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
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Comparing self-perceptions of skills and knowledge among college students : cross-sectional versus panel designs Wilson, Susan E., 1972- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
A critique of the labeling approach : toward a social theory of deviance Mattson Croninger, Robert Glenn, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Play preferences in children's art : a study of gender roles Pullen, Amelia Baxter, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Regional variations in third world development Wynn, Robert Dempsey, 1970- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Rationality in conglomerate succession : a case study Alie, Raymond E. Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A dialectical analysis of role enactment during the emergency period of natural disasters Myers, Kristen Anne, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
The social organization of the hip hop graffiti subculture Wilson, Victoria Arriola, 1967- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
The meaning of value : a review and analysis of a sociological concept Mead, Bruce Longley, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Ideology and change in the kibbutz Wilhelms, Jeffrey Jay, 1948- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Organizational restructuring : community response to natural disaster Crooks, John G., 1957- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Youth in transition : college students and their parents Dawson, John Robert, 1937- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Single mothers by choice McCreary, Candace Diane, 1954- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
Incest : clinical treatment perspectives Bennett, Beverly Chitty, 1953- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Occupational paths and prestige levels of sociology concentrators : do gender differences exist? Reenstra, Bonnie Lynn, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Consciousness and its reproduction in higher education Monk, Elizabeth Ann, 1952- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
A role analysis of police chiefs in contemporary departments Wolf, Thomas, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Origins, networks, and restructuring : an analysis of three methodologies Enoch, Joel Kent, 1962- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Homophile dis-ease : a product of the social environment DeRoche, T. R., 1947- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Comparative social structure among mammals Rogers, Kenna Louise, 1949- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and social network Francis, Patricia Rae, 1959- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The new right Reiley, Elizabeth Julia, 1954- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Theories of leadership : a contemporary analysis 1975-1989 Schwartzman, Robert D., 1956- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Single mothers by choice : a nontraditional alternative to mothering Harris, Kimberly Kay, 1962- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
An environmental analysis of professionalization in police departments Spiers, Stephen M., 1950- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and emergent units Saunders, Sarah Lee, 1960- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Ethnic voting behavior in an urban area : the effect of ethnic identification upon candidate choice and political party affiliation among Greek-Americans Brock, Helen Theresa, 1948- Sociology 1971 Master of Arts
Factors influencing postbaccalaureate educational attainment Smith, Benjamin Wofford, 1964- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Alzheimer's disease and the role of the physician Jones, Shirley Smith, 1959- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Substance abuse treatment in learning centers : a comparison across variables Flynn, Nicole Thomson, 1969- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
Cumulative advantage and scientific productivity Schober, Charles P., 1951- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Symptom-specific and nonsymptom-specific factors in eating disorders : a comparision of bulimics, dieters, and normals Washychyn, Jill, 1965- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Social bonding, social learning, and delinquency : An examination of two etiological theories of deviance Ousey, Graham Cristopher, 1968- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
An analysis of help patterns and interaction between parents and their married children Bare, Harold L. Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Alienation among college faculty members Kambis, Mitchell Phillips, 1944- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
An exploratory study of the effects of bankruptcy on the susceptibility of small businessmen to right-wing ideology Kytle, Rayford, 1946- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Differential association and patterns of drug use Gossweiler, Robert S. 1967- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
An organizational analysis of professionalization in police departments Oppenheim, Pamela J., 1951- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Thomas Road Baptist Church : a study of the new fundamentalism Flint, Betty Gail, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Enclaves and enterprises : Chinese communities in the United States Huang, Xiaoyi, 1958- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Faculty attitudes toward student activism and academic reform Rupnow, Thomas John, 1950- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
A study of black female assertiveness Golemba, Beverly, 1931- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Social activity amoung sociology alumni Riddle, Dawn June, 1967- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood Mikulka, Jacqueline Veronica, 1949- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Affirmative action and self esteem : an exploratory analysis using attribution theory Simpson, Jacqueline Christine Coon, 1962- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts