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
Growing up with violence : examining the role of moral development in mediating the effects of community violence exposure Dewell, John A. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
By measures taken of men : clothing the classes in William Carlin's Alexandria Egner, Katherine Eileen. History 2011 Master of Arts
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
A measurement of neutrino oscillations with muon neutrinos in the Minos experiment Coleman, Stephen James. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of socially-mediated exposure to ethanol on the self-administration of ethanol in adolescent rats Markhelyuk, Maria. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Totus mundus agit histrionem' : identity and politics in eighteenth-century English and colonial American theatre, 1752-1776 Fine, Abigail Calvert. History 2011 Master of Arts
Shahrazad in the white city : Muslim women's agency through performance at the Columbian Exposition Jerome, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
The positivity effect : is it a memory retrieval bias? Pryor, Jennifer Maureen. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Particular and purposeful visions : how the Richmond School of Social Work engaged the nation and world from 1917 to 1939 Finefrock-Creed, Kelly. History 2011 Master of Arts
A New England state of mind : identity and commodification in Yankee magazine, 1935-1942 Sargent, Andrew Robert. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Parental emotion socialization and its associations to internalizing symptoms : the influence of parent gender and emotion understanding Sanders, Wesley Mark. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
On the backs of horses : the Great Epizootic of 1872 Flanagan, Jeffrey Michael. History 2011 Master of Arts
What's a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires? : Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
The development and application of an antibody-based biosensor for the detection of petroleum-derived compounds Spier, Candace Rae. Marine Science 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
An analysis of the validity of the Enneagram Scott, Sara Ann, 1954- Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Comparing terrors : state terrorism in revolutionary France and Russia Forsythe, Anne Cabrié. History 2011 Master of Arts
Strategic victimization : news photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the revisualization of America Williams, Margaret Keeton. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Big-fish-little-pond effect : the impact on academic self-concept Kwiterovich, Peter O., 1969- Education 2011 Doctor of Education
For their maintenance and education : an analysis of children entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803 Gardy, Kaitlyn Elizabeth. History 2011 Master of Arts
The wondrous chain of providence : Thomas Prince, the Puritan past, and New England's future, 1660-1736 Gillan, Thomas Joseph. History 2011 Master of Arts
Liberty, bondage, and the pursuit of happiness : the free Black expulsion law and self-enslavement in Virginia, 1806-1864 Maris-Wolf, Edward Downing, 1974- History 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Dietary bioarchaeology : late Woodland subsistence within the coastal plain of Virginia Dore, Berek J. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Effective large scale computing software for parallel mesh generation Kot, Andre­, 1981- Computer Science 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Bondage on the border : slaves and slaveholders in Tazewell County, Virginia Kerr, Laura Lee. History 2011 Master of Arts
Ghosts on the coast of paradise : identifying and interpreting the ephemeral remains of Bermuda's 18th century shipyards Dworsky, Joel Garrett. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Steadfast in their ways : New England colonists, Indian wars, and the persistence of culture, 1675-1715 Corlett, David Michael, 1972- History 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Eavesdropping on history : Olmstead v. U.S. and the emergence of privacy jurisprudence during Prohibition Krouse, Anna Leslie. History 2011 Master of Arts
Shellfishing, ceramics, and gender : shell midden ceramics from the Kiskiak Site Herlich, Jessica Marie. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Ghent gayland : a case study of the gay and lesbian community and media of Norfolk, Virginia Lusby, Michael Anthony. History 2011 Master of Arts
Fine art and clandestine identity : American Indian artists in the contemporary art market Kuizon, Jaclyn. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
The millennial generation : Howe and Strauss disputed Alexander Agati, Holly. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
A cross-cultural comparative study of teacher effectiveness : analyses of award-winning teachers in the United States and China Xu, Xianxuan. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
National remedies for national evils : the problem of universal reform and race in the American Moral Reform Society, 1835-1841 Poznan, Kristina Elizabeth. History 2011 Master of Arts
Effects of dietary mercury exposure on spatial memory of zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata Bessler, Amanda Mae Biology 2011 Master of Science
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Charmed hadron spectrum and interactions Liu, Liuming. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Building and planting : the material world, memory, and the making of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 Roeber, Catharine Christie Dann. History 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
From Astoria to annexation : the Hawaiian diaspora and the struggle for race and nation in the American empire Savage, Amanda Lee Heikialoha. History 2011 Master of Arts
Genetic diversity of the pathogen Streptococcus parauberis isolated from bovine and piscine hosts Cole, Stephen Douglas. Biology 2011 Master of Science
An examination of the similarities and differences in mental health status, working alliance, and social presence between face-to-face and online counseling Holmes, Courtney M., 1983- Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Research evidence use by rural central office administrators leading educational improvement Shaffer, Patricia Moore, 1965- Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Educational efficiency in Virginia public school divisions Calzini, Clinton Robert. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Academic optimism and instructional leadership in urban elementary schools Allen, Angela M., 1974- Education 2011 Doctor of Education
Mobutu and Nyerere, 1960-1979 : trajectories and creativity in re-imagining the nation Shaw, Jonathan Edwards. History 2011 Master of Arts
Searching for the seed plant ethylene pathway in a basal plant lineage : a genomic approach DeCarme, Ashley R. Biology 2011 Master of Science
On the real-time performance, robustness and accuracy of medical image non-rigid registration Liu, Yixun. Computer Science 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The political imaginings of slave conspirators : Atlantic contexts of the 1710 slave conspiracy in Martinque Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. History 2011 Master of Arts
SUMO-dependent substrate targeting of the SUMO protease Ulp1 Elmore, Zachary Cole. Biology 2011 Master of Science
First-principles calculations of nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shielding tensors in complex ferroelectric perovskites Pechkis, Daniel Lawrence. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Pacific trade winds : towards a global history of the Manila Galleon Thomas, Matthew F. History 2011 Master of Arts