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
Domestic music making in late eighteenth-century elite Chesapeake society : the elegant selections of Shirley Plantation Glosson, Sarah Gentry. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The rise and fall of the WB : Dawson's Creek, intertextuality, and legitimation Hodge, Ambert R. J. P. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Who controlled cruise? : The 1983 deployment of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom and the post-1945 anglo-american special relationship in defence Donald, Colin James, 1958- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers : revolution comes to Virginia 1765-1775 White, William E., 1953- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The immigrant, the native son, and the ambassador : the transnational travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira Cohen, Amber Shandling. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
New land acquisition in the colonial Chesapeake, 1660-1706 : a test of the Malthusian and staples hypotheses Baird, Bruce Chandler, 1956- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Buck-horned snakes and possum women : non-White folklore, antebellum Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange Miller, John Douglas. American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Nathaniel Jocelyn : in the service of art and abolition Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Every American should stand here once : Jamestown's 400th anniversary commemoration and the creation of an American origin narrative Howard, Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Voters in a foreign land : alien suffrage and citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926 Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. American Studies 2009 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
The enduring villain : Germans as Nazi stereotypes in American cinema Aube, Christine Lokotsch, 1964- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Domestic ideology and the social construction of mammy Brown, Bridget Mary, 1964- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The domestication of history in American art, 1848-1876 Wierich, Jochen. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Natural hair styling : a symbol and function of African- American women's self-creation Bowles, Juliette. American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Japanese business in the United States : unintentional definition of the other Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1991 Master of Arts
The blues and jazz in Albert Murray's fiction : a study in the tradition of stylization Modeste, Jacquelynne Jones, 1968- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
The still life : domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Eying Italians : race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880-1910 Cosco, Joseph P., 1949- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Quick! Do something manly! : the Super Bowl as an American spectacle of hegemonic masculinity, violence, and nationalism Huebenthal, Jan, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The first thing out the window : race, radical feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time Mann, Kimberly Lynn. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Agent of change or trusted servant : the eighteenth-century Williamsburg press Berg, Susan Stromei, 1951- American Studies 1993 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
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
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
What is best and most typical : nostalgia, transgression, and capitalism at the Virginia State Fair 1946-1976 Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
(Un)conventional coupling : interracial sex and intimacy in contemporary neo-slave narratives Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
The Quaker influence on Nantucket architecture : a case study Gaeta, Anne Elizabeth, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Labor at home : the domestic world of workers at the du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902 Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
You are not the father! : family, blood, race and Maury in America Markarian, Robyn Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Walk to freedom : how a violent response to the civil rights protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge unwillingly created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rainville, Brian Clement. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Frank LLoyd Wright : architect of an age Boulton, Alexander O. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The Seminar for Historical Administration : companion to change Tramposch, William Joseph. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
A war of words : satire and song in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Gazettes Howell, Mark Hunter, 1957- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
The rise of Benjamin Waller : 1716-1786 Greenman, John Starr, 1940- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Peopling the power structure : urban oriented officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780 Rowe, Linda Hunter, 1945- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
You have no boss here to work for : women and labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing communities O'Grady, Elizabeth Marie. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
American dream screams : success ideology and the Hollywood novel between the two world wars Garland, David Travers, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Let us now praise service men : a history of the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945 Neel, Hildy Michelle. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
The not-so-public history of Colonial Williamsburg's port resident-ferrykeepers : interpreting the Moody family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781 Scott, Angela Maria. American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Let all things be done decently and in order : gender segregation in the seating of early American churches Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian : myth and disillusionment Vaugh, Carol Van Dessel, 1961- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts