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
Aging and cognitive control : discriminating stimulus from response deficits of attention Holt, Kathryn A. Psychology 2010 Master of Arts
An historical survey of the growth of education in Prince George County, Virginia Copeland, Richard Watson, 1896- Education 1940 Master of Arts
Cell phases during endoreduplication induced by Colcemid or radiation in cultured human lymphocytes Weber, Kenneth Eugene, 1943- Biology 1979 Master of Arts
On perfect numbers Eastham, David Thomas, 1940- Mathematics 1965 Master of Arts
The paradox between self-sovereignty and universal law in The Octopus Hauer, Kathryn Bruzas, 1961- English 1985 Master of Arts
The Metompkin Islands : a case study in ownership and management of a dynamic barrier system Niebuhr, David Harold, 1961- Marine Science 1993 Master of Arts
Exhorting or extorting? : George Whitefield's financial controversies Beales, Kristen Elizabeth, History 2014 Master of Arts
The theme of responsibility in black American political thought Legge, Jerome Stewart, 1948- Government 1972 Master of Arts
Bacteriological diagnosis of typhoid fever Straus, Aubrey H., -1947. Biology 1923 Master of Arts
The acid-catalyzed hydration of phenylallene Long, Gary Wayne. Chemistry 1981 Master of Arts
Multinational corporations : social process, capitalism, and the development of capitalist firms Santoro, Daniel John, 1957- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Effects of substrate on hatching success in black skimmers, Rynchops niger, at the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Hampton, Virginia Matthews, Crystal Dawn, 1963- Biology 1995 Master of Arts
The reader's reflection in Swift's A Voyage to Laputa Trapp, Jaime A., 1967- English 1992 Master of Arts
Clockmaking clerics and ropemaking lawyers : mixing occupational roles in early modern Spain Gregory, Aaron Joshua. History 2012 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
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Friendly meetings : the art of conquest and the mythical origins of Pennsylvania, ca. 1620-1771 Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
An education in virtue : didacticism and audience in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth and Charlotte Yonge's the heir of Redclyffe Clarke, Tayce Langley, 1971- English 1996 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence on emotion Willroth, Emily Catherine, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Delftware chronology : a new approach to dating English tin- glazed ceramics Shlasko, Ellen, 1961- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Helena nostra : Saint Helena in Britain Zieper, Linda, 1949- History 1975 Master of Arts
Some characteristics of enzyme induction in aging cultures of Aspergillus ornatus Wilson, Pamela Hunt, 1953- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
The Panama Canal treaties : a possible exception to the usual relationship between public opinion and foreign policy Johnston, Donna Sibley, 1943- Government 1978 Master of Arts
The Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Virginia and a partial revision of Mayer's varieties of Caprella acutifrons Latreille McCain, John C. Marine Science 1964 Master of Arts
A method for evaluating the long-term, cumulative impacts of tidal marsh alterations : the York River system, a case study Zacherle, Andrew W. Marine Science 1984 Master of Arts
Truth and exclusion : verbal dominance in the House of Mirth Genaro, Teresa A., 1965- English 1993 Master of Arts
The impact of warning label exposure on attentional bias to smoking cues in smokers and nonsmokers Harris, Anna Kathleen, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Aspects of colonial nesting in four species of herons in Virginia Frohring, Paula Christine, 1950- Biology 1981 Master of Arts
Rehearsal and modality effects on delayed recall of continuously presented paired-associates Breitenstein, Donna Lynn, 1947- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Development of a technique to isolate measurement of ionic mobility Guo, Jie, 1971- Chemistry 2002 Master of Arts
The Mount Pleasant service complex : salvaging interpretations from previously acquired data Grow, Megan Elizabeth, 1972- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
An experimental study of the effect of puppetry on pupil growth in school achievement, personal adjustment, and manipulative skill Haak, Albert Edward. Education 1952 Master of Arts
Drug use and deterrence : a test of Silberman's general theory Maume, Michael Owen, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Landlords, tenants, and rental property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780 Powers, Emma Lou, 1951- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Characterization of Minchinia sp. spores (Ascetospora: Haplosporidiidae) infecting Teredo navalis L. and Teredo furcifera von Martens (Mollusca: Teredinidae) in the western North Atlantic McGovern, Elizabeth Robinson, 1962- Marine Science 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
Basilisks of the commonwealth : vagrants and vagrancy in England, 1485-1553 Daly, Christopher Thomas, 1960- History 1986 Master of Arts
Development of podocysts of the scyphozoan, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, after removal of the cyst covering Tseng, Lan-Ping Amy, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
A distinctive chest of drawers : using material culture to interpret the past and the present Johnston, Jessica Williams, 1969- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Some effects of three dosages of alcohol on several measures of performance in an alley maze Smith, Nelson Fay, 1937- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
In noe wise cruelly whipped: indentured servitude, household violence, and the law in seventeenth-century Virginia Carbonell, Caylin Elizabeth History 2015 Master of Arts
Seasonal changes in fecundity of oysters crassostrea virginica (gmelin) : from four oyster reefs in the James River, Virginia Cox, Carrollyn, 1961- Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
Discipline in Middletown Friends Meeting, 1755-1770 Toner, William Henry, 1945- History 1970 Master of Arts
The implementation of a special language interpreter for the Control Data 3100 computer Lee, James Thomas, 1948- Applied Science 1975 Master of Arts
William F. Willoughby, a progressive in China, 1914-1916 Ramsey, Elizabeth Courtenay, 1947- History 1976 Master of Arts
Predator-prey dynamics between the blue crab : callineates sapidus rathbun, and juvenile oysters crassostrea virginia (Gmelin) Eggleston, David B. Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
The heat budget of the waters of a portion of the Chesapeake Bight, 1967 Greer, George Washington, 1939- Marine Science 1970 Master of Arts
The least tern in Virginia : breeding biology and population distribution Akers, John William, 1949- Biology 1975 Master of Arts
From benevolent individual to professional agency : personal service to the poor, 1880-1910 Robinson, David Harry, 1948- History 1976 Master of Arts