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
Water quality modeling as an inverse problem Shen, Jian, 1958- Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Waterfowl utilization of a submerged vegetation (Zostera marina and Ruppia maritima) bed in the lower Chesapeake Bay Wilkins, Elizabeth W., 1952- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
Wave diffraction and refraction problem and a block-wise band matrix solver Li, Changqing, 1962- Marine Science 1995 Master of Arts
Wave refraction by warm core rings Mapp, George R., 1950- Marine Science 1982 Master of Arts
Wavelet-based digital image restoration Sandor, Viviana. Computer Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Wealth and society in eighteenth century Bermuda : a view from the colonial capital of St. George's Metz, Cara Anne Harbecke Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Weapons innovations and arms control : three case studies Gerard, William Frank, 1943- Government 1974 Master of Arts
Weaving fearful vision : Malcolm Lowry's poetry Thomas, Mark Ellis, 1955- English 1984 Master of Arts
Wetland vegetation dynamics and ecosystem gas exchange in response to organic matter loading rates Bailey, David E. Marine Science 2006 Master of Science
What are the characteristics of effective teaching? : a comparative study of stakeholder perceptions Hill, Christine Lucille, 1964- Education 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
What is best and most typical : nostalgia, transgression, and capitalism at the Virginia State Fair 1946-1976 Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
What mean? : the postmodern metafiction within William Gaddis's The Recognitions Butler, Sean, 1965- English 1992 Master of Arts
What our seemers be : misreading text, and voice in Measure for measure Lilly, Thomas, 1973- English 1997 Master of Arts
What predicts alumni satisfaction? : the impact of investment, involvement, and post-college outcomes Barnes, Amy Catherine, 1976- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
What price greatness? : a study of the protagonists in three plays by Henrik Ibsen--The master builder, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead awaken Fuchs, Janet Rose, 1941- English 1973 Master of Arts
What sorrows and what joys : the Civil War diaries of Cloe Tyler Whittle, 1861-1866 Davies, Emily R., 1961- History 1993 Master of Arts
What they have instead of God : the relationship between Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Wardrop, Stephanie Eileen, 1965- English 1990 Master of Arts
What was pat lady? : the David and Bathsheba story in medieval and early renaissance English literature Kustesky, Stanley, 1946- English 1994 Master of Arts
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
When Mary entered with her brother William : women students at the College of William and Mary, 1918-1945 Parrish, Laura Frances, 1955- History 1988 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
When there's nothing better to eat : subsistence strategies in eighteenth century Bermuda Jarvis, Sondra Aileen, 1966- Anthropology 1997 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Which way now? : An examination of the ideological movement of the British Labour Party between 1974 and 1992 Waddington, Robert, 1970- Government 1993 Master of Arts
Whispering-gallery mode resonators for nonlinear and quantum optical applications Simons, Matthew Thomas, 1985- Physics 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
White democracy, racism, and black disfranchisement: North Carolina in the 1830's McGehee, Elizabeth Hathhorn, 1965- History 1989 Master of Arts
White squaws : work as a factor in choosing Indian life Hines, Karen L., 1955- History 2004 Master of Arts
White students' racial attitudes and racial identity development in a liberal arts environment Glisan, Mary Hornback. Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Who are you calling criminal? : a new look at the violent criminal stereotype Imhof, Heather V., 1977- Psychology 2001 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
Who flourishes in college? : using positive psychology and student involvement theory to explore mental health among traditionally aged undergraduates Ambler, Virginia Miller, 1966- Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Who is archaeology's public? : a critical analysis of public images and expectations of archaeology Bartoy, Kevin M. Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Who is the Soviet politician? Tacosa, Corliss Anne, 1945- Government 1978 Master of Arts
Who was buried in James Madison's grave? : a study in contextual analysis Chapman, Charles Thomas, 1975- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
Who was Jack Tar? : aspects of the social history of Boston, Massachusetts seamen, 1700-1770 Strickland, Clark Joseph, 1948- History 1972 Master of Arts
Who went to market? : An urban and rural, late eighteenth- century perspective based on faunal assemblages from Curtes Neck plantation and the Everard Site Trevarthen, Susan Michelle, 1967- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Why white men can't jump ... and black men can't think : an analysis of the American sports news media's coverage of basketball and its players from 1980 to the present Scaro, Robert Charles, 1970- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Wild animals and domesticated landscapes : a case study of human-animal relationships in the middle and late woodland coastal plain of Virginia Levine, Nadejda, 1978- Anthropology 2007 Master of Arts
Wild Yankees : settlement, conflict, & localism along Pennsylvania's northeast frontier, 1760-1820 Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970- History 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Wild, wearable, and seaworthy Davey, Frances Evelyn, 1970- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
William Allason : merchant in an emerging nation Spoede, Robert W. 1926- History 1973 Doctor of Philosophy
William Booth Taliaferro : a biography Sibley, Martha Arle, 1949- History 1973 Master of Arts
William Carlos Williams's Spring and All : the oneness of experience Jones, Molly Elayne, 1952- English 1994 Master of Arts
William Edward Dodd and the progressive South, 1900-1908 Orser, George Robert, 1944- History 1969 Master of Arts
William F. Willoughby, a progressive in China, 1914-1916 Ramsey, Elizabeth Courtenay, 1947- History 1976 Master of Arts
William Lloyd Garrison : nonresistant Christian manliness in the cause of immediate emancipation, an analysis Nakamoto, Sharleen Naomi, 1970- History 1999 Master of Arts
William M. McClaskey : a tavern keeper in his community, 1834- 1844 by Lisa Gail Royse. Royse, Lisa Gail, 1957- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
William Randolph, of Turkey Island, progenitor of a famous family Swartz, James Eldred, 1899- History 1942 Master of Arts
Williamsburg and Norfolk : municipal government and justice in colonial Virginia Barrow, Robert Mangum, 1937- History 1960 Master of Arts
Williamsburg and urbanization in antebellum Virginia : a place-- a process-- a parade of change that continues forward Butler, Elisabeth Frederick. History 2005 Master of Arts