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
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
The Sino-Soviet dispute in Africa, 1974-1978 Waters, Charles Andrew, 1959- Government 1982 Master of Arts
The Significance of the Lot-Pellinore feud in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur Core, Sheila Anne, 1953- English 1988 Master of Arts
The short term effects of a developmentally based substance abuse program with incarcerated youth McLaren, Everett Gerard, 1950- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
The shock of brass on porcelain : egotism and The sacred fount Pye, Georgia Taft, 1947- English 1981 Master of Arts
The Shenandoah River gundalow and the politics of material reuse Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
The shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624 : a delicate and necessary seat for a city or chief fortification Cobb, John Michael, 1948- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
The shaping of consciousness : conventional adventure language and Gothic imagery in James' Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady LaFreniere, Andrea Mary, 1965- English 1990 Master of Arts
The shapers in John Gardner's Grendel Grunska, Robert S., 1956- English 1980 Master of Arts
The shadow of the revolution : South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the evolution of modern American labor relations Weber, John William, 1978- History 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
The Seminar for Historical Administration : companion to change Tramposch, William Joseph. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
The semiclassical description of the energy spectrum of hydrogen in near-perpendicular fields Schleif, Christopher Robert, 1975- Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The self-evaluation maintenance model as a moderator of similarity-attraction vs. dissimilarity-repulsion Nimpfer, John Adam, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
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
The selective synthesis of 3-alkylidenetetrahydrofurans Southward, Robin Elaine, 1959- Chemistry 1995 Master of Arts
The selective oxidation of beta-Cyclodextrin on the secondary face Heath, Christine Evelyn, 1971- Chemistry 1997 Master of Arts
The sedimentary processes and geomorphic history of Wreck Shoal, an oyster reef of the James River, Virginia DeAlteris, J. T. Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
The secretion of antimicrobial material by aspen tissue (Populus tremuloides Michx.) Helton, Edward Dale, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
The Secretary-General and his leadership role in international crises Condit, Richard Grant, 1949- Government 1974 Master of Arts
The secret history of the Mcherrin Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
The seasonal and diel use by juvenile and adult finfishes of a mesohaline intertidal creek on the York River, Virginia Middleton, Robert W. Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
The search for truth : narrative technique in Lord Jim and Absalom, Absalom ! Donegan, Jacquelyn King, 1947- English 1976 Master of Arts
The search for success through tradition : a general history of the West Congregational Church, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1734-1982 Rogers, David J. History 1982 Master of Arts
The search for security : Indian-English relations in the Trans-Appalachian region, 1758-1763 McConnell, Michael N. History 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
The search for competion in Toni Morrison's Sula NcNeer, Elizabeth Bowler, 1967- English 1996 Master of Arts
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
The scourge of Discovery: a case study of the genocide of native Americans in English North America Abdoo, Jayma Ann, 1957- History 1992 Master of Arts
The schoolteacher and the secretary: the newspapers and community of a revolutionary French-American, 1754-1784 Madison, Katherine S., History 2013 Master of Arts
The school progress and social adjustment of a selected group of pupils entering Alexandria, Virginia, High School in 1926 Moncure, Henry Trevilian, 1894-1972. Education 1936 Master of Arts
The scar must remain' : memory and the first world war in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray series Thompson, Anna Murell, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
The Salem witch trials from a legal perspective : the importance of spectral evidence reconsidered Ocksreider, Susan Kay, 1960- History 1984 Master of Arts
The Royal African Company slave trade to Virginia, 1689-1713 Killinger, Charles Lintner, 1942- History 1969 Master of Arts
The romantic and tragic ballads : popular dreams for an egalitarian society? McGuire, Shirlee Alcinda, 1942- English 1976 Master of Arts
The romance element as exemplified in Chaucer's Second nun's tale, The knight's tale, The prologue to the Canterbury tales, and The man of law's tales Cloyd, Manie Guthrie, 1884- English 1930 Master of Arts
The roles of the pituitary-adrenal axis in the reproductive physiology of male prairie deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdi) Coppes, John Charles, 1955- Biology 1980 Master of Science
The roles of Merlin, Morgan, and Nyneve in Morte Darthur : the supernatural in Arthur's tragedy Bates, Glenda. English 1965 Master of Arts
The roles of dispersal and predation in determining the seedling recruitment patterns of a Zostera marina system Manley, Stephen R., 1988-, Marine Science 2014 Master of Science
The role of threat and time perception in international crises Churchill, Floyd Vincent, 1942- Government 1974 Master of Arts
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
The role of the superintendent in improving student achievement Boone, Melinda J. Education 2001 Doctor of Education
The role of the Department of Planning and Budget in shaping higher education in Virginia Whitaker, Russell E., 1942- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
The role of the counselor within the Virginia community college system Welter, William Lloyd, 1932- Education 1975 Doctor of Education
The role of the blood in the temperature dependence of oxidative metabolism in decapod crustaceans Mauro, Nicholas A. Marine Science 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of stress in determining community structure : effects of hypoxia on an estuarine epifaunal community Sagasti, Alessandra, 1972- Marine Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of social cognitions on children's emotion regulation decisions : links to internalizing and externalizing symptomatology Veits, Gina Marie. Psychology 2009 Master of Arts
The role of small carboxylic acids during poly(amide) 11 hydrolysis Hocker, John-Andrew Samuel. Chemistry 2012 Master of Science
The role of science and scientists in marine environmental policy and management Topalian, Teny, 1953- Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of predation on Zostera marina L. (eelgrass) seed abundance Fishman, James, 1970- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
The role of picoplankton in phytoplankton dynamics of a temperate coastal plain estuary Ray, Robert Triau, 1956- Marine Science 1986 Master of Arts