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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
The brownies' book : an open window to early twentieth-century African American childhood Clark, Regina Ann. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
A social history of the private fence in nineteenth-century America Bishop, Lisa Brenner, 1967- American Studies 2000 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
From within the frame: storytelling in African-American fiction Ashe, Bertram D., 1959- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Katherine Anne Porter's Old mortality and Virginia Woolf : a study in feminism Waite, Rebecca S. L., 1970- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
The Alan Lomax photographs and The music of Williamsburg (1959-1960) Aarlien, Peggy Finley, 1964- American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Spousal abuse in the Army Palmer, James, 1965- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
(at)america.jp: Identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet, 1969-2000. Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Monument to sentiment : the discourse of nation and citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Nichols, Caroline Carpenter, 1974- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
The Quaker influence on Nantucket architecture : a case study Gaeta, Anne Elizabeth, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The fashionable set : the feasibility of social tea drinking in 1774 Ligon, Samantha M., 1976- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
More than shelter : community, identity, and spatial politics in San Francisco public housing, 1938-2000 Howard, Amy L., 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Elisha Jackson's tavern: a rural node of power Rainer, Joseph T., 1965- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
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
The Negro Building : African-American representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Watkins, Sarah, 1968- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Strength for the journey : feminist theology and Baptist women pastors Bailey, Judith Bledsoe, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
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
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
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Re-evaluating sentimental violence in Uncle Tom's cabin and Dred Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Recipe for citizenship : professionalization and power in World War I dietetics Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The proper role of religious conviction in moral-political discourse Owens, Jerry, 1959- American Studies 2001 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
American dream screams : success ideology and the Hollywood novel between the two world wars Garland, David Travers, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Ship of wealth : Massachusetts merchants, foreign goods, and the transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760 Hunter, Phyllis Whitman, 1943- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
In pursuit of possibility, Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 1992 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
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
`Post-humously hot' : Bill Traylor's life and art Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Far out past : Hemingway, manhood, and modernism Barnard, Timothy L. 1967- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Censorship, cyberspace, and community standards : American responses to on-line obscenity Spear, Laura Mame, 1971- American Studies 1996 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
Peopling the power structure : urban oriented officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780 Rowe, Linda Hunter, 1945- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Colonial Williamsburg, national identity, and Cold War patriotism Roberts, Luke Edward, 1974- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Performing Menken : Adah Isaacs Menken's American odyssey Sentilles, Rene M., 1966- American Studies 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
You can't say 'no' to a soldier : sexual violence in the United States during World War II Smith, Michaele Katherine, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
An officer and a lady Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Milk enough for all : the African-American woman's quest for identity and authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Amy Ghaemmaghamie. Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Montpelier : the history of a house, 1723-1998 Hyland, Matthew Gantert. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Gotta travel on: a view of the American road from Bob Dylan's rolling thunder revue, 1975/ Shine, Matthew David, 1968- American Studies 1992 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
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
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
A social historical exploration of the popularity of The Rockford Files Taormina, Mary Frances, 1965- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts

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