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
Affirmative action and self esteem : an exploratory analysis using attribution theory Simpson, Jacqueline Christine Coon, 1962- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
An organizational analysis of professionalization in police departments Oppenheim, Pamela J., 1951- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Role enactment and disaster response : a methodological exploration Russell, Stephen Thomas, 1966- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Homophile dis-ease : a product of the social environment DeRoche, T. R., 1947- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Faculty attitudes toward student activism and academic reform Rupnow, Thomas John, 1950- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Thomas Road Baptist Church : a study of the new fundamentalism Flint, Betty Gail, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
The effects of reference groups on human lactation duration Cashman-Janowski, Regina, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A study of black female assertiveness Golemba, Beverly, 1931- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Bisegmented and multisegmented lovers' nests : an exploratory study German, Hallett. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Social control and morale within the Virginia Department of State Police Engemann, Andrew Herbert, 1955- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Air pollution, a sociological perspective Freymeyer, Robert Howard, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood Mikulka, Jacqueline Veronica, 1949- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
The relevance of social isolation to the community tenure of former mental patients Hargadon, Sue Ellen. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Mediating the influence of deviant peers Breitbeil, John William, 1971- Sociology 1998 Master of Arts
Determinants of criminal court sentencing Lovko, Jennifer Rae, 1965- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A critique of the labeling approach : toward a social theory of deviance Mattson Croninger, Robert Glenn, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Social implications in Negro poetry : a study in Negro poetic expression Wynne, Robert Baker, 1906- Sociology 1933 Master of Arts
Perceived racial discrimination and political-racial stereotyping Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
No-fault divorce legislation and its impact on state divorce rates Massey, Elizabeth Ann, 1954- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
African American professional women active from 1920-1960 : an historical analysis Lyles, Crystal Marie, 1970- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood : a cross-cultural replication German, Raquel Miranda, 1957- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
The meaning of value : a review and analysis of a sociological concept Mead, Bruce Longley, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
A sociological study of the needs of the elderly in a subarea of Hampton, Virginia Yeatts, Dale Purnell, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Sociological contributions to the community mental health movement : a reformulation Morrison, Richard Drury. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Drug use and deterrence : a test of Silberman's general theory Maume, Michael Owen, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Death and the self Miller, Jo Ann Langley, 1949- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Consciousness and its reproduction in higher education Monk, Elizabeth Ann, 1952- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
The viability of the volunteers in courts programs : an analysis of the conceptual foundations and empirical research Baker, Eleanor Margaret, 1940- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Correlates of self-esteem and social desirability in fifth grade mainstream and special education classes Bogart, Susan K. 1944- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The Negro American : images and identities Healey, Joseph F., 1945- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
The Weather Underground : a study in mobilization Pigulski, Paul Michael, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
The rationalization of drug treatment programs : the emergence of court-enforced drug treatment bureaueracies Richardson, John G. 1958- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts