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
Profanely and in great scandall' : deviance, authority, and social control in Middlesex and Surry counties, Virginia, 1672-1682 Thurlow, Matthew Adrian, 1978- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Delftware chronology : a new approach to dating English tin- glazed ceramics Shlasko, Ellen, 1961- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Booze at the brothel : alcohol-related artifacts and their use in performance at the 27/29 Endicott Street brothel Johnson, Amanda B. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Education, literacy and ink pots : contested identities in post-emancipation Barbados Devlin, Sean Edward. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Deciphering the messages of Baltimore's monuments Collier, Melanie Dawn, 1966- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Care of the poor in Elizabeth River Parish, Norfolk County, Va. 1749-1761 Glendening, Cecile G., 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Between slavery and freedom : African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863 Maris-Wolf, Edward Downing, 1974- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
The power of the privy : mediating social relations on a 19th century British military site Last, Joseph Henry, 1950- Anthropology 1996 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
The inter-colonial trade of domestic earthenwares and the development of an American social identity Steen, Carl R. Anthropology 1989 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
Sexual indiscretions in Virginia's colonial capital Schmidt, Sarah Rebecca. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Breaking the mold : sugar ceramics and the political economy of 18th century St. Eustatius Miller, Derek Robert. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
The secret history of the Mcherrin Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Ceramic acquisition patterns at Meadow Farm, 1810-1861 Hunter, Robert R., 1955- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
For profit and function : consumption patterns and outward expression of Quakers as seen through historical documentation and 18th century York County, Virginia probate inventories O'Donnell, Darby, 1975- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Marston Parish 1654-1674 : a community study McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Privies and privilege : health and sanitation in 19th-century Buffalo, New York Denmon, Jacqueline Colleen, 1971- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
A medley of contradictions : the Jewish diaspora in St. Eustatius and Barbados Miller, Derek Robert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Pamunkey pottery and cultural persistence Atkins, Ashley. Anthropology 2009 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
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
Clay Landing : a nineteenth century rural community on the Florida frontier Principe, Jill Catherine. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Building freedom : nineteenth century domestic architecture on Barbados sugar plantations Bergman, Stephanie. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Inequality in early Virginia : a case study from Martin's Hundred Edwards, Andrew C., 1949- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Eighteenth-century wharf construction in Baltimore, Maryland Norman, Joseph Gary, 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Pig remains at the Ashbridge Estate, Toronto : the importance of swine in the settlement of upper Canada Reading, Joanna Elizabeth, 1966- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake McLaughlin, Pegeen Amy, 1968- Anthropology 1996 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
From Kaolin to Claymount : landscapes of the 19th-century James River stoneware industry Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981-, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Propagating status : gentlemen planters and their greenhouses in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Chesney, Sarah Jane. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Subsistence and social behavior : evolving strategies in the rural New England landscape Dean, Susannah, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Rogue fishermen : codfish, Atlantic items, and the Isles of Shoals Victor, Megan. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
History, memory, and [archaeological?] heritage at Nombre de Dios, Panama Siudzinski, Meghan Habas. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Rituals of the re-founded Bolivian state Cerball, Raquel Elizabeth Nava. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The Department of Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition : Motives, methods, and messages Gauss, Jeffrey Daryl, 1953- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in early colonial Virginia Ross, Douglas E. Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
The illustrated map : cartography and power in seventeenth century Virginia Green, Christine Jeanette, 1973- Anthropology 2000 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
Setting the best table in the country : food and labor at the Coloma gold mining town Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A shop in the back street : late eighteenth century Williamsburg through the ledgers of blacksmith James Anderson Child, Kathleen Marie. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Gender ideology at the Lowell Boott Mills : a material culture analysis Ehner, Carolyn Michelle, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Maximizing archaeology's relevance to its publics through a pragmatist framework Walter, Kelley Marie. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Degrees of relatedness : the social politics of Algonquian kinship in the contact era Chesapeake Woodard, Buck W. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Gaming among enslaved Africans in the Americas, and its uses in navigating social interactions Christiano, Katrina Ann. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Creole gumbo : ingredients for maintaining Creole identity at Laura Plantation Schupp, Katherine W., 1972- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts