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
The Philippines in the twentieth century: Social change in recent decades Aguas y Quijano, Juan Vidal, 1951- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Disaster, action, and order : a substantive inquiry of Weber and Durkheim Bosworth, Susan Lovegren, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
Land-use in Richmond, Virginia, 1880, 1910, 1940 Newcomb, David Ray, 1947- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Alzheimer's disease and the role of the physician Jones, Shirley Smith, 1959- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Religion, philosophy, and the second law of thermodynamics Finn, Carter Braxton, 1935- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Downtown revitization : a functionalist analysis Knighton, Janice Jacqueline, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
The Korean student movement : the mobilization process Park, B. C. Ben (Byeong Chul Ben), 1956- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
The development of prisonersʼ rights : a study of judicial opinions Greenwood, Lynn Marie, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Voting patterns of hispanics in Texas, 1960-1986 Rogers, Rebecca Allen, 1961- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Radical environmentalism and religion Bush, Evelyn Louise, 1967- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Praxis and history Garnjobat, Gordon. Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Role enactment and disaster response : a methodological exploration Russell, Stephen Thomas, 1966- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
The relationship between family structure and delinquency Smith, Kenneth McCaslin, 1969- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
Toward a more inclusive structure of sport : is participation in coeducational physical activities related to perceptions of gender and athletic ability? La Croix, Rachel M. 1972- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
The post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
A cross-cultural comparison of selected medical students' perceptions of issues related to battered women Strickland, Anita, 1917- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
Gender differences in knowledge of and interest in current social and political events Lellinger, Richard Eric, 1966- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Rationality in conglomerate succession : a case study Alie, Raymond E. Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A theory of future social change Sica, Alan, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Comparing self-perceptions of skills and knowledge among college students : cross-sectional versus panel designs Wilson, Susan E., 1972- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
Regional variations in third world development Wynn, Robert Dempsey, 1970- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
Youth in transition : college students and their parents Dawson, John Robert, 1937- Sociology 1972 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 social organization of the hip hop graffiti subculture Wilson, Victoria Arriola, 1967- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
The effects of reference groups on human lactation duration Cashman-Janowski, Regina, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Homophile dis-ease : a product of the social environment DeRoche, T. R., 1947- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Incest : clinical treatment perspectives Bennett, Beverly Chitty, 1953- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Bisegmented and multisegmented lovers' nests : an exploratory study German, Hallett. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Ethnic voting behavior in an urban area : the effect of ethnic identification upon candidate choice and political party affiliation among Greek-Americans Brock, Helen Theresa, 1948- Sociology 1971 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and social network Francis, Patricia Rae, 1959- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The relevance of social isolation to the community tenure of former mental patients Hargadon, Sue Ellen. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
The new right Reiley, Elizabeth Julia, 1954- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
No-fault divorce legislation and its impact on state divorce rates Massey, Elizabeth Ann, 1954- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood : a cross-cultural replication German, Raquel Miranda, 1957- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and emergent units Saunders, Sarah Lee, 1960- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Sociological contributions to the community mental health movement : a reformulation Morrison, Richard Drury. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Death and the self Miller, Jo Ann Langley, 1949- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Cumulative advantage and scientific productivity Schober, Charles P., 1951- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The Weather Underground : a study in mobilization Pigulski, Paul Michael, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Air pollution, a sociological perspective Freymeyer, Robert Howard, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Elderly clients' perceptions of human services Egly, Stephanie R., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts