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
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Organized labor : the past, present, and future of nurse- midwifery in America Matthews, Amy Procter, 1960- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Storyville : discourses in southern musicians' autobiographies Sutton, Matthew Daniel, 1972- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The not-so-public history of Colonial Williamsburg's port resident-ferrykeepers : interpreting the Moody family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781 Scott, Angela Maria. American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The road to ruins and restoration : Roland W. Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology Linebaugh, Donald W. American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Hilton Village, Virginia : the government's first model industrial community Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Preserving their form and features : the role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870 Tharp, Brent W., 1964- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Judas exposed : labor spies in the United States Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
More or less than kind : brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature Blanchard, Jennifer P. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Calming minds and instilling character : John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843-1860 Manzo, Bettina, 1943- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Harem fantasies and music videos : contemporary Orientalist representation Johnson, Maya Ayana. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Performing race : instances of color representation in American culture Adkins, Katrin L., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
I would not begrudge to give a few pounds more elite consumer choices in the Chesapeake, 1720-1785 : the Calvert house ceramic assemlage Patrick, Steven Edward, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The enduring villain : Germans as Nazi stereotypes in American cinema Aube, Christine Lokotsch, 1964- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Between fact and fiction : writing by American women in a transnational context Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Reevaluating the Carnegie survey : new uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's pictorial archive Reeder, Sarah Eugenie. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Colonial Williamsburg's slave auction re-enactment : controversy, African American history and public memory Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
To go with an ungloved hand was impossible : a history of gloves, hands, sex, wealth, and power Barzilay, Karen Northrup, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Christian parenting : Baptists and the birds and bees Kobayashi, Fumie, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Landlords, tenants, and rental property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780 Powers, Emma Lou, 1951- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
A war of words : satire and song in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Gazettes Howell, Mark Hunter, 1957- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Putting masculinity into words : Hemingway's critique and manipulation of American manhood Barnard, Timothy L. 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Friends departed live : a study of the relationship between schoolgirl mourning pictures, female education, and cultural attitudes toward death in early nineteenth-century eastern Massachusetts Stewart, Janet Elizabeth, 1960- American Studies 1987 Master of Arts
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Intertexual [sic] cadences, When wants and woes might be our righteous lot : excavating Phillis Wheatley's transcending voice of accent Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
William M. McClaskey : a tavern keeper in his community, 1834- 1844 by Lisa Gail Royse. Royse, Lisa Gail, 1957- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
A dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770 Malone, Mollie C., 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
The freemasonry of the race : the cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia Walker, Corey D. B. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
African American history at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll, Nicole, 1974- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Unrapping the gangsta : the changing role of the performer from toast to gangsta rap Symons, Andrea L. D., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Early english firearms : a re-examination of the evidence Straube, Beverly Ann, 1947- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
A robe of eloquence : speech and power in the life and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts