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
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916 Peake, Laura Ann, 1965- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Postbellum education of African Americans : race, economy, power, and the pursuit of a system of schooling in the rural Virginia counties of Surry and Gloucester Swenson, Benjamin Andrew. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 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
Entertaining education or purely entertainment : a case study of the Yorktown Victory Center Ecker, Jordan Margaret-May, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
I get a kick out of you' : cinematic revisions of the history of the African American cowboy in the American West Maguire, Stephanie Anne, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
`Post-humously hot' : Bill Traylor's life and art Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong : examining transcultural performances of Asian American identity in Hong Kong English language amateur theatre productions of Thoroughly modern Millie and Yellow face Mein, Iris Eu Loa, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
The Seminar for Historical Administration : companion to change Tramposch, William Joseph. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Dying virgins and mourning mothers : a study in American mourning iconography Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
African American cultural products and social uplift, the end of the 19th century - the early of the 20th century Zheng, Juan, 1978- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Hilton Village, Virginia : the government's first model industrial community Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Race, childhood, and Native American boarding schools : a case study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Norris, Tyler, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers : revolution comes to Virginia 1765-1775 White, William E., 1953- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Understanding roadkill through an animal method Monahan, Linda Angela, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian : myth and disillusionment Vaugh, Carol Van Dessel, 1961- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Buck-horned snakes and possum women : non-White folklore, antebellum Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange Miller, John Douglas. American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The master's merry : Slave prosecutions and punishments in York County, Virginia, 1700 to 1780 Willis, Anne Romberg, 1935- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Nathaniel Jocelyn : in the service of art and abolition Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
For how could we do without sugar and rum? : the semiotics of abolitionist aesthetics Padilioni, James Patrick, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Harmony and dissonance : Mennonite visions of community and identity. Chowning, Elizabeth Jane, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The domestication of history in American art, 1848-1876 Wierich, Jochen. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Peopling the power structure : urban oriented officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780 Rowe, Linda Hunter, 1945- American Studies 1989 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
The blues and jazz in Albert Murray's fiction : a study in the tradition of stylization Modeste, Jacquelynne Jones, 1968- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
The still life : domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Obscured conflations, (un)bending frames : considering the concept of truth in the politics and rhetoric of the religious right Rosenkranz, Anna Catharine, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Conspicuous presence : Tom Wolfe's one man show Galante, Vera do Val, 1956- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
(Un)conventional coupling : interracial sex and intimacy in contemporary neo-slave narratives Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The freedom of a broken law : the liminal world of Nathaniel Hawthorneʼs The scarlet letter Horton, Tonia Lanette, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
A social historical exploration of the popularity of The Rockford Files Taormina, Mary Frances, 1965- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Labor at home : the domestic world of workers at the du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902 Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Eying Italians : race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880-1910 Cosco, Joseph P., 1949- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Far from everybody's everything : literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction Anderson, Crystal Suzette. American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
The scar must remain' : memory and the first world war in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray series Thompson, Anna Murell, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Domestic management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and her slaves Geraghty, Mary, 1958- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Picturesque America : packaging America for popular consumption Ramsier, Allen Lewis, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts