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
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
Passage to more than India : American attitudes toward British imperialism in the 1850s Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, 1970- History 1998 Master of Arts
Macrobenthic community structure at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Llansó, Roberto Javier, 1955- Marine Science 1985 Master of Arts
Boundary layer structure in homogeneous tidal flows : a theoretical and numerical study Shen, Jian, 1958- Marine Science 1993 Master of Arts
A calculation of electron-bremsstrahlung produced in thick targets Gross, Chris, 1937- Physics 1968 Master of Arts
Evaluation of scavenger gases in a helium discharge detector Poteat, Sandra Lynn, 1968- Chemistry 1991 Master of Arts
Philip Fithian's private journals and personal journies : self-improvement, fidelity, and rebellion, 1766-1776 Pompeian, Edward P., 1983- History 2007 Master of Arts
C.C. Spaulding & R.R. Wright--companions on the road less traveled? : a reconsideration of African American international relations in the early twentieth century Byrd, Brandon R. History 2011 Master of Arts
That the future may learn from the past : the goals and educational value of living history musuems Mahoney, Nicole Marie, 1973- History 1998 Master of Arts
Merchants of Curacao in the early 18th century Brito, Nadia Francisca, 1953- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Early english firearms : a re-examination of the evidence Straube, Beverly Ann, 1947- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Age, growth, and reproductive biology of blackcheek tonguefish, Symphurus plagiusa (Cynoglossidae: Pleuronectiformes), in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Terwilliger, Mark Richard, 1971- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's essay For the old batchellor on avarice : a critical edition Wentworth, Mary Beth, 1950- English 1973 Master of Arts
Survival and activity of the oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea (Say), under conditions of fluctuating salinity Zachary, Arthur, 1944- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts
Beating songs : blues, violence, and the male body in the films of Spike Lee Gaines, Mikal J. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The commercial endeavors of a Virginia merchant during the confederation period : the rise and fall of Richard Blow, 1781-1790 Teute, Fredrika J., 1947- History 1976 Master of Arts
A numerical simulation and statistical modeling of high intensity radiated fields experiment data Smith, Laura, 1962- Mathematics 2001 Master of Arts
Pluralism and genocide case study of the genocide in Bangladesh, 1971 Ahmed, Nahleen, 1961- Government 1987 Master of Arts
Robert Hunter Morris and the politics of Indian affairs in Pennsylvania, 1754-1755. Downing, Charles Michael, 1955- History 1995 Master of Arts
How may high school pupils be guided in their selection of science work other than by the mere general opinion of the teacher? Bowles, Rosewall Page. Education 1925 Master of Arts
Auditory evoked potentials of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) Bartol, Soraya M., 1970- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
What mean? : the postmodern metafiction within William Gaddis's The Recognitions Butler, Sean, 1965- English 1992 Master of Arts
The illustrated map : cartography and power in seventeenth century Virginia Green, Christine Jeanette, 1973- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Occupational paths and prestige levels of sociology concentrators : do gender differences exist? Reenstra, Bonnie Lynn, 1967- Sociology 1990 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
Gone to a better land : a study of gravestone forms, art and symbolism Harnois, Richard D., 1957- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Theories of leadership : a contemporary analysis 1975-1989 Schwartzman, Robert D., 1956- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Educating the Korean juvenile delinquent for democracy Eastman, Harold Dwight. Education 1947 Master of Arts
Creating meaning from the meaningless : Existentialism and the function of language in Paul Bowles', The Sheltering Sky Karr, Scott Michael, 1968- English 1993 Master of Arts
Imitation as a function of drive, reinforcement, and stimulus ambiguity Larson, Anne V., 1943- Psychology 1967 Master of Arts
Application of electromagnetic radiation pressure for plasma acceleration Morin, Theodore. Physics 1961 Master of Arts
Comparison of mussel-bed faunas at Blake Rige [sic] and Florida escarpment seeps Knick, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1979- Biology 2003 Master of Arts
Evenings at home : family life in southside Virginia, 1760-1836 Tucker, Alicia Liberty Boehm, 1960- History 1988 Master of Arts
The influence of salinity on the swimming behavior of larval Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) McCarthy, Kevin J., 1961- Marine Science 1989 Master of Arts
Perot activism in 1992 : implications for the Republican Party Kajeckas, Jonathan Gabriel, 1967- Government 1996 Master of Arts
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Social factors affecting male reproductive success in Nasonia vitripennis Orr, Harold Allen, 1960- Biology 1985 Master of Arts
Behind the scenes at William and Mary : front stage history and backstage archaeology Little, Tiffany Olivia, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Valuable possessions : wealth, prestige, and social mobility in the colonial Chesapeake Battle, Whitney L., 1971- History 2001 Master of Arts
Perceived racial discrimination and political-racial stereotyping Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Cultural determinism in Their Eyes Were Watching God Thompson, Lynda Ann, 1958- English 1994 Master of Arts
John Millington, civil engineer and teacher, 1779-1868 Tarleton, Lavonne Olson, 1934- Education 1966 Master of Arts
White squaws : work as a factor in choosing Indian life Hines, Karen L., 1955- History 2004 Master of Arts
A minister in all but name : the letters of Martha Gerrish (1689-1736) Philyaw, Jessica, 1965- History 1990 Master of Arts
Born into slavery : the American slave child experience Mullins, Melissa Ann, 1965- History 1997 Master of Arts
Investigating scale errors : independent systems of object representation or simple motor priming Brito, Natalie Hiromi, 1983- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
William Randolph, of Turkey Island, progenitor of a famous family Swartz, James Eldred, 1899- History 1942 Master of Arts
Remembering to forget : Gone with the Wind, Roots, and Consumer History Rose, Annjeanette C., 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Simple association versus mediation in reversal learning Ewald, William Martin, 1942- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts