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
R.C. Scott : a history of African-American entrepreneurship in Richmond 1890-1940 Plater, Michael A., 1956- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Understanding roadkill through an animal method Monahan, Linda Angela, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
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
Neither bedecked nor bebosomed : Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and women's leadership and organizing in the struggle for freedom Glisson, Susan M., 1967- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Intertexual [sic] cadences, When wants and woes might be our righteous lot : excavating Phillis Wheatley's transcending voice of accent Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Benjamin Trott : miniature painter Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Tobacco and cloth : a century of Virginia clothing acquisition 1607-1707 Curran, Barbara Anne, 1967- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Re-evaluating sentimental violence in Uncle Tom's cabin and Dred Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2004 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
Nineteenth century enslaved African Americans' coping strategies for the stresses of enslavement in Virginia Campo, Allison Michelle, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Dealing in metaphors : exploring the materiality of trade on Virginia's seventeenth century eastern Siouan frontier Gunter, Madeleine Ailsworth, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Enshrining the past : archaeology, history and memory at Fort St. Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont Desany, Jessica Rose. Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
My bumbling smiths... : an inter-site comparative analysis of rural and urban blacksmithing in eighteenth-century Virginia Bessey, Sandra Fiona, 1968- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Care of the poor in Elizabeth River Parish, Norfolk County, Va. 1749-1761 Glendening, Cecile G., 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Afro-Barbadian Foodways : analysis of the use of ceramics by freed Afro-Barbadian estate workers Chambers, Camille Lois, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Behind the scenes at William and Mary : front stage history and backstage archaeology Little, Tiffany Olivia, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Boat-wrights in a port of black diamonds : waterfront landscapes of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal's Cumberland, Maryland terminus Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Excavations at the Barton-Swift-Nolan House : Antebellum material culture in the Georgia Piedmont Brooks, Christopher Andrew, 1959- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Ceramic acquisition patterns at Meadow Farm, 1810-1861 Hunter, Robert R., 1955- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Inviting the principle gentlemen of the city : privacy, exclusivity, and food complexity in colonial taverns Gryctko, Lauren Elizabeth, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The technique of the Poquoson-style log canoe Moran, David Andrews, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
By word of mouth : an examination of myth and history at the Benares estate Garden, Mary-Catherine E., 1966- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Eighteenth-century wharf construction in Baltimore, Maryland Norman, Joseph Gary, 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Could you point me to your nearest clay source, please? : a XRF study of Barbadian historic era ceramics Kirby, Benjamin Crossley, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Who was buried in James Madison's grave? : a study in contextual analysis Chapman, Charles Thomas, 1975- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Mt. Greylock : the years before protection 1760-1900 Denault, Susan Ann, 1959- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
An Archaeological assessment of Middlesex County, Virginia Lichtenberger, Randy Michael, 1967- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
All sorts of china ware ... large, noble and rich chinese bowls : Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain in Virginia Madsen, David Andrew, 1966- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Canary red : preserving cochineal and contrasting colonial histories on Lanzarote Mattes, Sarah , Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Predator management and colonial culture, 1600-1741 : a study in historical ecology Elswick, Samuel Taylor, 1975- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Master-slave relations : a Williamsburg perspective Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Contextualizing Tucker's garden : the Role of text, subtext, and context in the creation of eighteenth-century landscapes Meatyard, Kathleen B. Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
An archaeological perspective on the African-American slave diet at Mount Vernon's house for families Atkins, Stephen Charles, 1947- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Porcupines and potsherds : archaeology and education for students in a museum setting : a critical approach Anderson, Emily Catherine, 1970- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
From path to portage : issues of scales, process, and pattern in understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail Moran, Mallory Leigh, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The New Orleans free people of color and the process of Americanization, 1803-1896 Gourdet, Camille Kempf, 1978- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
A formal analysis of the clay pipes from Green Spring Crass, David Colin, 1958- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
An ethnoarchaeological study of the cisterns in Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles Harper, Ross K., 1964- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
The Mark family site Reinbold, Martin Brian, 1958- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Archaeology of a female landowner c. 1768-1832 Blake, Marie E. 1970- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Childhood, colonialism and nation-building : the role of childhood in the construction of race, class and gender in seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Virginia Barrett, Autumn Rain Duke, 1972- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
The land remembers : the construction of movement possibility among Woodland period communities of the Virginia Peninsula Nieves, Josue Roberto, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The Mount Pleasant service complex : salvaging interpretations from previously acquired data Grow, Megan Elizabeth, 1972- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Pamunkey pottery and cultural persistence Atkins, Ashley. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Who is archaeology's public? : a critical analysis of public images and expectations of archaeology Bartoy, Kevin M. Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Ethnicity in the graveyard Goodwin, Conrad M., 1940- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts