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
Handing down remarkable and interesting circumstances : Elizabeth Carrington and female intellectual inheritance in the early American republic Bailey, Hannah Emily, History 2013 Master of Arts
Every American should stand here once : Jamestown's 400th anniversary commemoration and the creation of an American origin narrative Howard, Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Cognitive and physiological moderators of daily smokers' early neural attentional biases to smoking and nonsmoking cues Hammett, Patrick John, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Quick! Do something manly! : the Super Bowl as an American spectacle of hegemonic masculinity, violence, and nationalism Huebenthal, Jan, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The impact of warning label exposure on attentional bias to smoking cues in smokers and nonsmokers Harris, Anna Kathleen, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
You are not the father! : family, blood, race and Maury in America Markarian, Robyn Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The relationship between neural reorganization and neuropsychological functioning in normal aging Hershaw, Jamie Nicole, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Realizing federal policy outcomes of the Post-9/11 GI Bill : veterans' and active duty/reservist perceptions Leporte, Lydia, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
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
Individual differences in three types of motive congruence : normative, configural and temporal Martin, Chris Clement, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
An investigation of relationships among school counselors' ethical professional identity development, moral reasoning, and attitudes toward confidentiality with minors Riechel, Morgan E. Kiper, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
A union of church and state : the Freedmen's Bureau and the education of African Americans in Virginia from 1865-1871 Butler, Aaron Jason, 1978- Education 2013 Doctor of Education
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Catalogue of interventions for systemic family therapy assessment Tafuri, Sydney Marissa, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Gathering places, cultivating spaces : an archaeology of a Chesapeake neighborhood through enslavement and emancipation 1775-1905 Boroughs, Jon Jason, Anthropology 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
Optical characterization of magnetism in magnetic/nonmagnetic heterostructures Fan, Yichun, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
College students' implicit attentional and affective responses to alcohol cues Young, Chelsie Marie, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Exile from my native shore: the loyalist diaspora and the epistolary family Elliott, Cara Anson, History 2013 Master of Arts
Dwelling in space through knowledge of place : building on epistemological understandings of the seventeenth-century British Atlantic Bassett, Hayden Frith, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
A critical study of black parents' participation in special education decision-making Freeman-Nichols, Tamara Lynn, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
The self on the page : using student teachers' written stories as a reflective tool during the student teaching internship Farina, Deborah O., Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Dooley's ferry : the archaeology of a civilian community in wartime Drexler, Carl Gilbert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Honor from the trenches : why Confederate soldiers fought at Petersburg Hussey, Patrick John, History 2013 Master of Arts
Intelligent feature selection techniques for pattern classification of time-domain signals Miller, Corey Alexander, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Ontological blackness : an investigation of 18th century burial practices among captive Africans on the Island of Barbados Brown, Brittany Leigh, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Community bulding after emancipation : an anthropological study of Charles' Corner, Virginia, Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Integrating the Star City of the South: Roanoke school desegregation and the politics of delay Jones, Peter Carr, History 2013 Master of Arts
Social organization analysis of the role of academic advising : a case study at the University of Liberia Williams Sy, Jobila Y., 1983-, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Drawn together, drawn apart : Black and white Baptists in Tidewater Virginia, 1800-1875 Hillman, Nancy Alenda, 1980-, History 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Merrymaking at the Madisons' : feasting, alcohol, and political strategy Heacock, Christine Hope, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Expectancy-value classes as predictors of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupational choice : differences related to ability, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status Andersen, Lori, Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Infusing the school counseling internship with a global perspective to promote ego development, moral reasoning, and ethnocultural empathy : a deliberate psychological education Robertson, Derek Lane, 1969-, Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The schoolteacher and the secretary: the newspapers and community of a revolutionary French-American, 1754-1784 Madison, Katherine S., History 2013 Master of Arts
Co-teaching : perceptions of urban, secondary co-teachers Boyd, Michelle, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Here stands a high bred horse: a theory of economics and horse breeding in Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780; a statistical model Kleppertknoop, Lily, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Virginia Indians, NAGPRA, and cultural affiliation: revisiting identities and boundaries in the Chesapeake/ Masur, Laura Elizabeth, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Multi-meson systems from lattice quantum chromodynamics Shi, Zhifeng, 1986-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Narratives of reversion: portrayals of Haiti in the Old South/ Reidy, Skyler Robert, History 2013 Master of Arts
Derogatory to the rights of free-born subjects: racialization and the identity of the Williamsburg area's free black population from 1723-1830/ Schumann, Rebecca Anne, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Faculty sense of academic optimism and its relationship to students' achievement in well performing high schools Cromartie, Michael Tyrone, 1974-, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Nothing tame about them : dogs and the symbolism of civility in the Jamestown Settlement Rusek, Rebecca Ann, History 2013 Master of Arts
Plough deep while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and to keep : an analysis of plow ownership in eighteenth century York county Virginia Waske, Zachary John, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Magnetic order and dimensional crossover in optical lattices with repulsive interaction Xu, Jie, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Virtue in corruption: privateers, smugglers, and the shape of empire in the eighteenth-century Caribbean. Schmitt, Casey Sylvia, History 2013 Master of Arts
No longer lost at sea : Black community building in the Virginia tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 era Pruitt, Hollis E., American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
How direct descendants of a school lockout achieved academic success : resilience in the educational attainments of Prince Edward County's children Williams, Randolph, 1974-, Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
From the middle of nowhere : place-making on my supermodern American road Werner, Maxwell Allen, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Her correspondence is dangerous : women in the fashion trades negotiating the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the Chesapeake, 1766-75 Stevenson, Kaylan Michelle, History 2013 Master of Arts
Studies of molecular dynamics of Fmoc-Alanine-d3 through solid state deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance Sun, Jianhua, 1986-, Applied Science 2013 Master of Science