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
The American grotesque : free-thought idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in story Tirak, Lita M. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Mouth with myriad subtleties : race, gender, audience, and authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman Edmonds, Kristin Margaret, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 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
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 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
Country, past, and nostalgia : examination of an American popular ideal Ito, Kyoko, 1963- American Studies 1993 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
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 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
Unrapping the gangsta : the changing role of the performer from toast to gangsta rap Symons, Andrea L. D., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
You are not the father! : family, blood, race and Maury in America Markarian, Robyn Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Envisioning Black childhood : Black nationalism, community, and identity construction in Black Arts movement children's literature Crawford, Meredith Meagan, 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The Willoughby-Baylor house : Form and symbol Keenan, Stephanie Mary, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
You just had that gut feeling' : film, memory, and the lynching of James Byrd, Jr. Piper, William Brian, 1980- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Nathaniel Jocelyn : in the service of art and abolition Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The freedom of a broken law : the liminal world of Nathaniel Hawthorneʼs The scarlet letter Horton, Tonia Lanette, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
A parlor in the penitentiary : prisons and reading in Victorian America Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods : the many images of maroons throughout the American South Williams, Angela Alicia, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
The not-so-public history of Colonial Williamsburg's port resident-ferrykeepers : interpreting the Moody family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781 Scott, Angela Maria. American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers : revolution comes to Virginia 1765-1775 White, William E., 1953- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Dressing behavior in eighteenth century Virginia 1740-1800 Masters, Joanna Margaret, 1965- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Buck-horned snakes and possum women : non-White folklore, antebellum Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange Miller, John Douglas. American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624 : a delicate and necessary seat for a city or chief fortification Cobb, John Michael, 1948- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Screening the Revolution : Williamsburg, the story of a patriot as historic artifact, history film, and hegemonic struggle Simpson, Jenna Anne, 1982- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
The still life : domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Picturesque America : packaging America for popular consumption Ramsier, Allen Lewis, 1954- American Studies 1985 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
Interminority relations in the early 1990s in California : conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans Yamazato, Akiko, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Beating songs : blues, violence, and the male body in the films of Spike Lee Gaines, Mikal J. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The brownies' book : an open window to early twentieth-century African American childhood Clark, Regina Ann. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The domestication of history in American art, 1848-1876 Wierich, Jochen. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Oz in the valley of ashes : Visions of tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The blues and jazz in Albert Murray's fiction : a study in the tradition of stylization Modeste, Jacquelynne Jones, 1968- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
1500 by 1939 by 1998--these are the measurements of Malinche's body : an analysis and review of twentieth-century interpretations of nationality Diaz, Ella Maria, 1977- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
In Parisian salons and Boston's back streets : reading Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia Lewes, David W. American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Eying Italians : race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880-1910 Cosco, Joseph P., 1949- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
The Prentis family and their library Richter, Julie (Caroline Julia), 1961- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Sugar chests in middle Tennessee, 1800-1835 McPherson, Anne Shelton, 1957- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Domestic music making in late eighteenth-century elite Chesapeake society : the elegant selections of Shirley Plantation Glosson, Sarah Gentry. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts