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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
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
I get a kick out of you' : cinematic revisions of the history of the African American cowboy in the American West Maguire, Stephanie Anne, American Studies 2014 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
The other faces of Mount Rushmore : tourism, advertising, and the commodity of experience McNutt, Jill Angela, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Battling girlhood : sympathy, race and the tomboy narrative in American literature Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Screening the Revolution : Williamsburg, the story of a patriot as historic artifact, history film, and hegemonic struggle Simpson, Jenna Anne, 1982- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Passing into print : Walt Whitman and his publishers Green, Charles B., 1960- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
I like things simple, but it must be simple through complication : re-reading Gertrude Stein Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2004 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
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
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
Race, childhood, and Native American boarding schools : a case study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Norris, Tyler, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Sugar chests in middle Tennessee, 1800-1835 McPherson, Anne Shelton, 1957- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Revisions and evasions : Flannery O'Connor, southern literary culture and the problem of female authorship Prown, Katherine Hemple, 1963- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
A sketch of sufferings : power and patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755 Baker, Wendy Joyce, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Out of left field : William Saroyan's thirties fiction as a reflection of the great depression Coleman, Hildy Michelle, 1967- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The rise of Benjamin Waller : 1716-1786 Greenman, John Starr, 1940- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The spectacle of citizenship : halftones, print media, and constructing Americanness, 1880-1940 Grunder, Sarah Lucinda, 1975- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Spousal abuse in the Army Palmer, James, 1965- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
John A. Lomax : documenting the myth of the American West Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe, 1972- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Far from everybody's everything : literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction Anderson, Crystal Suzette. American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Beating songs : blues, violence, and the male body in the films of Spike Lee Gaines, Mikal J. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
For how could we do without sugar and rum? : the semiotics of abolitionist aesthetics Padilioni, James Patrick, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
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
Fort Hill : a representative of the structural and social hierarchy and harmony of Greek Revival architecture McPherson, Beth Ann Spiryson. American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
No longer lost at sea : Black community building in the Virginia tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 era Pruitt, Hollis E., American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The craft of portraiture in eighteenth-century America Fuhrman, Anne Mary, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A place of honor and fruitfulness : World War One and the war activities of women from the elite women's colleges LaFave, Helen Grace, 1962- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Harem fantasies and music videos : contemporary Orientalist representation Johnson, Maya Ayana. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Real talk : blackness and whiteness in the works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder Hayes, Jeffreen M. 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 Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916 Peake, Laura Ann, 1965- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Gone to the dogs : inter-species bonds and the building of bio-cultural capital in America, 1835-present Anglin, Merit Elfi, American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Obscured conflations, (un)bending frames : considering the concept of truth in the politics and rhetoric of the religious right Rosenkranz, Anna Catharine, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Anime in America, Disney in Japan : the global exchange of popular media visualized through Disney's Stitch Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
So that I get her again : African American slave women runaways in selected Richmond, Virginia newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond, Virginia police guard daybook, 1834-1843 Sorensen, Leni Ashmore, 1942- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Agent of change or trusted servant : the eighteenth-century Williamsburg press Berg, Susan Stromei, 1951- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Facing independence : American revolutionary portraits within the context of British identity Rawles, Susan Jensen. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
(at)america.jp: Identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet, 1969-2000. Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Running on empty : the myth of the automobile in three works by Chester Himes Hailey, Christopher Blair, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Generational revolt and the spirit of capitalism : Fanny Fern's confrontation with Calvinism, class, and gender ideology in Ruth Hall Lunt, Catherine, 1965- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The enduring villain : Germans as Nazi stereotypes in American cinema Aube, Christine Lokotsch, 1964- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Reevaluating the Carnegie survey : new uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's pictorial archive Reeder, Sarah Eugenie. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Ruins reframed : the commodification of American urban disaster, 1861-1906 Hilpert, Zachary M., American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Colonial Williamsburg, national identity, and Cold War patriotism Roberts, Luke Edward, 1974- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts

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