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
The meteorological effects of the Kuwait oil fires Dowling, Patrick Kevin, 1965- Applied Science 1996 Master of Arts
Barn owl habitat and prey use in agricultural eastern Virginia Rosenburg, Charles Patrick, 1961- Biology 1986 Master of Arts
In pursuit of possibility, Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The mechanism of solvolysis of tri-tert-butylchloroallene Boynton, Whitney Ann, 1947- Chemistry 1971 Master of Arts
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Biosystematic studies of three sympatric Elephantopus species (Compositae) Sheffy, Mary V., 1942- Biology 1967 Master of Arts
The synthesis and photochemistry of anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonyl- -cyclodextrin Aquino, Angela Marie, 1966- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts
Exercising their freedom : the great African-American migration and blacks who remained in the South, 1915-1920 O'Neil, Patrick E., 1967- History 2000 Master of Arts
The life histories of ten of the first women to attend the College of William and Mary [1918-1930] Roy, Diane Marie, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
The relationship between the Board of Trade and Plantations and the colonial government of Virginia, 1696-1775 Johansen, Mary Carroll, 1966- History 1992 Master of Arts
The quiet diplomacy : President Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu Maddox, William Stuart, 1959- History 1990 Master of Arts
The synthesis of 2-pyridones and louisianin B Margrey, Kaila Ashley, Chemistry 2013 Master of Arts
Characterization of epoxy-anime systems and nylon-11 and PVDF degradation Mahler, Wendy Raquel, 1970- Chemistry 1997 Master of Arts
Peopling the western country : a study of migration from Augusta County, Virginia, to Kentucky, 1777-1800 Sacket, Wendy, 1962- History 1987 Master of Arts
L'Ami du peuple in the French Revolution Hoffman, Susan Marie, 1951- History 1979 Master of Arts
The effects of extraneous lateral stimulation on tachistoscopic pattern perception Nice, Don Stephen, 1945- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
The making of a tragedy : American intervention in Lebanon, 1982-1984 McCarthy, David Shamus, 1977- History 2003 Master of Arts
Eavesdropping on history : Olmstead v. U.S. and the emergence of privacy jurisprudence during Prohibition Krouse, Anna Leslie. History 2011 Master of Arts
Ethnicity in the graveyard Goodwin, Conrad M., 1940- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
Take in Hogarths Mathematiks to your aid : perceptions of William Hogarth in eighteenth-century America Moore, Emily Renn, 1979- History 2003 Master of Arts
Ghent gayland : a case study of the gay and lesbian community and media of Norfolk, Virginia Lusby, Michael Anthony. History 2011 Master of Arts
Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation : social relationships and material culture Leavitt, Genevieve. Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
A theory of space probe entry near the low-meteoric velocity limit Grant, Frederick Cyril. Physics 1962 Master of Arts
Evaluation of clients' perspectives on the H.S. program Halsey, Roberta Dean, 1971- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
A reading of Death and life Belloni, Lisa, 1952- English 1977 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
Food and feeding of northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albarcares) : a comparative study of the food and feeding habits of the northern bluefin tuna off the coast of Virginia Barr, Charles Gilbert, 1955- Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
Low-country planter society in colonial South Carolina Dann, John C. History 1970 Master of Arts
Organizational restructuring : community response to natural disaster Crooks, John G., 1957- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Mysterious messages : Masonic imagery in Baltimore album quilts Battaile, Anne Bayne, 1977- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
A helium discharge detector for the determination of organosulfur and phosphorus compounds Tieman, Tamara L., 1969- Chemistry 1992 Master of Arts
I am going to have to hear it all over again : the entrapment of Quentin Compson Alderman, Nigel James, 1965- English 1990 Master of Arts
Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian : myth and disillusionment Vaugh, Carol Van Dessel, 1961- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
The mediating role of opioids in social learning about ethanol in adolescent rats Musisca, Nicholas Joseph, 1979- Psychology 2004 Master of Arts
Attention to and categorization of monoracial and racially ambiguous faces Kittel, Julie Ann. Psychology 2012 Master of Arts
Reproductive biology of tautog, Tautoga onitis, in the lower Chesapeake Bay and coastal waters of Virginia White, Geoffrey Gordon, 1971- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
The effects of mortality and time constraints on productivity in yellow-crowned night herons (nycticorax violacea) Watts, Bryan D. (Bryan David), 1960- Biology 1987 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
Stress reactions by black females in viewing conflict and no-conflict videotapes of a black male or female as a function of the subject's blood pressure level and of history of stress James-Andrews, Andrea Jean. Psychology 1978 Master of Arts
The kinship between Moby Dick and the Divine Comedy Thornton, Lynne Elizabeth, 1949- English 1973 Master of Arts
Incubation of anxiety as measured by response suppression Tarpy, Roger M., 1941- Psychology 1965 Master of Arts
Everyday life of war : a reflexive analysis of American Civil War soldiers in the military environment through a prism of context, practice, and power Auger, Valerie Renee, 1977- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Fine art and clandestine identity : American Indian artists in the contemporary art market Kuizon, Jaclyn. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Trading with the enemy : legal theory and the Civil War Breitenbach, Carole Johnson, 1955- History 1980 Master of Arts
Impact of World War II upon school population enrollment, and attendance in the Hampton Roads-Peninsula area Mapp, Alf Johnson, 1897- Education 1946 Master of Arts
The grammar school of the College of William and Mary, 1693-1888 Dillard, Carra Garrett. Education 1951 Master of Arts
The independent effects of amounts of reinforcement and consummatory behavior on the acquisition of a BPR Hageman, Kenneth Charles, 1920- Psychology 1959 Master of Arts
Faculty attitudes toward student activism and academic reform Rupnow, Thomas John, 1950- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
The synthesis and characterization of Cu(I) networks with heterocyclic bridging ligands Maeyer, Jonathan Timothy, 1977- Chemistry 2001 Master of Arts
The battle over Pearl Harbor : the controversy surrounding the Japanese attack, 1941-1994 Hamblet, Robert Seifert, 1967- History 1995 Master of Arts