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
Through the veil : double consiousness and labor in eighteenth and nineteenth century southern New England Lumb, Frederick William. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
The cowrie shell in Virginia : a critical evaluation of potential archaeological significance Pearce, Laurie Elisabeth, 1967- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
Perceptions of poverty : Material life among the tenements of New York City during the nineteenth century Haley, Megan Mary, 1968- Anthropology 1993 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
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
A toast to the tavern : an archaeological study of a 17th and 18th century tavern in Charlestown, Massachusetts Vogt, Christy Cathleen, 1963- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
I looked to the East-- : material culture, conversion, and acquired meaning in early African America Boroughs, Jason. Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
A Structural and functional analysis of eighteenth century buttons Hinks, Stephen, 1961- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
The hotels of Old Point Comfort : a material culture study MacIntosh, Winifred Rebecca Dudley, 1960- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Mission San Juan Bautista : zooarchaeological investigations at a California mission St. Clair, Michelle C., 1977- Anthropology 2005 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
The John de la Howe site : a study of colonoware on the South Carolina frontier Cooper, Margaret W., 1971- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
Gathering places, cultivating spaces : an archaeology of a Chesapeake neighborhood through enslavement and emancipation 1775-1905 Boroughs, Jon Jason, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Work Enough for Head and Heart : dramatic interaction and the social dynamics of the Steward-Planter Relationship in antebellum Tidewater Virginia Kennedy, Neil Macrae, 1968- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
To and from places beyond : examining low-fired coarse earthenwares and informal trade networks among enslaved Bermudians in the 18th and 19th centuries Zimmet, Sarah Helen. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Federal recognition politics and collaborative archaeologists : the need for a cultural consensus Martin, Alexandra Grace. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The application of the Automated National Cataloging System for archaeological cataloging Vrooman, Linda Novak, 1959- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Kulikoff versus Buttenhoff-Lee [sic] : an evaluation of African-American populations in the Chesapeake 1740-1800 Callum, Beresford R., 1959- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Ceramics from the Franklin glassworks : acquisition patterns and economic stress Moodey, Meredith Campbell, 1961- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
The stone ovens of St. Eustatius : a study of material culture Monteiro, Maria Lavinia Machado, 1954- Anthropology 1990 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
Privies and privilege : health and sanitation in 19th-century Buffalo, New York Denmon, Jacqueline Colleen, 1971- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
The fruits of their labors : exploring William Hamilton's greenhouse complex and the rise of American botany in early federal Philadelphia Chesney, Sarah Jane, Anthropology 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Critique of analytical techniques used in the processing of iron recovered from historic sites in North America Longford, Nicola Jane Margaret, 1962- Anthropology 1993 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
Who is archaeology's public? : a critical analysis of public images and expectations of archaeology Bartoy, Kevin M. Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
After me cometh a builder : the symbolic landscape of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown estate and its transformation Lutton, Hank D. Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
The confederate enlisted man in the army of Northern Virginia : a reevaluation of his material culture Pougher, Richard David, 1952- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Dwelling in space through knowledge of place : building on epistemological understandings of the seventeenth-century British Atlantic Bassett, Hayden Frith, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Ontological blackness : an investigation of 18th century burial practices among captive Africans on the Island of Barbados Brown, Brittany Leigh, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
The cemeteries of St. Eustatius, N.A. : status in a Caribbean community Paonessa, Laurie J. 1957- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Social science, serving bowls and the question of ethnicity: deconstructing material culture correlates of ethnic indentification Heitert, Kristen Barbara, 1971- Anthropology 1998 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
Dooley's ferry : the archaeology of a civilian community in wartime Drexler, Carl Gilbert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Martin's Hundred : A settlement study Muraca, David, 1956- Anthropology 1993 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 Beasley wharf complex : a study of frontier interaction in the lower Great Lakes in the late 18th century Carter, Trevor Ryan, 1973- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Pay for labor : socioeconomic transitions of freedpeople and the archaeology of African American life, 1863-1930 Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, 1973- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Architectural style on St. Eustatius Sanders, Suzanne Lee, 1954- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Merrymaking at the Madisons' : feasting, alcohol, and political strategy Heacock, Christine Hope, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
The illustrated map : cartography and power in seventeenth century Virginia Green, Christine Jeanette, 1973- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Near the governor's patterns of development of three properties along Williamsburg's Palace and Nicholson streets in the eighteenth century Samford, Patricia Merle, 1957- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Fortifications of St. Eustatius : an archaeological and historical study of defense in the Caribbean Howard, Bryan Paul, 1965- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Civil archaeology : using the research processes of anthropology as a classroom for critical thinking Mullin, John Joseph, 1970- Anthropology 1998 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
Community bulding after emancipation : an anthropological study of Charles' Corner, Virginia, Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Who went to market? : An urban and rural, late eighteenth- century perspective based on faunal assemblages from Curtes Neck plantation and the Everard Site Trevarthen, Susan Michelle, 1967- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
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
Subsistence and social behavior : evolving strategies in the rural New England landscape Dean, Susannah, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Chickahominy stylistic expression : preliminary motif analysis of ceramics of the Chickahominy River drainage Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, 1980- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts