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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
Two steps from the blues : creating discourse and constructing canons in blues criticism Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
A robe of eloquence : speech and power in the life and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 1998 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
Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern : an example of the influence of the colonial revival upon museums Mosher, Melissa Beth, 1963- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
Picturesque America : packaging America for popular consumption Ramsier, Allen Lewis, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Entertaining education or purely entertainment : a case study of the Yorktown Victory Center Ecker, Jordan Margaret-May, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Rituals, roots, and rectangles : the classical tradition in early American portraiture Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 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
Fair and tender ladies at Tinker Creek : women writers coming of age Parrish, Nancy C., 1952- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Members, don't git weary : Max Roach, Treme, and the sound of resistance Jones, Brian Edward, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Medicating slavery : motherhood, health care, and cultural practices in the African diaspora Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and the antimodernist tradition Prown, Katherine Hemple, 1963- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
The Prentis family and their library Richter, Julie (Caroline Julia), 1961- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
I get a kick out of you' : cinematic revisions of the history of the African American cowboy in the American West Maguire, Stephanie Anne, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Caroline Gordon's Christian vision : a conservative empowerment Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Performing race : instances of color representation in American culture Adkins, Katrin L., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
I would not begrudge to give a few pounds more elite consumer choices in the Chesapeake, 1720-1785 : the Calvert house ceramic assemlage Patrick, Steven Edward, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Walk to freedom : how a violent response to the civil rights protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge unwillingly created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rainville, Brian Clement. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The political-domestics : sectional issues in American women's fiction, 1852-1867 Peterson, Beverly 1950- American Studies 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong : examining transcultural performances of Asian American identity in Hong Kong English language amateur theatre productions of Thoroughly modern Millie and Yellow face Mein, Iris Eu Loa, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
To seek the good, the true, and beautiful : white, Greek-letter sororities in the U.S. South and the shaping of American 'ladyhood', 1915-1975 Freeman, Margaret Lynn. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Preserving Virginia's vision of the past Reilley, Karen Merry, 1968- American Studies 1998 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
Transitional women in the southern works of Constance Fenimore Woolson Stanton, Carol Ann McGowan, 1962- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
Race, childhood, and Native American boarding schools : a case study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Norris, Tyler, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Colonial Williamsburg's slave auction re-enactment : controversy, African American history and public memory Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Let all things be done decently and in order : gender segregation in the seating of early American churches Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
R.C. Scott : a history of African-American entrepreneurship in Richmond 1890-1940 Plater, Michael A., 1956- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Understanding roadkill through an animal method Monahan, Linda Angela, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Neither bedecked nor bebosomed : Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and women's leadership and organizing in the struggle for freedom Glisson, Susan M., 1967- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Producing the past : museums, reproductions, consumers, and authenticity Talbot, Melinda Grace, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Anime in America, Disney in Japan : the global exchange of popular media visualized through Disney's Stitch Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts

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