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
Stock identification of weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, by discriminant function analysis of morphometric characters Scoles, Daniel R., 1962- Marine Science 1990 Master of Arts
Weapons innovations and arms control : three case studies Gerard, William Frank, 1943- Government 1974 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Beowulf : Worda and Worca Coyne, Christina M., 1969- English 1995 Master of Arts
Virtue in corruption: privateers, smugglers, and the shape of empire in the eighteenth-century Caribbean. Schmitt, Casey Sylvia, History 2013 Master of Arts
Angle sensitivity of a silicon cell solar sensor Spencer, Paul R., 1934- Physics 1961 Master of Arts
A calculation of electron-bremsstrahlung produced in thick targets Gross, Chris, 1937- Physics 1968 Master of Arts
Milk for babes: the catechism in reformation England 1550-1640 Dannemaier, William Howard, 1960- History 1989 Master of Arts
Recovering elements in historical archaeology : the use of soil chemical analysis for overcoming the effects of post-depositional plowing Fischer, Lisa E., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Downtown revitization : a functionalist analysis Knighton, Janice Jacqueline, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
Functional characterization of the electrophoretic hemoglobin polymorphism in the Atlantic Croaker (Micropogon undulatus) Shelly, Daniel Allen, 1969- Biology 1994 Master of Arts
The public school principal and desegregation: the principal as change agent Turnage, Martha Allen, 1922- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Pin-up art, interpreting the dynamics of style Derry, Linda K., 1954- Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
Gender roles and home computer use by children D'Alemberte, Trelles Whitfield, 1968- Sociology 1991 Master of Arts
National identity in Turkey Wood, Seth Robertson, 1973- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
The anatomy of pain in Emily Dickinsonʼs poetry Miller, Emily Paul, 1953- English 1976 Master of Arts
Aspects of volume regulation in two estuarine invertebrates : Glycera Dibranchiata (Annelida) and Modiolus Demissus (Mollusca) Beardsley, Ana Marie, 1963- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
The metabolism of Krebs cycle intermediates and malonate by eggs and early embryonic stages of Arbacia punctulata Addison, Russell Chancellor, 1942- Biology 1966 Master of Arts
Natural neuronal variation in a complex neuroendocrine pathway : effect of selection for photoperiod responsiveness on the density and location of mature GnRH-releasing neurons in inhibitory and excitatory photoperiods Avigdor, Mauricio, 1977- Biology 2004 Master of Arts
Inviting the principle gentlemen of the city : privacy, exclusivity, and food complexity in colonial taverns Gryctko, Lauren Elizabeth, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Could you point me to your nearest clay source, please? : a XRF study of Barbadian historic era ceramics Kirby, Benjamin Crossley, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
A history of taxation in colonial Virgina 1607-1775 Forrest, Dennis Dryden, 1902- History 1931 Master of Arts
The great proletarian cultural revolution : Mao Zedong's quest for revolutionary immortality McLeod, Ronald R., 1964- Government 1990 Master of Arts
Fatty acids and hydrocarbons in the surface waters of the York River Windsor, John G. 1947- Marine Science 1972 Master of Arts
Economic survival in Colorado before and after the Silver Crash of 1893 Brophy, Sarah S., 1961- History 1987 Master of Arts
An Archaeological assessment of Middlesex County, Virginia Lichtenberger, Randy Michael, 1967- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
The effects of mitigating circumstances on attributions of responsibility Huff, Charles, 1955- Psychology 1983 Master of Arts
A study of changes in school and community resulting from cooperative action of community leaders and teachers Piland, Woodrow Wilson, 1915- Education 1945 Master of Arts
The vestry book of Elizabeth City Parish, 1751-1784 History 1957 Master of Arts
Differential association and patterns of drug use Gossweiler, Robert S. 1967- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Imitation as a function of drive, reinforcement, and stimulus ambiguity Larson, Anne V., 1943- Psychology 1967 Master of Arts
Studies on the thiocyanato complexes of niobium Barrett, Richard Paul, 1945- Chemistry 1970 Master of Arts
Political alienation and its relationship to community residence Henneman, Paul C., 1955- Government 1981 Master of Arts
An instrument for awakening : the Moravian Church and the White River Indian Mission Atwood, Scott Edward, 1968- History 1991 Master of Arts
Perceived racial discrimination and political-racial stereotyping Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
From the middle of nowhere : place-making on my supermodern American road Werner, Maxwell Allen, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Response of a partially mixed coastal plain estuary to storm events Hepworth, D. A. (Daniel Ary), 1954- Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
Beyond telling the news : the mission of public journalism, 1996 Burton, Pamela Sue, 1965- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Hemispherical spectral emittance of ablation chars, carbon, and zirconia to 3,700° K Wilson, Robert Gale, 1936- Physics 1964 Master of Arts
Anxiety sensitivity and relationship patterns Higgins, Katherine L., 1978- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
José Mariá Arguedas's Agua : an introduction and translation Arguero, Felix Eduardo, 1956- English 1985 Master of Arts
Velasquez and his art Slaughter, Jane Chapman, -1951. Modern Languages and Literatures 1923 Master of Arts
The effects of differential prenatal and postnatal social environments on sexual maturation of young prairie deermice Thomas, Donna Block, 1947- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Mindfulness, meditation, and anger Griffin, Michael P., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Food habits of some demersal fishes of the continental slope and rise Sedberry, George R., 1950- Marine Science 1975 Master of Arts
Plastic capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the deregulation of consumer credit Klimchock, Carolee Anne, 1975- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
An investigation of the late quaternary morphology of Mobjack Bay, VA and application of a facies model Milligan, Donna Angela. Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
Public taste : a comparison of movie popularity and critical opinion Riley, R. Claiborne, 1950- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
A study in ways of developing initiative in pupils Spitzer, Mary Rebecca, 1912- Education 1941 Master of Arts
This famous island in the Virginia sea : the influence of the Irish Tudor and Stuart plantation experiences in the evolution of American colonial theory and practice Duff, Meaghan Noelle, 1969- History 1992 Master of Arts