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
David Hume and the search for social consensus Taylor, Dominic Alexander, 1969- English 1993 Master of Arts
Coming of age in America : Margaret Mead's reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s Stevens, Sarah Elizabeth, 1978- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
An experimental study of movement in natural populations of three species of rodents Staples, Patti Pawl, 1947- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Blood from a stone : Inuit captives and English national destiny, 1576-1580 Archer, Seth David. History 2009 Master of Arts
St. Erkenwald : a study in contrasts Rice, Davis Arthur, 1950- English 1983 Master of Arts
Pudd'nhead Wilson, ambiguity, and enslavement by language Lyman, John Andrew, 1961- English 1997 Master of Arts
The Corporal's guard in Congress, 1841-1843 Barber, Nigel Graeme. History 1970 Master of Arts
A fatal enigma? : the reception of smallpox inoculation in colonial Massachusetts by Monika Drake Patten. Patten, Monika Drake, 1963- History 1990 Master of Arts
Shahrazad in the white city : Muslim women's agency through performance at the Columbian Exposition Jerome, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
A Taxonomic treatment of the Gentianaceae in Virginia Hammond-Soltis, Georgia A., 1953- Biology 1979 Master of Arts
Nesting substrate preference and breeding of common terns (Sterna hirundo) and black skimmers (Rynchops niger) on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Keller, Greg S., 1966- Biology 1992 Master of Arts
Habit reversal in parakeets, chickens, and rats Pschirrer, Martin Edward, 1944- Psychology 1968 Master of Arts
The tidewater Virginia osprey population Seek, Gary Lynn, 1948- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
The relationship of serum thyroxine to the reproductive capabilities of prairie deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdi) from laboratory populations Peebles, Edgar David, 1956- Biology 1981 Master of Arts
In search of the Southern identity : the lady, the farmwife, and the nonslaveholders of York County Virginia, 1850-1860 Flotten, Chesley Homan, 1974- History 1998 Master of Arts
Comparing self-perceptions of skills and knowledge among college students : cross-sectional versus panel designs Wilson, Susan E., 1972- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
From romance to reality : Faulkner's mayday and the sound and the fury Kelly, John Patrick, 1956- English 1988 Master of Arts
Phillips Cutright's National Political Development and the case of Saudi Arabia Freeman, Mark Thomas, 1969- Government 1994 Master of Arts
Augustus Carmichael : a metaphor of the artist Adams, Mary Beverly, 1958- English 1989 Master of Arts
Flag planting and mapmaking : English claims to North America Sturtevant, Andrew Keith, 1979- History 2005 Master of Arts
The effects of salinity shocks and low oxygen levels on ATPase activity in two estuarine bivalves Hedgepeth, Marvin Ervis, 1951- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
The role of predation on Zostera marina L. (eelgrass) seed abundance Fishman, James, 1970- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
A comparison of meristics and morphometrics between two strains of pond cultured striped bass (Morone saxatilis) Gornak, Steven. Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
Measurement and analysis of tidal marsh fluxes of oxygen demanding materials Sweeney, James Thomas, 1955- Marine Science 1980 Master of Arts
Forest fires in western Europe in 1987 Le Canut, Philippe, 1968- Applied Science 1993 Master of Arts
An inquiry into some aspects of Nat Turner's rebellion Werner, Randolph Dennis. History 1971 Master of Arts
Sharing social pain : social comparison and affiliation after social exclusion Pond, Richard Shepherd, 1983- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
Comparative ecology of two sympatric species of atherinids, Menidia menidia and Membras martinica Burton, William Howard, 1951- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
The effect of kinship on reproductive success of male Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: pteromalidae) Bryant, Douglas Stuart, 1950- Biology 1985 Master of Arts
Regional variations in third world development Wynn, Robert Dempsey, 1970- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Morphology and histology of the reproductive organs of Urosalpinx civerea (Say) and Eupleura caudata (Say) Moore, Richard Byron. Marine Science 1961 Master of Arts
William Edward Dodd and the progressive South, 1900-1908 Orser, George Robert, 1944- History 1969 Master of Arts
Christina Rossetti : a feminist visionary Currence, Cindy K., 1957- English 1990 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's essay For the old batchellor The history of contentment, an allegory Bird, Vance Crockett, 1951- English 1974 Master of Arts
The cultivation theme in Hawthorne's novels Thompson, Jill Meznar, 1954- English 1978 Master of Arts
A comparison of ribosomal ribonucleic acid using disc electrophoresis Mohler, Carolyn Gene, 1944- Biology 1968 Master of Arts
Allozyme variation in American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius L. (Araliaceae) : implications for management of wild and cultivated populations Grubbs, Holly Jean, 1974- Biology 2001 Master of Arts
Robert Pleasants letterbook, 1771-1773 August, Betsy, 1951- History 1976 Master of Arts
The enduring villain : Germans as Nazi stereotypes in American cinema Aube, Christine Lokotsch, 1964- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Sex downeast : adultery and fornication in colonial Maine Williams, Joy Weatherly, 1964- History 1995 Master of Arts
The vascular flora of the Tar Bay and Powell Creek watersheds, Prince George County, Virginia Mort, Mark Eugene, 1969- Biology 1994 Master of Arts
Networks in favor of liberty : St. Eustatius as an entrepôt of goods and information during the American Revolution Vlasity, Sarah Marie, History 2015 Master of Arts
Integrating the personal and the political : the body politics in Daughter of earth Shen, Han, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Art, mystery, and occupation : building culture in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, Virginia Cook, Elizabeth. History 2010 Master of Arts
Researching the perverse triangles : a simulation approach Eldridge, Melvin R., 1960- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
Teh hell or teh work' the woman adrift and morality for three turn-of-the-century american authors Hawes, Elizabeth Cowen, 1967- English 1991 Master of Arts
Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern : an example of the influence of the colonial revival upon museums Mosher, Melissa Beth, 1963- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
The Hymn to Pan and thematic structure in Endymion Bost, Nancy Kathryn, 1951- English 1980 Master of Arts
A world in miniature : James Butcher and the transformation of African American politics & society in Washington, D.C., 1900-1940 Kane, Maria Alexandria, 1980- History 2008 Master of Arts
So good a work : the Brafferton school, 1691-1777 Stuart, Karen A. History 1984 Master of Arts