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
Building freedom : nineteenth century domestic architecture on Barbados sugar plantations Bergman, Stephanie. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
For thus his neglect : grand jury presentments for failure to attend church, York County, Virginia, 1750-1775 Kesler, Leslie Michelle, 1968- History 1992 Master of Arts
Vascular flora of the Yorktown Colonial Parkway between Brackens Pond and Kings Creek Salle, Emily Depp, 1948- Biology 1972 Master of Arts
Bounds for the eigenvalues of a matrix Garren, Kenneth Ross, 1940- Mathematics 1965 Master of Arts
The Cure reaction of an aromatic thermosetting polyimide Whitham, Michael Edward, 1962- Chemistry 1986 Master of Arts
The attempted synthesis of a phenolphthalein-capped beta-cyclodextrin Miller, Susan Elizabeth, 1976- Chemistry 2000 Master of Arts
The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and the speaker Cohen, Arnold David. Government 1982 Master of Arts
Day and night differences in water regulation of Peromyscus leucopus Chae, Haejin Erin, 1972- Biology 1997 Master of Arts
Hospitality, civility, and sociability: takiing tea in colonial Barbados Mahoney, Meredith Ashley Holaday. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
Late Pleistocene stratigraphy and morphology of the lower Northern Neck, Virginia Farrell, Kathleen M., 1954- Marine Science 1979 Master of Arts
Reactions of DI-(1-naphthyl) diazomethane with beta-cyclodextrin Cabell, Margaret Frances, 1969- Chemistry 1991 Master of Arts
Formation cross sections for Rb⁸⁶ from Rb⁸⁷ and Sr⁸⁷ with intermediate energy protons Sawyer, Rae Worley, 1945- Chemistry 1969 Master of Arts
Utilization of a helium discharge detector for quantitation of organohalogen compounds Ryan, David Andrew, 1965- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts
Caretakers of the color line : southern sheriffs of the twentieth century Hill, Grace Earle, 1974- History 2003 Master of Arts
Against stanza-pairing : another look at correspondences between stanzas in Spenser's Epithalamion Rankin, Paula Clark, 1944- English 1975 Master of Arts
Within-person relationships among prayer, well-being, and daily events Newman, David Benjamin, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Uptake, biotransformation, and elimination of benzo[a]pyrene by the gammarid amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus Huszai, Caryn M., 1969- Marine Science 1995 Master of Arts
The political imaginings of slave conspirators : Atlantic contexts of the 1710 slave conspiracy in Martinque Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. History 2011 Master of Arts
To separate the tares from the corn : Debts and slaves in post-revolutionary Virginia Swan, Philip George, 1969- History 1993 Master of Arts
Two techniques of modifying an impulsive tempo Hargrove, Patricia Ann, 1949- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
Guide to estuarine and inshore bivalves of Virginia Turgeon, Donna DeMoranville, 1943- Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
Identification and distribution of urophycis (Gill) and phycis (Artedi) larvae and pelagic juveniles in the middle atlantic bight Comyns, Bruce Henry, 1954- Marine Science 1987 Master of Arts
Structural organization of the Hopewell city and Prince George County school system on a regional basis Smith, Charles William, 1907- Education 1946 Master of Arts
Huguenot silversmiths in London, 1685-1715 Reusch, Brooke Gallagher, 1976- History 2001 Master of Arts
The role of olfaction in mediation of pregnancy block in white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus noveboracencis Utt, Dale Alan, 1959- Biology 1984 Master of Arts
Determination of trace levels of lead in whole blood by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy Sombers, Leslie A., 1975- Chemistry 1998 Master of Arts
Alfred Thayer Mahan and the making of the superior other McGlashan, John William. History 2009 Master of Arts
A helium discharge detector for the determination of organosulfur and phosphorus compounds Tieman, Tamara L., 1969- Chemistry 1992 Master of Arts
Abraham Lincoln and Negro colonization : the Ile A'Vache, Hayti experience, 1862-1864 Spencer, Jayme Ruth, 1943- History 1971 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
A study of osmotic response in Neomysis americana Smith Miller, Robert J. Marine Science 1964 Master of Arts
An ecological and biometric investigation of the nesting of the four-toed salamander, Hemidactylium scutatum (Schlegel) in Virginia Wood, John Thornton. Biology 1951 Master of Arts
Social and reproductive consequences of bridging asymptotic laboratory populations of prairie deermice Swenson, Betty Ann, 1951- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
Milk enough for all : the African-American woman's quest for identity and authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Amy Ghaemmaghamie. Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Influence of marinas on hydrocarbons in sediments of two estuarine creeks Voudrias, Evangelos Alexandros. Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
Phylogeny of the Haplosporidia (Eukaryota: Alveolata) based on small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence Flores, Brenda Sandy, 1970- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
Quick! Do something manly! : the Super Bowl as an American spectacle of hegemonic masculinity, violence, and nationalism Huebenthal, Jan, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Closing the open door policy : American diplomatic and military reactions to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 Ault, Jonathan Bennett, 1969- History 1994 Master of Arts
Rousing a nation : the Virginia Gazettes and the growing crisis 1773-1774 by William Chabot Frank, Jr. Frank, Willard Chabot, 1935- History 1962 Master of Arts
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
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Hydroids of the pelagic sargassum community of the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea Rackley, David Holland, 1946- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
A preliminary study in general learning ability Shelburne, Thomas P., 1913- Education 1937 Master of Arts
The synthesis of acetylisophthalic acid for the double capping of -cyclodextrin Sharma, Shuci, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
The function of irony in Wallace Stevens' Esthétique du mal Epes, Isota Tucker, 1918- English 1973 Master of Arts
A comparison of (p,2n) and (p,pn) reactions on Cerium-140 at intermediate energies Ruth, Thomas Jean, 1943- Physics 1967 Master of Arts
Credences of summer: Wallace Steven:s concentric search for reality Holladay, Hilary White, 1961- English 1987 Master of Arts
An economic and sociological survey of Lancaster County and the relationship to the educational program, 1930-1940 Booker, James Judson, 1907- Education 1942 Master of Arts
A comparison of the herpetofauna of four different-aged wooded stands Rosa, George Joseph, 1955- Biology 1979 Master of Arts
Testing Bowen's family systems theory : the focused-on child Kitzmann, Katherine Moore, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts