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 Department of Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition : Motives, methods, and messages Gauss, Jeffrey Daryl, 1953- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Subsistence and social behavior : evolving strategies in the rural New England landscape Dean, Susannah, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
A medley of contradictions : the Jewish diaspora in St. Eustatius and Barbados Miller, Derek Robert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Tavern' by the saltpan : New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682-1782 Antczak, Konrad A., 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
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
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Gone to a better land : a study of gravestone forms, art and symbolism Harnois, Richard D., 1957- Anthropology 2000 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
Hanna's Town : a frontier town in western Pennsylvania Wood, John Perry, 1963- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Fine art and clandestine identity : American Indian artists in the contemporary art market Kuizon, Jaclyn. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Eighteenth-century wharf construction in Baltimore, Maryland Norman, Joseph Gary, 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Gender ideology at the Lowell Boott Mills : a material culture analysis Ehner, Carolyn Michelle, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
The John Page house site : an example of the increase in domestic brick architecture in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia Pickett, Dwayne Webster, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
From Kaolin to Claymount : landscapes of the 19th-century James River stoneware industry Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981-, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The Pamunkey Indian Museum : collaboration, display, and the creation of a tribal museum Bowen, Rachel Elaine, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Rediscovering the dead : practical applications of remote sensing in historic cemeteries Strutt, Michael A., 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Gimmie shelter : union shelters of the Civil War, a preliminary archaeological typology Jensen, Todd L., 1971- Anthropology 2000 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 Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Carried on at a very great expense and never produced any profit : the Albemarle Iron Works (1770-72) Brothers, James Harvey, 1952- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Putting flesh on the bones : theoretical and methodological approaches to butchery analysis in historical archaeology Gilmore, R. Grant 1972- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Working with tools : work, identity, and perception communicated through the material culture of work in the context of the Rideau Canal construction 1826-1832 Plousos, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella, 1949- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Setting the best table in the country : food and labor at the Coloma gold mining town Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Making, mending, and half-soling : an analysis of three nineteenth century Virginia shoemakers Byrd, Sarah Virginia. Anthropology 2012 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
Seneca hair combs as material culture : a study Vasey, April Jean, 1964- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Interpretation and historical archaeology : telling stories of the past at the Watt Farm, Mechanicsville, Virginia Jordan, Sarah, 1976- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Streaking and straight pins : constructing macsulinity on an Antebellum college campus Schwartz, Erin Stock, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 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
Porcupines and potsherds : archaeology and education for students in a museum setting : a critical approach Anderson, Emily Catherine, 1970- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
From ads to artifacts : the selling power of gender ideology in America, 1890-1910 Clark, Andrea Griffin, 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Great Blue Herons and River Otters : the changing perceptions of all things wild in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chesapeake Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene, 1961- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Of panicoids and pooids : an environmental archaeology study of the seventeenth-century houselot at Rich Neck Plantation, Williamsburg, Virginia Sullivan, Kelly Ann, 1972- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Archaeology goes to school : a cooperative approach to teaching history through archaeology Schuster, Paul David, 1972- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
The urban archaeology of early Spanish Caribbean ports of call : the unfortunate story of Nombre de Dios Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Booze at the brothel : alcohol-related artifacts and their use in performance at the 27/29 Endicott Street brothel Johnson, Amanda B. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Behind the scenes at William and Mary : front stage history and backstage archaeology Little, Tiffany Olivia, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Middlesex County, New Jersey gravestones 1687-1799 : shadows of a changing culture Veit, Richard Francis, 1968- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Predator management and colonial culture, 1600-1741 : a study in historical ecology Elswick, Samuel Taylor, 1975- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Pamunkey pottery and cultural persistence Atkins, Ashley. Anthropology 2009 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
Recovering elements in historical archaeology : the use of soil chemical analysis for overcoming the effects of post-depositional plowing Fischer, Lisa E., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
African-American family and society on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880 McDonald, Bradley Michael, 1968- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
National identity in Turkey Wood, Seth Robertson, 1973- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts