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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
Domestic ideology and the social construction of mammy Brown, Bridget Mary, 1964- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
A social history of the private fence in nineteenth-century America Bishop, Lisa Brenner, 1967- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
A certain kinship : the first exhibitions of American folk art, New York, 1924-1932 Chasse, Sarah Noble. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Between fact and fiction : writing by American women in a transnational context Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Friends departed live : a study of the relationship between schoolgirl mourning pictures, female education, and cultural attitudes toward death in early nineteenth-century eastern Massachusetts Stewart, Janet Elizabeth, 1960- American Studies 1987 Master of Arts
Monument to sentiment : the discourse of nation and citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Nichols, Caroline Carpenter, 1974- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Luxury consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia : gender, race, and the personal property tax Hughes, Shannon Lynn, 1969- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Agent of change or trusted servant : the eighteenth-century Williamsburg press Berg, Susan Stromei, 1951- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Prescription and practice : a comparison of child-care manuals, fashion journals and mail-order catalogues on the subject of children's dress 1875-1900 Bates, Christina Jean, 1952- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The Shenandoah River gundalow and the politics of material reuse Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Schoolhouses remembered : the story behind the nostalgic image : an active pursuit of the truth Cude, Michelle Dawn, 1966- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The rise and fall of the WB : Dawson's Creek, intertextuality, and legitimation Hodge, Ambert R. J. P. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The proper role of religious conviction in moral-political discourse Owens, Jerry, 1959- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
The fashionable set : the feasibility of social tea drinking in 1774 Ligon, Samantha M., 1976- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Frank LLoyd Wright : architect of an age Boulton, Alexander O. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The rise of Benjamin Waller : 1716-1786 Greenman, John Starr, 1940- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Yorktown shipwreck 44YO88 : stores and cargo from a British naval supply vessel from the American War for Independence Broadwater, John D. American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Unstable compounds : progressive and regressive impulses in four contemporary American documentaries and the prospect for social change Bransford, Stephen Henry, 1973- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Notions of refinement and displays of dignity in African-American home spaces, 1885-1935 Pickens, Roxane Victoria, 1971- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
The mistakes of yesterday, the hopes of tomorrow : prison, pop music, and the Prisonaires Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Remembering American wars in three controversial displays : the wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center Pleasant, Joanna E., 1973- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
A place of honor and fruitfulness : World War One and the war activities of women from the elite women's colleges LaFave, Helen Grace, 1962- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Who controlled cruise? : The 1983 deployment of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom and the post-1945 anglo-american special relationship in defence Donald, Colin James, 1958- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Beyond telling the news : the mission of public journalism, 1996 Burton, Pamela Sue, 1965- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
A world of goods : the printer's economy in eighteenth-century Virginia Richardson, Kari S., 1973- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Lost chances in Sino-American relations : the burden of myth, culture, and ideology, 1949-1953 Haga, Kai Yin Allison, 1972- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
The freemasonry of the race : the cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia Walker, Corey D. B. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
What is best and most typical : nostalgia, transgression, and capitalism at the Virginia State Fair 1946-1976 Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
An officer and a lady Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Performance of black female sexuality in a hip hop magazine Johnson, Tova Joanna, 1977- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Generational revolt and the spirit of capitalism : Fanny Fern's confrontation with Calvinism, class, and gender ideology in Ruth Hall Lunt, Catherine, 1965- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Wild, wearable, and seaworthy Davey, Frances Evelyn, 1970- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Absalom, Absalom! and the southern code of honor Gardner, Kevin, 1962- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
I claim not to have controlled events : Abraham Lincoln and the manipulation of public opinion in the secession crisis Huso, Deborah Rae, 1975- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy

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