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 revolutionary career of Louis Philippe de Segur : caught between tradition and reform Wallace, Lauren, History 2013 Master of Arts
Reproductive attributes of polynoid polychaetes from hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise Wallace, Jessica Lynn, 1981- Biology 2005 Master of Science
Sarah's song : how folk music shattered slaveholding ideology in antebellum Alabama Wallace, Charles Allen. History 2009 Master of Arts
Incentives for faculty participation in professional service at selected public urban universities in Virginia Wallace, Barbara King, 1950- Education 1988 Doctor of Education
PL/99, a mid-level programming language for the TMS9900 microprocessor Walkley, Kenneth B., 1948- Applied Science 1980 Master of Arts
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon sources and distribution in an urban estuary Walker, Shelby E., 1972- Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
State financing of secondary education in Virginia Walker, James Thomas, 1904- Education 1936 Master of Arts
Mark Twain's Zoo : the higher animals Walker, Iva A., 1950- English 1983 Master of Arts
The poetic theory and practice of James VI of Scotland, James I of England Walker, Helen McHardy, 1903- English 1932 Master of Arts
A study of conditions of young school children in Maury School, Richmond, Virginia Walker, Frances Page. Education 1941 Master of Arts
Adult children of alcoholics : measuring the personality characteristics of autonomy, inferiority and intimacy Walker, Cynthia Ann, 1955- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
The freemasonry of the race : the cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia Walker, Corey D. B. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Spatial variations in benthic invertebrate assemblages in and around the Georges Banks closed areas Walker, Andrew Clayton, 1978- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Choosing to succeed : an exploration of the relationship between college choice and freshman retention Walke, James Tomlin, 1971- Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The synthesis and spectroscopic study of a spirooxazine-functionalized poly(phenylenevinylene) Walk, Jordan Thomas. Chemistry 2009 Master of Science
Glueball wave functions and production cross sections Wakely, Anthony B., 1959- Physics 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Katherine Anne Porter's Old mortality and Virginia Woolf : a study in feminism Waite, Rebecca S. L., 1970- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Studies in hard pion photoproduction Wahlquist, Christian Jens, 1969- Physics 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Turbulence in binary fluid flow systems : a Lattice Boltzmann approach Wah, Darren M. Physics 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Efficacy of self-instructional training in the management of test anxiety : a primary prevention model Wagner, Rita Schreyer, 1937- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
A program evaluation of a leadership academy for school principals Wagner, Kristi E., Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Academic optimism of Virginia high school teachers : its relationship to organizational citizenship behaviors and student achievement Wagner, Charles Allen, 1965- Education 2008 Doctor of Education
Correspondence between environmental gradients and the assemblage structure of littoral fishes in the tidal portion of three Virginia coastal plain rivers Wagner, C. Michael (Clifford Michael), 1967- Marine Science 1997 Master of Science
A national study of professional standards in special education teacher preparation programs using the standards adopted by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Council for Exceptional Children Waegerle, Dawn Colleen Johnson, 1955- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
Controls on continental shelf stratigraphy : Waiapu River, New Zealand Wadman, Heidi M., 1975- Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Which way now? : An examination of the ideological movement of the British Labour Party between 1974 and 1992 Waddington, Robert, 1970- Government 1993 Master of Arts
A study of the exotic game bird introduction program in the Sandy Point area of Virginia 1970-1971 Wachtmeister, Hans. Biology 1971 Master of Arts
Language disability and measures of intelligence in handicapped children : a comparison of the McCarthy scales of children's abilities and the Leiter international performance scale Vulpe, Shirley-Ann German, 1939- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
Predictors of role conflict, role ambiguity, and propensity to leave among academic department secretaries Vrooman, Rona J., 1953- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
The application of the Automated National Cataloging System for archaeological cataloging Vrooman, Linda Novak, 1959- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Influence of marinas on hydrocarbons in sediments of two estuarine creeks Voudrias, Evangelos Alexandros. Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
Single mothers' experiences in family therapy : an investigation from an ego development perspective Von Hayek, Angela. Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the opportunities available to the United States Army soldier for acquiring a college degree Volz, Heinz Henry. Education 1955 Master of Arts
Toleration and reform : Virginia's Anglican clergy, 1770-1776 Volpe, Stephen M. History 2009 Master of Arts
A study of the histozoic oyster parasite, Perkinsus marinus : I) Disease processes in American oysters (Crassostrea virginica); II) Biochemistry of Perkinsus marinus Volety, Aswani K., 1967- Marine Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
The Boethian influence on the Alliterative Morte Arthure Voigt, Suzann Wanda, 1955- English 1992 Master of Arts
A toast to the tavern : an archaeological study of a 17th and 18th century tavern in Charlestown, Massachusetts Vogt, Christy Cathleen, 1963- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Sublethal effects of sediment contamination on an estuarine amphipod Vogt, Bruce W., 1976- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Shell-less opisthobranchs of Virginia and Maryland Vogel, Rosalie M. 1943- Marine Science 1977 Doctor of Philosophy
Experimental studies on the phototactic response of the marine isopod, Ligia exotica (Roux) Vogel, John Wesley. Marine Science 1963 Master of Arts
Oxygen uptake and transport in the sabellid polychete Eudistylia vancouveri (Kinburg) Vogel, Gregory Melhem, 1956- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
The effect of an adsorbate upon secondary emission properties of low-energy ion bombarded metallic and semiconductor substrates Vogan, Wendy Sara. Physics 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
A dynamic failure model for performimg propagation and infection analysis of computer programs Voas, Jeffrey Mark, 1963- Computer Science 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Networks in favor of liberty : St. Eustatius as an entrepôt of goods and information during the American Revolution Vlasity, Sarah Marie, History 2015 Master of Arts
The effects of word frequency on the recall of information associated with a face Vittoria, Anthony F., 1969- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Deep-inelastic electroproduction of pions in a quark-parton model ; Pion-deuteron elastic scattering and the pion-pion scattering lengths Vislay, Mary Elizabeth. Physics 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of predation by epibenthic crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay Virnstein, Robert W. 1943- Marine Science 1976 Doctor of Philosophy
General education and enrollment trends at private baccalaureate colleges, 1975-2000 Vinson, Ellen Levy, 1958- Education 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Between word-play and evasion : reading and writing Lily Bart in The house of mirth Vimuktanon, Atisaya, 1971- English 1997 Master of Arts
Anxiety and the disabled Villeneuve, Wayne P. Education 1980 Doctor of Education