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
I like things simple, but it must be simple through complication : re-reading Gertrude Stein Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Recipe for citizenship : professionalization and power in World War I dietetics Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
More than shelter : community, identity, and spatial politics in San Francisco public housing, 1938-2000 Howard, Amy L., 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Schoolhouses remembered : the story behind the nostalgic image : an active pursuit of the truth Cude, Michelle Dawn, 1966- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Strength for the journey : feminist theology and Baptist women pastors Bailey, Judith Bledsoe, American Studies 2014 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
A comparative study of the use of figurative language by Plato and St. Paul Williams, Joseph Boyd, 1910- Ancient Languages 1943 Master of Arts
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Be ye friend or foe? : an analysis of two eighteenth century North Carolina sites Gray, Anna Lois, 1964- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Social stratification in York County, Virginia, 1860-1919 : a study of whites and African-Americans on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Stuck, Kenneth Edward, 1967- Anthropology 1995 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
Through the veil : double consiousness and labor in eighteenth and nineteenth century southern New England Lumb, Frederick William. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Sexual indiscretions in Virginia's colonial capital Schmidt, Sarah Rebecca. Anthropology 2012 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
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
Federal recognition politics and collaborative archaeologists : the need for a cultural consensus Martin, Alexandra Grace. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Historic archaeology of Jamaican tenant-manager relations : a case study from Drax Hall and Seville Estates, St. Ann, Jamaica Kelly, Kenneth Goodley, 1962- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Town planning and architecture on eighteenth century St. Eustatius Triplett, Dana Elizabeth, 1970- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Streaking and straight pins : constructing macsulinity on an Antebellum college campus Schwartz, Erin Stock, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The Coffee house (where I occasionally sometimes go) : examining diversity in the urban meat diet of Williamsburg in the mid-eighteenth century Noack, Kelsey J. Anthropology 2009 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
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
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
Heavy metal archaeology : an examination of lead's significance for the interpretation of archaeological bone Regan, Peter Andrew. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The coffinmaker of St. Eustatius Kulesa, Chester J., 1955- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
The frontier, food remains, and archaeological meaning Watts-Roy, Jeffrey Lee, 1969- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Shenandoah Valley earthenware as symbols of identity Park, Sunyoon. Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Places of power : the community and regional development of Native Tidewater palisades post A.D. 1200 Shephard, Christopher J. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Rogue fishermen : codfish, Atlantic items, and the Isles of Shoals Victor, Megan. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
The diasporic world of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860 Sayers, Daniel O. Anthropology 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Enshrining the past : archaeology, history and memory at Fort St. Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont Desany, Jessica Rose. Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Peripheral vision : mimesis and materiality along the James River, Virginia, 1619-1660 Sikes, Kathryn Lee McClure, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Boat-wrights in a port of black diamonds : waterfront landscapes of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal's Cumberland, Maryland terminus Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
The preservation and deconstruction of Hawaiʻi plantation style architecture : Aiea, Waipahu, and Ewa Way, Jessica Margaret. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The tanner and boundary maintenance : determining ethnic identity Sheppard, William James, 1964- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
By the side of the road : an interpretive look at road menders' houses Rivera-Ruiz, Aida Belén, 1966- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Imaging and imagining the past : the use of illustrations in the interpretation of structural development at the King's Castle, Castle Island, Bermuda Harvey, Heather Maureen, 1970- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
Maximizing archaeology's relevance to its publics through a pragmatist framework Walter, Kelley Marie. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Soil chemistry analysis as an effective cultural resource management tool : a magical mystery tour Lawrence, Nathan David, 1981- Anthropology 2007 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
From sight to site to website : travel-writing, tourism and the American experience in Haiti, 1900-2008 Yarrington, Landon Cole. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Delftware chronology : a new approach to dating English tin- glazed ceramics Shlasko, Ellen, 1961- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Archaeological application of the metal detector Roach, Wayna L., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
A comparative approach to slave life on Bermuda, 1780-1834 Bellhorn, Margaret Mary, 1965- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
When there's nothing better to eat : subsistence strategies in eighteenth century Bermuda Jarvis, Sondra Aileen, 1966- Anthropology 1997 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
Wild animals and domesticated landscapes : a case study of human-animal relationships in the middle and late woodland coastal plain of Virginia Levine, Nadejda, 1978- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts