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
Evolution and analysis of a catalytically effective model enzyme : the importance of active site orientation and tuned conformational fluctuations Williams, G. S. Blair, 1978- Chemistry 2003 Master of Arts
The effect of pronunciability, familiarity, and mode of presentation on acquisition of CVC trigrams Williams, John Marion, 1937- Psychology 1962 Master of Arts
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
The relationship between neural reorganization and neuropsychological functioning in normal aging Hershaw, Jamie Nicole, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
A comparison of three wetland evaluation methods in their assessment of nontidal wetlands in the coastal plain of Virginia Chaun, Melissa Claire, 1969- Marine Science 1995 Master of Arts
Slavery and a low country South Carolina merchant-planter elite : the dilemma of Henry Laurens Cox, Samuel P., 1959- History 1993 Master of Arts
Eggshell thinning and pesticide residues in ospreys from the lower Chesapeake Bay Via, Jerry Waller, 1949- Biology 1975 Master of Arts
Mothering to worlds old and new : Marie de l'Incarnation and her children Hawkins, Ginger S., 1976- History 2001 Master of Arts
A stereoselective synthesis of CIS-2, 5-disubstituted pyrrolidines : precursors for the (5E, 8Z)-3, 5-dialkyl pyrrolizidines Shah, Mehul Shantilal, 1964- Chemistry 1987 Master of Arts
Reactions of tin (IV) Lewis acids with -diketones in the presence of pyridine Carr, Diana Deane, 1949- Chemistry 1971 Master of Arts
Variation between sparrows in the ability to extract buried seed Whalen, David Michael, 1972- Biology 1998 Master of Arts
Quebec nationalism and separatism : a study of a continuing Canadian crisis Berry, Robert Michael, 1952- Government 1983 Master of Arts
A study of the implications of supervisory principles Graves, Eliot Boyd, 1904- Education 1935 Master of Arts
Oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production in prairie deermice (Peromyscus Maniculatus Bairdii) kept in various group densities and reproductive conditions Staubs, Patricia A., 1967- Biology 1992 Master of Arts
Simple association versus mediation in reversal learning Ewald, William Martin, 1942- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts
Voting patterns of hispanics in Texas, 1960-1986 Rogers, Rebecca Allen, 1961- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
A mode of correcting the existing evils : swindlers, inland passage tickets, and the federalization of immigration policy in the Antebellum United States Fitzgibbon, Joseph Patrick, History 2015 Master of Arts
Overlearning and reversal of a successive discrimination task Hornbuckle, Phyllis Ann, 1938- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts
Role enactment and disaster response : a methodological exploration Russell, Stephen Thomas, 1966- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Of circuit riders and circuit courts : a case study of the Methodist border conflict in antebellum Virginia Gleason, Douglas Paul, History 2015 Master of Arts
A comparison of natural and laboratory diets for the culture of marine invertebrate larvae American oyster, Crassostrea virginica, queen conch, Strombus gigas, and milk conch, Strombus costatus Brooke, Sandra Dawn, 1963- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
I'm really just an American : the archaeological importance of the Black towns in the American West and late-nineteenth century constructions of blackness Winsett, Shea Aisha. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
The acid-catalyzed hydration of phenylallene Long, Gary Wayne. Chemistry 1981 Master of Arts
A comparative study of environmental policy : the United States and Japan Mortimer, Shari Ann, 1967- Government 1994 Master of Arts
Consciousness and its reproduction in higher education Monk, Elizabeth Ann, 1952- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Distributive justice in resource-allocation Marty, Antoinette T., 1977- Psychology 2002 Master of Arts
Poles at the polls: ethnic voting in South Bend, Indiana Trojanowski, Ronald E., 1961- Government 1988 Master of Arts
The overseers of the poor in Accomac, Pittsylvania, and Rockingham counties, 1787-1802 Usry, Robert M. History 1960 Master of Arts
Paintings as information : the anthropology of images : a consideration of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Netherlandish painting in relation to foodways and historical archeology Payne, Melissa, 1952- Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The oxidation of -cyclodextrin via the photolysis of 6- -cyclodextrin benzoyl formate Creswick, Heather Alison, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
Legislated towns in Virginia, 1680-1705 : growth and function, 1680-1780 Chernichowski, Beth-Anne, 1951- History 1974 Master of Arts
Patterns of habitat utilization in 0-age summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) Wyanski, David M., 1957- Marine Science 1990 Master of Arts
The development of political theory in colonial Massachusetts, 1688-1740 Dufour, Ronald P. 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts
Zooplankton communities in Chesapeake Bay seagrass systems Meyer, Cathy Elizabeth, 1956- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
Some special electrical measurements Marciano, Charles Anthony. Physics 1929 Master of Arts
Pym and the popular : form and structure of the novel Isani, Arif Ali, 1968- English 1995 Master of Arts
A sociological study of the needs of the elderly in a subarea of Hampton, Virginia Yeatts, Dale Purnell, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
I looked to the East-- : material culture, conversion, and acquired meaning in early African America Boroughs, Jason. Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Cabinetmakers and related tradesmen in Norfolk, Virginia : 1770- 1820 Hurst, Ronald LeRoy, 1954- History 1989 Master of Arts
Effects of Orexin A on attention in rats Zajo, Kristin Nicole, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Wangunk ethnohistory : a case study of a Connecticut River Indian community Ives, Timothy Howlett, 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Formation of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in partially mixed estuaries and application in a one-dimensional real-time model Wilber, Anne Catherine, 1953- Marine Science 1986 Master of Arts
Reproductive strategies in Asclepias Syriaca and Apocynum Cannabinum Soltys, Mariellen J., 1965- Biology 1994 Master of Arts
The treatment of love and marriage in Thomas Hardy's Far from the madding crowd and Henry James's The portrait of a lady Shepeard, Susan, 1948- English 1976 Master of Arts
Toward a general model of social control and school related violations/ Sowell, Robin E., 1967- Sociology 1991 Master of Arts
Artistic and thematic unity in the Romance of the Rose : the function of reason, nature and genius O'Connor, Esme', 1946- English 1972 Master of Arts
Phylogenetic implications of sporangial ultrastructure in the subfamily Lithophylloideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) Bedell, Mark T., 1973- Biology 1999 Master of Arts
Bremsstrahlung production in lanthanum thick targets Ferguson, David Neil, 1934- Physics 1965 Master of Arts
Common elements and differences in provisions for compulsory school attendance Calevas, Ann Elizabeth. Education 1956 Master of Arts