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
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in Williamsburg : a comparative study of eighteenth-century brick houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston Barry, Andrew Craig, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Williamsburg and Norfolk : municipal government and justice in colonial Virginia Barrow, Robert Mangum, 1937- History 1960 Master of Arts
Studies in the anticatholic origins of the Anglo-American self Barrington, John Patrick Thaddeus. History 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies on the thiocyanato complexes of niobium Barrett, Richard Paul, 1945- Chemistry 1970 Master of Arts
Potential five-coordinate titanium-diketonate complexes Barrett, Pamela Bowen, 1947- Chemistry 1971 Master of Arts
Childhood, colonialism and nation-building : the role of childhood in the construction of race, class and gender in seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Virginia Barrett, Autumn Rain Duke, 1972- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
An investigation of practices to address the disproportionate representation of African Amercian students in special education programs in Virginia Barreau, Stacia M., 1973- Education 2008 Doctor of Education
The effects of Preparing for Life as a University Student (PLUS) on student achievement, persistence, & integration Barreau, Pascal P., 1970- Education 2008 Doctor of Education
State and local support of education in Virginia, 1870-1936 Barr, William David, 1908- Education 1936 Master of Arts
Fostering student achievement : a study of the relationship of collective teacher efficacy and student achievement Barr, Marilyn F. Education 2002 Doctor of Education
Flow cytometric analyses on the activation, proliferation, and differentiation state of B cells in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Barr, Maggie Jeanne. Biology 2010 Master of Science
Food and feeding of northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albarcares) : a comparative study of the food and feeding habits of the northern bluefin tuna off the coast of Virginia Barr, Charles Gilbert, 1955- Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
An evaluation of the effects of a career decision-making course on tenth grade non-college bound students Barr, Carol Gelo, 1942- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
Analysis of a vertically rising vehicle Baron, Sheldon. Physics 1961 Master of Arts
An experiment in association Barney, Josephine Carter. Psychology 1926 Master of Arts
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship of codependence to career choice Barnett, Karen H., 1949- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
Interspecific interactions in oyster reef communities : the effect of established fauna on oyster larval recruitment Barnes, Brian B., 1982- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
The Virginia-North Carolina frontier in 1776 : William Preston, William Christian and the military expedition against the Overhill Cherokee towns Barnes, Arthur George, 1945- History 1969 Master of Arts
What predicts alumni satisfaction? : the impact of investment, involvement, and post-college outcomes Barnes, Amy Catherine, 1976- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Putting masculinity into words : Hemingway's critique and manipulation of American manhood Barnard, Timothy L. 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Far out past : Hemingway, manhood, and modernism Barnard, Timothy L. 1967- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The role of an anadromous fish, the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson), in pesticide transport Barnard, Thomas A. 1943- Marine Science 1971 Master of Arts
Some applications of mean field theory in strong interaction physics Barmore, Bryan E., 1970- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Characterization of PR500 for use in resin transfer molding Barksdale, Rhonda Michelle, 1972- Chemistry 1995 Master of Arts
Amusements in colonial Virginia Barksdale, Martha Elizabeth. History 1929 Master of Arts
Runtime support for load balancing of parallel adaptive and irregular applications Barker, Kevin J. Computer Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
John Marshall and native rights : the law of nations and Scottish enlightenment influence Barker, Gordon S. History 2003 Master of Arts
Anthony Burns and the North-South dialogue on slavery, liberty, race, and the American Revolution Barker, Gordon S. History 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Much blood and treasure : South Carolina's Indian traders, 1670-1755 Barker, Eirlys Mair, 1948- History 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
An appraisal of the extra-class activities program at Granby High School Barfield, Arthur Dick. Education 1951 Master of Education
The matriarchal society in Flannery O'Connor's fiction : its characteristics, treatment, and purpose Barfield, Ann L. English 1981 Master of Arts
Helping first-year college students climb the academic ladder : report of a national survey of freshman seminar programming in American higher education Barefoot, Betsy O. 1944- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
An analysis of help patterns and interaction between parents and their married children Bare, Harold L. Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Innocent and necessary : music and dancing in the life of Robert Carter of Nomony Hall, 1728-1804 Barden, John R. History 1983 Master of Arts
Life history, population dynamics and yield per recruit modeling of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay area Barbieri, Luiz R. Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Predictors of psychological abuse and violence in college romantic relationships Barber, William Amory, 1981- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The Corporal's guard in Congress, 1841-1843 Barber, Nigel Graeme. History 1970 Master of Arts
Distribution, growth and behavior of the spotted hake in the Chesapeake Bight Barans, Charles A. 1942- Marine Science 1969 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
An experimental study of the effects of goal interdependence on the anxiety levels and attitudes of prospective teachers towards visually impaired persons Banks, Clarrissa D. Jackson, 1917- Education 1984 Doctor of Education
Student trust in teachers and its relationship to student identification with school, student perceptions of academic press, and achievement Bankole, Regina A., 1966- Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Responses of cytochrome P450IA in freshwater fish exposed to pulp mill effluents in experimental stream channels Bankey, Laura Anne, 1968- Marine Science 1993 Master of Arts
The press and the prisons : Union and Confederate newspaper coverage of Civil War prisons Bangert, Elizabeth C., 1978- History 2001 Master of Arts
Inverse estimation of horizontal pressure gradients and vertical eddy viscosity profiles in shallow waters Bang, Bohyun, 1955- Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Amorphometric and meristic study of the halfbeak, Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Teleostei: Hemiramphidae) from the western Atlantic, with the description of a new species Banford, Heidi M., 1961- Marine Science 1993 Master of Arts
Biogeography of amphi-Atlantic and amphi-American fishes: The Scomberomorus regalis (Scombridae), Strongylura marina (Belonidae) and Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Hemiramphidae) species groups. Banford, Heidi M. Marine Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The ultrastructure of Cothurnia simplex Kahl, with special reference to the stalk, myonemes, and basal bodies Banes, Robert Thomas, 1949- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Nursing in the university : an historical analysis of nursing education at the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing Bampton, Betsy A. 1937- Education 1987 Doctor of Education