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
Reproductive strategies in Asclepias Syriaca and Apocynum Cannabinum Soltys, Mariellen J., 1965- Biology 1994 Master of Arts
The synthesis and photochemistry of anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonyl- -cyclodextrin Aquino, Angela Marie, 1966- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts
The military career of William Booth Taliaferro, April 1861-February 1863 Bolander, Robert Charles, 1940- History 1964 Master of Arts
Coercive behavior's effects on identity formation Savastano, Lisa A., 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
An examination of motivational barriers to negative assertion in women Moeschl, Mary Jo, 1950- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
Reactions of the tin tetrahalides with 2,4-Pentanedione in the presence of organic amines Wong, Kwai-Sam, 1946- Chemistry 1971 Master of Arts
Skin reactivity, allergic diagnosis and personality McCollum, Richard Herbert, 1943- Psychology 1966 Master of Arts
The perception of clothing and situational formality and their relationship to public and private self-consciousness Harris, Susan Mozley, 1955- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Job satisfaction and attitudes toward collective negotiations by fire and police personnel Nowell, E. Gayle, 1948- Government 1981 Master of Arts
In search of the Southern identity : the lady, the farmwife, and the nonslaveholders of York County Virginia, 1850-1860 Flotten, Chesley Homan, 1974- History 1998 Master of Arts
Source and time of social cue delivery : a social comparison approach to social information processing Madenberg, Steven Michael, 1962- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
An analysis of the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union : 1959-1990 Goldman, Lawrence R., 1966- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Gershwin gone native! : the influence of primitivism and folk music on Porgy and Bess Dacey, Katherine, 1972- American Studies 2001 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
The influence of location, seagrass species and water depth on the settlement and distribution of early stage blue crabs Pardieck, Renee A. Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
All sorts of china ware ... large, noble and rich chinese bowls : Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain in Virginia Madsen, David Andrew, 1966- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
The effect of low 02 levels on the filtration efficiency and pumping rate of Crassostrea virginica Quensen, John F., 1949- Marine Science 1975 Master of Arts
French and Hessian impressions : foreign soldiers' views of America during the Revolution Hall, Cosby Williams, 1975- History 2003 Master of Arts
Trust and cheater detection : evolved cognitive mechanisms for social exchange Stroub, Kori James, 1977- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
Near the governor's patterns of development of three properties along Williamsburg's Palace and Nicholson streets in the eighteenth century Samford, Patricia Merle, 1957- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
Numerical experiments with the multi-grid method Poling, Theodore Craig, 1953- Mathematics 1978 Master of Arts
Nanoplankton dynamics in a salt marsh-mudflat ecosystem Galvão, Helena Maria, 1957- Marine Science 1984 Master of Arts
C is for cookie, culture, and capitalism : the Muppet phenomenon in the United States Cloeren, Nicole B., 1973- American Studies 1999 Master of Arts
St. George Tucker's Old bachelor letter on language and literature in America : a critical edition McCorkle, Anne Elizabeth, 1947- English 1971 Master of Arts
The development and application of a helium discharge detector for gas chromatography Ware, Margaret LaVerne, 1964- Chemistry 1988 Master of Arts
Self-concept reflected in humor production Hurley, Michael E., 1961- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
Guilt and atonement in Lord Jim and Under western eyes Wilson, Norma Sue Tester, 1938- English 1974 Master of Arts
A critique of Hugo Grotius's introduction to the jurisprudence of Holland Slinkard, Frank Gilbert, 1963- Government 1992 Master of Arts
The search for truth : narrative technique in Lord Jim and Absalom, Absalom ! Donegan, Jacquelyn King, 1947- English 1976 Master of Arts
Virginia newspaper editors and the coming of World War II, 1935-1939 Gray, Robert Wayne, 1945- History 1970 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in early colonial Virginia Ross, Douglas E. Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Angle sensitivity of a silicon cell solar sensor Spencer, Paul R., 1934- Physics 1961 Master of Arts
The effect of stimulus differentiation and intertrial interval on spontaneous alternation behavior in rats Bisese, Vernon Stephen, 1933- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
To go with an ungloved hand was impossible : a history of gloves, hands, sex, wealth, and power Barzilay, Karen Northrup, 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Status, dominance, or prestige? : domains of self-esteem as moderators of reactions to an embarrassing situation Buttermore, Nicole Reed, 1980- Psychology 2004 Master of Arts
The Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies : Albany County, New York:1778-1781 Leszkowicz, Jade Mara. History 2010 Master of Arts
Evelina : from ingenue to social success Norris, Michael Elsey, 1949- English 1986 Master of Arts
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
From a determined resolution to get liberty : slaves and the British in revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781 Palladino, Brian David, 1975- History 2000 Master of Arts
Respiratory structure anatomy of two marine annelids : evidence for the respiratory role of the superior ligule in Nereis succinea and the gill of Arenicola cristata Johnson, Jerome M., 1952- Biology 1981 Master of Arts
The heavens or the abyss : a reading of Edith Wharton's The House of mirth as a romance Nicholson, Joseph Rives, 1969- English 1996 Master of Arts
Food, feeding, and length-weight relationships of young-of-the-year striped bass, Morone saxatilis and young-of-the-year white perch, Morone americana Rudershausen, Paul J. Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
Eggshell thinning and pesticide residues in ospreys from the lower Chesapeake Bay Via, Jerry Waller, 1949- Biology 1975 Master of Arts
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
The militarization of agriculture : Cold War, foreign aid, and the expansion of the American agricultural welfare system under President Eisenhower Matzner, Alan Herbert, 1975- History 2008 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
Edaphic factors and forest vegetation in Virginia coastal plain swamps Parsons, Susan Emily, 1954- Biology 1978 Master of Arts
Electrochemical studies on peroxo heteroligand vanadates (V) in aqueous solution Mayonado, David J. Chemistry 1984 Master of Arts
A dress of the right length to die in : mortuary and memorial practices amongst Depression-era tenant farmers of the Piedmont South Alderman-Tuttle, Zoey. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Simulation model for repairable parts inventories at a maintenance center Szedlmayer, Margaret Mary Anne, 1956- Mathematics and Computer Science 1987 Master of Arts