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
Program evaluation in higher education : a case study Steele, Elizabeth Delavan, 1956- Education 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Choosing to succeed : an exploration of the relationship between college choice and freshman retention Walke, James Tomlin, 1971- Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The recoil momentum dependence of the d(e,e'n)p cross section Rutt, Paul Martin, 1964- Physics 1993 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
A search for the rare decay kaon(L)-->[mu]e Ginkle, John Fred, 1961- Physics 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Investigation of tributyltin water/sediment interactions Unger, Michael A. Marine Science 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
College housing officers' job satisfaction : a national study Jones, David Proctor, 1970- Education 2002 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
Humanitarian reform and organized benevolence in the southern United States, 1780-1830 Dann, John C. History 1975 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
Theory of solid state muonSR experiments : muon+ hyperfine fields and trap-limited spin depolarization Munjal, Ram Lal. Physics 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of chlorinated sea water on the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Laird, Chae E. Marine Science 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
James McGready : Son of thunder, father of the great revival Scott, John Thomas, 1962- History 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 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
Understanding and leveraging virtualization technology in commodity computing systems Le, Duy, Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Radiation-induced luminescence in terbium-doped silicate glasses West, Michael Stuart, 1965- Physics 1997 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
A comparative study of teaching critical thinking through persuasive writing to average, gifted and students with learning disabilities Hughes, Claire E. Education 2000 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
Is empathy the missing link in teaching business ethics? : a course-based educational intervention with undergraduate business students Adkins, Christopher P., 1973- Education 2009 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
The influence of womanist identity on the development of eating disorders and depression in African American female college students Ford, Theresa, 1954- Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Turmoil in an orderly society, Colonial Virginia, 1607-1754 : a history and analysis Morgan, Timothy E. 1941- History 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Automated peak identification for time-of-flight mass spectroscopy Chen, Haijian, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Flush communication channels : effective implementation and verification Camp, Tracy, 1964- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Monte Carlo simulations of ferroelectric crystal growth and molecular electronic structure of atoms and molecules Suewattana, Malliga, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Exploring relational processes in families of gay youth Meek, Gregory Scott. Education 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty instructional development and oral communication in freshman seminars at the College of William and Mary Burk, Tamara L. Education 1997 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
Small-kernel image restoration Reichenbach, Stephen Edward, 1954- Computer Science 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
The impact of block scheduling on student performance on the Virginia standards of learning end-of-course assessments Richardson, James Kenneth, 1965- Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Tenured teacher dismissal for incompetence and the law : a study of state legislation and judicial decision, 1983-2003 DeSander, Marguerita Kalekas. Education 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Applications of effective field theory/density functional theory to ground-state properties of nuclei far from stability Huertas Chacon, Marco Antonio. Physics 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Hadron structure from holographic QCD Abidin, Zainul, 1981- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Deformation in a chiral bag model Hunter, John W. Physics 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Applications of holographic dualities Albrecht, Dylan Judd, 1984-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The Late Quaternary evolution of a twin barrier-island complex, Cape Charles, Virginia Finkelstein, Kenneth. Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1782-1810 : the economic and social structure of a Tidewater county in the early national years Hughes, Sarah S. History 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Service-learning and cognitive development : an exploratory study Stelljes, Andrew D., 1975- Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Observation of K-series transitions in pionic and muonic Sapp, Betty Orrick. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between intensity of involvement and community service engagement in the moral development of student members of Greek organizations Phillips, Franklin Hadley, 1976- Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Society of souls : spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A precision measurement of the lifetime of the positive muon Giovanetti, Kevin Louis. Physics 1982 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
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
Keep on keeping on : the NAACP and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia Daugherity, Brian J., 1972- History 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Lamb wave diffraction tomography Malyarenko, Eugene V., 1969- Applied Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy