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
Martin's Hundred : A settlement study Muraca, David, 1956- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Who went to market? : An urban and rural, late eighteenth- century perspective based on faunal assemblages from Curtes Neck plantation and the Everard Site Trevarthen, Susan Michelle, 1967- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Archaeological application of the metal detector Roach, Wayna L., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
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
Chickahominy stylistic expression : preliminary motif analysis of ceramics of the Chickahominy River drainage Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, 1980- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
A comparative analysis of two colonial Virginia populations : a skeletal consideration Koubek, Jana Elisa, 1956- Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
Merrymaking at the Madisons' : feasting, alcohol, and political strategy Heacock, Christine Hope, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
The secret history of the Mcherrin Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Marston Parish 1654-1674 : a community study McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Near the governor's patterns of development of three properties along Williamsburg's Palace and Nicholson streets in the eighteenth century Samford, Patricia Merle, 1957- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Fortifications of St. Eustatius : an archaeological and historical study of defense in the Caribbean Howard, Bryan Paul, 1965- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
An allegory for life : an 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas Turner, Grace S. R., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Wild animals and domesticated landscapes : a case study of human-animal relationships in the middle and late woodland coastal plain of Virginia Levine, Nadejda, 1978- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Hanna's Town : a frontier town in western Pennsylvania Wood, John Perry, 1963- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
The archaeology of Opequon Creek : religion, ethnicity, and identity in the material culture of an eighteenth-century immigrant community, Frederick County, Virginia Persson, Ann Schaefer, 1979- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Grand River landings, Ottawa County, Michigan Linebaugh, Donald W. Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
Here stands a high bred horse: a theory of economics and horse breeding in Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780; a statistical model Kleppertknoop, Lily, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Inequality in early Virginia : a case study from Martin's Hundred Edwards, Andrew C., 1949- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake McLaughlin, Pegeen Amy, 1968- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
The Nottoway of Virginia : a study of peoplehood and political economy, c. 1775-1875 Woodard, Buck W., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Hospitality, civility, and sociability: takiing tea in colonial Barbados Mahoney, Meredith Ashley Holaday. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
St. Eustatius and the Caribbean trade system : a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century coins from the Caribbean Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Virginia Indians, NAGPRA, and cultural affiliation: revisiting identities and boundaries in the Chesapeake/ Masur, Laura Elizabeth, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
The Department of Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition : Motives, methods, and messages Gauss, Jeffrey Daryl, 1953- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Rediscovering the dead : practical applications of remote sensing in historic cemeteries Strutt, Michael A., 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
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
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Community in Gloucestertown, Virginia : the context and archaeology of town development in 17th and 18th century Virginia Fisher, Karen B., 1960- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Derogatory to the rights of free-born subjects: racialization and the identity of the Williamsburg area's free black population from 1723-1830/ Schumann, Rebecca Anne, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
The John Page house site : an example of the increase in domestic brick architecture in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia Pickett, Dwayne Webster, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Satisfying Williamsburg's meat tooth : butchers and bones in inter-bellum Williamsburg, Virginia Alblinger, Carrie 1966- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Seneca hair combs as material culture : a study Vasey, April Jean, 1964- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Cultural legitimacy in Surry County, Virginia : the Edwards family of Chestnut Farms Sadler, Donald Lee. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
The Effect of soils on settlement location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia Lukezic, Craig, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Plough deep while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and to keep : an analysis of plow ownership in eighteenth century York county Virginia Waske, Zachary John, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Working with tools : work, identity, and perception communicated through the material culture of work in the context of the Rideau Canal construction 1826-1832 Plousos, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella, 1949- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
A study of transition in plantation economy : George Washington's whiskey distillery, 1799 Anderson, Anna Catherine Borden, 1971- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Middlesex County, New Jersey gravestones 1687-1799 : shadows of a changing culture Veit, Richard Francis, 1968- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Everyday life of war : a reflexive analysis of American Civil War soldiers in the military environment through a prism of context, practice, and power Auger, Valerie Renee, 1977- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
A Reflection to life : a social and economic study of cedar grove cemetery, Williamsburg, Va. Boyd, Varna G., 1959- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Funerary treatment and social status : a case study of colonial Tidewater Virginia Mackie, Norman Vardney, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
From the middle of nowhere : place-making on my supermodern American road Werner, Maxwell Allen, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Great Blue Herons and River Otters : the changing perceptions of all things wild in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chesapeake Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene, 1961- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Archaeology goes to school : a cooperative approach to teaching history through archaeology Schuster, Paul David, 1972- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts