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
Voluntary consent to police searches : a result of the foot-in-the-door technique Howe, Julie E., 1968- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Vocational choices and guidance of high school pupils of Southhampton County Joyner, Floyd Talmage, 1896- Education 1931 Master of Arts
Vocal music in a city high school and its contribution to community life Troxell, Charles, 1889-1984. Education 1947 Master of Arts
Vitellogenin - a biomarker of exposure to environmental estrogens for mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a creosote-contaminated site? Mirabilio, Sara, 1976- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
Visual recognition memory : the effect of cognitive style and exposure time Kirasic, Kathleen C., 1951- Psychology 1975 Master of Arts
Visual attention and distraction : contribution of orexins Hirsh, Adam Harrison. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Visions of reality : a comparison of narrative methods and perspectives in The ambassadors and The good soldier Kleinberg, Rebecca Marie, 1966- English 1995 Master of Arts
Virtue in corruption: privateers, smugglers, and the shape of empire in the eighteenth-century Caribbean. Schmitt, Casey Sylvia, History 2013 Master of Arts
Virtual path bandwidth distribution and capacity allocation with bandwidth sharing Anewalt, Karen Marie, 1972- Computer Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Virginia's reaction to John Brown's raid : rebirth of a strong state militia Small, Todd Munfort, 1946- History 1971 Master of Arts
Virginia's pelagic recreational fishery : biological socioeconomic and fishery compenents Bochenek, Eleanor A. 1955- Marine Science 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Virginia's funding legislation, 1869-1875 : its background, principal features, related measures, and effects Ours, Robert Maurice, 1936- History 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Virginia Woolf's starving artists Beyer, Beverly Ann, 1972- English 1996 Master of Arts
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway : Interpretation, knowledge and power Pittman, L. Monique, 1969- English 1993 Master of Arts
Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts as an extention of Woolf's feminist polemics Hoppe, Patricia Ann, 1944- English 1993 Master of Arts
Virginia teachers' perceptions and knowledge of test accommodations for students with disabilit[i]es Brown, William Michael, 1952- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Virginia party politics and Texas annexation Martin, Margaret Carol, 1974- History 1997 Master of Arts
Virginia newspaper editors and the coming of World War II, 1935-1939 Gray, Robert Wayne, 1945- History 1970 Master of Arts
Virginia Indians, NAGPRA, and cultural affiliation: revisiting identities and boundaries in the Chesapeake/ Masur, Laura Elizabeth, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Virginia high school journalism contrasted with the professional concept of journalism Rule, Paul Frederick. Education 1964 Master of Arts
Virginia federalist : the business and political career of Leven Powell, 1737-1810 Brownell, Richard Joseph, 1958- History 1983 Master of Arts
Virginia enters the Union : a legislative study of the Commonwealth, 1789-1792 Foard, Susan Lee, 1938- History 1966 Master of Arts
Virginia embargoed : the economic and political effects of the 1807-1809 embargo on Virginia Kinzie, John George, 1967- History 1995 Master of Arts
Virginia Business Higher Education Council : a case study of interest group formation Groth, Christiane, 1968- Education 2003 Doctor of Education
Virginia and western territorial government, 1780-1787 Philyaw, Leslie Scott, 1955- History 1990 Master of Arts
Violence in colonial South Carolina, 1700-1740 Millbranth, Russell David, 1944- History 1970 Master of Arts
Vineyard : a Jamaican cattle pen, 1750-1751 Stiles, Carol, 1959- History 1985 Master of Arts
Victorian maternity and Edna Pontellier's awakening Schäffer, Shari Dean, 1962- English 1986 Master of Arts
Vibrational lifetimes of hydrogen and oxygen defects in semiconductors Sun, Baozhou, 1977- Applied Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
VHF oscillations in a Penning gauge Dennis, Robert Newman, 1936- Physics 1962 Master of Arts
Vertebral cartilage of the clearnose skate, Raja eglanteria : development, structure, ageing, and hormonal regulation of growth Gelsleichter, James J. Marine Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Verification of fault-tolerant clock synchronization systems Miner, Paul S., 1962- Computer Science 1992 Master of Arts
Verbal communication characteristics of couples at principled, conventional, or mixed levels of moral development Keller, Barbara Bledsoe, 1950- Psychology 1975 Master of Arts
Velasquez and his art Slaughter, Jane Chapman, -1951. Modern Languages and Literatures 1923 Master of Arts
Vegetative mitosis in the multinucleate green alga, Cladophora flexuosa : an ultrastructural study Lewis, Ruth Schwab, 1950- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
Vegetation of selected dune ridges and marshes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia : community structure and relationship to environmental factors Huq, Marian Vance, 1958- Marine Science 1986 Master of Arts
Vegetation dynamics of a tidal freshwater marsh : long-term and inter-annual variability and their relationship to salinity Davies, Sarah B., 1976- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Vegetation and succession on Piedmont granitic outcrops of Virginia Berg, James D. Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of Three Ridges Mountain, Nelson County, Virginia Watson, Francis D., 1952- Biology 1981 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of the Yorktown Colonial Parkway between Brackens Pond and Kings Creek Salle, Emily Depp, 1948- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of the Totuskey Creek Watershed, Richmond County, Virginia Johnstone, Christopher W., 1983- Psychology 2008 Master of Science
Vascular flora of the Kent Branch watershed, Fluvanna County, Virginia by George M. Diggs. Diggs, George M. 1952- Biology 1976 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of the Jones and Mill Creek watershed, Powhatan County, Virginia Corcoran, Celeste Maureen, 1954- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of the College Woods, the College of William and Mary, James City County, Virginia Barans, Allene Claire Phillips, 1945- Biology 1969 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of southeastern King and Queen County, Virginia Vascott, Anna Lord, 1952- Biology 1985 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of northwestern Highland County, Virginia Theodose, Theresa Alee, 1962- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of Mathews County, Virginia van Montfrans, Margaret Norman, 1946- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of eastern Middlesex County, Virginia North, Gretchen Barrow, 1951- Biology 1983 Master of Arts
Varina School, Henrico County, 1909-1957 Morton, Vera Palmore. Education 1957 Master of Education
Variations in some serum constituents of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Lynch, Maurice P. Marine Science 1972 Doctor of Philosophy