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
An evaluation of the effects of a career decision-making course on tenth grade non-college bound students Barr, Carol Gelo, 1942- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
An evaluative study of the 1972-74 standards of quality and objectives for public schools in Virginia Smith, Norman Steven. Education 1980 Doctor of Education
CP violation in K-long decays Dorata, Gregory Dominick, 1960- Physics 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
Interaction of long waves and nearshore barred topography : a mechanism of bar migration Kim, Chang-Shik, 1951- Marine Science 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
Techniques of data prefetching, replication, and consistency in the internet Chen, Xin. Computer Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond the standard model : new scalars and new leptons Yuan, Yao, 1964- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) metamorphosis : effects of low oxygen Baker, Shirley Marie, 1964- Marine Science 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
Perception of barriers and coping-efficacy as determinants of readiness for transition to adulthood among older youth in foster care Clare, Glenda. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Nuclear polarization and charge parameters using the muonic 2s state Martin, Peter. Physics 1971 Doctor of Philosophy
Socioeconomic effects of area management and the potential for community-based co-management : a case study of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery Ryan, Winifred L. Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Re-shaping documentary expectations : new journalism and direct cinema Zuber, Sharon L. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Aspects of age, growth, demographics and thermal biology of two lamniform shark species Goldman, Kenneth J., 1963- Marine Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Modernization in colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1763 Dufour, Ronald P. 1947- History 1982 Doctor of Philosophy
Turbulence in binary fluid flow systems : a Lattice Boltzmann approach Wah, Darren M. Physics 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Quasi-elastic electron scattering from a high-momentum nucleon in deuterium Butuceanu, Cornel, 1969- Physics 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Subadult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) behavior in St Marys entrance channel, Georgia, USA Nelson, David A., 1947- Marine Science 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Wavelet-based digital image restoration Sandor, Viviana. Computer Science 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Keeping the republic : ideology and the diplomacy of John Adams, James Madison and John Quincy Adams Smith, Robert W., 1967- History 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
The vermin-killers : pest control in the early Chesapeake Newman, Megan Haley. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond academic preparation : anticipatory socialization, values, and the experiences of undergraduate male African American engineering students Joseph, Jacob David, Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
The diffusion of muonic deuterium atoms in deuterium gas Kraiman, James Brian, 1959- Physics 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Ut prosim, the balance of liberal and useful education in the American land-grant university : a case study of Virginia Tech DiCroce, Deborah M., 1952- Education 1984 Doctor of Philosophy
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux : his social and political interests and influence Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian. History 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Suspended sediment concentration profiles in the bottom boundary layer Xu, Jingping, 1963- Marine Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of daily fluctuating temperatures and dimethylnaphthalene-contaminated food on the estuarine grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio Dillon, Thomas Mitchell, 1949- Marine Science 1981 Doctor of Philosophy
Factors affecting carrier transport in ultra-fast III-V compound semiconductor based photodiodes McAdoo, James A. Applied Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Transactional and transformational leadership : differences between representative and peer-nominated effective university presidents and as a function of institution type and presidential gender McAdory, Alice, 1948- Education 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Studies of negative ion-atom scattering at low collision energies Smith, Barry T., 1950- Physics 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
Postschool outcomes for young adults with mental retardation receiving transition services in Virginia : caregiver perceptions Graham, Marguerite Beth. Education 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Joseph E. Johnston and the defense of Richmond Newton, Steven H. History 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
NMR detection of ionized arsenic vacancy production in gallium arsenide Hester, Richard K. Physics 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
The malleability of spatial ability under treatment of a FIRST LEGO League-based robotics unit Coxon, Steven Vincent. Education 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Molecular and morphological evolution of the amphipod radiation of Lake Baikal Macdonald, Kenneth S. 1971- Marine Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Decoupling method for parallel Delaunay 2D mesh generation Linardakis, Leonidas, 1965- Computer Science 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
The impact of undergraduate Greek membership on alumni giving at the College of William and Mary Purish O'Neill, Patricia, 1968- Education 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Hydrozoa of southern Chesapeake Bay Calder, Dale R. Marine Science 1970 Doctor of Philosophy
Algorithms for operations on probability distributions in a computer algebra system Evans, Diane Lynn, 1968- Applied Science 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The thirty years between Davis, 1952 and the Casteen proposal 1982 : an examination of the factors that influenced certain elected leaders of Virginia in making their decisions regarding elimination of the dual system of education in Virginia Wilson, Wesley C. Education 1985 Doctor of Philosophy
The measurement of strong-interaction effects in high-Z sigma hyperonic atoms Phillips, William Clarke, 1955- Physics 1988 Doctor of Philosophy
A nuclear magnetic resonance study of deuterated poly(vinylidene fluoride) and a copolymer of deuterated vinylidene fluoride and tetrafluoroethylene Doverspike, Montee A., 1955- Physics 1986 Doctor of Philosophy
ANN wave prediction model for winter storms and hurricanes Kim, Jun-Young. Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Parallel generalized Delaunay mesh refinement Chernikov, Andrey N., 1978- Computer Science 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
Quantum turbulence in two dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates Zhang, Bo, 1982- Physics 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Larvae and relationships of Epinepheline serranids (Teleostei: Percoidei) Baldwin, Carole Christine, 1959- Marine Science 1992 Doctor of Philosophy
First observation of the very rare decay K0(L)-->e+e- Martin, Robert David, 1969- Physics 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Effects of polychlorinated biphenyl exposure on development and sexual differentiation in ranid tadpoles Rybitski, Mary J., 1963- Marine Science 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Gathering places, cultivating spaces : an archaeology of a Chesapeake neighborhood through enslavement and emancipation 1775-1905 Boroughs, Jon Jason, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Sediment dispersal and sequence development along a tectonically active margin : late Quaternary evolution of the Ganges-Brahmaputra River delta Goodbred, Steven L. Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy