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
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
John A. Lomax : documenting the myth of the American West Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe, 1972- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 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
Performing race : instances of color representation in American culture Adkins, Katrin L., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Utopian spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
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 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916 Peake, Laura Ann, 1965- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Storyville : discourses in southern musicians' autobiographies Sutton, Matthew Daniel, 1972- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Colonial Williamsburg's slave auction re-enactment : controversy, African American history and public memory Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
The road to ruins and restoration : Roland W. Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology Linebaugh, Donald W. American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The craft of portraiture in eighteenth-century America Fuhrman, Anne Mary, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The freedom of a broken law : the liminal world of Nathaniel Hawthorneʼs The scarlet letter Horton, Tonia Lanette, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Harem fantasies and music videos : contemporary Orientalist representation Johnson, Maya Ayana. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Agent of change or trusted servant : the eighteenth-century Williamsburg press Berg, Susan Stromei, 1951- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Dying virgins and mourning mothers : a study in American mourning iconography Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Preserving their form and features : the role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870 Tharp, Brent W., 1964- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Christian parenting : Baptists and the birds and bees Kobayashi, Fumie, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Judas exposed : labor spies in the United States Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 2005 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
Picturesque America : packaging America for popular consumption Ramsier, Allen Lewis, 1954- American Studies 1985 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
Frank LLoyd Wright : architect of an age Boulton, Alexander O. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
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
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Calming minds and instilling character : John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843-1860 Manzo, Bettina, 1943- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Frederick Douglass's intended audiences for his antebellum autobiographies Lankford, Kimberly Elaine, 1968- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The Prentis family and their library Richter, Julie (Caroline Julia), 1961- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
More or less than kind : brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature Blanchard, Jennifer P. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Unrapping the gangsta : the changing role of the performer from toast to gangsta rap Symons, Andrea L. D., 1980- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Between fact and fiction : writing by American women in a transnational context Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The costumes of the past: the first Virginia and the authenticity of historical reenacting Lovell, Barry Scott, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624 : a delicate and necessary seat for a city or chief fortification Cobb, John Michael, 1948- American Studies 2002 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
Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods : the many images of maroons throughout the American South Williams, Angela Alicia, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Elisha Jackson's tavern: a rural node of power Rainer, Joseph T., 1965- American Studies 1992 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
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
1500 by 1939 by 1998--these are the measurements of Malinche's body : an analysis and review of twentieth-century interpretations of nationality Diaz, Ella Maria, 1977- American Studies 2002 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