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 effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A dialectical analysis of role enactment during the emergency period of natural disasters Myers, Kristen Anne, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Euro and African American student experiences and perceptions of skill and knowledge : a comparative analysis from the 1995 senior survey Rhodes, Erica McEachin, 1972- Sociology 1997 Master of Arts
Elderly clients' perceptions of human services Egly, Stephanie R., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Determinants of criminal court sentencing Lovko, Jennifer Rae, 1965- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Social and demographic factors in perinatal mortality : a study conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Arbuckle, R. Douglass, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Downtown revitization : a functionalist analysis Knighton, Janice Jacqueline, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
The viability of the volunteers in courts programs : an analysis of the conceptual foundations and empirical research Baker, Eleanor Margaret, 1940- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Occupational paths and prestige levels of sociology concentrators : do gender differences exist? Reenstra, Bonnie Lynn, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
The role of juvenile court structure in pre-adjudicatory detention decisions Foister, Douglas Stuart, 1956- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
African American professional women active from 1920-1960 : an historical analysis Lyles, Crystal Marie, 1970- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Situational and interpersonal influences on the perception of prosocial behavior Clark, Rosemary Eleanore. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Correlates of self-esteem and social desirability in fifth grade mainstream and special education classes Bogart, Susan K. 1944- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Theories of leadership : a contemporary analysis 1975-1989 Schwartzman, Robert D., 1956- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Public taste : a comparison of movie popularity and critical opinion Riley, R. Claiborne, 1950- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Multinational corporations : social process, capitalism, and the development of capitalist firms Santoro, Daniel John, 1957- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Mediating the influence of deviant peers Breitbeil, John William, 1971- Sociology 1998 Master of Arts
Praxis and history Garnjobat, Gordon. Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Drug use and deterrence : a test of Silberman's general theory Maume, Michael Owen, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
The National Committee for Citizens in Education : a descriptive analysis Crutchfield, Elizabeth Lewis, 1931- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Juvenile delinquency and the school : an application of control theory Colombano, Donna M., 1947- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Factors influencing postbaccalaureate educational attainment Smith, Benjamin Wofford, 1964- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
The Negro American : images and identities Healey, Joseph F., 1945- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Needs and resources of rural elderly Shaffer, Theresa J., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
The rationalization of drug treatment programs : the emergence of court-enforced drug treatment bureaueracies Richardson, John G. 1958- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Crowding and housing satisfaction : an exploratory study Joyce, Kathleen Marie. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Symptom-specific and nonsymptom-specific factors in eating disorders : a comparision of bulimics, dieters, and normals Washychyn, Jill, 1965- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Religion, philosophy, and the second law of thermodynamics Finn, Carter Braxton, 1935- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
An examination of race, socioeconomic status, age, sex, and marital status as determinants of distribution patterns for migrants and movers in the 1960 Richmond Metropolitan area Oey, Mayling, 1941- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
The life histories of ten of the first women to attend the College of William and Mary [1918-1930] Roy, Diane Marie, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Play preferences in children's art : a study of gender roles Pullen, Amelia Baxter, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The impact of feminism on subjective class identification Walter, Emilie Patricia, 1959- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
The development of prisonersʼ rights : a study of judicial opinions Greenwood, Lynn Marie, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Community power and urban renewal success : a replication Seward, Robert Franklin, 1934- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
Ideology and change in the kibbutz Wilhelms, Jeffrey Jay, 1948- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Single mothers by choice McCreary, Candace Diane, 1954- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
The deterrent efficacy of capital punishment on the homicide of law enforcement officers Yaw, Christina Beth, 1954- Sociology 1983 Master of Arts
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The public school principal and desegregation: the principal as change agent Turnage, Martha Allen, 1922- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
A role analysis of police chiefs in contemporary departments Wolf, Thomas, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Comparative social structure among mammals Rogers, Kenna Louise, 1949- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
The post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Incest : clinical treatment perspectives Bennett, Beverly Chitty, 1953- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
An environmental analysis of professionalization in police departments Spiers, Stephen M., 1950- Sociology 1979 Master of Arts
A theory of future social change Sica, Alan, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Disaster and the social order : organization and social network Francis, Patricia Rae, 1959- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The empathic accuracy of subordinate and superordinate in the social work bureaucracy West, Beverly Louise, 1948- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts