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
Prospective principals for the 21st century : factors that motivate and inhibit the pursuit of school leadership for educational administration students Pope, Tambra Michelle. Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Spatial and temporal analysis of fecal coliform distribution in Virginia coastal waters Huang, Jie, 1972- Marine Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The right of petition : cases of indentured servants and society in colonial Virginia, 1698-1746 Righi, Brandon Paul. History 2010 Master of Arts
Applications of pattern classification to time-domain signals Bertoncini, Crystal Ann, 1982- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Student trust in teachers and its relationship to student identification with school, student perceptions of academic press, and achievement Bankole, Regina A., 1966- Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Choosing to succeed : an exploration of the relationship between college choice and freshman retention Walke, James Tomlin, 1971- Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The wayward priest of Atondo : violence, vocation, and religious reform in a Navarrese parish Scott, Amanda Lynn. History 2010 Master of Arts
You have no boss here to work for : women and labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing communities O'Grady, Elizabeth Marie. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
An interoperable and secure architecture for internet-scale decentralized personal communications Bryan, David Alan. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Comparison of full-wave and ray-tracing analysis of mode conversion in plasmas Xiao, Yanli, 1982- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
To learn the trade of a potter : apprenticeship, emulation, and deviance in the Wachovian tradition Taylor, Jessica Lauren. History 2010 Master of Arts
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as tracers of environmental change and Antarctic seabird ecology Geisz, Heidi N. C., 1974- Marine Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Keep on keeping on : the NAACP and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia Daugherity, Brian J., 1972- History 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Anime in America, Disney in Japan : the global exchange of popular media visualized through Disney's Stitch Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Buck-horned snakes and possum women : non-White folklore, antebellum Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange Miller, John Douglas. American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
A measure of the neutron electric form factor at very large momentum transfer using polarized electrons scattering from a polarized helium-3 target Kelleher, Aidan Michael, 1975- Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond the text : finding Anne Askew Zurawski, Lindsay Watkins. History 2010 Master of Arts
Dunmore's new world : political culture in the British Empire, 1745-1796 David, James Corbett, 1977- History 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The American grotesque : free-thought idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in story Tirak, Lita M. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Administrator and teacher perceptions of the qualities of effective teachers Williams, Robert Eugene, 1966- Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Migration dynamics, within-estuary behaviors and cardiorespiratory responses of summer flounder to selected estuarine conditions Capossela, Karen M., 1981- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Effects of habitat quality on secondary production in shallow estuarine waters and the consequences for the benthic-pelagic food web Gillett, David James, 1975- Marine Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Building freedom : nineteenth century domestic architecture on Barbados sugar plantations Bergman, Stephanie. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Advanced learner perceptions of psychological well-being and school satisfaction in two educational settings Robertson, Janice C. Education 2010 Doctor of Education
The effect of salinity on experimental Hematodinium sp. infections in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Coffey, Anna Huntley, 1985- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Rituals of the re-founded Bolivian state Cerball, Raquel Elizabeth Nava. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Supporting feature-level software maintenance Revelle, Meghan Kathleen, 1981- Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Quantum information dynamics Yepez, J. (Jeffrey) Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Habitat utilization and dive characterization of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and white marlin (Kajikia albida) in the Western Atlantic Ocean Dutton, Daniel J., 1983- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Incorporating industry based dredge surveys into the assessment of sea scallops, Placopecten magellanicus Rudders, David B., 1970- Marine Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Gaming among enslaved Africans in the Americas, and its uses in navigating social interactions Christiano, Katrina Ann. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Effective teaching practices and teacher efficacy beliefs of International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme teachers Hutchings, Gregory C., 1977- Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Exploring the potential for bay scallop, Argopecten irradians concentricus, restoration in the Lynnhaven River sub-estuary of Chesapeake Bay Hernández Cordero, Ana Liza, 1984- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
The effect of an African-American Rites of Passage prevention program on adolescent ethnic identity, drug attitudes, behavior in the classroom and academic performance Rodriguez, Jamie B. Education 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Flying under the radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force : the ongoing politics of space and ethnic identity Diaz, Ella Maria, 1977- American Studies 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Modeling shoreline change and resulting wetland response due to erosion and sea-level rise : a case study in Dorchester County, Maryland Nunez, Mirtha Karinna, 1974- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Federal recognition politics and collaborative archaeologists : the need for a cultural consensus Martin, Alexandra Grace. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Building efficient wireless infrastructures for pervasive computing environments Sheng, Bo. Computer Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Optical control of ultrafast spin-wave relaxation by magnetic anisotropy in a ferromagnet Smith, Kevin James. Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Spatial and temporal patterns in erosional and depositional processes : physical and biological controls in the York River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Rodrʹiguez-Calderʹon, Cielomar, 1983- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Heavy metal archaeology : an examination of lead's significance for the interpretation of archaeological bone Regan, Peter Andrew. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Partial year tagging models : accounting for changing tag visibility and delayed mixing Waterhouse, Lynn, 1985- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
The preservation and deconstruction of Hawaiʻi plantation style architecture : Aiea, Waipahu, and Ewa Way, Jessica Margaret. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Estimating detection probabilities in beach seine surveys for estuarine fishes Williams, Branson D., 1984- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
From sight to site to website : travel-writing, tourism and the American experience in Haiti, 1900-2008 Yarrington, Landon Cole. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Perceptions of administrators, special education teachers, and general education teachers concerning the diploma decision-making process for students with disabilities Hybl, Kathleen, 1965- Education 2010 Doctor of Education
Quantifying the ecosystem role of a suspension and a facultative deposit feeding bivalve in the New River Estuary, NC : with responses to changes in nutrient and sediment inputs Wiseman, Heather Marie, 1984- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Accounting for undesirable outputs in productivity measurements : application to the California-Oregon drift gillnet fishery Scott, Tara L., 1980- Marine Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy