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
Effects of small quantities of cornstarch and dextrose on the oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) Turgeon, Kenneth Wayne, 1943- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
Age and growth of the northern searobin Prionotus carolinus (Linnaeus) Wong, Robert Seng-Pui, 1944- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
William Edward Dodd and the progressive South, 1900-1908 Orser, George Robert, 1944- History 1969 Master of Arts
Nuclear magnetic resonance and Knight shift of cadmium in dilute alloys Slocum, Robert Richard. Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of the vestry in late seventeenth-century Virginia : Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, 1663-1680 and 1695-1700 Page, John Frederic, 1935- History 1969 Master of Arts
Maurice Francis Egan : writer, teacher, diplomat Peck, Caroline Patrice, 1940- History 1969 Master of Arts
The Governor's Council of Maryland, 1634-1689 Putnam, Eleanor, 1940- History 1969 Master of Arts
The early auditors of Virginia, 1680-1716 Thompson, William John, 1942- History 1969 Master of Arts
Distribution, growth and behavior of the spotted hake in the Chesapeake Bight Barans, Charles A. 1942- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Methods of distinguishing larval alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) from larval blueback herring (A. aestivalis) Chambers, James Ross, 1943- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Aspects of the ecology, life history, and host-parasite relationship of Loxothylacus panopaei (sacculinidae) in Chesapeake Bay Daugherty, Seth Jerome, 1943- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Faunal variation on pelagic Sargassum Fine, Michael L. Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Reproductive seasonality and related behavior in the marsh periwinkle, Littorina irrorata Say (Gastropoda, Prosobranchiata) Gibson, Daniel Gilbert, 1944- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
The soft bottom macrobenthic community of Arthur Harbor, Antarctica Lowry, James K., 1942- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
The distribution of dissolved fatty acids in the James River estuary and adjacent ocean water Stauffer, Thomas B. 1945- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Major environmental variables affecting grain size distribution in the shoaling-wave zone under storm conditions at Virginia Beach, Virginia Tuck, Dunnie Richard, 1937- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Color preferences and self-concept related through color meanings Landis, Maureen Lucille, 1947- Psychology 1969 Master of Arts
Token economy : an incentive program for chronic mental patients Zeidberg, Zeena Ellen, 1945- Psychology 1969 Master of Arts
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Pionic and muonic x-rays in liquid He4 Wetmore, Robert John. Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
Vascular flora of the College Woods, the College of William and Mary, James City County, Virginia Barans, Allene Claire Phillips, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
A theoretical investigation of electromagnetic waves obliquely incident upon a plasma slab Swift, Calvin Thomas, 1937- Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
Effect of parietalectomy on oxygen consumption, heart rate and ventilatory in Sceloporus occidentalis Francis, Cleveland, 1944- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
The secretion of antimicrobial material by aspen tissue (Populus tremuloides Michx.) Helton, Edward Dale, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
The pattern of RNA synthesis in dormant and germinating statoblasts of Pectinatella magnifica Proud, Virginia Kent, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
Spatial distribution, movement, and growth of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana Sebetich, Michael John, 1943- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
Formation cross sections for Rb⁸⁶ from Rb⁸⁷ and Sr⁸⁷ with intermediate energy protons Sawyer, Rae Worley, 1945- Chemistry 1969 Master of Arts
Optical radar observations of the stratosphere and mesosphere Woodman, Douglas Parker. Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
The Somalia-Kenya relationship, 1962-1968 : a study in African nationalism Carroll, Murray Lee. Government 1969 Master of Arts
A look at the management information system at the Office of Economic Opportunity : the planning, programming budgeting system as it applies to a human resource development program Monroe, Alexander G. 1941- Government 1969 Master of Arts
The Virginia-North Carolina frontier in 1776 : William Preston, William Christian and the military expedition against the Overhill Cherokee towns Barnes, Arthur George, 1945- History 1969 Master of Arts
Grist milling in eighteenth-century Virginia society : legal, social, and economic aspects Hensley, Paul Brent, 1945- History 1969 Master of Arts
Larval development of Pagurus longicarpus Say in laboratory culture Roberts, Morris H. Marine Science 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
The Royal African Company slave trade to Virginia, 1689-1713 Killinger, Charles Lintner, 1942- History 1969 Master of Arts
Charles Bridges, painter and humanitarian Neale, Susanne Hening, 1944- History 1969 Master of Arts
The Corporal's guard in Congress, 1841-1843 Barber, Nigel Graeme. History 1970 Master of Arts
Low-country planter society in colonial South Carolina Dann, John C. History 1970 Master of Arts
The development of political theory in colonial Massachusetts, 1688-1740 Dufour, Ronald P. 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts
Hydrozoa of southern Chesapeake Bay Calder, Dale R. Marine Science 1970 Doctor of Philosophy
Land and quit-rent reform in Virginia during the administration of Francis Nicholson, 1698-1705 Fortier, Margaret Conner, 1942- History 1970 Master of Arts
Virginia newspaper editors and the coming of World War II, 1935-1939 Gray, Robert Wayne, 1945- History 1970 Master of Arts
Shipping between England and Virginia 1606-1630 Hillier, Susan Elizabeth, 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts
Millinery and milliners in colonial Virginia, 1750-1780 Hurdle, Patricia Ann, 1946- History 1970 Master of Arts
The nail making industry in early Virginia Keene, John Tracy, 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts
Violence in colonial South Carolina, 1700-1740 Millbranth, Russell David, 1944- History 1970 Master of Arts
The library of Robert Carter of Nomini Hall Read, Katherine Tippett, 1944- History 1970 Master of Arts
Raman backscatter of laser radiation in the earth's atmosphere Melfi, Samuel Harvey, 1941- Physics 1970 Doctor of Philosophy
Discipline in Middletown Friends Meeting, 1755-1770 Toner, William Henry, 1945- History 1970 Master of Arts
The heat budget of the waters of a portion of the Chesapeake Bight, 1967 Greer, George Washington, 1939- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts
Mortality rates and population size of the alewife Alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson) in the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers Tsimenides, Nicholas C., 1934- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts