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
Energy utilization model for silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura Brooks, Hugh Anthony, 1953- Marine Science 1985 Doctor of Philosophy
Economic survival in Colorado before and after the Silver Crash of 1893 Brophy, Sarah S., 1961- History 1987 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
Progress of the regiment : a framework for understanding Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Brotherton, Timothy John, 1959- English 1990 Master of Arts
A comparison of grow-out methods for the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians irradians, at two sites in Virginia Brotman, Mark J., 1963- Marine Science 1992 Master of Arts
Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of relaxor ferroelectrics Brouwer, William J., 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Linking framework geology and nearshore morphology : correlation of paleo-channels with shore-oblique sandbars and gravel outcrops Browder, A. Grace Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Notes on the origins of iron shipbuilding in the United States, 1825-1861 Brown, Alexander Crosby, 1905- History 1951 Master of Arts
Roanoke, Virginia, as a social science study in the public schools Brown, Bessie Myers. Education 1926 Master of Arts
Domestic ideology and the social construction of mammy Brown, Bridget Mary, 1964- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Ontological blackness : an investigation of 18th century burial practices among captive Africans on the Island of Barbados Brown, Brittany Leigh, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Justice, patience, reason : the writings of Virginius Dabney on matters of race Brown, Bruce Alan, 1953- History 1987 Master of Arts
The attitudes of community college faculty toward academically disadvantaged students Brown, Carolyn Rudd, 1950- Education 1978 Doctor of Education
An enslaved landscape : the Virginia plantation at the end of the seventeenth century Brown, David Arthur, 1975-, History 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Systemic reform : the impact of North Carolina's state-initiated policies on local gifted programs Brown, Elissa F. Education 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Intentional introductions of non-indigenous species: a case study of policy and management affecting Crassostrea gigas Brown, Gwynne D., 1966- Marine Science 1992 Master of Arts
Molecular characterization of cultured Perkinsus marinus isolates Brown, Gwynne D., 1966- Marine Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of English as a subject in the curriculum of the College of William and Mary Brown, Jane Agnew, 1948- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Passive diffusivity of water and sodium through the stratum corneum of three species of aquatic snakes Brown, Joseph Hamilton, 1954- Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
Denying authority : monologic and dialogic perspectives in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Brown, Kimberly Ann. English 1994 Master of Arts
The contributing role of relevant experience in efficacy of coping across the life-span Brown, Liisa J., 1969- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
The writings of Thomas Forsyth on the Sauk and Fox Indians, 1812-1832 Brown, Lucy Trumball, 1953- History 1982 Master of Arts
Selective inversion in solid state deuteron NMR Brown, Marco J., 1968- Physics 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Reproductive biology and recreational fishery for spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, in the Chesapeake Bay area by Nancy J. Brown. Brown, Nancy J., 1957- Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
An investigation of personality characteristics of Negroes attending a predominantly white university and Negroes attending a black college Brown, Nina W. Education 1973 Doctor of Education
Blake and the Enlightenment Brown, Paul Ferrell, 1972- English 1995 Master of Arts
The importance of Donjalolo in Melville's Mardi Brown, Ronald Elwood, 1952- English 1980 Master of Arts
Virginia teachers' perceptions and knowledge of test accommodations for students with disabilit[i]es Brown, William Michael, 1952- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Virginia federalist : the business and political career of Leven Powell, 1737-1810 Brownell, Richard Joseph, 1958- History 1983 Master of Arts
A journey from West Africa to slavery : African-American life during the eighteenth-century Broyles, Teresa Ann, Education 1993 Master of Arts
The Richmond School Board and the desegregation of Richmond public schools, 1954 to 1971 Bruce, Mildred Davis, 1931- Education 1988 Doctor of Education
Bridging the cultural divide : American Indians at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923 Brudvig, Jon Larsen, 1965- History 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Experiences of a fifth grade in marine biology Bruechert, Anna Roper. Education 1945 Master of Arts
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The Shenandoah River gundalow and the politics of material reuse Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Perceptions of risk in intimacy : couple communication and relationship satisfaction Brunell, Amy Beth, 1978- Psychology 2002 Master of Arts
One versus two cues and positive versus negative cues in learning and reversal Bruner, John Dugger, 1948- Psychology 1972 Master of Arts
A bipartite model of distributed systems : possibilities and implications Brunstrom, Anna Karin, 1967- Computer Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Women in engineering : the impact of the college internship on persistence into an engineering field Brush, Kimberly M., Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of a regulatory gear restriction on the harvest of the recruiting year class in the offshore sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, fishery Brust, Jeffrey C. 1970- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
An interoperable and secure architecture for internet-scale decentralized personal communications Bryan, David Alan. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The tyranny of revolution Bryan, Jennifer Anne, 1965- History 1990 Master of Arts
Passive available bandwidth : applying self-induced congestion analysis to application-generated traffic Bryan, Marcia Zangrilli, 1978- Computer Science 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A study of the evaluation procedures for professional development among public school districts in Virginia Bryant, Colleen Cannington, 1956- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
The effect of kinship on reproductive success of male Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: pteromalidae) Bryant, Douglas Stuart, 1950- Biology 1985 Master of Arts
Between the river and the flood : the Cherokee nation and the battle for European supremacy in North America Bryant, James Allen, 1972- History 1999 Master of Arts
The requirements of patentability as applied to the chemical arts Bryant, Joy L. Applied Science 1994 Master of Arts
Mechanisms of poly(vinyl chloride) pyrolysis in the presence of transition metals Bryant, William Stephen, 1972- Chemistry 1995 Master of Arts
Cultural eutrophication and the clam Macoma balthica : evidence for trophic disruption and effects on blue crabs Brylawski, Bryce J., 1976- Marine Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy