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
Comparative ecology of two sympatric species of atherinids, Menidia menidia and Membras martinica Burton, William Howard, 1951- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
The puritan conscience in the Diary of Samuel Sewall Tucker, Carson Linwood, 1947- English 1971 Master of Arts
The library of Francis Jerdone Null, David Gerard, 1954- History 1978 Master of Arts
Out of left field : William Saroyan's thirties fiction as a reflection of the great depression Coleman, Hildy Michelle, 1967- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Predicting partner violence in college couples : the role of global self-esteem, domain-specific self-esteem, and jealousy Valencia, Alelhie, 1974- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
An analysis of avoidance behavior Nichols, Judith Ann, 1943- Psychology 1967 Master of Arts
Vegetation of selected dune ridges and marshes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia : community structure and relationship to environmental factors Huq, Marian Vance, 1958- Marine Science 1986 Master of Arts
Comparative toxicity of creosote and creosote contaminated sediments Venkatraman, Padma T., 1969- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
The influence of vision and olfaction on the homing ability of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis) Parsons, Lynn Mabelle, 1951- Biology 1976 Master of Arts
Retention and escapement characteristics of pound nets as a function of pound-head mesh size Meyer, Henry Louis, 1946- Marine Science 1973 Master of Arts
Analysis of mercury coordination environments of tridentate and tetradentate imidazole based ligands by x-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy Murphy, Geoffrey, 1976- Chemistry 1999 Master of Arts
The tyranny of revolution Bryan, Jennifer Anne, 1965- History 1990 Master of Arts
A study of the aging of polyamide-11 based on molecular weight measurements Lin, Yao, 1972- Chemistry 2000 Master of Arts
The relationship of free and total serum thyroxine concentrations to the reproductive condition of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus Leucopus Noveboracensis) Peden, Gerald William, 1964- Biology 1988 Master of Arts
Amusements in colonial Virginia Barksdale, Martha Elizabeth. History 1929 Master of Arts
Abolitionism and revivalism : a study in religious and political motivation McNair, Sandra Lang, 1941- History 1963 Master of Arts
Indian slavery in colonial Virginia and South Carolina Bertelsen, Kevin Jay, 1958- History 1984 Master of Arts
Married, but at whose house? : Parson Rose and the colonial Virginian wedding Wright, Emily Helen, History 2013 Master of Arts
Affirmative action and self esteem : an exploratory analysis using attribution theory Simpson, Jacqueline Christine Coon, 1962- Sociology 1992 Master of Arts
Swift's vexed satire of Hobbes and Lucretius Thumm, Sarah Reynard, 1972- English 1997 Master of Arts
French and Hessian impressions : foreign soldiers' views of America during the Revolution Hall, Cosby Williams, 1975- History 2003 Master of Arts
A study of the high school and post-high school careers of the non-college graduates, Newport News High School, class of 1925, and the implications therein, for the educational program Stanley, Lamar Rush, 1892- Education 1940 Master of Arts
Play preferences in children's art : a study of gender roles Pullen, Amelia Baxter, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Woman's rights in Virginia, 1909-1920 Erickson, Alice Matthews, 1935- History 1975 Master of Arts
Honor : the cement of a Tennessee brigade Michael, Eric P., 1966- History 1993 Master of Arts
Breadnut Island Pen : Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaican provisioning estate, 1767-1768 Kowalski, Amy B., 1962- History 1991 Master of Arts
A bad case of fossilized tradition : the discourse of race and gender in women's battle for the ballot in Richmond, Virginia 1909-1920 Ooten, Melissa D., 1977- History 2001 Master of Arts
A kinetic study of the oxidative addition of simple alkylvinyl triflates to tetrakis (triphenylphosphine) platinum(o) Longford, C. P. Desmond, 1963- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts
Overlearning and reversal of a successive discrimination task Hornbuckle, Phyllis Ann, 1938- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts
Barn owl habitat and prey use in agricultural eastern Virginia Rosenburg, Charles Patrick, 1961- Biology 1986 Master of Arts
Resource use by Amphipoda (Crustacea: peracarida) on the outer continental shelf of the middle Atlantic bight : implications to community structure Schaffner, Linda C. 1954- Marine Science 1980 Master of Arts
Growth rate and nesting aspects for the glossy ibis in Virginia, 1972 Williams, John William, 1947- Biology 1973 Master of Arts
Apoptosis and cell cycle regulation as mechanisms of compensation from notch signaling perturbation in the developing nervous system of xenopus laevis Bianchi, Catherine Hope, Biology 2015 Master of Arts
The effect of harmonic and inharmonic frequency components on the perception of loudness and annoyance in complex sounds Carroll, Ann Berenson, 1930- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
The vascular flora of western Isle of Wight County, Virginia Plunkett, Gregory Michael, 1965- Biology 1990 Master of Arts
Population structure of the white perch, morone americana, in lower Chesapeake Bay as inferred from mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis Bowen, Brian W. Marine Science 1987 Master of Arts
Spontaneous categorization : assessment of implicit stereotype content awareness Gyurovski, Ivo Ivanov. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Fort Hill : a representative of the structural and social hierarchy and harmony of Greek Revival architecture McPherson, Beth Ann Spiryson. American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The Cold war cultural accord : How the east was won Wise, Nancy Ridgway Van Buren. Government 1994 Master of Arts
Those who are compelled to be employed : women, work, and education in the Powell family of Virginia Graydon, Katharine Virginia, 1969- History 1992 Master of Arts
Christian parenting : Baptists and the birds and bees Kobayashi, Fumie, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Swiss demonstrated budgetary flexibility : a cantonal level analysis of budgetary priority setting Cinelli, Giovanna M. Government 1982 Master of Arts
Historical archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia Polk, Roni Hinote, 1950- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Participation of Alkenylboronate Esters in [2+2] Enone-Olefin Photocycloadditions Lappenbusch, William Charles, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
The Job Corps, 1964-1969 Morris, Marie, 1941- History 1972 Master of Arts
A preliminary study of the effect or impairment of the vomeronasal organ on the recovery from reproductive inhibition in prairie deermice from laboratory populations Cathers, Tama Elaine, 1965- Biology 1991 Master of Arts
Yorktown shipwreck 44YO88 : stores and cargo from a British naval supply vessel from the American War for Independence Broadwater, John D. American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The behavior of the horned passalus beetle, Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger) Gotch, Wendy Ellen, 1973- Biology 1997 Master of Arts
The Negro in colonial Virginia 1619-1765 Hook, Francis Moore. History 1952 Master of Arts