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
Does humor benefit health in retirement? : exploring humor as a moderator Freeman, Gillian P. Psychology 2009 Master of Arts
Empowered to confront : power and confronting sexism Alt, Nicholas Peter, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Romantic relationship schema complexity Preacher, Kristopher J., 1974- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
Private self-consciousness, self-esteem, and perspective-taking Luhtanen, Riia Kaarina, 1962- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
Nicotine facilitates trace fear conditioning in normal and FASD rats tested as adolescents Levillain, Mary Elizabeth, 1980- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
Attitudes toward women and levels of personality development Capasso, Deborah Richardson, 1950- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Novel stimulation enrichment and deprivation : effects on early stage REM sleep Ware, James Catesby, 1947- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Racial interactions : a demographic perspective on juror biases in deliberations Elek, Jennifer K., 1981- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The facets beyond neuroticism : anxiety as a moderator of reactivity to daily negative events Simanski, John. Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
The effects of socially-mediated exposure to ethanol on the self-administration of ethanol in adolescent rats Markhelyuk, Maria. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
Trait and state determinants of preference for abstract art Brady, Tara, 1976- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Testing Bowen's family systems theory : the focused-on child Kitzmann, Katherine Moore, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Analyzing anticipatory muscle tensing as a measure of prospective action Reardon, Kristin Michelle. Psychology 2009 Master of Arts
The establishment of the Huguenots in Virginia Land, Mary Wilson Bohannan, 1905- Religion 1942 Master of Arts
Mediating the influence of deviant peers Breitbeil, John William, 1971- Sociology 1998 Master of Arts
Drug use and deterrence : a test of Silberman's general theory Maume, Michael Owen, 1969- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Ethnic voting behavior in an urban area : the effect of ethnic identification upon candidate choice and political party affiliation among Greek-Americans Brock, Helen Theresa, 1948- Sociology 1971 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 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
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Organization as process : the life histories of CORE and SNCC Farmer, Elizabeth M. Zeiders, 1962- Sociology 1986 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
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
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Disaster and the restructuring of organization Linn, John Robert, 1944- Sociology 1986 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
Social implications in Negro poetry : a study in Negro poetic expression Wynne, Robert Baker, 1906- Sociology 1933 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini : in light of Shi'i history Neary, Brigitte U. Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
Juvenile delinquency and the school : an application of control theory Colombano, Donna M., 1947- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Resource allocation at the university : research on the determinants of faculty morale Schmidt, Douglas Craig, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
The treatment of servants and slaves in colonial Virginia Coyle, Betty Wade Wyatt, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
An examination of some rural community houses in Virginia Verner, Coolie. Sociology 1950 Master of Arts
Religion, philosophy, and the second law of thermodynamics Finn, Carter Braxton, 1935- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
The development of prisonersʼ rights : a study of judicial opinions Greenwood, Lynn Marie, 1949- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
The Philippines in the twentieth century: Social change in recent decades Aguas y Quijano, Juan Vidal, 1951- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood : a cross-cultural replication German, Raquel Miranda, 1957- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Disaster, action, and order : a substantive inquiry of Weber and Durkheim Bosworth, Susan Lovegren, 1958- Sociology 1985 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
Drug use in a university setting : a subcultural approach Haen, Ineke A. M., 1950- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Death and the self Miller, Jo Ann Langley, 1949- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Downtown revitization : a functionalist analysis Knighton, Janice Jacqueline, 1958- Sociology 1985 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 post-war democratization of Japan : voting patterns of Osaka Prefecture Hamada, Hiroyuki, 1946- Sociology 1974 Master of Arts
Radical environmentalism and religion Bush, Evelyn Louise, 1967- Sociology 1996 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Theories of leadership : a contemporary analysis 1975-1989 Schwartzman, Robert D., 1956- Sociology 1990 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