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
Vocal music in a city high school and its contribution to community life Troxell, Charles, 1889-1984. Education 1947 Master of Arts
An analysis of the effects of sea level rise on the salt marshes of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina Perle, Christopher Robert, 1969- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
Justification : How the Elizabethans explained their invasions of Ireland and Virginia McDaid, Christopher Ludden, 1964- History 1994 Master of Arts
The effects of at-sea killing and storage methods on the quality of recreationally-caught Northern Bluefin Tuna, Thynnus thynnus Chartier, Nancy Jeanne, 1960- Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
Pay for labor : socioeconomic transitions of freedpeople and the archaeology of African American life, 1863-1930 Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, 1973- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Morphology and development of hatchery cultured American shad (Alosa sapidissima Wilson), with a comparison between field sampled and cultured specimens Johnson, James Roy, 1952- Marine Science 1980 Master of Arts
Humor appreciation and the right hemisphere Waller, Melissa Beth, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Analysis of Morone saxatilis and Morone americanus spawning and nursery area in the York-Pamunkey River, Virginia Rinaldo, Ronald Gilbert, 1942- Marine Science 1971 Master of Arts
Quantitative analysis of acrylon[i]trile in ambient air Hurley, Roberta Ambrose, 1959- Chemistry 1985 Master of Arts
Evaluation of a brief neurometric battery for the detection of neurocognitive changes associated with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and probable alzheimer's disease Cunningham, Emily Christine, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Moravian missions to the Delaware Indians, 1792-1812 Maul, Jessica, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Zirconium complexes with the 3-cyanoacetylacetonate anion : a potential trifunctional ligand Lock, George Arbuthnot, 1950- Chemistry 1975 Master of Arts
Candidate recruitment in American state legislatures Weidie, Stuart, 1964- Government 2002 Master of Arts
Identification and characterization of abnormal erythrocyte membrane proteins in hereditary spherocytosis Kirkland, Clement Stokes, 1953- Chemistry 1978 Master of Arts
Regional cooperation in South Asia Guha, Papia, 1966- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Early recollections, future events and social interest Hollar, William David, 1953- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
To go with an ungloved hand was impossible : a history of gloves, hands, sex, wealth, and power Barzilay, Karen Northrup, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Toleration and reform : Virginia's Anglican clergy, 1770-1776 Volpe, Stephen M. History 2009 Master of Arts
A whole lot of different simple people : the degeneration of Nicole Warren Diver in Tender is the night Preston, Ginger Smith, 1947- English 1982 Master of Arts
Social bonding, social learning, and delinquency : An examination of two etiological theories of deviance Ousey, Graham Cristopher, 1968- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
Resource allocation at the university : research on the determinants of faculty morale Schmidt, Douglas Craig, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
A study in the development of cooperative living in an elementary school Case, Virginia Richardson. Education 1943 Master of Arts
The heavens or the abyss : a reading of Edith Wharton's The House of mirth as a romance Nicholson, Joseph Rives, 1969- English 1996 Master of Arts
Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison : conficting masculinities Nejako, H. Alexander, 1971- English 1994 Master of Arts
Vegetative mitosis in the multinucleate green alga, Cladophora flexuosa : an ultrastructural study Lewis, Ruth Schwab, 1950- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
The scourge of Discovery: a case study of the genocide of native Americans in English North America Abdoo, Jayma Ann, 1957- History 1992 Master of Arts
Non-tidal sea level variations across the lower Chesapeake Bay Garfield, Richard Leo, 1948- Marine Science 1984 Master of Arts
The influence of St. Augustine on Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited Moran, Andrew Damian, 1969- English 1999 Master of Arts
Deism at the College of William and Mary 1722-1836 Hurley, Daniel Irwin, 1946- History 1974 Master of Arts
Habitat quality and seasonal foraging patterns of the red-cockaded woodpecker (picoides borealis) in southeastern Virginia Bradshaw, Dana Seward, 1958- Biology 1990 Master of Arts
A study of the implications of supervisory principles Graves, Eliot Boyd, 1904- Education 1935 Master of Arts
Patterns and prevalence of metabolic syndrome among persons receiving treatment with antipsychotic medications Harte, Brittany Marie-Bach, 1983- Psychology 2007 Master of Arts
Love affairs as power struggles in english court life: John Donne's The apparition, The extasie, and The canonization Hanrahan, Gregory Scott, 1962- English 1988 Master of Arts
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
The effect of stimulus differentiation and intertrial interval on spontaneous alternation behavior in rats Bisese, Vernon Stephen, 1933- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
The best of wives : Martha Bland Blodget Corran, nee Daingerfield Foard, Madelyn, 1956- History 1997 Master of Arts
Fish predator-prey interaction in areas of eelgrass (Zostera marina) Lascara, Joseph, 1954- Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
A bowery nook will be elysium : the image of the bower in the poetry of John Keats Seffers, Tracy Prior, 1966- English 1993 Master of Arts
Temperament as destiny : a study of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and An American tragedy Seifert, Christine H., 1949- English 1986 Master of Arts
In the mind and bed of the beholder? : individual and situational differences in the experience of sexual interactions Smith, Carrie Veronica. Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
The work of Clarence S. Stein, 1919-1939 Phillimore, Prudence Anne, 1953- History 1977 Master of Arts
A study of education in Northumberland County, 1930-1939 Brent, William Seymour. Education 1940 Master of Arts
Total synthesis of (+)-malbrancheamide B utilizing a stereoselective domino reaction sequence to establish the bicyclo[2.2.]diazaoctane core Stephen William Laws. Laws, Stephen William, Chemistry 2013 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
A vegetational analysis of interdunal swale communities of False Cape State Park, Currituck Spit, Virginia Jones, Heather A., 1967- Biology 1992 Master of Arts
Electrochemical studies on peroxo heteroligand vanadates (V) in aqueous solution Mayonado, David J. Chemistry 1984 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
Romantic relationship schema complexity Preacher, Kristopher J., 1974- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
Factors in lay diagnoses of mental illness : closeness of relationship and de-satisficing events Hull, Doyle E., 1964- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Modern psychology in physical education Gary, Willie Alberta. Physical Education 1929 Master of Arts