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
Correction of finite size errors in many-body electronic structure calculations Kwee, Hendra, 1979- Physics 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Reengineering global higher education : American polytechnics, transnationalization, and cultural configuration McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The fatal year : slavery, violence, and the Stamp Act of 1765 Beatty, Joshua Fogarty, 1972-, History 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Quantum information dynamics Yepez, J. (Jeffrey) Physics 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship of the actualizing process and the Human Potential Seminar to the self-concept and self-actualization of community college students Hines, Carolyn W., 1945- Education 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
Predicting success : academic potential and talent development factors among Black and White students Rose, Valija Cynthia, 1969- Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Field emission study of carbon nanostructures. Zhao, Xin Marine Science 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
PCB congener analysis with Hall electrolytic conductivity detection Edstrom, Robert D., 1954- Marine Science 1989 Doctor of Philosophy
Acoustics of anthropogenic habitats : the impact of noise pollution on eastern bluebirds Kight, Caitlin Rebecca, 1981- Applied Science 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
Virginia's funding legislation, 1869-1875 : its background, principal features, related measures, and effects Ours, Robert Maurice, 1936- History 1974 Doctor of Philosophy
Gamma decay of states excited by 300 and 600 MeV protons on targets of boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, magnesium, and calcium Holt, Max David. Physics 1972 Doctor of Philosophy
Black masculinities as marronage : Claude McKay's representations of Black male subjectivities in metropolitan spaces Brown, Jarrett Hugh. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
The effect of an adsorbate upon secondary emission properties of low-energy ion bombarded metallic and semiconductor substrates Vogan, Wendy Sara. Physics 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Turbulence in binary fluid flow systems : a Lattice Boltzmann approach Wah, Darren M. Physics 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Energy utilization in bay anchovy and Black Sea bass eggs and larvae : contrasting ecological roles Tucker, John Wotring, 1948- Marine Science 1983 Doctor of Philosophy
Simulation and numerical solution of stochastic Petri nets with discrete and continuous timing Jones, Robert Linzey, 1964- Computer Science 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
The Virginia Chesapeake Bay : recent sedimentation and paleodrainage Carron, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1946- Marine Science 1979 Doctor of Philosophy
Quantum Monte Carlo method for boson ground states : application to trapped bosons with attractive and repulsive interactions Purwanto, Wirawan, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Nanoscale mechanical characterization of graphene/polymer nanocomposites using atomic force microscopy Cai, Minzhen, Applied Science 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The Jeffersons at Shadwell : the social and material world of a Virginia family Kern, Susan A., 1963- History 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
The talent process of successful academic women scientists at elite research universities in New York State Kaenzig, Lisa M. Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Electron-phonon resonances Fales, Carl L. Physics 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Situatedness : the interrelation of factors impacting the educational pathway to degree attainment among Black and White doctoral students Baldwin, Candice P. Education 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Simulation of turbidity maximums in the York River, Virginia Kwon, Jae-Il, 1972- Marine Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Constantly vulnerable yet persistantly strong : a study of the financial condition of the liberal arts college Bouressa, Robert Joseph. Education 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Runtime support for load balancing of parallel adaptive and irregular applications Barker, Kevin J. Computer Science 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Distribution, swimming, physiology, and swimming mechanics of brief squid, Lolliguncula brevis Bartol, Ian K., 1970- Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between racial attitudes, ego developmental level and multicultural counseling knowledge and awareness in school psychologists McDonald, Valerie K. Education 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
A comparison of the polarization observables for the d(-->e,eʹ-->p) and p(-->e,eʹ-->p) reactions at quasi-free kinematics McIntyre, Justin I., 1966- Physics 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Food habits, prey selectivity and food resource partitioning of a community of fishes on the outer continental shelf Sedberry, George R., 1950- Marine Science 1980 Doctor of Philosophy
Acid dissociation of chloroguaiacols and pH dependent sorption to estuarine sediments Gundersen, Jennifer Lisa, 1963- Marine Science 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Prologue to a life : Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance years. 1926-1934 Veselits, Karen Rose, 1949- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
From critics to casualties : The National Farmers Union and U.S. foreign policy, 1945-1953 Field, Bruce Edward, 1953- History 1994 Doctor of Philosophy
An investigation of the temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of concentrated strong-scattering alloys Chen, An-Ban. Physics 1971 Doctor of Philosophy
A pilot study of the Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program with gifted and potentially gifted learners in grades 3, 4, and 5 French, Heather M. Education 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Immigration of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) megalopae in the York River, Virginia : patterns and processes Olmi, Eugene J. Marine Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Surface study of niobium for superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerators Tian, Hui, 1974- Applied Science 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Ruled with a pen : land, language, and the invention of Maine Taylor, Gavin, 1969- History 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Promoting freshman college student development using cognitive developmental theory presented in a deliberate psychological education-based freshman orientation program Loiacono, Cynthia M. Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Spectroscopy, production and decays of pentaquarks Kwee, Herry, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Anguilla and the art of resistance McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- American Studies 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
King Bacca's throne : land, life, and labor in the Old Bright Belt since 1880 Bennett, Evan Patrick, 1974- History 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond the standard model : new scalars and new leptons Yuan, Yao, 1964- Physics 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Application of survival analysis methods to pulsed exposures : exposure duration, latent mortality, recovery time, and the underlying theory of survival distribution models Zhao, Yuan, 1977- Marine Science 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Stock enhancement of Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus Latrielle, using artificial shelters: Patterns of survival and dynamics of shelter selection. Eggleston, David Bryan Marine Science 1991 Doctor of Philosophy
A semi-empirical cellular automata model for wildfire monitoring from a geosynchronous space platform Killough, Brian D. Applied Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
The influence of Scottish sentimentalist ethical theory on Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of human nature Parks, William, 1930- History 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
Experimental generation and manipulation of quantum squeezed vacuum via polarization self-rotation in Rb vapor Horrom, Travis Scott, 1986-, Physics 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Birthing Washington : objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760-1855 Burr, Sandra. American Studies 2005 Doctor of Philosophy