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
Considerations of the motion of a small body in the vicinity of the stable liberation points of the earth-moon system Michael, William H. Physics 1962 Master of Arts
A tradition of doubt : women and slavery in nineteenth-century Virginia Hunt, Leslie C., 1979- History 2001 Master of Arts
Why white men can't jump ... and black men can't think : an analysis of the American sports news media's coverage of basketball and its players from 1980 to the present Scaro, Robert Charles, 1970- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Subsurface hydrodynamics and nutrient exchange within an extensive tidal freshwater wetland Reay, William G. Marine Science 1989 Master of Arts
Sexual indiscretions in Virginia's colonial capital Schmidt, Sarah Rebecca. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
The Quest for meaning in the Waste Land and Sanctuary : a comparative study Compton, Mary Katherine, 1959- English 1986 Master of Arts
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
The multi-fiber arrangement in the loom of north - south politics Sehgal, Meeta, 1965- Government 1992 Master of Arts
Experiences of a fifth grade in marine biology Bruechert, Anna Roper. Education 1945 Master of Arts
The Page family of Rosewell and Mannsfield : a study in economic decline Leviner, Betty Crowe. History 1987 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's Old Bachelor essay on patriots and demagogues : a critical edition Harvey, Daniel Gaver, 1945- English 1972 Master of Arts
A mathematical model for small tidal streams capable of simulating both short-term and long-term water quality variations Williams, Stephen Anthony, 1952- Marine Science 1983 Master of Arts
The pottery and kiln of Green Spring : a study in 17th century material culture Smith, James M., 1949- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
Alienation among college faculty members Kambis, Mitchell Phillips, 1944- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
The American grotesque : free-thought idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in story Tirak, Lita M. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Spontaneous feeling as moral power : the role of sentimentality in Our mutual friend Fetherston, Robin L., 1955- English 1997 Master of Arts
Steepest descent techniques for operator equations Suit, William T. 1937- Mathematics 1967 Master of Arts
Distributive justice in resource-allocation Marty, Antoinette T., 1977- Psychology 2002 Master of Arts
Thomas Becon and the English Reformation : The Sick Man's Salve and the protestantization of English popular piety Hampson, Mary Regina Seeger, 1969- History 1995 Master of Arts
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Freedom in the early American novel (1790-1800) Young, Ann Ruth. English 1981 Master of Arts
The sources of John Keat's poem Hyperion Jackson, Elizabeth Grinnan, 1904- English 1937 Master of Arts
The knights of labor and the color line, Richmond, 1886 Miner, Claudia Ann, 1952- History 1978 Master of Arts
The most proper and convenient place : the debate over North Carolina's seat of government, 1676-1791 Stokes, Alan Ray, 1959- History 1990 Master of Arts
Dealing in metaphors : exploring the materiality of trade on Virginia's seventeenth century eastern Siouan frontier Gunter, Madeleine Ailsworth, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Handing down remarkable and interesting circumstances : Elizabeth Carrington and female intellectual inheritance in the early American republic Bailey, Hannah Emily, History 2013 Master of Arts
Jefferson looks at England, 1774-1823 : an essay on the relation between Jeffersonian theory and practice Colbourn, H. Trevor. History 1949 Master of Arts
A study of the opportunities available to the United States Army soldier for acquiring a college degree Volz, Heinz Henry. Education 1955 Master of Arts
The vascular flora of Jamestown Island, James City County, Virginia Loetterle, Lynn Ellen, 1946- Biology 1970 Master of Arts
Parental bereavement and hospice participation : an evaluation of the Edmarc Hospice Program Biddle, Linda Diane, 1960- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
Heraldic symbolism and color imagery in William Morris's The defence of Guenevere and other poems by June G. Lubowinski. Lubowinski, June Graybeal, 1951- English 1989 Master of Arts
Mobutu and Nyerere, 1960-1979 : trajectories and creativity in re-imagining the nation Shaw, Jonathan Edwards. History 2011 Master of Arts
Ontogeny of the sexually dimorphic sonic muscle in three sciaenid species Hill, Gary, 1958- Marine Science 1985 Master of Arts
Peter Taylor's fictional memoirs Peeples, Scott. English 1989 Master of Arts
The political imaginings of slave conspirators : Atlantic contexts of the 1710 slave conspiracy in Martinque Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. History 2011 Master of Arts
Comparison of daily growth rates of the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus in habitats of different salinity regimes Hoff, James G. Marine Science 1985 Master of Arts
Hardwood forest in the coastal plain of Virginia east of the Suffolk Scarp Cazier, Penelope Williams, 1948- Biology 1992 Master of Arts
Negative interest rates Troxel, Oliver Leonard, 1919- Economics 1941 Master of Arts
Kulikoff versus Buttenhoff-Lee [sic] : an evaluation of African-American populations in the Chesapeake 1740-1800 Callum, Beresford R., 1959- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
The effect of run-off from Hurricane Camille on the continental shelf waters of the Chesapeake Bight Elder, Robert Bruce, 1929- Marine Science 1971 Master of Arts
Elderly clients' perceptions of human services Egly, Stephanie R., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
The transformation of the Heads of Grievances into the Declaration of Rights 22 January-12 February 1689 Chamberlin, Catherine Rand, 1956- History 1980 Master of Arts
Reflections of thought : land plats of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1733-1849 Jenkins, Isabel Rebecca, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Against stanza-pairing : another look at correspondences between stanzas in Spenser's Epithalamion Rankin, Paula Clark, 1944- English 1975 Master of Arts
Alfred Thayer Mahan and the making of the superior other McGlashan, John William. History 2009 Master of Arts
Susceptibility to activity-based anorexia Stanley, Eric Zane, 1968- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
Classification and structures of the tidal marshes of the Poropotank River, Virginia Kerwin, James Arthur, 1938- Marine Science 1966 Master of Arts
Social implications in Negro poetry : a study in Negro poetic expression Wynne, Robert Baker, 1906- Sociology 1933 Master of Arts
Crowding and housing satisfaction : an exploratory study Joyce, Kathleen Marie. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards : narrative and social criticism in Our Mutual Friend Huteson, Gregory Eric. English 1990 Master of Arts