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 method for evaluating the long-term, cumulative impacts of tidal marsh alterations : the York River system, a case study Zacherle, Andrew W. Marine Science 1984 Master of Arts
Survival and activity of the oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea (Say), under conditions of fluctuating salinity Zachary, Arthur, 1944- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts
The biology of marine bacteriophages of Beneckea natriegens Zachary, Arthur L., 1944- Marine Science 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Assessment of development impacts on coastal zone : integrated approach, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia Zableckis, Sarunas, 1977- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
Enhancing web browsing security Yue, Chuan. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond the standard model : new scalars and new leptons Yuan, Yao, 1964- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
A test for the aversiveness of an acquired drive based on hunger Yu, Jen-Hen, 1941- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts
The spatial distribution and agonistic behavior of an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) population on Jamestown Island, Virginia Youngblood, Marston Earl, 1952- Biology 1979 Master of Arts
The effects of total body proton irradiation on the peripheral plasma corticosterone concentration and the ultrastructure of the zona fasciculata in Mus musculus Young, Robert James, 1946- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Tess of the D'Ubervilles : a pure woman faithfully defended Young, Margaret Mary, 1966- English 1991 Master of Arts
The relationship of principal's level of moral development and school organizational climate Young, James L. 1941-2012. Education 1978 Doctor of Education
On the solution to partial differential equations by means of Bergman's integral operator Young, George R., 1935- Mathematics 1966 Master of Arts
Chemistry of Chesapeake Bay sediments Young, David Kenneth. Marine Science 1962 Master of Arts
College students' implicit attentional and affective responses to alcohol cues Young, Chelsie Marie, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Freedom in the early American novel (1790-1800) Young, Ann Ruth. English 1981 Master of Arts
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The use of history in migrating: cases from the Haitian diaspora Yohn, Elizabeth K., History 2013 Master of Arts
Charles P. Stone and the Battle of Ball's Bluff Yoder, Sandra Della, 1946- History 1975 Master of Arts
Size-selectivity of the commercial sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) dredge : evaluation the performance of the New Bedford style dredge configured with 4-inch rings and a 10-inch twine top using the SELECT model Yochum, Noelle. Marine Science 2006 Master of Science
Malware detection and analysis via layered annotative execution Yin, Heng Computer Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Variation in egg size and number in Drosophila subobscura Yi, Minyoung Janet, 1981- Biology 2006 Master of Science
Quantum information dynamics Yepez, J. (Jeffrey) Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Mercury reduces avian reproductive success through direct embryotoxicity rather than altered parental behavior Yen Chin, Stephanie, Biology 2015 Master of Arts
The Amblers of Virginia : a family's rise to prominence Yelich, Hope, 1950- History 1973 Master of Arts
Dispositions and practices that promote teacher-student relationships with African-American male elementary students Yeldell, Karyn Mitchell, 1973-, Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Salt water plasma model of the Venus atmosphere Yeh, Eueng-nan. Applied Science 1974 Master of Arts
A sociological study of the needs of the elderly in a subarea of Hampton, Virginia Yeatts, Dale Purnell, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
The relationship between antibody redox structure and affinity in rainbow trout Ye, Jianmin Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The deterrent efficacy of capital punishment on the homicide of law enforcement officers Yaw, Christina Beth, 1954- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
An evaluation of the curriculum in English at Hampton High School Yates, Carleen Lillian Wells. Education 1957 Master of Education
Special education complaint management : a national profile Yaryan, Elizabeth, 1958- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
From sight to site to website : travel-writing, tourism and the American experience in Haiti, 1900-2008 Yarrington, Landon Cole. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Development of a quantitative competetive polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection and quantitation of Perkinsus marinus in oyster tissues and environmental water samples Yarnall, Heather A., 1971- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science
The War between the mind and sky : the poet, the soldier, and the centrality of the epilogue to Notes toward a supreme fiction Yard, James Craig, 1964- English 1997 Master of Arts
Esoteric Sips : Dickinson's wine and liquor imagery Yard, Deborah Ann, 1962- English 1995 Master of Arts
Humanism : a study of its historical development in philosophy and education, its modern significance as a theory of education, and its implications for the teaching of language arts in the secondary school Yarborough, Betty H. Education 1955 Master of Arts
Stripping and reassembly of the yeast vacuolar H+-ATPase peripheral protein subunits Yarashus, Heather R., 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
A study of the guiding center approximation. Yao, Qun Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Microstructures of poly(vinyl acetate) studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Yao, Hongyang, 1966- Applied Science 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Variational inverse methods for transport problems Yang, Zhaoqing, 1960- Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterization of transient behaviors in a colliding pulse mode-locked (CPM) laser Yang, Wei, 1973- Physics 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Synthesis and characterization of hydrogen-rich polyimide materials for radiation shielding Yang, Sha, 1980- Chemistry 2005 Master of Science
Time-resolved magnetic flux and AC-current distributions in superconducting YBCO thin films and multifilaments Yang, Ran. Applied Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Magneto-optics and magneto-transport studies on thin films for sensor applications Yang, Kaida, 1984-, Applied Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterizing the degradation of nylon-11 and PVDF in a flexible oil pipe and cure monitoring of chemflake vinylester Yang, John Chen, 1973- Chemistry 1996 Master of Science
Comecon : its function as a Soviet political instrument Yando, Lisa Elizabeth, 1968- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Investigating the executive flexibility model Yanchus, Nancy Jane, 1969- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Exploiting cache locality at run-time Yan, Yong, 1963- Computer Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Interminority relations in the early 1990s in California : conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans Yamazato, Akiko, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts