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
Eighteenth-century wharf construction in Baltimore, Maryland Norman, Joseph Gary, 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
From path to portage : issues of scales, process, and pattern in understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail Moran, Mallory Leigh, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Evolution of mill settlement patterns in the Antietam drainage, Washington County, Maryland Frye, Susan Winter, 1959- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Excellent clay for pots : an archaeological and microscopic investigation of Barbadian redware during the early colonial era Siedow, Erik Andre. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Social science, serving bowls and the question of ethnicity: deconstructing material culture correlates of ethnic indentification Heitert, Kristen Barbara, 1971- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
Setting the best table in the country : food and labor at the Coloma gold mining town Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The cowrie shell in Virginia : a critical evaluation of potential archaeological significance Pearce, Laurie Elisabeth, 1967- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
The land remembers : the construction of movement possibility among Woodland period communities of the Virginia Peninsula Nieves, Josue Roberto, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Historical archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia Polk, Roni Hinote, 1950- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Rogue fishermen : codfish, Atlantic items, and the Isles of Shoals Victor, Megan. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Civil archaeology : using the research processes of anthropology as a classroom for critical thinking Mullin, John Joseph, 1970- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
The urban archaeology of early Spanish Caribbean ports of call : the unfortunate story of Nombre de Dios Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Streaking and straight pins : constructing macsulinity on an Antebellum college campus Schwartz, Erin Stock, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
An archaeological survey of the governor's land, James City County, Virginia Sprinkle, John Harold, 1960- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Great Blue Herons and River Otters : the changing perceptions of all things wild in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chesapeake Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene, 1961- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Maximizing archaeology's relevance to its publics through a pragmatist framework Walter, Kelley Marie. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Chickasaw material culture and the deerskin trade : an analysis of two eighteenth century Chickasaw sites in northeast Mississippi Underwood, John Robert, 1972- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
The diasporic world of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860 Sayers, Daniel O. Anthropology 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Shenandoah Valley earthenware as symbols of identity Park, Sunyoon. Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
African-American family and society on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880 McDonald, Bradley Michael, 1968- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
I'm really just an American : the archaeological importance of the Black towns in the American West and late-nineteenth century constructions of blackness Winsett, Shea Aisha. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Peripheral vision : mimesis and materiality along the James River, Virginia, 1619-1660 Sikes, Kathryn Lee McClure, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
By the side of the road : an interpretive look at road menders' houses Rivera-Ruiz, Aida Belén, 1966- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Education, literacy and ink pots : contested identities in post-emancipation Barbados Devlin, Sean Edward. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Wealth and society in eighteenth century Bermuda : a view from the colonial capital of St. George's Metz, Cara Anne Harbecke Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
To and from places beyond : examining low-fired coarse earthenwares and informal trade networks among enslaved Bermudians in the 18th and 19th centuries Zimmet, Sarah Helen. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Community in Gloucestertown, Virginia : the context and archaeology of town development in 17th and 18th century Virginia Fisher, Karen B., 1960- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Efficient action in the construction of field fortification : a study of the civil war defenses of Raleigh, North Carolina Higgins, Thomas F. Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
An allegory for life : an 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas Turner, Grace S. R., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Fortifications of St. Eustatius : an archaeological and historical study of defense in the Caribbean Howard, Bryan Paul, 1965- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Dwelling in space through knowledge of place : building on epistemological understandings of the seventeenth-century British Atlantic Bassett, Hayden Frith, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Archaeological application of the metal detector Roach, Wayna L., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Breaking the mold : sugar ceramics and the political economy of 18th century St. Eustatius Miller, Derek Robert. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
In the crucible of the frontier : the emergence and decline of a trading site in early colonial Virginia Burke, Patrick Brendan, 1981- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Merchants of Curacao in the early 18th century Brito, Nadia Francisca, 1953- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
The Effect of soils on settlement location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia Lukezic, Craig, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
St. Eustatius : acculturation in a Dutch Caribbean colony Kandle, Patricia Lynn, 1953- Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
The Nottoway of Virginia : a study of peoplehood and political economy, c. 1775-1875 Woodard, Buck W., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Ontological blackness : an investigation of 18th century burial practices among captive Africans on the Island of Barbados Brown, Brittany Leigh, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Clay Landing : a nineteenth century rural community on the Florida frontier Principe, Jill Catherine. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
America's other peculiar institution : exploring the York County Free Black register as a means of social control, 1798-1831 Butts, Andrew Jefferson, 1974- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
A Reflection to life : a social and economic study of cedar grove cemetery, Williamsburg, Va. Boyd, Varna G., 1959- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Social equalization and social resistance : a symbolic interactional approach to strategies of African American slave populations Smith, Frederick H. 1966- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts