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
America's other peculiar institution : exploring the York County Free Black register as a means of social control, 1798-1831 Butts, Andrew Jefferson, 1974- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Wealth and society in eighteenth century Bermuda : a view from the colonial capital of St. George's Metz, Cara Anne Harbecke Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Shellfishing, ceramics, and gender : shell midden ceramics from the Kiskiak Site Herlich, Jessica Marie. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
Merchants of Curacao in the early 18th century Brito, Nadia Francisca, 1953- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
A comparative approach to slave life on Bermuda, 1780-1834 Bellhorn, Margaret Mary, 1965- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
Paintings as information : the anthropology of images : a consideration of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Netherlandish painting in relation to foodways and historical archeology Payne, Melissa, 1952- Anthropology 1985 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
Enshrining the past : archaeology, history and memory at Fort St. Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont Desany, Jessica Rose. Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Fine art and clandestine identity : American Indian artists in the contemporary art market Kuizon, Jaclyn. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
A spatial analysis of sugar plantations on St. Eustatius N.A. Delle, James A. Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
A general theory of economic flow, social exchange, and hegemonic relationship Grenda, Donn Robert, 1966- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
Imaging and imagining the past : the use of illustrations in the interpretation of structural development at the King's Castle, Castle Island, Bermuda Harvey, Heather Maureen, 1970- Anthropology 1997 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
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
Social equalization and social resistance : a symbolic interactional approach to strategies of African American slave populations Smith, Frederick H. 1966- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Be ye friend or foe? : an analysis of two eighteenth century North Carolina sites Gray, Anna Lois, 1964- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
The illustrated map : cartography and power in seventeenth century Virginia Green, Christine Jeanette, 1973- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
The cowrie shell in Virginia : a critical evaluation of potential archaeological significance Pearce, Laurie Elisabeth, 1967- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
Making, mending, and half-soling : an analysis of three nineteenth century Virginia shoemakers Byrd, Sarah Virginia. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
When there's nothing better to eat : subsistence strategies in eighteenth century Bermuda Jarvis, Sondra Aileen, 1966- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
Perceptions of poverty : Material life among the tenements of New York City during the nineteenth century Haley, Megan Mary, 1968- Anthropology 1993 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
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
Historic archaeology of Jamaican tenant-manager relations : a case study from Drax Hall and Seville Estates, St. Ann, Jamaica Kelly, Kenneth Goodley, 1962- Anthropology 1989 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
Gone to a better land : a study of gravestone forms, art and symbolism Harnois, Richard D., 1957- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
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
Religion and resistance : African Baptist churches in Virginia Reiss, Stephanie Rosel, 1971- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
Work Enough for Head and Heart : dramatic interaction and the social dynamics of the Steward-Planter Relationship in antebellum Tidewater Virginia Kennedy, Neil Macrae, 1968- Anthropology 1993 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
The application of the Automated National Cataloging System for archaeological cataloging Vrooman, Linda Novak, 1959- Anthropology 1994 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
The coffinmaker of St. Eustatius Kulesa, Chester J., 1955- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
A medley of contradictions : the Jewish diaspora in St. Eustatius and Barbados Miller, Derek Robert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Predator management and colonial culture, 1600-1741 : a study in historical ecology Elswick, Samuel Taylor, 1975- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
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
Pamunkey pottery and cultural persistence Atkins, Ashley. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Gimmie shelter : union shelters of the Civil War, a preliminary archaeological typology Jensen, Todd L., 1971- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Sexual indiscretions in Virginia's colonial capital Schmidt, Sarah Rebecca. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Reflections of social change : burial patterns in colonial Fairfax County, Virginia Wells, Kimberly Joyce, 1961- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
Critique of analytical techniques used in the processing of iron recovered from historic sites in North America Longford, Nicola Jane Margaret, 1962- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Canary red : preserving cochineal and contrasting colonial histories on Lanzarote Mattes, Sarah , Anthropology 2015 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
The tanner and boundary maintenance : determining ethnic identity Sheppard, William James, 1964- Anthropology 1989 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 New Orleans free people of color and the process of Americanization, 1803-1896 Gourdet, Camille Kempf, 1978- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
The Pamunkey Indian Museum : collaboration, display, and the creation of a tribal museum Bowen, Rachel Elaine, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Propagating status : gentlemen planters and their greenhouses in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake Chesney, Sarah Jane. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts