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
Republican jurisprudence : Virginia law and the new order, 1776-1830 Wren, John Thomas, 1950- History 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
Food fight! : America's ideological battle over lunch Lautenschlager, Julie Lynn. American Studies 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Struck in their hearts : David Zeisberger's Moravian mission to the Delaware Indians in Ohio, 1767-1808 Conrad, Maia Turner, 1961- History 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Error flow in computer programs Murrill, Branson Wayne, 1952- Computer Science 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
A relativistic model of pion nucleon scattering and pion photoproduction on a single nucleon Surya, Yohanes, 1963- Physics 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Looking at/looking through : teachers planning for curriculum-based learning with technology Richardson, Karen Work. Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Electroproduction of the S11(1535) resonance at high momentum transfer Armstrong, Christopher Stephen, 1964- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Ultrasonic signal detection and recognition using dynamic wavelet fingerprints Hou, Jidong, 1970- Applied Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
A genetic and morphologic comparison of Macoma balthica from the eastern and western North Atlantic Meehan, Brian W. 1954- Marine Science 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
The legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puglisi, Michael J. History 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
Service-learning and cognitive development : an exploratory study Stelljes, Andrew D., 1975- Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Density of states and conductivity of metal alloys Hwang, Hsing-Chow. Physics 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Talent development in the performing arts : teacher characteristics, behaviors, and classroom practices Worley, Bess. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Gone to the dogs : inter-species bonds and the building of bio-cultural capital in America, 1835-present Anglin, Merit Elfi, American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Fourier analysis of frequency domain discrete-event simulation experiments Hazra, Mousumi Mitra, 1964- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between intensity of involvement and community service engagement in the moral development of student members of Greek organizations Phillips, Franklin Hadley, 1976- Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the histozoic oyster parasite, Perkinsus marinus : I) Disease processes in American oysters (Crassostrea virginica); II) Biochemistry of Perkinsus marinus Volety, Aswani K., 1967- Marine Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Impacts of gelatinous zooplankton on dissolved organic matter cycling and bacterioplankton communities in the York River Estuary Condon, Robert Howard, 1974- Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The Nottoway of Virginia : a study of peoplehood and political economy, c. 1775-1875 Woodard, Buck W., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A [delta]f Monte Carlo method to calculate parameters in plasmas Sasinowski, Maciek, 1971- Physics 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Lawlessness on the maritime frontier of the greater Chesapeake, 1650-1750 Margolin, Samuel G., 1951- History 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Full-time community college faculty with doctorates Azar, Janet. Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of molecular order and motion in nematic liquid crystal mixtures Goetz, Jon Michael, 1964- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Conceptions of morality held by eminent people Lehane, Janine Mary, 1961- Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Larvae and young of the western north Atlantic bothid flatfishes Etropus microstomus (Gill) and Citharichthys arctifrons Goode in the Chesapeake Bight Leonard, Sarah Butler, 1944- Marine Science 1971 Doctor of Philosophy
Spatial beam shaping of high-power ultrashort laser pulses Zhang, Shuyan, 1974- Applied Science 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Sediment transport processes in a salt marsh drainage system Boon, John D. Marine Science 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
Quasilinear theory of laser-plasma interactions Neil, Alastair John, 1964- Physics 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Bottom-up and top-down controls on sedimentary ecosystem functioning in a seagrass habitat Spivak, Amanda C., 1979- Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Malware detection and analysis via layered annotative execution Yin, Heng Computer Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
A two-dimensional time-dependent numerical model investigation of the coastal sea circulation around the Chesapeake Bay entrance Stanley, Everett Michael, 1938- Marine Science 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Enhancing web browsing security Yue, Chuan. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Sediment budgets, estuarine sediment loads, and wetland sediment storage at watershed scales, York River Watershed, Virginia Herman, Julie D. Marine Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between the content and quality of ex-spousal interactions and the adjustment of stepchildren : an exploratory study Elison, Bradley Lawrence, 1960- Education 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
An overlooked dimension of the Korean War : the role of Christianity and American missionaries in the rise of Korean nationalism, anti-colonialism, and eventual civil war, 1884-1953 Haga, Kai Yin Allison, 1972- History 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Composite particle reaction theory Wilson, John W. 1940- Physics 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Relationships among counselor moral development, multicultural counseling competency, and attitudes towards people who have disabilities Sacco-Bene, Christine. Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Stability and transition of the driven magnetohydrodynamic sheet pinch Dahlburg, Russell B., 1954- Physics 1985 Doctor of Philosophy
General education and enrollment trends at private baccalaureate colleges, 1975-2000 Vinson, Ellen Levy, 1958- Education 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Fabrication of thermoplastic polymer composite ribbon Sandusky, Donald A., 1966- Applied Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Acoustic radiation-induced static strain in single crystal silicon Li, Ka Kui Peter, 1953- Physics 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Estuarine zooplankton community structure in stratified and well- mixed environments Price, James Edward, 1949- Marine Science 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
Organization and doctrine in the Continental Army, 1774 to 1784 Wright, Robert K., 1946- History 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Utopian spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Development, test and application of a new method of particle shape analyses based on the concept of the fractal dimension Frisch, Adam Arthur, 1954- Marine Science 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
Building the machine : the development of slavery and slave society in early colonial Virginia Coombs, John C., 1966- History 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Improvements to the color quantization process Necaise, Rance David, 1967- Computer Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
A theoretical investigation of electromagnetic waves obliquely incident upon a plasma slab Swift, Calvin Thomas, 1937- Physics 1969 Doctor of Philosophy
Search for metastability of 2S muonic neon Bach, Bernhard Wilhelm, 1965- Physics 1995 Doctor of Philosophy