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
Re-taking it to the streets : investigating hip-hop's emergence in the spaces of late capitalism Kosanovich, Kevin Waide. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
The Seminar for Historical Administration : companion to change Tramposch, William Joseph. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Bill Hicks : a study in national character Osborn, Adam Gardner, 1977- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Yorktown shipwreck 44YO88 : stores and cargo from a British naval supply vessel from the American War for Independence Broadwater, John D. American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Rock 'n' roll stew : the Rolling Stones and blues music through the looking glass of American culture in the 1960's Woodward, Henry Canning, 1964- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A sketch of sufferings : power and patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755 Baker, Wendy Joyce, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Remembering to forget : Gone with the Wind, Roots, and Consumer History Rose, Annjeanette C., 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The poet, the poem, and the people : Etheridge Knight's American counterpoetics Chaltain, Sam. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Goods-- agreeable to the Association : the Scottish merchant trade and early tea boycotts in Virginia Kuettner, Angelika Ruth, 1980- American Studies 2008 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
Joshua Johnson revisted : filling the Lacunae Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 1995 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
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
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
An interpretive plan for the Newry, South Carolina cotton mill museum Hawkins, Callie Pettit. American Studies 2011 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
Blue notes and brown skin : five African-American jazzmen and the music they produced in regard to the American civil rights movement Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Preserving Virginia's vision of the past Reilley, Karen Merry, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Out of left field : William Saroyan's thirties fiction as a reflection of the great depression Coleman, Hildy Michelle, 1967- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Why white men can't jump ... and black men can't think : an analysis of the American sports news media's coverage of basketball and its players from 1980 to the present Scaro, Robert Charles, 1970- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
C is for cookie, culture, and capitalism : the Muppet phenomenon in the United States Cloeren, Nicole B., 1973- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
You(s) on the tube : deconstructing (American) (cyber) selves inscribed in the diary blog and diary vlog McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Framing the woman artist : gender and art in Howells and Sargent Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 1995 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
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The Quaker influence on Nantucket architecture : a case study Gaeta, Anne Elizabeth, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The freemasonry of the race : the cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia Walker, Corey D. B. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Producing the past : museums, reproductions, consumers, and authenticity Talbot, Melinda Grace, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
The craft of portraiture in eighteenth-century America Fuhrman, Anne Mary, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The kids are (all) right : baby-boomers and the rhetoric of childhood in the picture books of Chris Van Allsburg Sprinkle, Mark. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Stormy weather : Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and the cultural politics of stardom Howard, Amy L., 1971- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Blurring boundaries : the Rorschach idea in twentieth-century American popular culture Rainey, James Edward, 1970- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
American identity and the wild west show, 1880-1910 Stark, Susan Ann, 1974- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 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
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Katherine Anne Porter's Old mortality and Virginia Woolf : a study in feminism Waite, Rebecca S. L., 1970- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Running on empty : the myth of the automobile in three works by Chester Himes Hailey, Christopher Blair, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy