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
Conflict at the college: William and Mary 1750-1776 Williams, Andrea Lynn, History 2013 Master of Arts
Quick! Do something manly! : the Super Bowl as an American spectacle of hegemonic masculinity, violence, and nationalism Huebenthal, Jan, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Effect of parietalectomy on oxygen consumption, heart rate and ventilatory in Sceloporus occidentalis Francis, Cleveland, 1944- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
Indo-U.S. relations Bhagat, Rahul N., 1963- Government 1988 Master of Arts
Matrix approach to quadric surfaces Vallas, Maria, 1939- Mathematics 1965 Master of Arts
Mechanisms of poly(vinyl chloride) pyrolysis in the presence of transition metals Bryant, William Stephen, 1972- Chemistry 1995 Master of Arts
Social and reproductive consequences of bridging asymptotic laboratory populations of prairie deermice Swenson, Betty Ann, 1951- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
Attachment security and partner presence as moderators to automatic responses to stress in women Feeney, Brooke C., 1969- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
The John de la Howe site : a study of colonoware on the South Carolina frontier Cooper, Margaret W., 1971- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
The liturgical calendar in Sir Gawain and the green knight Connelly, Kathleen Daire, 1951- English 1974 Master of Arts
Motivated attributions of responsibility : defensive attribution Paule-Carres, Glenn, 1949- Psychology 1979 Master of Arts
Streaking and straight pins : constructing macsulinity on an Antebellum college campus Schwartz, Erin Stock, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Hydroids of the pelagic sargassum community of the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea Rackley, David Holland, 1946- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Trains, trucks, and traffic jams : the rise of automotive transportation, 1880-1956 DeStefanis, Anthony Roland, 1969- History 1996 Master of Arts
Age structure and dispersal of Chesapeake Bay ospreys Kinkead, Timothy Patrick, 1957- Biology 1985 Master of Arts
The New Orleans free people of color and the process of Americanization, 1803-1896 Gourdet, Camille Kempf, 1978- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Hassles, major life events, humor, and coping as predictors of mood disturbance, depression and somatization Catz, Sheryl L., 1967- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts
The Appomattox River improvement companies Nolley, George Marion. History 1928 Master of Arts
Evaluating the genotoxicity of quinacrine in mammals using the sister chromatid exchange test Ray, Sutapa, 1971- Biology 1996 Master of Arts
The ideal marriage : reactions to Marie Stopes' Married love, 1918-1935 Goings, Shannon E. History 2012 Master of Arts
William Lloyd Garrison : nonresistant Christian manliness in the cause of immediate emancipation, an analysis Nakamoto, Sharleen Naomi, 1970- History 1999 Master of Arts
Propagating status : gentlemen planters and their greenhouses in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Chesney, Sarah Jane. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Improving a method for numerical construction of wave rays Wilson, W. Stanley. Marine Science 1964 Master of Arts
Who are you calling criminal? : a new look at the violent criminal stereotype Imhof, Heather V., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Attitudes toward drinking and drunkeness in seventeenth-century Virginia Bonnett, Kendra. History 1976 Master of Arts
A distorting mirror : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre Morey, Laura Ellen, 1966- English 1993 Master of Arts
Mt. Greylock : the years before protection 1760-1900 Denault, Susan Ann, 1959- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Private self-consciousness, self-esteem, and perspective-taking Luhtanen, Riia Kaarina, 1962- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
The Amblers of Virginia : a family's rise to prominence Yelich, Hope, 1950- History 1973 Master of Arts
Affective image recognition in valanced contexts Eden, Allison Lehner, 1977- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Cognitive developmental differences in source monitoring Cimini, Katharine L., 1944- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Architectural style on St. Eustatius Sanders, Suzanne Lee, 1954- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Plant species of the Virginia coastal plain flora that are disjunct from the mountains : their distribution, abundance and substrate selectivity McDonald, Leah E., 1974- Biology 2000 Master of Arts
The distribution and abundance of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus in Virginia Blaylock, Robert A. Marine Science 1984 Master of Arts
The prospects for economic reform in the Soviet Union : what can be learned from Hungary and China? Davis, Richard Gary, 1966- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Seasonal distribution of dinoflagellates in the lower York River, Virginia Mackiernan, Gail Brown, 1942- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
Social interaction and clinical depressive disorder Hampton, Christianne Parisi, 1966- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
The resurgence of Islam in Turkey : a search for identity Bali, Vandana, 1969- Government 1994 Master of Arts
The Weather Underground : a study in mobilization Pigulski, Paul Michael, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Marlow's auditors Lyons, Susan Marie Wilson, 1950- English 1979 Master of Arts
The equipment of the Virginia soldier in the American Revolution Gallup, Andrew John, 1946- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
The fashionable set : the feasibility of social tea drinking in 1774 Ligon, Samantha M., 1976- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
The grammar school of the College of William and Mary, 1693-1888 Dillard, Carra Garrett. Education 1951 Master of Arts
Williamsburg and Norfolk : municipal government and justice in colonial Virginia Barrow, Robert Mangum, 1937- History 1960 Master of Arts
Community power and urban renewal success : a replication Seward, Robert Franklin, 1934- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Caching by Carolina chickadees : minimizing starvation risk vs. maximizing harvest rate Walter, Lynn R., 1959- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Some physical properties of an axial electric arc in a radial magnetic field Rigby, Robert Norris, 1934- Physics 1962 Master of Arts
Fashion's foes : dress reform from 1850-1900 Komski, Elizabeth A., 1977- History 2001 Master of Arts
The kids are (all) right : baby-boomers and the rhetoric of childhood in the picture books of Chris Van Allsburg Sprinkle, Mark. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts