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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
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A dress of the right length to die in : mortuary and memorial practices amongst Depression-era tenant farmers of the Piedmont South Alderman-Tuttle, Zoey. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
The mistakes of yesterday, the hopes of tomorrow : prison, pop music, and the Prisonaires Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
The Alan Lomax photographs and The music of Williamsburg (1959-1960) Aarlien, Peggy Finley, 1964- American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Between fact and fiction : writing by American women in a transnational context Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Beating songs : blues, violence, and the male body in the films of Spike Lee Gaines, Mikal J. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The brownies' book : an open window to early twentieth-century African American childhood Clark, Regina Ann. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Unstable compounds : progressive and regressive impulses in four contemporary American documentaries and the prospect for social change Bransford, Stephen Henry, 1973- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
A certain kinship : the first exhibitions of American folk art, New York, 1924-1932 Chasse, Sarah Noble. American Studies 2012 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
Lost chances in Sino-American relations : the burden of myth, culture, and ideology, 1949-1953 Haga, Kai Yin Allison, 1972- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
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
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Prescription and practice : a comparison of child-care manuals, fashion journals and mail-order catalogues on the subject of children's dress 1875-1900 Bates, Christina Jean, 1952- American Studies 1989 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
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
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
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond telling the news : the mission of public journalism, 1996 Burton, Pamela Sue, 1965- American Studies 1996 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
I claim not to have controlled events : Abraham Lincoln and the manipulation of public opinion in the secession crisis Huso, Deborah Rae, 1975- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
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
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The United States Army chaplain as prophet in the twenty-first century : is there a soul of goodness in things evil? Kammer, Donald W., 1957- American Studies 2005 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
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Wild, wearable, and seaworthy Davey, Frances Evelyn, 1970- American Studies 1996 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
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 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
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
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The woman, the legend, the power : fictional representations of Marie Laveau in twentieth-century literature Neidenbach, Elizabeth Clark. American Studies 2005 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
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
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
Mouth with myriad subtleties : race, gender, audience, and authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The conjure woman Edmonds, Kristin Margaret, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
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
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 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
Performing race : instances of color representation in American culture Adkins, Katrin L., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Integrating the personal and the political : the body politics in Daughter of earth Shen, Han, 1979- American Studies 2005 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

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