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
Adsorption of radionuclides on clay minerals Warinner, J. Ernest Marine Science 1962 Master of Arts
The development and application of a helium discharge detector for gas chromatography Ware, Margaret LaVerne, 1964- Chemistry 1988 Master of Arts
Novel stimulation enrichment and deprivation : effects on early stage REM sleep Ware, James Catesby, 1947- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Temporal and spatial variation in reproductive output of the veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa) in the Chesapeake Bay Ware, Catherine C., 1979- Marine Science 2002 Master of Science
Model legislation for the administration of subaqueous hard mineral resources within Virginia waters Wardrop, William Jeffery, 1949- Marine Science 1973 Master of Arts
What they have instead of God : the relationship between Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Wardrop, Stephanie Eileen, 1965- English 1990 Master of Arts
An investigation into the extent of interpretation between Matthew Whaley High School and the parents with children of high school age Ward, Robert William. Education 1951 Master of Arts
Parasitism in deep-sea chemosynthetic mussels : parasitism in Bathymodiolus mussels from deep-sea seep and hydrothermal vents Ward, Megan E., 1978- Biology 2004 Master of Arts
La guerre sauvage : the Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier Ward, Matthew Charles, 1963- History 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of sediment characteristics on the distribution of fiddler crabs (Uca spp.) at Goodwin Island, Virginia Ward, Landon Alan, 1975- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Campus and consortium in an era of large scale research : an historical study of the Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967 Ward, Elizabeth Buchanan, 1953- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
The Continental Army : leadership school of the early Republic Ward, David Lawrence, History 2015 Master of Arts
Idle, lewd, brabling women: slander and bastardy in colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1640-1725 Ward, Anne Elizabeth, 1971- History 1994 Master of Arts
Correlation of dynamic dielectric properties to reaction kinetics and changing mechanical properties of epoxy resins during cure Wang, Yunfei, 1968- Applied Science 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Slavery in the United States and China : a comparative study of the old south and the Han dynasty Wang, Yufeng, 1960- History 1988 Master of Arts
Slow collisions of H-and D- with Na, K and Cs Wang, Yicheng, 1960- Physics 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
The presence of weather in Wallace Stevens' An ordinary evening in New Haven : image of water, air, and light, and a Poem of pure reality Wang, Yang, 1955- English 1985 Master of Arts
Cumulative single-cell laser ablation of functionally or genetically defined respiratory neurons interrogates network properties of mammalian breathing-related neural circuits in vitro Wang, Xueying, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A general theory of electron detachment in negative ion collisions Wang, Tzuu-Shin. Physics 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Hypoxia in shallow coastal waters : a case study in Onancock Creek, Virginia Wang, Taiping, 1978- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Numerical modeling of eutrophication dynamics in the shallow coastal ecosystem: A case study in the Maryland and Virginia coastal bays. Wang, Taiping Marine Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Silica supported copper complexes and their biomimetic activities Wang, Jun, 1979- Chemistry 2003 Master of Science
Mercury exposure assessment of South River floodplain birds Wang, Jincheng, 1986- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Our street-strutting language : Asian American rappers in a hip-hop nation Wang, Helen Ye-Hua, 1976- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
A privacy preserving framework for cyber-physical systems and its integration in real world applications Wang, Haodong. Computer Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
On shelf-slope water mass exchanges near Washington Canyon and Norfolk Canyon in the Mid-Atlantic Bight Wang, Haixing, Marine Science 2016 Master of Science
The absorption spectrum of the hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields Wang, D. (Dongmei) Physics 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
First principles linear response calculations of lattice dynamics Wang, Cheng-Zhang, 1966- Physics 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of longitudinal disorder on the magnetic field distribution in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊[subscript delta] Wan, Xuewen. Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
The assistant principal's role in special education : an inquiry into the supervision of special education at the building level Walton, Valerie Ann. Education 2008 Doctor of Education
The role of adsorbed oxygen in secondary emission from metallic substrates Walton, Scott Gregory, 1968- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
NMR on single crystals of K(CN)[subscript x](BR)[subscript 1-x] : a measurement of the orientational probability distribution function of the CN Ì„ion Walton, Jeffrey Howard, 1958- Physics 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of strengths and weaknesses of Virginia high schools as revealed in the reports of evaluating committees Walthall, James Leonard. Education 1945 Master of Arts
An exploratory study of experiences of gifted/sexual minority students Walter, Rebecca M. Education 2008 Doctor of Education
An exploratory study of experiences of gifted/sexual minority students Walter, Rebecca M. Education 2008 Master of Arts
Caching by Carolina chickadees : minimizing starvation risk vs. maximizing harvest rate Walter, Lynn R., 1959- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Maximizing archaeology's relevance to its publics through a pragmatist framework Walter, Kelley Marie. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Incorporating space into stock assessments of marine species Walter, John F., 1974- Marine Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Diet composition and feeding habits of large striped bass, Morone saxatilis, in Chesapeake Bay Walter, John F., 1974- Marine Science 1999 Master of Science
The impact of feminism on subjective class identification Walter, Emilie Patricia, 1959- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
The emerging republican South : is Kevin Phillips correct? by Martin Michael Walsh. Walsh, Martin Michael, 1949- Government 1975 Master of Arts
The impact of paternalism on the interactions of women in the plantation South Walsh, Jessica Lynn. History 2007 Master of Arts
The response of the bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria to declining oxygen tensions Walsh, Dennis, 1949- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
The tragic mulatto : an attempt to read the icons of the multiple image Walsh, Conal, 1957- English 1982 Master of Arts
The uniform and uniform Stieltjes integrals Walsh, Barry James, 1942- Mathematics 1965 Master of Arts
The impact of alternative scheduling practices on student performance in French I Wallinger, Linda Moody, 1952- Education 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The influence of environmental conditions on the breeding behavior of the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in Virginia Wallin, David O., 1956- Biology 1982 Master of Arts
Humor appreciation and the right hemisphere Waller, Melissa Beth, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Performance of school age children of prenatal cocaine exposure : five case studies Wallace, Susan Larson, 1964- Education 1996 Doctor of Education
Systematic and population genetic analyses of northern vs. southern yellow lady's slippers (Cypripedium parviflorum vars. parviflorum, pubescens, and makasin) : inference from isozyme and morphological data Wallace, Lisa Ellen, 1972- Biology 1997 Master of Arts