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
Motives of uncertainty : accurate self-assessment or self- handicapping? Slaughter, Jean G., 1963- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Analysis of variables related to drug and alcohol use Wonch, Wendy J., 1977- Psychology 2002 Master of Arts
The contributing role of relevant experience in efficacy of coping across the life-span Brown, Liisa J., 1969- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Classical conditioning of a phase-shift response in tau-mutant golden hamsters Bockweg, Sarah Allyn. Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Suppression of the galvanic skin response by cognitively mediated behavior Hughes, William Gresby, 1942- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
Attitudes toward women and levels of personality development Capasso, Deborah Richardson, 1950- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
The work ethic, daily activities, and their relationship to satisfaction in retirement Hooker, Karen, 1955- Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
Who are you calling criminal? : a new look at the violent criminal stereotype Imhof, Heather V., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
The use of plans for self-control : a developmental study Cole, Pamela Marie, 1951- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
The effect of stimulus differentiation and intertrial interval on spontaneous alternation behavior in rats Bisese, Vernon Stephen, 1933- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
A general theory of electron detachment in negative ion collisions Wang, Tzuu-Shin. Physics 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Automated peak identification for time-of-flight mass spectroscopy Chen, Haijian, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Painleve singularity analysis applied to charged particle dynamics during reconnection Larson, Jay Walter, 1962- Physics 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Hadron structure from holographic QCD Abidin, Zainul, 1981- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Experimental studies of muonium production and the muonium-antimuonium transition in free space Hsieh, Cheng-shong. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of granularity on the microwave surface impedance of high K superconductors Remillard, Stephen Keith, 1966- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Measurement of inclusive proton double-spin asymmetries and polarized structure functions Fersch, Robert G. Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Raman backscatter of laser radiation in the earth's atmosphere Melfi, Samuel Harvey, 1941- Physics 1970 Doctor of Philosophy
Slow collisions of H-and D- with Na, K and Cs Wang, Yicheng, 1960- Physics 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
Ultrasonic determination of thermoelastic properties of stressed solids Chern, Engmin J. Physics 1981 Doctor of Philosophy
Structural instabilities in SrTiO₃ from first-principles calculations LaSota, Christopher A. 1970- Physics 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Applications of holographic dualities Albrecht, Dylan Judd, 1984-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies of ion wave propagation in inhomogeneous plasmas Hsieh, Shiew-luan Y. Physics 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Low energy studies of the experimental elastic differential cross sections for the systems(H+)+He,(H+)+Ne, and (He+)+He Rich, William Guy, 1939- Physics 1972 Doctor of Philosophy
Precession of positive muons in nickel Foy, Mary Louis Grayson, 1940- Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables in [right arrow] ep elastic scattering Meziane, Mehdi. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Rydberg atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields Waterland, Robert Leonard, 1958- Physics 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Polarization transfer coefficient measurements in the deuteron breakup reaction hydrogen-1(polarized deuteron,polarized proton)X at 2.1 GeV Cheung, Naipor Eric, 1963- Physics 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
The characterization of the radiative energy transfer process among Ho(3+) ions in Y3 Al5 O12 Lazarus, Terri Lynn, 1963- Physics 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Solar infrared relative intensity data from the halogen occultation experiment Spickler, Philip Todd, 1962- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
The ground state of two-dimensional Hubbard-like models Allman, Eric C., 1973- Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Two electron bond-orbital model Huang, Chuping. Physics 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Topics in mode conversion theory and the group theoretical foundations of path integrals Richardson, Andrew Stephen, 1980- Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Chemical bonding in hard and elastic amorphous carbon-nitride films Gammon, W. Jason. Physics 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Gamma rays following negative muon capture in medium Z nuclei Miller, George H. Physics 1972 Doctor of Philosophy
Production of ozone for use as a target in negative ion collisions Owen, Kurt Bradley. Physics 1992 Master of Arts
Impact of large scale substrate roughness on giant magnetoresistive thin films Watson, Shannon M., 1977- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The ortho to para transition in muonic molecular hydrogen Clark, Jessica H. D. Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
The first direct measurement of the weak charge of the proton Leckey, John Poague. Physics 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Optimization of a pixelized gamma ray imager for scintimammography Steinbach, Daniela, 1967- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Most probable magnetohydrostatic equilibria for tokamaks and reversed field pinches Ambrosiano, John. Physics 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy of half-metallic chromium dioxide Huang, Hailong, 1979- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Low energy tests of the standard model Rislow, Benjamin Carl, 1986-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Photoabsorption spectra of hydrogen and alkali atoms in electric fields Gao, Jing, 1962- Physics 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from 4HE : a measurement of GEs at Q2 = 0.1 (GeV/c)2 Moffit, Bryan James, 1976- Physics 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Searches for exotic matter Morgan, David Lee, 1969- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Preparation of thick and thin superconducting films of YBa̳₂Cu₃D₇ s. Roberts, Michael M. Physics 1992 Master of Arts
Considerations of the motion of a small body in the vicinity of the stable liberation points of the earth-moon system Michael, William H. Physics 1962 Master of Arts
Completely bootstrapped tokamak Weening, Richard Henry, 1960- Physics 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
Electroproduction of omega (783) mesons using CLAS at Jefferson Lab Coleman, Alan Clayton. Physics 1999 Doctor of Philosophy