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
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
Chickahominy stylistic expression : preliminary motif analysis of ceramics of the Chickahominy River drainage Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, 1980- Anthropology 2004 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
Archaeology of a female landowner c. 1768-1832 Blake, Marie E. 1970- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Lead poisoning from the colonial period to the present Eubanks, Elsie Irene, 1953- Anthropology 1996 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
Wangunk ethnohistory : a case study of a Connecticut River Indian community Ives, Timothy Howlett, 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
The archaeology of Opequon Creek : religion, ethnicity, and identity in the material culture of an eighteenth-century immigrant community, Frederick County, Virginia Persson, Ann Schaefer, 1979- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 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
Deciphering the messages of Baltimore's monuments Collier, Melanie Dawn, 1966- Anthropology 1994 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
Hospitality, civility, and sociability: takiing tea in colonial Barbados Mahoney, Meredith Ashley Holaday. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
Reflections of thought : land plats of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1733-1849 Jenkins, Isabel Rebecca, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
St. Eustatius and the Caribbean trade system : a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century coins from the Caribbean Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Rediscovering the dead : practical applications of remote sensing in historic cemeteries Strutt, Michael A., 1963- Anthropology 1991 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
The secret history of the Mcherrin Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Marston Parish 1654-1674 : a community study McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
A graine of marveilous great increase : a political landscape approach to Powhatan maize production and exchange in seventeenth century Virginia Risse, Danielle Christine, 1977- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
Efficient action in the construction of field fortification : a study of the civil war defenses of Raleigh, North Carolina Higgins, Thomas F. Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
Structures, fields, and farmsteads of early America : post-revolutionary class relations in Tidewater Virginia Long, Chad C., 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Seneca hair combs as material culture : a study Vasey, April Jean, 1964- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Religion and resistance : African Baptist churches in Virginia Reiss, Stephanie Rosel, 1971- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
Inequality in early Virginia : a case study from Martin's Hundred Edwards, Andrew C., 1949- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake McLaughlin, Pegeen Amy, 1968- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Cultural legitimacy in Surry County, Virginia : the Edwards family of Chestnut Farms Sadler, Donald Lee. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
St. Eustatius : acculturation in a Dutch Caribbean colony Kandle, Patricia Lynn, 1953- Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
Moravian missions to the Delaware Indians, 1792-1812 Maul, Jessica, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Middlesex County, New Jersey gravestones 1687-1799 : shadows of a changing culture Veit, Richard Francis, 1968- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Reflections of social change : burial patterns in colonial Fairfax County, Virginia Wells, Kimberly Joyce, 1961- Anthropology 1997 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
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Paintings as information : the anthropology of images : a consideration of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Netherlandish painting in relation to foodways and historical archeology Payne, Melissa, 1952- Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
Class negotiation and accoutrement use : pistol ownership in York County, Virginia, 1634-1729 Nienow, Jeremy Loren, 1974- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
The ceramics from 44JC298 : an undocumented late-eighteenth century domestic site, James City County, Virginia White, Esther Celeste, 1962- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
The John Page house site : an example of the increase in domestic brick architecture in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia Pickett, Dwayne Webster, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
The monetary material culture of plantation life : a study of coins at Monticello Whitley, Cynthia Ann, 1956- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Working with tools : work, identity, and perception communicated through the material culture of work in the context of the Rideau Canal construction 1826-1832 Plousos, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella, 1949- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Great Blue Herons and River Otters : the changing perceptions of all things wild in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chesapeake Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene, 1961- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Archaeology goes to school : a cooperative approach to teaching history through archaeology Schuster, Paul David, 1972- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
African-American family and society on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880 McDonald, Bradley Michael, 1968- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Wealth and society in eighteenth century Bermuda : a view from the colonial capital of St. George's Metz, Cara Anne Harbecke Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Everyday life of war : a reflexive analysis of American Civil War soldiers in the military environment through a prism of context, practice, and power Auger, Valerie Renee, 1977- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Shenandoah Valley earthenware as symbols of identity Park, Sunyoon. Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
A comparative approach to slave life on Bermuda, 1780-1834 Bellhorn, Margaret Mary, 1965- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts