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 Willoughby-Baylor house : Form and symbol Keenan, Stephanie Mary, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 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
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The woman, the legend, the power : fictional representations of Marie Laveau in twentieth-century literature Neidenbach, Elizabeth Clark. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The first thing out the window : race, radical feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time Mann, Kimberly Lynn. American Studies 2009 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
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
Dressing behavior in eighteenth century Virginia 1740-1800 Masters, Joanna Margaret, 1965- American Studies 1993 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
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 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
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
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Integrating the personal and the political : the body politics in Daughter of earth Shen, Han, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Walk to freedom : how a violent response to the civil rights protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge unwillingly created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rainville, Brian Clement. American Studies 2009 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
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 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
You have no boss here to work for : women and labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing communities O'Grady, Elizabeth Marie. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Let all things be done decently and in order : gender segregation in the seating of early American churches Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
A dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770 Malone, Mollie C., 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers : revolution comes to Virginia 1765-1775 White, William E., 1953- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Mann thinking across antebellum culture-- Mann Satterwhite Valentine's literary aspirations Owen, Deborah Lynn, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in Williamsburg : a comparative study of eighteenth-century brick houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston Barry, Andrew Craig, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Anime in America, Disney in Japan : the global exchange of popular media visualized through Disney's Stitch Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. American Studies 2010 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
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
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
New land acquisition in the colonial Chesapeake, 1660-1706 : a test of the Malthusian and staples hypotheses Baird, Bruce Chandler, 1956- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Nathaniel Jocelyn : in the service of art and abolition Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Japanese business in the United States : unintentional definition of the other Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1991 Master of Arts
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
Athletic women in fiction and fact : the portrayal of women involved in athletic activity in novels from 1890-1920's Vera, Kristi Marie, 1961- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The domestication of history in American art, 1848-1876 Wierich, Jochen. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
A cultural analysis of furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820 Prown, Johnathan, 1961- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
The American grotesque : free-thought idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in story Tirak, Lita M. American Studies 2010 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
African American history at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll, Nicole, 1974- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Natural hair styling : a symbol and function of African- American women's self-creation Bowles, Juliette. American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The still life : domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts