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
Level and instability of global and domain-specific self-esteem as differential predictors of aggression Webster, Gregory Daniel, 1976- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Reduction of sensory environment : effects on measures of body image and perceptual orientation Jacobson, George Robert, 1941- Psychology 1965 Master of Arts
Child-rearing attitudes of process schizophrenics, alcoholics and their mothers Ratnow, Steven Marc, 1945- Psychology 1968 Master of Arts
Within-person relationships among prayer, well-being, and daily events Newman, David Benjamin, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Status, dominance, or prestige? : domains of self-esteem as moderators of reactions to an embarrassing situation Buttermore, Nicole Reed, 1980- Psychology 2004 Master of Arts
Testing Bowen's family systems theory : the focused-on child Kitzmann, Katherine Moore, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
A comparison of the effects of Head Start with and without the use of a newly developed resiliency-based curriculum McGee, Elizabeth Holt, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
The effects of mitigating circumstances on attributions of responsibility Huff, Charles, 1955- Psychology 1983 Master of Arts
Private self-consciousness, self-esteem, and perspective-taking Luhtanen, Riia Kaarina, 1962- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
Integration and differentiation as distinct dimensions of personality Oleynick, Victoria Claire , Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Affective image recognition in valanced contexts Eden, Allison Lehner, 1977- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Cognitive and physiological moderators of daily smokers' early neural attentional biases to smoking and nonsmoking cues Hammett, Patrick John, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Color preferences and self-concept related through color meanings Landis, Maureen Lucille, 1947- Psychology 1969 Master of Arts
The establishment of the Huguenots in Virginia Land, Mary Wilson Bohannan, 1905- Religion 1942 Master of Arts
The National Committee for Citizens in Education : a descriptive analysis Crutchfield, Elizabeth Lewis, 1931- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Juvenile delinquency and the school : an application of control theory Colombano, Donna M., 1947- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Multinational corporations : social process, capitalism, and the development of capitalist firms Santoro, Daniel John, 1957- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Crowding and housing satisfaction : an exploratory study Joyce, Kathleen Marie. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Needs and resources of rural elderly Shaffer, Theresa J., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Play preferences in children's art : a study of gender roles Pullen, Amelia Baxter, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The impact of feminism on subjective class identification Walter, Emilie Patricia, 1959- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
Organization as process : the life histories of CORE and SNCC Farmer, Elizabeth M. Zeiders, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
Religion, philosophy, and the second law of thermodynamics Finn, Carter Braxton, 1935- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Ideology and change in the kibbutz Wilhelms, Jeffrey Jay, 1948- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Single mothers by choice McCreary, Candace Diane, 1954- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
The deterrent efficacy of capital punishment on the homicide of law enforcement officers Yaw, Christina Beth, 1954- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
Disaster and the restructuring of organization Linn, John Robert, 1944- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
The development of prisonersʼ rights : a study of judicial opinions Greenwood, Lynn Marie, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
A role analysis of police chiefs in contemporary departments Wolf, Thomas, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Comparative social structure among mammals Rogers, Kenna Louise, 1949- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini : in light of Shi'i history Neary, Brigitte U. Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
The post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
An environmental analysis of professionalization in police departments Spiers, Stephen M., 1950- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
Resource allocation at the university : research on the determinants of faculty morale Schmidt, Douglas Craig, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
The Negro American : images and identities Healey, Joseph F., 1945- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
A theory of future social change Sica, Alan, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
An examination of race, socioeconomic status, age, sex, and marital status as determinants of distribution patterns for migrants and movers in the 1960 Richmond Metropolitan area Oey, Mayling, 1941- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
The empathic accuracy of subordinate and superordinate in the social work bureaucracy West, Beverly Louise, 1948- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The Philippines in the twentieth century: Social change in recent decades Aguas y Quijano, Juan Vidal, 1951- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Social control and morale within the Virginia Department of State Police Engemann, Andrew Herbert, 1955- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Disaster, action, and order : a substantive inquiry of Weber and Durkheim Bosworth, Susan Lovegren, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
A dialectical analysis of role enactment during the emergency period of natural disasters Myers, Kristen Anne, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Euro and African American student experiences and perceptions of skill and knowledge : a comparative analysis from the 1995 senior survey Rhodes, Erica McEachin, 1972- Sociology 1997 Master of Arts
Community power and urban renewal success : a replication Seward, Robert Franklin, 1934- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Determinants of criminal court sentencing Lovko, Jennifer Rae, 1965- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts