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
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
Through the veil : double consiousness and labor in eighteenth and nineteenth century southern New England Lumb, Frederick William. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Sugar manufacturing in the West Indies : a study of innovation and variation France, Linda Gail, 1956- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Wangunk ethnohistory : a case study of a Connecticut River Indian community Ives, Timothy Howlett, 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Shellfishing, ceramics, and gender : shell midden ceramics from the Kiskiak Site Herlich, Jessica Marie. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Kulikoff versus Buttenhoff-Lee [sic] : an evaluation of African-American populations in the Chesapeake 1740-1800 Callum, Beresford R., 1959- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Martin's Hundred : A settlement study Muraca, David, 1956- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Mission San Juan Bautista : zooarchaeological investigations at a California mission St. Clair, Michelle C., 1977- Anthropology 2005 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 Coffee house (where I occasionally sometimes go) : examining diversity in the urban meat diet of Williamsburg in the mid-eighteenth century Noack, Kelsey J. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Evolution of mill settlement patterns in the Antietam drainage, Washington County, Maryland Frye, Susan Winter, 1959- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Reflections of thought : land plats of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1733-1849 Jenkins, Isabel Rebecca, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Fine art and clandestine identity : American Indian artists in the contemporary art market Kuizon, Jaclyn. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Federal recognition politics and collaborative archaeologists : the need for a cultural consensus Martin, Alexandra Grace. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
After me cometh a builder : the symbolic landscape of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown estate and its transformation Lutton, Hank D. Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Who went to market? : An urban and rural, late eighteenth- century perspective based on faunal assemblages from Curtes Neck plantation and the Everard Site Trevarthen, Susan Michelle, 1967- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Making, mending, and half-soling : an analysis of three nineteenth century Virginia shoemakers Byrd, Sarah Virginia. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Places of power : the community and regional development of Native Tidewater palisades post A.D. 1200 Shephard, Christopher J. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Historical archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia Polk, Roni Hinote, 1950- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Structures, fields, and farmsteads of early America : post-revolutionary class relations in Tidewater Virginia Long, Chad C., 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Heavy metal archaeology : an examination of lead's significance for the interpretation of archaeological bone Regan, Peter Andrew. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Pay for labor : socioeconomic transitions of freedpeople and the archaeology of African American life, 1863-1930 Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, 1973- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Hanna's Town : a frontier town in western Pennsylvania Wood, John Perry, 1963- Anthropology 1993 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
Community in Gloucestertown, Virginia : the context and archaeology of town development in 17th and 18th century Virginia Fisher, Karen B., 1960- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Soil chemistry analysis as an effective cultural resource management tool : a magical mystery tour Lawrence, Nathan David, 1981- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
An archaeological survey of the governor's land, James City County, Virginia Sprinkle, John Harold, 1960- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Moravian missions to the Delaware Indians, 1792-1812 Maul, Jessica, 1975- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
The preservation and deconstruction of Hawaiʻi plantation style architecture : Aiea, Waipahu, and Ewa Way, Jessica Margaret. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Chickahominy stylistic expression : preliminary motif analysis of ceramics of the Chickahominy River drainage Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, 1980- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Sexual indiscretions in Virginia's colonial capital Schmidt, Sarah Rebecca. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
The Effect of soils on settlement location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia Lukezic, Craig, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Wild animals and domesticated landscapes : a case study of human-animal relationships in the middle and late woodland coastal plain of Virginia Levine, Nadejda, 1978- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
Class negotiation and accoutrement use : pistol ownership in York County, Virginia, 1634-1729 Nienow, Jeremy Loren, 1974- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
From sight to site to website : travel-writing, tourism and the American experience in Haiti, 1900-2008 Yarrington, Landon Cole. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The archaeology of Opequon Creek : religion, ethnicity, and identity in the material culture of an eighteenth-century immigrant community, Frederick County, Virginia Persson, Ann Schaefer, 1979- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
A Reflection to life : a social and economic study of cedar grove cemetery, Williamsburg, Va. Boyd, Varna G., 1959- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Excellent clay for pots : an archaeological and microscopic investigation of Barbadian redware during the early colonial era Siedow, Erik Andre. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Funerary treatment and social status : a case study of colonial Tidewater Virginia Mackie, Norman Vardney, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Hospitality, civility, and sociability: takiing tea in colonial Barbados Mahoney, Meredith Ashley Holaday. Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
St. Eustatius and the Caribbean trade system : a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century coins from the Caribbean Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
Efficient action in the construction of field fortification : a study of the civil war defenses of Raleigh, North Carolina Higgins, Thomas F. Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
A Structural and functional analysis of eighteenth century buttons Hinks, Stephen, 1961- Anthropology 1988 Master of Arts
Rogue fishermen : codfish, Atlantic items, and the Isles of Shoals Victor, Megan. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Historical settlements in Sarpy County, Nebraska, 1803-1900 Sawyer, Monique Ernestine, 1958- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
A graine of marveilous great increase : a political landscape approach to Powhatan maize production and exchange in seventeenth century Virginia Risse, Danielle Christine, 1977- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts