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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
Domestic music making in late eighteenth-century elite Chesapeake society : the elegant selections of Shirley Plantation Glosson, Sarah Gentry. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The Shenandoah River gundalow and the politics of material reuse Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The rise and fall of the WB : Dawson's Creek, intertextuality, and legitimation Hodge, Ambert R. J. P. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
The immigrant, the native son, and the ambassador : the transnational travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira Cohen, Amber Shandling. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Re-evaluating sentimental violence in Uncle Tom's cabin and Dred Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
The proper role of religious conviction in moral-political discourse Owens, Jerry, 1959- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
C is for cookie, culture, and capitalism : the Muppet phenomenon in the United States Cloeren, Nicole B., 1973- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
The United States Army chaplain as prophet in the twenty-first century : is there a soul of goodness in things evil? Kammer, Donald W., 1957- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Framing the woman artist : gender and art in Howells and Sargent Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Voters in a foreign land : alien suffrage and citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926 Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Notions of refinement and displays of dignity in African-American home spaces, 1885-1935 Pickens, Roxane Victoria, 1971- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 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
Preserving Virginia's vision of the past Reilley, Karen Merry, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Colonial Williamsburg, national identity, and Cold War patriotism Roberts, Luke Edward, 1974- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Remembering American wars in three controversial displays : the wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center Pleasant, Joanna E., 1973- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
John Leacock's The fall of British Tyranny in the Whig propaganda offensive : the personalization of the Revolution Bigler, Philip. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Stormy weather : Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and the cultural politics of stardom Howard, Amy L., 1971- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
The woman, the legend, the power : fictional representations of Marie Laveau in twentieth-century literature Neidenbach, Elizabeth Clark. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
The first thing out the window : race, radical feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time Mann, Kimberly Lynn. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
A world of goods : the printer's economy in eighteenth-century Virginia Richardson, Kari S., 1973- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
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
What is best and most typical : nostalgia, transgression, and capitalism at the Virginia State Fair 1946-1976 Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Producing the past : museums, reproductions, consumers, and authenticity Talbot, Melinda Grace, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Cherokee royalties : the impact of Indian tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee identity Saunooke, Annette Bird, 1981- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
An officer and a lady Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
An introduction to artists A. B. Jackson and his portrayal of the American neighborhood Shepard, Cindy R., 1955- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Luxury consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia : gender, race, and the personal property tax Hughes, Shannon Lynn, 1969- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Putting masculinity into words : Hemingway's critique and manipulation of American manhood Barnard, Timothy L. 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Integrating the personal and the political : the body politics in Daughter of earth Shen, Han, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
John A. Lomax : documenting the myth of the American West Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe, 1972- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Walk to freedom : how a violent response to the civil rights protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge unwillingly created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rainville, Brian Clement. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
You have no boss here to work for : women and labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing communities O'Grady, Elizabeth Marie. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Katherine Anne Porter's Old mortality and Virginia Woolf : a study in feminism Waite, Rebecca S. L., 1970- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Coming of age in America : Margaret Mead's reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s Stevens, Sarah Elizabeth, 1978- American Studies 2004 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
The Seminar for Historical Administration : companion to change Tramposch, William Joseph. American Studies 1984 Master of Arts

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