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
Rationality in conglomerate succession : a case study Alie, Raymond E. Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and emergent units Saunders, Sarah Lee, 1960- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Youth in transition : college students and their parents Dawson, John Robert, 1937- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Cumulative advantage and scientific productivity Schober, Charles P., 1951- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Religion, philosophy, and the second law of thermodynamics Finn, Carter Braxton, 1935- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Homophile dis-ease : a product of the social environment DeRoche, T. R., 1947- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Praxis and history Garnjobat, Gordon. Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Thomas Road Baptist Church : a study of the new fundamentalism Flint, Betty Gail, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
The development of prisonersʼ rights : a study of judicial opinions Greenwood, Lynn Marie, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A study of black female assertiveness Golemba, Beverly, 1931- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood Mikulka, Jacqueline Veronica, 1949- Sociology 1978 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
The post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 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
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Perceived racial discrimination and political-racial stereotyping Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
The establishment of the Huguenots in Virginia Land, Mary Wilson Bohannan, 1905- Religion 1942 Master of Arts
The effect of harmonic and inharmonic frequency components on the perception of loudness and annoyance in complex sounds Carroll, Ann Berenson, 1930- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
Anxiety sensitivity and panic among college students : cognition, emotion, and somatic symptms Messenger, Carla Lynn, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Predictors of psychological abuse and violence in college romantic relationships Barber, William Amory, 1981- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
Risk in intimacy and relationship cognition : differences in the nature of relationship schemata as a function of perceptions of risk in intimacy Rosegrant, Melissa M., 1979- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
Professional training and attributions of blame for sex offenses and other crimes by Florence K. Super. Super, Florence Kristen, 1968- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
The effects of PSAs on trust in romantic relationships Causey, Charles Lawson, 1978- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Attribution of behavioral and characterological fault towards the victims of a disaster Davis, Matthew Scott, 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Resource-allocation behavior when payoff is not equal Nolan, Eric C., 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Suppression of the galvanic skin response by cognitively mediated behavior Hughes, William Gresby, 1942- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
The self-evaluation maintenance model as a moderator of similarity-attraction vs. dissimilarity-repulsion Nimpfer, John Adam, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Racial interactions : a demographic perspective on juror biases in deliberations Elek, Jennifer K., 1981- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The facets beyond neuroticism : anxiety as a moderator of reactivity to daily negative events Simanski, John. Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
The effects of word frequency on the recall of information associated with a face Vittoria, Anthony F., 1969- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Affective image recognition in valanced contexts Eden, Allison Lehner, 1977- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
A test of the partial reinforcement effect Dowell, Richard Edward, 1956- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
The development of emotional intelligence : identifying components and correlates in preschool-aged children Penick, Claire T., 1971- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
The combined effects of d-amphetamine sulfate and bilateral lesions of the medial hypothalamus on food and water deprived rats Reynolds, Edward Vicar, 1946- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
A study in the interrelations of measures of learning, five motor and two verbal problems Wilkerson, Woodrow W., 1913- Psychology 1938 Master of Arts
Factors influencing the accessibility of the HIV/AIDS schema Washington, Tracee, 1974- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Generation boundaries in divorced and intact families Funkhouser, Barry Lee, 1964- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Organizational dynamics, issue importance, and creativity in problem-solving Palmer, Jennifer Lynn, 1971- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Predicting aggression using domains of self-esteem : direct and indirect aggression in males and females as a function of domain-specific self-esteem Hodges, Carolyn Randolph, 1979- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
Transformational processing : healthy identity functioning in written narratives of emotionally challenging life events Smith, Jennifer Lodi, 1979- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
The effects of bilateral adrenalectomy on the expression of maternal caretaking behaviors in the primiparous rat Dudley, Susan D., 1949- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
Effects of excitotoxic and immunotoxic lesions of the posterior parietal cortex on attention Howe, William M., 1980- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts