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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 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
Domestic brick architecture in Williamsburg : a comparative study of eighteenth-century brick houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston Barry, Andrew Craig, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Elisha Jackson's tavern: a rural node of power Rainer, Joseph T., 1965- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
A publisher's hand : strategic gambles and cultural leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in antebellum America McMaster, MaryKate. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
A more perfect sympathy : college students and social service 1889-1914 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The Willoughby-Baylor house : Form and symbol Keenan, Stephanie Mary, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Against bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the public intellectual Bumb, M. J. 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Friends departed live : a study of the relationship between schoolgirl mourning pictures, female education, and cultural attitudes toward death in early nineteenth-century eastern Massachusetts Stewart, Janet Elizabeth, 1960- American Studies 1987 Master of Arts
Reevaluating the Carnegie survey : new uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's pictorial archive Reeder, Sarah Eugenie. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
Southern orientation : reimagining Asian American identity and place in the global south Cha, Frank Sung, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Hilton Village, Virginia : the government's first model industrial community Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Outlaw reproduction : childbearing and the making of colonial Virginia, 1634-1785 Westcot, Andrea Kathleen, 1976-, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
In pursuit of possibility, Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution Schoel, Gretchen Ferris, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Buck-horned snakes and possum women : non-White folklore, antebellum Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange Miller, John Douglas. American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Dressing behavior in eighteenth century Virginia 1740-1800 Masters, Joanna Margaret, 1965- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Schoolhouses remembered : the story behind the nostalgic image : an active pursuit of the truth Cude, Michelle Dawn, 1966- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Nathaniel Jocelyn : in the service of art and abolition Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Charlatans, embezzlers, and murderers : revolution comes to Virginia 1765-1775 White, William E., 1953- American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
New Deal housing on the Virginia Peninsula : challenging Jim Crow paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens Carroll, Frederick James, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Gotta travel on: a view of the American road from Bob Dylan's rolling thunder revue, 1975/ Shine, Matthew David, 1968- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Unstable compounds : progressive and regressive impulses in four contemporary American documentaries and the prospect for social change Bransford, Stephen Henry, 1973- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The blues and jazz in Albert Murray's fiction : a study in the tradition of stylization Modeste, Jacquelynne Jones, 1968- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Oz in the valley of ashes : Visions of tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The mistakes of yesterday, the hopes of tomorrow : prison, pop music, and the Prisonaires Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Peopling the power structure : urban oriented officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780 Rowe, Linda Hunter, 1945- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Envisioning Black childhood : Black nationalism, community, and identity construction in Black Arts movement children's literature Crawford, Meredith Meagan, 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The still life : domesticity, subjectivity, and the bachelor in nineteenth-century America Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
I would not begrudge to give a few pounds more elite consumer choices in the Chesapeake, 1720-1785 : the Calvert house ceramic assemlage Patrick, Steven Edward, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
You just had that gut feeling' : film, memory, and the lynching of James Byrd, Jr. Piper, William Brian, 1980- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
The domestication of history in American art, 1848-1876 Wierich, Jochen. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Seeking the living among the dead : African American burial practices in Surry County, Virginia Johnson, Deanda Marie, 1977- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Selling America in the seventeenth century : the contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the establishment of the English colony in America Smith, Sibley Judson, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Beyond telling the news : the mission of public journalism, 1996 Burton, Pamela Sue, 1965- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Labor at home : the domestic world of workers at the du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902 Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Mann thinking across antebellum culture-- Mann Satterwhite Valentine's literary aspirations Owen, Deborah Lynn, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Lost chances in Sino-American relations : the burden of myth, culture, and ideology, 1949-1953 Haga, Kai Yin Allison, 1972- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
A social historical exploration of the popularity of The Rockford Files Taormina, Mary Frances, 1965- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Eying Italians : race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880-1910 Cosco, Joseph P., 1949- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Screening the Revolution : Williamsburg, the story of a patriot as historic artifact, history film, and hegemonic struggle Simpson, Jenna Anne, 1982- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
(Un)conventional coupling : interracial sex and intimacy in contemporary neo-slave narratives Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy

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