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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 social historical exploration of the popularity of The Rockford Files Taormina, Mary Frances, 1965- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Domestic music making in late eighteenth-century elite Chesapeake society : the elegant selections of Shirley Plantation Glosson, Sarah Gentry. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Milk enough for all : the African-American woman's quest for identity and authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved by Amy Ghaemmaghamie. Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol, 1965- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
R.C. Scott : a history of African-American entrepreneurship in Richmond 1890-1940 Plater, Michael A., 1956- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
The rise and fall of the WB : Dawson's Creek, intertextuality, and legitimation Hodge, Ambert R. J. P. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Lost chances in Sino-American relations : the burden of myth, culture, and ideology, 1949-1953 Haga, Kai Yin Allison, 1972- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Remembering to forget : Gone with the Wind, Roots, and Consumer History Rose, Annjeanette C., 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Understanding roadkill through an animal method Monahan, Linda Angela, American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
The immigrant, the native son, and the ambassador : the transnational travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira Cohen, Amber Shandling. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Gotta travel on: a view of the American road from Bob Dylan's rolling thunder revue, 1975/ Shine, Matthew David, 1968- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian : myth and disillusionment Vaugh, Carol Van Dessel, 1961- American Studies 1984 Master of Arts
Neither bedecked nor bebosomed : Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and women's leadership and organizing in the struggle for freedom Glisson, Susan M., 1967- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Re-evaluating sentimental violence in Uncle Tom's cabin and Dred Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Framing the woman artist : gender and art in Howells and Sargent Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
The United States Army chaplain as prophet in the twenty-first century : is there a soul of goodness in things evil? Kammer, Donald W., 1957- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Voters in a foreign land : alien suffrage and citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926 Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Archaeology at Bennett Farm : the life style of a seventeenth- century middling planter in York County, Virginia Luccketti, Nicholas Michael, 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Battling girlhood : sympathy, race and the tomboy narrative in American literature Proehl, Kristen Beth, 1980- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
I claim not to have controlled events : Abraham Lincoln and the manipulation of public opinion in the secession crisis Huso, Deborah Rae, 1975- American Studies 1997 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
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Selling America in the seventeenth century : the contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the establishment of the English colony in America Smith, Sibley Judson, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
The peculiar institution : gender, race and religion in the making of modern psychiatry, 1842-1932 Gonaver, Wendy, 1969- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Colonial Williamsburg, national identity, and Cold War patriotism Roberts, Luke Edward, 1974- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Cherokee royalties : the impact of Indian tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee identity Saunooke, Annette Bird, 1981- American Studies 2004 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
Seeing (for) Miles : jazz, race, and objects of performance Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979-, American Studies 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
The woman, the legend, the power : fictional representations of Marie Laveau in twentieth-century literature Neidenbach, Elizabeth Clark. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The first thing out the window : race, radical feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time Mann, Kimberly Lynn. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Organized labor : the past, present, and future of nurse- midwifery in America Matthews, Amy Procter, 1960- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Revisions and evasions : Flannery O'Connor, southern literary culture and the problem of female authorship Prown, Katherine Hemple, 1963- American Studies 1993 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
The kids are (all) right : baby-boomers and the rhetoric of childhood in the picture books of Chris Van Allsburg Sprinkle, Mark. American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Rituals, roots, and rectangles : the classical tradition in early American portraiture Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Passing into print : Walt Whitman and his publishers Green, Charles B., 1960- American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy

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