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
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
A history of the Eastern State Hospital of Virginia under the Galt family (1773-1862) Siske, James Harding, 1928- History 1949 Master of Arts
A history of taxation in colonial Virgina 1607-1775 Forrest, Dennis Dryden, 1902- History 1931 Master of Arts
A history of railroads in Virginia, 1850-1860 Naugle, Mark, 1900-1956. History 1932 Master of Arts
A history of printing in colonial Virginia Mitchell, Bernard Elwood. History 1929 Master of Arts
A history of governance at Lee College : a study in Pentecostal higher education Stephens, Raphael Weller, 1940- Education 1981 Doctor of Education
A helium discharge detector for the determination of organosulfur and phosphorus compounds Tieman, Tamara L., 1969- Chemistry 1992 Master of Arts
A handsomely improved place : economic, social, and gender-role development in a backcountry town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810 Ridner, Judith A. History 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
A guy telling a long wild tale : the masculine myth in Kerouac's On The Road Collins, Paul Steven, 1969- English 1993 Master of Arts
A grammar-based technique for genetic search and optimization Johnson, Clayton Matthew, 1964- Computer Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
A graine of marveilous great increase : a political landscape approach to Powhatan maize production and exchange in seventeenth century Virginia Risse, Danielle Christine, 1977- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
A good mind, well stored : medicine, society, literature, and sensibility in the journal of Abigial May, 1800 Chambers, Thomas A. History 1994 Master of Arts
A good book is a blessing : the life and reading of Frances Whittle Lewis in antebellum America Geiger, Brian Keith, 1968- History 1998 Master of Arts
A GIS spatial analysis of the potential conflict between submerged aquatic vegetation management and the development of shellfish acquaculture in the lower Chesapeake Bay Grignano, Laura Ann, 1967- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
A girl such as I am : A study of women in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series Renko, Catherine Ann, 1959- English 1993 Master of Arts
A genetic investigation of population structure and phylogenetics of the benthic polychaete Paraprionospio pinnata in Chesapeake Bay Stubbs, Julie Beck, 1977- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
A genetic and morphologic comparison of Macoma balthica from the eastern and western North Atlantic Meehan, Brian W. 1954- Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
A genetic analysis of the intraspecific relationships of tropical marine shorefishes common to Bermuda and the southeastern Atlantic Coast of the United States Johnson, Kelly R., 1977- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
A general theory of electron detachment in negative ion collisions Wang, Tzuu-Shin. Physics 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
A general theory of economic flow, social exchange, and hegemonic relationship Grenda, Donn Robert, 1966- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
A friend to go between them : interperters among the Iroquois, 1664-1775 Hagedorn, Nancy L., 1958- History 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
A framework for implementing bioinformatics knowledge-exploration systems Hayes, John A., 1979- Applied Science 2004 Master of Science
A framework for construction and analysis of juvenile abundance indices for American shad (Alosa sapidissima) in the York River, Virginia Aiken, Mary Lynn, 1975- Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
A formula for predicting the angular distribution of thick target bremsstrahlung Scott, William Wayne, 1937- Physics 1965 Master of Arts
A formal analysis of the clay pipes from Green Spring Crass, David Colin, 1958- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
A floristic study of Hone Quarry watershed, Rockingham County, Virginia Roe, Gerald Francis, 1943- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
A fatal enigma? : the reception of smallpox inoculation in colonial Massachusetts by Monika Drake Patten. Patten, Monika Drake, 1963- History 1990 Master of Arts
A dynamical perspective on enzymatic catalysis Shang, Shiying, 1977- Chemistry 2002 Master of Arts
A dynamic failure model for performimg propagation and infection analysis of computer programs Voas, Jeffrey Mark, 1963- Computer Science 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
A dutiful obedient wife : the journal of Elizabeth Foote Washington of Virginia, 1779-1796. Parris, Linda Eileen, 1961- History 1984 Master of Arts
A dress of the right length to die in : mortuary and memorial practices amongst Depression-era tenant farmers of the Piedmont South Alderman-Tuttle, Zoey. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
A dollar book for a dime! : the vernacular of cheapness and the Beadle dime handbooks Adams, Sarah Elisabeth. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
A distorting mirror : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre Morey, Laura Ellen, 1966- English 1993 Master of Arts
A distinctive chest of drawers : using material culture to interpret the past and the present Johnston, Jessica Williams, 1969- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
A direct reaction multiple scattering pion-nucleus optical potential Lucas, Charles William, 1942- Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
A dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770 Malone, Mollie C., 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
A different drum : the forgotten tradition of the military academy in American education Sanftleben, Kurt Allen, 1952- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
A dialectical analysis of role enactment during the emergency period of natural disasters Myers, Kristen Anne, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
A descriptive study of the reproductive biology of the veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa) in the Chesapeake Bay Westcott, Erica S., 1977- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
A descriptive study of teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and differentiated classroom behaviors in working with gifted learners in Title I heterogeneous classrooms Tyler, Kimberly M. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A descriptive study of sex-trait stereotypes of lay church members for women clergy Mueller, Loretta A., 1945- Education 1989 Doctor of Education
A descriptive study of offices of institutional research in Virginiaʼs public senior colleges and universities Jordan, Janie C., 1936- Education 1976 Doctor of Education
A descriptive investigation utilizing a family systems perspective to study elementary school children who frequently become seekers of nurse support (S.O.N.S.) and their families Fletcher, David Bruce. Education 1986 Doctor of Education
A descriptive case study of appreciative inquiry as an approach to strategic planning for special education in a public school Ruhlman, Paul L., 1974-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
A description of selected characteristics of Virginia community college graduates from Associate in Applied Science degree programs, 1966-1971 Phillips, James Christopher, 1942- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
A description and analysis of male-male interaction behavior in the lizard, Anolis lividus Stevenson, Philip H., 1958- Biology 1982 Master of Arts
A description and an appraisal of a course of study in sex education for junior high school Christian, Sue Booker. Education 1950 Master of Education
A demonstration of photoresponsiveness in laboratory rats using whole animal and neuroendocrine approaches Sylvester, Christopher John, 1972- Biology 1997 Master of Arts
A cultural analysis of furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820 Prown, Johnathan, 1961- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts