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
Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The Friendship Fest : perfecting friendship through transnational musical performance Thompson, Nancy LeAnne. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Utopian spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The Willoughby-Baylor house : Form and symbol Keenan, Stephanie Mary, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Shahrazad in the white city : Muslim women's agency through performance at the Columbian Exposition Jerome, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Friendly meetings : the art of conquest and the mythical origins of Pennsylvania, ca. 1620-1771 Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
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
Storyville : discourses in southern musicians' autobiographies Sutton, Matthew Daniel, 1972- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The road to ruins and restoration : Roland W. Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology Linebaugh, Donald W. American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Dressing behavior in eighteenth century Virginia 1740-1800 Masters, Joanna Margaret, 1965- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
A New England state of mind : identity and commodification in Yankee magazine, 1935-1942 Sargent, Andrew Robert. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Preserving their form and features : the role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870 Tharp, Brent W., 1964- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
A dollar book for a dime! : the vernacular of cheapness and the Beadle dime handbooks Adams, Sarah Elisabeth. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Judas exposed : labor spies in the United States Luff, Jennifer D., 1970- American Studies 2005 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
Against bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the public intellectual Bumb, M. J. 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
What's a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires? : Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Absalom, Absalom! and the southern code of honor Gardner, Kevin, 1962- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
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
From the unpolished to the refined : the evolution of the furniture trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa Darlene, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
A dress of the right length to die in : mortuary and memorial practices amongst Depression-era tenant farmers of the Piedmont South Alderman-Tuttle, Zoey. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Calming minds and instilling character : John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843-1860 Manzo, Bettina, 1943- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Mann thinking across antebellum culture-- Mann Satterwhite Valentine's literary aspirations Owen, Deborah Lynn, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
More or less than kind : brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature Blanchard, Jennifer P. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Strategic victimization : news photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the revisualization of America Williams, Margaret Keeton. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
The Fate of the cabinetmaking trade in Williamsburg, Virginia in the post-revolutionary period Hildreth, Linda A., 1957- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
Julia Gardiner Tyler a president's bride and plantation mistress in the age of domesticity Singleton, Elizabeth Marie, 1961- American Studies 1986 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
Seeking the living among the dead : African American burial practices in Surry County, Virginia Johnson, Deanda Marie, 1977- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
How gardening pays : leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
A certain kinship : the first exhibitions of American folk art, New York, 1924-1932 Chasse, Sarah Noble. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Between fact and fiction : writing by American women in a transnational context Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
A cultural analysis of furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820 Prown, Johnathan, 1961- American Studies 1993 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
Breaking with tradition : slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680-1780 Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern : an example of the influence of the colonial revival upon museums Mosher, Melissa Beth, 1963- American Studies 1988 Master of Arts
The urban/rural dichotomy of status consumption : tidewater Virginia, 1815 Smart, Ann Morgan, 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
I like things simple, but it must be simple through complication : re-reading Gertrude Stein Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Facing Philadelphia : the social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860 Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
The rise and fall of the WB : Dawson's Creek, intertextuality, and legitimation Hodge, Ambert R. J. P. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy