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
What price greatness? : a study of the protagonists in three plays by Henrik Ibsen--The master builder, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead awaken Fuchs, Janet Rose, 1941- English 1973 Master of Arts
An investigation of personality characteristics of Negroes attending a predominantly white university and Negroes attending a black college Brown, Nina W. Education 1973 Doctor of Education
Field dependence in relation to severity of alcohol abuse Lee, York Yee, 1949- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
The Pearl-poet's imaginative treatment of his biblical source in Cleanness McCord, Laura Ruth, 1941- English 1973 Master of Arts
Counselor reputation and previous performance as an influence upon counselee interaction and attitude in a group experience Harris, Janice Lee, 1936- Education 1973 Doctor of Education
The effects of extraneous lateral stimulation on tachistoscopic pattern perception Nice, Don Stephen, 1945- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
The hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) collected by the International Indian Ocean Expedition, 1963-1964 : with notes on their distribution and the zoogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Witherington, Philip Dalton, 1931- Marine Science 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
The political, social, and economic factors in the shaping of the structure of public higher education in West Virginia : a history, 1863-1969 Jackameit, William Preston, 1944- Education 1973 Doctor of Education
Reaffirmation in the last poems of Stevens and Yeats O'Brien, Gael Monie, 1948- English 1973 Master of Arts
The effects of defensive orientation on stress reduction for paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics Riley, Anne Klare, 1944- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
The kinship between Moby Dick and the Divine Comedy Thornton, Lynne Elizabeth, 1949- English 1973 Master of Arts
Development of a scale to predict patterns of cognitive appraisal of stress Schmaltz, Eileen A., 1949- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's essay For the old batchellor on avarice : a critical edition Wentworth, Mary Beth, 1950- English 1973 Master of Arts
Regionalism and recent voting trends in Virginia politics : focus on the Wallace electorate Boland, Dorothy Susan, 1949- Sociology 1973 Master of Arts
Image fluctuation and international events : public opinion and attitude variance as a function of President Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China Bevels, Terry Dixon, 1949- Government 1973 Master of Arts
A study of the relationship between secondary teacher satisfaction and attitude toward collective negotiations Corley, David Ray, 1938- Education 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
Family interaction studies and the etiology of schizophrenia Kirby, Kenneth Eugene, 1948- Sociology 1973 Master of Arts
Campaign strategy : the impact of inter-party competition Lewis, James Douglas, 1949- Government 1973 Master of Arts
Temporal and spatial heterogeneity in diatom populations of the lower York River, Virginia Manzi, John Joseph, 1945- Marine Science 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
Congress, the presidency, and public opinion : a study of congressional-presidential disagreements correlated with the majorities of national public opinion polls, 1947-1969 Tiede, Vance Russell, 1947- Government 1973 Master of Arts
A history of the relationships between the state of Virginia and its public normal schools, 1869-1930 Emerson, Bruce, 1921- Education 1973 Doctor of Education
Social perceptions and verbal interactions in tape-directed and counselor-directed encounter groups Ficht, John C. Education 1973 Doctor of Education
Power and politics in the Korean War : a study in negotiatory naiveté Toner, James Hugh, 1946- Government 1973 Master of Arts
The library of St. George Tucker Coghlan, Jill Moria, 1943- History 1973 Master of Arts
Shipping in Yorktown, Virginia, 1740-1744 Costin, June Meredith, 1935- History 1973 Master of Arts
Reform and the Virginia General Assembly, 1916-1920 Dann, Orelia Sparrow, 1944- History 1973 Master of Arts
Mr. Rockefeller's other city : background and response to the restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1927-1939 Varnado, Roy Brien, 1939- History 1974 Master of Arts
The quantitative role of hemoglobin in oxygen uptake and oxygen storage in the ponderosa ark clam, Noetia Ponderosa Deaton, Lewis Edward, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Experimental studies of muonium production and the muonium-antimuonium transition in free space Hsieh, Cheng-shong. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Precession of positive muons in nickel Foy, Mary Louis Grayson, 1940- Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
An experimental study of habitat selection by juveniles of six species of sciaenids found in the lower York River, Virginia Cooke, Arthur Carter, 1947- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
The function of the cellular hemoglobin in the arcid clam Noetia ponderosa (Say) Freadman, Marvin Alan, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
The effects of salinity shocks and low oxygen levels on ATPase activity in two estuarine bivalves Hedgepeth, Marvin Ervis, 1951- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Developmental ultrastructure of spermatia in Polysiphonia nigrescens and Dasya baillouviana (Rhodophyta) Haskell, Amy, 1950- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Hydroids of the pelagic sargassum community of the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea Rackley, David Holland, 1946- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Ultrastructure of the seminiferous epithelium of prairie deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) from a freely-growing, confined population Keller, Stephen Richard, 1950- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Measurements of the magnetic dipole moments of the antiproton and the negative sigma hyperon Roberts, B. Lee. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Environmental and political correlates of appropriations for higher education in Virginia, 1950-1972 Bounds, Stuart Murray, 1944- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
Near shore influence of a natural tidal inlet Sovich, Jerome Peter, 1945- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Edaphic adaptations in Talinum teretifolium (Portulacaceae) Pinion, Gary Eugene, 1948- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Quantitative studies of the macrofauna associated with the mesohaline oyster reefs of the James River, Virginia Larsen, Peter Foster, 1944- Marine Science 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the effects of group counseling on religious attitudes and verbal behaviors of members of a conservative synagogue Levine, Shlomo D., 1938- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
The response of the bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria to declining oxygen tensions Walsh, Dennis, 1949- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Diversifying selection and ecotypic variation in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster Todd, James Richard, 1950- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Cerebral dominance, its measurements and its role in letter recognition and spelling Bogart, Edward Humphrey, 1938- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Development of podocysts of the scyphozoan, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, after removal of the cyst covering Tseng, Lan-Ping Amy, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Observation of K-series transitions in pionic and muonic Sapp, Betty Orrick. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Attitudes toward women and levels of personality development Capasso, Deborah Richardson, 1950- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
The completeness and unity of Between the acts Ackiss, David Lansing, 1950- English 1974 Master of Arts
Motivational effects of electrical brain stimulation producing analgesia in rats Moeschl, Thomas P., 1947- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts