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
An investigation into current evangelical college secularization Wilson, William Arthur, 1949- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
The thirty years between Davis, 1952 and the Casteen proposal 1982 : an examination of the factors that influenced certain elected leaders of Virginia in making their decisions regarding elimination of the dual system of education in Virginia Wilson, Wesley C. Education 1985 Doctor of Philosophy
Improving a method for numerical construction of wave rays Wilson, W. Stanley. Marine Science 1964 Master of Arts
The social organization of the hip hop graffiti subculture Wilson, Victoria Arriola, 1967- Sociology 1995 Master of Arts
Comparing self-perceptions of skills and knowledge among college students : cross-sectional versus panel designs Wilson, Susan E., 1972- Sociology 1995 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
Hemispherical spectral emittance of ablation chars, carbon, and zirconia to 3,700° K Wilson, Robert Gale, 1936- Physics 1964 Master of Arts
Self-report measures of family hierarchy : construct and predictive validity Wilson, Richard J., 1958- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Some characteristics of enzyme induction in aging cultures of Aspergillus ornatus Wilson, Pamela Hunt, 1953- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
Guilt and atonement in Lord Jim and Under western eyes Wilson, Norma Sue Tester, 1938- English 1974 Master of Arts
Distribution, abundance, and home range of the whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus) in a managed forest landscape Wilson, Michael Daniel, 1969- Biology 2003 Master of Arts
Reversal of strong and weak bar press habits under high and low drives Wilson, Maurice Eugene, 1933- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
Mate-guarding in the Australian zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata : for males, protecting paternity is more important than extra-pair copulations Wilson, Leah Catherine, 1984- Biology 2011 Master of Science
Risk factors and the well-being of children with incarcerated parents : an examination of moderation and mediation processes Wilson, Laura Catherine, 1984- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
Composite particle reaction theory Wilson, John W. 1940- Physics 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Soviet nuclear doctrine : perspectives and purposes Wilson, John David, 1956- Government 1984 Master of Arts
Sex roles, ego identity, and intimacy in college women Wilson, Jane G., 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Self-concept uncertainty and self-esteem liability : vulnerability factors for depression? Wilson, Frances Carol, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Phylogenetic Implications of Tetrasporangial Ultrastructure in Coralline Red Algae with Reference to Bossiella Orbigniana (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) Wilson, Christina, 1969- Biology 1933 Master of Arts
The effects of pacing and cognitive style upon student achievement and attitude in basic college mathematics Wilson, Barbara Upton, 1939- Education 1981 Doctor of Education
Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence on emotion Willroth, Emily Catherine, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Cognitive complexity and etiological conflict areas of paranoid schizophrenics by James Michael Willis. Willis, James Michael, 1943- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
The master's merry : Slave prosecutions and punishments in York County, Virginia, 1700 to 1780 Willis, Anne Romberg, 1935- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Orphic descent in Lord Jim Willie, Sonya, 1971- English 2001 Master of Arts
Dielectric sensor in-situ control of the RTM composite fabrication process Williamson, Alex Stewart, 1966- Chemistry 1990 Master of Arts
Middle school innovation : interpretation and assessment Williams, William Bryant, 1940- Education 1989 Doctor of Education
Domain-specificity of self-esteem : an evolutionary approach Williams, Tudor E., 1972- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Statistically constrained decimation of a turbulence model Williams, Timothy Joe, 1959- Physics 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
A mathematical model for small tidal streams capable of simulating both short-term and long-term water quality variations Williams, Stephen Anthony, 1952- Marine Science 1983 Master of Arts
Uptake kinetics and toxicity of diazinon in the American oyster, Crassostrea, Virginica gmelin Williams, Ruth L., 1951- Marine Science 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Administrator and teacher perceptions of the qualities of effective teachers Williams, Robert Eugene, 1966- Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
How direct descendants of a school lockout achieved academic success : resilience in the educational attainments of Prince Edward County's children Williams, Randolph, 1974-, Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Status differentiation within American slavery Williams, Margaret Pratt, 1945- Sociology 1969 Master of Arts
Strategic victimization : news photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the revisualization of America Williams, Margaret Keeton. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Faculty and multicultural education : an analysis of the levels of curricular integration within a community college system Williams, Lillian Hoggard, 1948- Education 2000 Doctor of Education
Monograph of the North American freshwater fish leeches (Oligochaeta: Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) and molecular phylogeny of the family Piscicolidae Williams, Julianne I., 1979- Marine Science 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
A unit of instruction on evolution Williams, Judith Gail. Education 1989 Master of Education
Sex downeast : adultery and fornication in colonial Maine Williams, Joy Weatherly, 1964- History 1995 Master of Arts
A comparative study of the use of figurative language by Plato and St. Paul Williams, Joseph Boyd, 1910- Ancient Languages 1943 Master of Arts
Growth rate and nesting aspects for the glossy ibis in Virginia, 1972 Williams, John William, 1947- Biology 1973 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
Continuity and change : consociational democracy in the Benelux countries Williams, John Hunter Porter, 1954- Government 1979 Master of Arts
Stretching the chains : runaway slaves in South Carolina and Jamaica Williams, Jan Mark, 1968- History 1991 Master of Arts
The Influence of the church in seventeenth-century Virginia Williams, James Homer. History 1987 Master of Arts
Re-education of German prisoners of war in the United States during World War II Williams, J. Barrie. History 1993 Master of Arts
An analysis of the role of principals supervising programs for students with disabilities in effective schools as defined by Virginia's outcome accountability project Williams, Helen C., 1947- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
Probability density methods for modeling local and global aspects of intracellular calcium signaling Williams, G. S. Blair, 1978- Applied Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Evolution and analysis of a catalytically effective model enzyme : the importance of active site orientation and tuned conformational fluctuations Williams, G. S. Blair, 1978- Chemistry 2003 Master of Arts
A looking glass for England : the Elizabethan reception of French political thought, 1562-1590 Williams, Emily Jane, 1951- History 1975 Master of Arts
The synthesis of 5-benzoyl-1, 3-benzendediacids for the double-capping of Þ-cyclodextrin Williams, Daniel MacDougall, 1971- Chemistry 1994 Master of Arts