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
Topics in mode conversion theory and the group theoretical foundations of path integrals Richardson, Andrew Stephen, 1980- Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Marketing to the 'liberated' woman : feminism, social change, and beauty culture, 1960-2000 Kreydatus, Elizabeth A., 1977- History 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Cooperating teaching as a professional development activity Spencer, Trina Lorraine. Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Chemical bonding in hard and elastic amorphous carbon-nitride films Gammon, W. Jason. Physics 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the relationship between secondary teacher satisfaction and attitude toward collective negotiations Corley, David Ray, 1938- Education 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of petroleum on the salt marsh ecosystem Lake, James L. 1944- Marine Science 1977 Doctor of Philosophy
Simulation and numerical solution of stochastic Petri nets with discrete and continuous timing Jones, Robert Linzey, 1964- Computer Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
An analysis of wetland patterns and functions at the watershed and sub-watershed scales, with policy applications Bissonnette, Jennifer Newton, 1967- Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Nanoscale mechanical characterization of graphene/polymer nanocomposites using atomic force microscopy Cai, Minzhen, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Gamma rays following negative muon capture in medium Z nuclei Miller, George H. Physics 1972 Doctor of Philosophy
Application of the genetic algorithm to an ecological simulation Seufzer, William J. (William James), 1961- Marine Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Water quality modeling as an inverse problem Shen, Jian, 1958- Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
An examination of counselor development and supervision among home based family counselors in Virginia Lawson, Gerard Francis, 1968- Education 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Ichthyofaunal and dietary analysis of sympatic piscivores in a Chesapeake Bay littoral zone : including bioenergetic models of growth and Diel temperature sanctuary use Hager, Christian Harding, 1968- Marine Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Analysis of (iso)surface reconstructions : quantitative metrics and methods Beauchat, Tracey Allen, 1967- Computer Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
From eager lips came shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 Gillin, Kate Fraser History 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Impact of large scale substrate roughness on giant magnetoresistive thin films Watson, Shannon M., 1977- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The ortho to para transition in muonic molecular hydrogen Clark, Jessica H. D. Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
A national study of curriculum policies and practices in gifted education Chandler, Kimberley Lynn. Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Regulation and impact of the phytoplankton assemblage composition in the Southern Ocean Peloquin, Jill A., 1976- Marine Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The New Orleans riot of 1866 : the anatomy of a tragedy Vandal, Gilles. History 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
The freemasonry of the race : the cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia Walker, Corey D. B. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The first direct measurement of the weak charge of the proton Leckey, John Poague. Physics 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Puritan town and gown : Harvard College and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636-1800 Burton, John D., 1959- History 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Optimization of a pixelized gamma ray imager for scintimammography Steinbach, Daniela, 1967- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Use and effectiveness of test accommodations for students with learning disabilities on the Stanford achievement test, ninth edition Rullman, Deborah W. Education 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Most probable magnetohydrostatic equilibria for tokamaks and reversed field pinches Ambrosiano, John. Physics 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of regional species pool dynamics on metacommunity structure and ecosystem function France, Kristin E., 1977- Marine Science 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Thermochemistry of amino acids and constrained diamines Tullo, Erica Jane. Applied Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Survival of juvenile queen conch, Strombus gigas, in natural habitats : impact of prey, predator and habitat features Marshall, Livingston Sinclair, 1962- Marine Science 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
I feel quite independent now : the life of Mary Greenhow Lee Phipps, Sheila R., 1948- History 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy of half-metallic chromium dioxide Huang, Hailong, 1979- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The current setting of the evolution/creation debate in American public schools Reynolds, Bradley Doyle. Education 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Aspects of the ecology of estuarine light with special reference to seagrasses of the Chesapeake Bay : measurements and models Van Tine, Robin Francis, 1947- Marine Science 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
Some make it, some don't : a study of the characteristics of aspiring academics using the National study of postsecondary faculty, 2004 Janson, Natasha. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Aspects of systematics, morphology, life history and feeding of western Atlantic sciaenidae (Pisces :Perciformes) Chao, Labbish Ning. Marine Science 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
Calculations of the interactions of energetic ions with materials for protection of computer memory and biological systems Kim, Myung-Hee Y., 1957- Applied Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Low energy tests of the standard model Rislow, Benjamin Carl, 1986-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A national survey of policies and practices regarding the performance evaluation of public school educators Geiger, Carole Beat. Education 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The price of empire : Anglo-French rivalry for the Great Lakes fur trades, 1700-1760 Laird, Matthew R. History 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Photoabsorption spectra of hydrogen and alkali atoms in electric fields Gao, Jing, 1962- Physics 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
A comparative study of priorities for pre-college marine education objectives in Virginia Lanier, James A., 1941- Marine Science 1981 Doctor of Philosophy
Au integration of case-based and model-based reasoning and its application to physical system faults Karamouzis, Stamos T., 1963- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Lessons from the past : an historical analysis of science edution (biology) curriculum reforms 1950-1975 Holzmann, Gwetheldene Louise, 1955- Education 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Distribution, abundance, and behavior of the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill 1815), in lower Chesapeake Bay Blaylock, Robert A. Marine Science 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
On-line system identification for control system applications in particle accelerators Chowdhary, Mahesh, 1966- Applied Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from 4HE : a measurement of GEs at Q2 = 0.1 (GeV/c)2 Moffit, Bryan James, 1976- Physics 2007 Doctor of Philosophy