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 powers of the governor in early eighteenth-century Virginia Lonnes, Anita Joy, 1941- History 1964 Master of Arts
The power of the privy : mediating social relations on a 19th century British military site Last, Joseph Henry, 1950- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
The power of African American parent perceptions on student achievement Camm, Melody Luretha, 1964- Education 2009 Doctor of Education
The pottery and kiln of Green Spring : a study in 17th century material culture Smith, James M., 1949- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
The potential for transmission of Perkinsus marinus by fecal matter from the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica Scanlon, Christine H., 1973- Marine Science 1997 Master of Science
The potential for colonial period archaeology in La Libertad, Peru Jamieson, Ross W. 1966- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
The Postwar conversion to German Rearmament : a look at the Truman administration, Congress, and American public opinion Rhodes, David T., 1961- History 1987 Master of Arts
The post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The positivity effect : is it a memory retrieval bias? Pryor, Jennifer Maureen. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
The population, habitat, behavioral and foraging ecology of the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) in southeastern Virginia Miller, Gary L. 1954- Biology 1978 Master of Arts
The poor apprentices of Boston : indentures of poor children bound out apprentice by the overseers of the poor of Boston, 1734-1776 Millar, William Graham, 1934- History 1958 Master of Arts
The politics of emasculation : the caning of Charles Sumner and elite Southern manhood on the brink David, James Corbett, 1977- History 2004 Master of Arts
The politics of choice : an analysis of the presidential search and selection process Kelly, Michael Thomas, 1961- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
The politics and composition of Henry VIII's privy council 1540-1547 Moore, Alan George, 1954- History 1982 Master of Arts
The political-domestics : sectional issues in American women's fiction, 1852-1867 Peterson, Beverly 1950- American Studies 1994 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
The political process of interdependence between the U.S. and Japan Alleva, Diane Florence, 1965- Government 1989 Master of Arts
The political imaginings of slave conspirators : Atlantic contexts of the 1710 slave conspiracy in Martinque Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. History 2011 Master of Arts
The political image of William Pitt, first earl of Chatham, in the American colonial press, 1756-1778 Knight, Carol Lynn Homelsky, 1946- History 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
The political economy in India : interest groups and development (1947-1990) Singh, Alaka, 1965- Government 1992 Master of Arts
The poetic theory and practice of James VI of Scotland, James I of England Walker, Helen McHardy, 1903- English 1932 Master of Arts
The poet, the poem, and the people : Etheridge Knight's American counterpoetics Chaltain, Sam. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
The planning and development of two moravian congregation towns : Salem, North Carolina and Gracehill, Northern Ireland Hendricks, Christopher E., 1963- History 1987 Master of Arts
The plain houses and people of Loudoun Valley Shuey, Robert. Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
The physical effects of a thermal discharge on an estuary Parker, G. C. (Gary Cridlin), 1950- Marine Science 1975 Master of Arts
The phylogeny of coleoid cephalopods inferred from molecular evolutionary analyses of the cytochrome C oxidase I, muscle actin, and cytoplasmic actin genes Carlini, David Bruno, 1968- Marine Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The photochemistry of thiobenzoyl derivatives of methyl benzylidene-alpha-D-glucopyranoside Schreiber, Adam Louis, 1976- Chemistry 1999 Master of Arts
The Philippines in the twentieth century: Social change in recent decades Aguas y Quijano, Juan Vidal, 1951- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
The personal need systems of college students : an analysis of the poorly adjusted freshman Saad, Kenneth Michael, 1953- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
The personal motivation system of Hispanic female students as measured by the picture identification test Muguira, Martha Lazeano, 1946- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
The persecution and downfall of the Knight Templars in the reign of Philip IV of France Bridges, Margaret Florence. History 1927 Master of Arts
The peregrine falcon in Virginia : survey of historic eyries and reintroduction effort Gabler, Johannes Kurt, 1957- Biology 1983 Master of Arts
The perception of clothing and situational formality and their relationship to public and private self-consciousness Harris, Susan Mozley, 1955- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
The peculiar institution : gender, race and religion in the making of modern psychiatry, 1842-1932 Gonaver, Wendy, 1969- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The Pearl-poet's imaginative treatment of his biblical source in Cleanness McCord, Laura Ruth, 1941- English 1973 Master of Arts
The Pax-5 gene is alternatively spliced in trout B cells Talauliker, Raaj Mahendra. Biology 2010 Master of Science
The pattern of RNA synthesis in dormant and germinating statoblasts of Pectinatella magnifica Proud, Virginia Kent, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
The parent checklist for new kindergarten pupils : a validation study Miller, Willis Glen, 1949- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
The parasite fauna of the wreckfish, Polyprion americanus, in the North Atlantic Ocean: application to host biology and stock identification Fennessy, Colleen Jill, 1970- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science
The paradox between self-sovereignty and universal law in The Octopus Hauer, Kathryn Bruzas, 1961- English 1985 Master of Arts
The Panama Canal treaties : a possible exception to the usual relationship between public opinion and foreign policy Johnston, Donna Sibley, 1943- Government 1978 Master of Arts
The Pamunkey Indian Museum : collaboration, display, and the creation of a tribal museum Bowen, Rachel Elaine, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
The Page family of Rosewell and Mannsfield : a study in economic decline Leviner, Betty Crowe. History 1987 Master of Arts
The oxygen equilibrium properties of hemerythrin in solution and in coelomic cells of Phascolopsis Gouldi London, Maria, 1950- Biology 1973 Master of Arts
The oxidation of -cyclodextrin via the photolysis of 6- -cyclodextrin benzoyl formate Creswick, Heather Alison, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
The overseers of the poor in Accomac, Pittsylvania, and Rockingham counties, 1787-1802 Usry, Robert M. History 1960 Master of Arts
The other faces of Mount Rushmore : tourism, advertising, and the commodity of experience McNutt, Jill Angela, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The other Civil War : Lincoln and the Indians Nichols, David A. 1939- History 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
The osmotic fragility of red blood cells of marine animals : a comparative study Demanche, Robert, 1955- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
The ortho to para transition in muonic molecular hydrogen Clark, Jessica H. D. Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy