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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
A robe of eloquence : speech and power in the life and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Let us now praise service men : a history of the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945 Neel, Hildy Michelle. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Performance of black female sexuality in a hip hop magazine Johnson, Tova Joanna, 1977- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
African American history at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll, Nicole, 1974- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Who controlled cruise? : The 1983 deployment of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom and the post-1945 anglo-american special relationship in defence Donald, Colin James, 1958- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
A place of honor and fruitfulness : World War One and the war activities of women from the elite women's colleges LaFave, Helen Grace, 1962- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Society of souls : spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Joshua Johnson revisted : filling the Lacunae Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Plastic capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the deregulation of consumer credit Klimchock, Carolee Anne, 1975- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
The poet, the poem, and the people : Etheridge Knight's American counterpoetics Chaltain, Sam. American Studies 1999 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
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Generational revolt and the spirit of capitalism : Fanny Fern's confrontation with Calvinism, class, and gender ideology in Ruth Hall Lunt, Catherine, 1965- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Re-shaping documentary expectations : new journalism and direct cinema Zuber, Sharon L. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Faithful child of God : Nancy Towle, 1796-1876 Bailey, Judith Bledsoe, 1942- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Against bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the public intellectual Bumb, M. J. 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke, 1952- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Preserving Virginia's vision of the past Reilley, Karen Merry, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
The vermin-killers : pest control in the early Chesapeake Newman, Megan Haley. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Framing the woman artist : gender and art in Howells and Sargent Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Re-taking it to the streets : investigating hip-hop's emergence in the spaces of late capitalism Kosanovich, Kevin Waide. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Gershwin gone native! : the influence of primitivism and folk music on Porgy and Bess Dacey, Katherine, 1972- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
C is for cookie, culture, and capitalism : the Muppet phenomenon in the United States Cloeren, Nicole B., 1973- American Studies 1999 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
Anglo-Siouan relations on Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732 Jones, Joseph Benjamin, 1961- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
The Negro Building : African-American representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Watkins, Sarah, 1968- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Mysterious messages : Masonic imagery in Baltimore album quilts Battaile, Anne Bayne, 1977- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The freedom of a broken law : the liminal world of Nathaniel Hawthorneʼs The scarlet letter Horton, Tonia Lanette, 1954- American Studies 1985 Master of Arts
Producing the past : museums, reproductions, consumers, and authenticity Talbot, Melinda Grace, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Celebrity and the national body : encounters with the exotic in late nineteenth-century America Nichols, Caroline Carpenter, 1974- American Studies 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The corporate person : how U.S. courts transformed a legal phantom into a powerful citizen DeMeola, Zachariah J., American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Flying under the radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force : the ongoing politics of space and ethnic identity Diaz, Ella Maria, 1977- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Goods-- agreeable to the Association : the Scottish merchant trade and early tea boycotts in Virginia Kuettner, Angelika Ruth, 1980- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Race relations : a family story, 1765-1867 Gonaver, Wendy, 1969- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Stormy weather : Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and the cultural politics of stardom Howard, Amy L., 1971- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
Luxury consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg, Virginia : gender, race, and the personal property tax Hughes, Shannon Lynn, 1969- American Studies 1999 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
An interpretive plan for the Newry, South Carolina cotton mill museum Hawkins, Callie Pettit. American Studies 2011 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
`Post-humously hot' : Bill Traylor's life and art Worrell, Colleen Doyle, 1966- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
A social history of the private fence in nineteenth-century America Bishop, Lisa Brenner, 1967- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts

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