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
An enslaved landscape : the Virginia plantation at the end of the seventeenth century Brown, David Arthur, 1975-, History 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Within-person relationships among prayer, well-being, and daily events Newman, David Benjamin, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Successful pedagogical practices of elementary teachers of homeless students : a case study Pickles, Kimberly Owen, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Toward the global public good : accountability for higher education in the twenty-first century Letizia, Angelo J., 1981-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Use of pattern classification algorithms to interpret passive and active data streams from a walking-speed robotic sensor platform Dieckman, Eric Allen, 1986-, Applied Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Exhorting or extorting? : George Whitefield's financial controversies Beales, Kristen Elizabeth, History 2014 Master of Arts
The relationship between teachers' computer self-efficacy and technology integration in a school district's Bring Your Own Technology initiative Ellis, Ashley F., Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Maternal and paternal socialization of children's sadness : links to emotion regulation, psychopathology, and social functioning Poon, Jennifer Ann, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Surreptitious spaces : cabarets and the French contest for empire in Martinique, 1680-1720 Bennett, Lynch D., History 2014 Master of Arts
Direct vs. indirect aggression tactics as a function of domin-specific self-esteem Wyckoff, Joy Plumeri Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Liberty's kids : toys, children's literature, and the promotion of nationalism in the early nineteenth-century United States Butler, Amelia M., History 2014 Master of Arts
Effects of Orexin A on attention in rats Zajo, Kristin Nicole, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
The Reynolds affair, party politics and sexuality in the early republic Gross, Alexandra Marie, History 2014 Master of Arts
Examining the development of self-authorship among student veterans Stone, Sharon L. M., Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Spirited enterprises : Venezuela, the United States, and the independence of Spanish America, 1789-1823 Pompeian, Edward P., 1983- History 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Possessing the holy land : the Palestine Exploration Fund and the American Palestine Exploration Society Irizarry, Ashley M., History 2014 Master of Arts
The fruits of their labors : exploring William Hamilton's greenhouse complex and the rise of American botany in early federal Philadelphia Chesney, Sarah Jane, Anthropology 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Powhatan's white dog: Tsenacommacah in the English trading world Morrison, Matthew Patrick History 2014 Master of Arts
Entertaining education or purely entertainment : a case study of the Yorktown Victory Center Ecker, Jordan Margaret-May, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Teachers' perspectives of effective lesson planning : a comparative analysis Straessle, Jessica Miller Wunderle, 1979-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Women in the trenches : barriers to female staff's advancement in higher education Costello, Carla A., Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Effective resource and workload management in data centers Lu, Lei, Computer Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Culture clash : a case study of the issues that non-traditional college presidents face in adjusting to academic culture Heuvel, Sean M., Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
From lying low to harmonious world : changes in Chinese foreign policy from the 1970s to the 2000s Murray, Charles Monahan, History 2014 Master of Arts
I get a kick out of you' : cinematic revisions of the history of the African American cowboy in the American West Maguire, Stephanie Anne, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
From señor natural to siervo de Dios : the transition of Nahua nobility under Spanish rule, 1540-1600 Retzbach, Shannon A., History 2014 Master of Arts
Race, childhood, and Native American boarding schools : a case study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Norris, Tyler, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Drivin' trucks, huntin' bucks, and reading Aristotle? : the rural student's college choice dilemma Strawn, Rachel Mayes, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
The formation of the Russian medical profession : a comparison of power and plagues in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Schuth, Samuel Otto, History 2014 Master of Arts
For how could we do without sugar and rum? : the semiotics of abolitionist aesthetics Padilioni, James Patrick, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Evaluating a school-based day treatment program for students with challenging behaviors Hickman, Antoine Lewis, 1970-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Temptress of the stage : whither the widow-woman? Snyder, Kathryn Elizabeth, History 2014 Master of Arts
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Obscured conflations, (un)bending frames : considering the concept of truth in the politics and rhetoric of the religious right Rosenkranz, Anna Catharine, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Living, learning, and leading from the middle : African American women administrators in student affairs Anderson, Melinda R. Jones, 1977-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
A search for a new gauge boson Jensen, Eric Lyle, Physics 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Epistemological ties that bind : student counselors' professional ethical identity development Lloyd-Hazlett, Jessica, Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Thus did God break the head of that Leviathan : performative violence and judicial beheadings of Native Americans in seventeenth-century New England Tonat, Ian Edward, History 2014 Master of Arts
The scar must remain' : memory and the first world war in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray series Thompson, Anna Murell, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Sediment deposition and reworking : a modeling study using isotopically tagged sediment classes Birchler, Justin J., 1988- Marine Science 2014 Master of Science
Real-time high-quality image to mesh conversion for finite element simulations Foteinos, Panagiotis A., Computer Science 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
The Dalai Lama in American documentaries : symbol, politics and American mirroring Zeng, Shuting, American Studies 2014 Master of Arts
Teacher self-efficacy, content and pedagogical knowledge, and their relationship to student achievement in algebra I Fox, Antonia M., Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Ruins reframed : the commodification of American urban disaster, 1861-1906 Hilpert, Zachary M., American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Long-term change in copepod community structure in the western Antarctic Peninsula : linkage to climate and implications for carbon cycling Gleiber, Miram Rayzel, Marine Science 2014 Master of Science
Tavern' by the saltpan : New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682-1782 Antczak, Konrad A., Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Beyond academic preparation : anticipatory socialization, values, and the experiences of undergraduate male African American engineering students Joseph, Jacob David, Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Seasonal movements, habitat utilization, and comparative scale morphology of white marlin (Kajikia albida) and roundscale spearfish (Tetrapturus georgii) Loose, Emily L., 1976-, Marine Science 2014 Master of Science
Strength for the journey : feminist theology and Baptist women pastors Bailey, Judith Bledsoe, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
The Pamunkey Indian Museum : collaboration, display, and the creation of a tribal museum Bowen, Rachel Elaine, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts