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
Bisegmented and multisegmented lovers' nests : an exploratory study German, Hallett. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
The relevance of social isolation to the community tenure of former mental patients Hargadon, Sue Ellen. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Praxis and history Garnjobat, Gordon. Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Thomas Road Baptist Church : a study of the new fundamentalism Flint, Betty Gail, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
No-fault divorce legislation and its impact on state divorce rates Massey, Elizabeth Ann, 1954- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Air pollution, a sociological perspective Freymeyer, Robert Howard, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
An analysis of help patterns and interaction between parents and their married children Bare, Harold L. Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
A study of black female assertiveness Golemba, Beverly, 1931- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood : a cross-cultural replication German, Raquel Miranda, 1957- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Substance abuse treatment in learning centers : a comparison across variables Flynn, Nicole Thomson, 1969- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
Sociological contributions to the community mental health movement : a reformulation Morrison, Richard Drury. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
A critique of the labeling approach : toward a social theory of deviance Mattson Croninger, Robert Glenn, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Alienation among college faculty members Kambis, Mitchell Phillips, 1944- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Role satisfaction in the sisterhood Mikulka, Jacqueline Veronica, 1949- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Death and the self Miller, Jo Ann Langley, 1949- Sociology 1980 Master of Arts
Social bonding, social learning, and delinquency : An examination of two etiological theories of deviance Ousey, Graham Cristopher, 1968- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
The Weather Underground : a study in mobilization Pigulski, Paul Michael, 1953- Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Elderly clients' perceptions of human services Egly, Stephanie R., 1952- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
The meaning of value : a review and analysis of a sociological concept Mead, Bruce Longley, 1951- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Organizational restructuring : community response to natural disaster Crooks, John G., 1957- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
An exploratory study of the effects of bankruptcy on the susceptibility of small businessmen to right-wing ideology Kytle, Rayford, 1946- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Perceived racial discrimination and political-racial stereotyping Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Factors in lay diagnoses of mental illness : closeness of relationship and de-satisficing events Hull, Doyle E., 1964- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
The role of juvenile court structure in pre-adjudicatory detention decisions Foister, Douglas Stuart, 1956- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Consciousness and its reproduction in higher education Monk, Elizabeth Ann, 1952- Sociology 1976 Master of Arts
Origins, networks, and restructuring : an analysis of three methodologies Enoch, Joel Kent, 1962- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
An organizational analysis of professionalization in police departments Oppenheim, Pamela J., 1951- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
A sociological study of the needs of the elderly in a subarea of Hampton, Virginia Yeatts, Dale Purnell, 1952- Sociology 1978 Master of Arts
Organization and role : conception and measurement Mooney, Jennifer A., 1965- Sociology 1989 Master of Arts
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Rationality in conglomerate succession : a case study Alie, Raymond E. Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Public taste : a comparison of movie popularity and critical opinion Riley, R. Claiborne, 1950- Sociology 1982 Master of Arts
Single mothers by choice : a nontraditional alternative to mothering Harris, Kimberly Kay, 1962- Sociology 1988 Master of Arts
Faculty attitudes toward student activism and academic reform Rupnow, Thomas John, 1950- Sociology 1975 Master of Arts
Land-use in Richmond, Virginia, 1880, 1910, 1940 Newcomb, David Ray, 1947- Sociology 1989 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
Youth in transition : college students and their parents Dawson, John Robert, 1937- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts