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
Cash to Corinna : Silas and Corinna Omohundro and the politics of public interracial relationships in antebellum Richmond, Virginia Finley, Alexandra Jolyn. History 2012 Master of Arts
Children serve too : an investigation of the impacts of military family life on adult relationships Heyward, Karena. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
NMR study of paramagnetic nano-checkerboard superlattices Maher, Christopher Andrew. Physics 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Founding Fathers on screen : the changing relationship between history and film Garrott, Jennifer Lynn. History 2012 Master of Arts
Towards confident body sensor networking Ren, Zhen, Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The ideal marriage : reactions to Marie Stopes' Married love, 1918-1935 Goings, Shannon E. History 2012 Master of Arts
Clockmaking clerics and ropemaking lawyers : mixing occupational roles in early modern Spain Gregory, Aaron Joshua. History 2012 Master of Arts
Continuous improvement monitoring : an analysis of state special education compliance procedures Blake, Barbara Richmond. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Understanding and leveraging virtualization technology in commodity computing systems Le, Duy, Computer Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The death of John Pierce and the political culture of the early republic Petrafesa, Jennifer Leigh. History 2012 Master of Arts
Supersymmetric leptophilic models of electroweak symmetry breaking Marshall, Gardner Rush. Physics 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Organizational justice perceptions of Virginia high school teachers : relationships to organizational citizenship behavior and student achievement Burns, William R. Travis. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Studies of polarized and unpolarized helium -3 in the presence of alkali vapor Kluttz, Kelly Anita, 1976-, Physics 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
C.C. Spaulding & R.R. Wright--companions on the road less traveled? : a reconsideration of African American international relations in the early twentieth century Byrd, Brandon R. History 2011 Master of Arts
An interpretive plan for the Newry, South Carolina cotton mill museum Hawkins, Callie Pettit. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Mercury exposure assessment of South River floodplain birds Wang, Jincheng, 1986- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Quantum turbulence in two dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates Zhang, Bo, 1982- Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Transpacific internments : constructing Little America and dismantling Little Tokyo Cohen, Jack Edward. History 2011 Master of Arts
Academic optimism and instructional leadership in urban elementary schools Allen, Angela M., 1974- Education 2011 Doctor of Education
Investigation of ultrasonic wave scattering effects using computational methods Campbell Leckey, Cara Ann. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Basal food web dynamics in a natural eelgrass (Zostera marina) community : cage-free field experimentation Whalen, Matthew A., 1984- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Art/self : Martha Ann Honeywell and the politics of display in the early republic Daen, Laurel Richardson. History 2011 Master of Arts
An analysis of the validity of the Enneagram Scott, Sara Ann, 1954- Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
On the real-time performance, robustness and accuracy of medical image non-rigid registration Liu, Yixun. Computer Science 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Spontaneous categorization : assessment of implicit stereotype content awareness Gyurovski, Ivo Ivanov. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Determining reliability in Indian captivity narratives DiAngelis, Heather Nicole. History 2011 Master of Arts
Big-fish-little-pond effect : the impact on academic self-concept Kwiterovich, Peter O., 1969- Education 2011 Doctor of Education
Jealous neighbors : rivalry and alliance among the native communities of Detroit, 1701-1766 Sturtevant, Andrew Keith, 1979- History 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Visual attention and distraction : contribution of orexins Hirsh, Adam Harrison. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
By measures taken of men : clothing the classes in William Carlin's Alexandria Egner, Katherine Eileen. History 2011 Master of Arts
Microscopic dynamics and transport of hydrogen in proton conducting oxides Spahr, Erik J., 1981- Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
To seek the good, the true, and beautiful : white, Greek-letter sororities in the U.S. South and the shaping of American 'ladyhood', 1915-1975 Freeman, Margaret Lynn. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Social compensation, social enhancement, and rejection in everyday online conversations Kovaz, David Matthew. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
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
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
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
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
A New England state of mind : identity and commodification in Yankee magazine, 1935-1942 Sargent, Andrew Robert. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Comparing terrors : state terrorism in revolutionary France and Russia Forsythe, Anne Cabrié. 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
For their maintenance and education : an analysis of children entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803 Gardy, Kaitlyn Elizabeth. History 2011 Master of Arts
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
Search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables in [right arrow] ep elastic scattering Meziane, Mehdi. Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Research evidence use by rural central office administrators leading educational improvement Shaffer, Patricia Moore, 1965- Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Strategic victimization : news photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the revisualization of America Williams, Margaret Keeton. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Educational efficiency in Virginia public school divisions Calzini, Clinton Robert. Education 2011 Doctor of Philosophy