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
Enclaves and enterprises : Chinese communities in the United States Huang, Xiaoyi, 1958- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
The Korean student movement : the mobilization process Park, B. C. Ben (Byeong Chul Ben), 1956- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
The effects of reference groups on human lactation duration Cashman-Janowski, Regina, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Gender roles and home computer use by children D'Alemberte, Trelles Whitfield, 1968- Sociology 1991 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Social activity amoung sociology alumni Riddle, Dawn June, 1967- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Incest : clinical treatment perspectives Bennett, Beverly Chitty, 1953- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Voting patterns of hispanics in Texas, 1960-1986 Rogers, Rebecca Allen, 1961- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
The Negro American : images and identities Healey, Joseph F., 1945- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Bisegmented and multisegmented lovers' nests : an exploratory study German, Hallett. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Racism, sexism and ageism in America Lyons, Bobbie Alexander, 1947- Sociology 1991 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Affirmative action and self esteem : an exploratory analysis using attribution theory Simpson, Jacqueline Christine Coon, 1962- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and social network Francis, Patricia Rae, 1959- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Role enactment and disaster response : a methodological exploration Russell, Stephen Thomas, 1966- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
The viability of the volunteers in courts programs : an analysis of the conceptual foundations and empirical research Baker, Eleanor Margaret, 1940- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
An examination of race, socioeconomic status, age, sex, and marital status as determinants of distribution patterns for migrants and movers in the 1960 Richmond Metropolitan area Oey, Mayling, 1941- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
The relevance of social isolation to the community tenure of former mental patients Hargadon, Sue Ellen. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Toward a general model of social control and school related violations/ Sowell, Robin E., 1967- Sociology 1991 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
The new right Reiley, Elizabeth Julia, 1954- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
Correlates of self-esteem and social desirability in fifth grade mainstream and special education classes Bogart, Susan K. 1944- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Community power and urban renewal success : a replication Seward, Robert Franklin, 1934- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
No-fault divorce legislation and its impact on state divorce rates Massey, Elizabeth Ann, 1954- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
The establishment of the Huguenots in Virginia Land, Mary Wilson Bohannan, 1905- Religion 1942 Master of Arts
Application of dimensional personality models to personality disorders Pettersson, Erik, 1979- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Sex roles, ego identity, and intimacy in college women Wilson, Jane G., 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Individual differences in three types of motive congruence : normative, configural and temporal Martin, Chris Clement, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Length of deprivation and the day-night cycle as determinants of eating behavior Cicala, George A., 1935- Psychology 1958 Master of Arts
Unusual patterns of thought as related to significant past relationships, attachment, and ego defense styles Wilson, Sharon M. Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Effects of Orexin A on attention in rats Zajo, Kristin Nicole, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Reaction time crossover in schizotypal subjects Drewer, Holly B., 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Anxiety sensitivity and panic among college students : cognition, emotion, and somatic symptms Messenger, Carla Lynn, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Catalogue of interventions for systemic family therapy assessment Tafuri, Sydney Marissa, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Degree of hunger in the rat : a review of the psychological literature Erdahl, Donna Lee, 1934- Psychology 1958 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
Literature as a tool for cultural analysis : a post-processual examination of the ante-bellum tidewater elite 1830-1860 Holmes, Shirley Kathryn, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
The emotional consequences of exposure to sexual orientation inappropriate humor on television comedies Caruthers, Allison S., 1975- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
The self-evaluation maintenance model as a moderator of similarity-attraction vs. dissimilarity-repulsion Nimpfer, John Adam, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
College students' implicit attentional and affective responses to alcohol cues Young, Chelsie Marie, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
The effects of high versus low imagery humor on spatial and verbal problem solving Belanger, Heather Gail, 1969- Psychology 1994 Master of Arts
Word association and schizophrenia symptomatology Johnson, Diane E. 1958- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Surface and structural similarity in analogical reasoning : transfer from a card game to the Monty Hall problem Franco-Watkins, Ana M., 1968- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Organizational dynamics, issue importance, and creativity in problem-solving Palmer, Jennifer Lynn, 1971- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
The effects of objective self awareness and anxiety upon cartoon humor appreciation Bullock, Kathleen Marshall, 1955- Psychology 1983 Master of Arts
The compulsive eater : the role of objective self awareness in conflict situations Dunn, Patricia K. Psychology 1980 Master of Arts
Intergenerational transfer of conflict-management behaviors Cunningham, Susan Beth, 1968- Psychology 1994 Master of Arts
Testing Bowen's family systems theory : the focused-on child Kitzmann, Katherine Moore, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Mechanisms mediating social enhancement of alcohol intake in the rat Holloway, Jennifer L., 1974- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Validating an objective measure of ego development Plesko, Rebecca M., 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts