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
An exploration of compliance predictors of the institutional effectiveness requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on colleges' baccalaureate institutions between 2008 and 2012 Djeukeng, Benjamin Ninjo, 1971-, Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Injection efficiency of bound modes Egalon, Claudio Oliveira, 1963- Physics 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Population dynamics of young-of-the-year striped bass, Morone saxatilis, populations, based on daily otolith increments Kline, Lisa L., 1961- Marine Science 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Virtual path bandwidth distribution and capacity allocation with bandwidth sharing Anewalt, Karen Marie, 1972- Computer Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Life history, population dynamics and yield per recruit modeling of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay area Barbieri, Luiz R. Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between cultural/ethnic identity and individual protective factors of academic resilience Weaver, Dale E. Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between curriculum alignment and selected mathematics teacher characteristics : an opportunity to learn study Grant, Leslie W. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Laser backscatter measurements of the lower atmosphere McCormick, M. Patrick. Physics 1967 Doctor of Philosophy
Global phylogeography of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, and mackerels of the genus Scomber Scoles, Daniel R., 1962- Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Exploiting behavioral biometrics for user security enhancements Zheng, Nan, Computer Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy