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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
Archaeology at Bennett Farm : the life style of a seventeenth- century middling planter in York County, Virginia Luccketti, Nicholas Michael, 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The political-domestics : sectional issues in American women's fiction, 1852-1867 Peterson, Beverly 1950- American Studies 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Censorship, cyberspace, and community standards : American responses to on-line obscenity Spear, Laura Mame, 1971- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong : examining transcultural performances of Asian American identity in Hong Kong English language amateur theatre productions of Thoroughly modern Millie and Yellow face Mein, Iris Eu Loa, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
To seek the good, the true, and beautiful : white, Greek-letter sororities in the U.S. South and the shaping of American 'ladyhood', 1915-1975 Freeman, Margaret Lynn. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The costumes of the past: the first Virginia and the authenticity of historical reenacting Lovell, Barry Scott, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Race, childhood, and Native American boarding schools : a case study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Norris, Tyler, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the manufacturing of a new social reality in Richmond, Virginia Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
The Prentis family and their library Richter, Julie (Caroline Julia), 1961- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Organized labor : the past, present, and future of nurse- midwifery in America Matthews, Amy Procter, 1960- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
R.C. Scott : a history of African-American entrepreneurship in Richmond 1890-1940 Plater, Michael A., 1956- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Understanding roadkill through an animal method Monahan, Linda Angela, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Neither bedecked nor bebosomed : Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and women's leadership and organizing in the struggle for freedom Glisson, Susan M., 1967- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Elisha Jackson's tavern: a rural node of power Rainer, Joseph T., 1965- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
For how could we do without sugar and rum? : the semiotics of abolitionist aesthetics Padilioni, James Patrick, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Harmony and dissonance : Mennonite visions of community and identity. Chowning, Elizabeth Jane, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Humble servants, prideful patriarchs : submission and servanthood in rhetoric of the Promise Keepers Smith, Erica J., 1961- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Hilton Village, Virginia : the government's first model industrial community Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Battling girlhood : sympathy, race and the tomboy narrative in American literature Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The peculiar institution : gender, race and religion in the making of modern psychiatry, 1842-1932 Gonaver, Wendy, 1969- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
In pursuit of possibility, Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Obscured conflations, (un)bending frames : considering the concept of truth in the politics and rhetoric of the religious right Rosenkranz, Anna Catharine, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Conspicuous presence : Tom Wolfe's one man show Galante, Vera do Val, 1956- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
American identity and the wild west show, 1880-1910 Stark, Susan Ann, 1974- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Revisions and evasions : Flannery O'Connor, southern literary culture and the problem of female authorship Prown, Katherine Hemple, 1963- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Passing into print : Walt Whitman and his publishers Green, Charles B., 1960- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Gotta travel on: a view of the American road from Bob Dylan's rolling thunder revue, 1975/ Shine, Matthew David, 1968- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The enduring villain : Germans as Nazi stereotypes in American cinema Aube, Christine Lokotsch, 1964- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Performance of black female sexuality in a hip hop magazine Johnson, Tova Joanna, 1977- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
John Leacock's The fall of British Tyranny in the Whig propaganda offensive : the personalization of the Revolution Bigler, Philip. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Far from everybody's everything : literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction Anderson, Crystal Suzette. American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Domestic management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and her slaves Geraghty, Mary, 1958- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Our street-strutting language : Asian American rappers in a hip-hop nation Wang, Helen Ye-Hua, 1976- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
I would not begrudge to give a few pounds more elite consumer choices in the Chesapeake, 1720-1785 : the Calvert house ceramic assemlage Patrick, Steven Edward, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
No longer lost at sea : Black community building in the Virginia tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 era Pruitt, Hollis E., American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The spectacle of citizenship : halftones, print media, and constructing Americanness, 1880-1940 Grunder, Sarah Lucinda, 1975- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Selling America in the seventeenth century : the contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the establishment of the English colony in America Smith, Sibley Judson, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Rituals, roots, and rectangles : the classical tradition in early American portraiture Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
To go with an ungloved hand was impossible : a history of gloves, hands, sex, wealth, and power Barzilay, Karen Northrup, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Plastic capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the deregulation of consumer credit Klimchock, Carolee Anne, 1975- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
An introduction to artists A. B. Jackson and his portrayal of the American neighborhood Shepard, Cindy R., 1955- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Gone to the dogs : inter-species bonds and the building of bio-cultural capital in America, 1835-present Anglin, Merit Elfi, American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The Dalai Lama in American documentaries : symbol, politics and American mirroring Zeng, Shuting, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Country, past, and nostalgia : examination of an American popular ideal Ito, Kyoko, 1963- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Facing independence : American revolutionary portraits within the context of British identity Rawles, Susan Jensen. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Real talk : blackness and whiteness in the works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder Hayes, Jeffreen M. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy

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