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
You(s) on the tube : deconstructing (American) (cyber) selves inscribed in the diary blog and diary vlog McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Blue notes and brown skin : five African-American jazzmen and the music they produced in regard to the American civil rights movement Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Domestic ideology and the social construction of mammy Brown, Bridget Mary, 1964- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
A distinctive chest of drawers : using material culture to interpret the past and the present Johnston, Jessica Williams, 1969- American Studies 1996 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
An interpretive plan for the Newry, South Carolina cotton mill museum Hawkins, Callie Pettit. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
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
Storyville : discourses in southern musicians' autobiographies Sutton, Matthew Daniel, 1972- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The Prentis family and their library Richter, Julie (Caroline Julia), 1961- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Benjamin Trott : miniature painter Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The road to ruins and restoration : Roland W. Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology Linebaugh, Donald W. American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
American identity and the wild west show, 1880-1910 Stark, Susan Ann, 1974- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
To go with an ungloved hand was impossible : a history of gloves, hands, sex, wealth, and power Barzilay, Karen Northrup, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Blurring boundaries : the Rorschach idea in twentieth-century American popular culture Rainey, James Edward, 1970- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
A parlor in the penitentiary : prisons and reading in Victorian America Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 1996 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
Preserving their form and features : the role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870 Tharp, Brent W., 1964- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
An isolating and repressive force : the image of the southern lady in the work of Lee Smith Wesley, Deborah Rae, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Judas exposed : labor spies in the United States Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Our street-strutting language : Asian American rappers in a hip-hop nation Wang, Helen Ye-Hua, 1976- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
A war of words : satire and song in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Gazettes Howell, Mark Hunter, 1957- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Interpreting green design in old buildings Rosenthal, James Erik. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
The rise of Benjamin Waller : 1716-1786 Greenman, John Starr, 1940- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The other faces of Mount Rushmore : tourism, advertising, and the commodity of experience McNutt, Jill Angela, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Breaking the formula : politics and sexuality in lesbian detective fiction Wood, Meredith Abner, 1966- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Calming minds and instilling character : John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843-1860 Manzo, Bettina, 1943- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
A dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770 Malone, Mollie C., 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table Sasser, Jackson Norman. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
More or less than kind : brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature Blanchard, Jennifer P. American Studies 2007 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
Sugar chests in middle Tennessee, 1800-1835 McPherson, Anne Shelton, 1957- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Intertexual [sic] cadences, When wants and woes might be our righteous lot : excavating Phillis Wheatley's transcending voice of accent Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
African American history at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll, Nicole, 1974- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Chinese immigrants to America : thematic dimensions Wu, Sui, 1960- American Studies 1990 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
A robe of eloquence : speech and power in the life and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Japanese business in the United States : unintentional definition of the other Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1991 Master of Arts
Every American should stand here once : Jamestown's 400th anniversary commemoration and the creation of an American origin narrative Howard, Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The Friendship Fest : perfecting friendship through transnational musical performance Thompson, Nancy LeAnne. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Fort Hill : a representative of the structural and social hierarchy and harmony of Greek Revival architecture McPherson, Beth Ann Spiryson. American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
So that I get her again : African American slave women runaways in selected Richmond, Virginia newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond, Virginia police guard daybook, 1834-1843 Sorensen, Leni Ashmore, 1942- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The poet, the poem, and the people : Etheridge Knight's American counterpoetics Chaltain, Sam. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts