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
Aspects of the breeding and foraging biology of American oystercatchers at fisherman island national wildlife refuge, Virginia Anderson, Robert L., 1946- Biology 1988 Master of Arts
Aspects of the ecology of estuarine light with special reference to seagrasses of the Chesapeake Bay : measurements and models Van Tine, Robin Francis, 1947- Marine Science 1987 Doctor of Philosophy
Aspects of the ecology, life history, and host-parasite relationship of Loxothylacus panopaei (sacculinidae) in Chesapeake Bay Daugherty, Seth Jerome, 1943- Marine Science 1969 Master of Arts
Aspects of the nutritional ecology of Sagitta tenuis (Chaetognatha) in the lower Chesapeake Bay Canino, Michael F. Marine Science 1981 Master of Arts
Aspects of vertical distribution and ecology of the dominant meso- and bathypelagic fishes from the Norfolk Canyon region Gartner, John V. Marine Science 1980 Master of Arts
Aspects of volume regulation in two estuarine invertebrates : Glycera Dibranchiata (Annelida) and Modiolus Demissus (Mollusca) Beardsley, Ana Marie, 1963- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Aspects of ¹⁴CO₂ uptake in cyclostat grown Chlorella sp. population exposed to varying lengths of photoperiods Hastings, Steven J., 1952- Marine Science 1980 Master of Arts
Assessing anthropogenic and natural impacts on ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) populations at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina Landry, Cynthia B., 1979- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Assessing environmental stress on the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta Caretta) in Virginia waters Bellmund, Sarah A. Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
Assessing genetic variation within and among native populations and hatchery stocks of Crassostrea ariakensis using microsatellite markers Xiao, Jie, 1976- Marine Science 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Assessing potential for learning : a factor-analytic study of a performance-based identification protocol for young, socioeconomically disadvantaged high-ability learners Reardon, Robert Martin, 1949- Education 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Assessing the effects of workplace aggression and normative unethical behaviors on counselors' perceptions of ethicality using an integrative understanding of morality Honderich, Eleni Maria, Education 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
Assessing the functional status of created wetlands in eastern Virginia via a soil and vegetative developmental trajectory Kreisel, Sara Elizabeth, 1985- Biology 2010 Master of Science
Assessing the impact of climate change on proposed restoration of the Lynnhaven River ecosystem Skeehan, Emily E., 1984- Marine Science 2015 Master of Science
Assessing the impacts of land use change on hard clam aquaculture in Old Plantation Creek, Northampton County, Virginia Strickler, Matthew J. Marine Science 2007 Master of Science
Assessment of behavior and personality characteristics of masters' level counselor education students across training and supervision Clinton, Timothy E., 1960- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
Assessment of development impacts on coastal zone : integrated approach, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia Zableckis, Sarunas, 1977- Marine Science 2001 Master of Science
Asymmetrical sensory and motor patterns in individuals with inverted and noninverted handwriting postures Pope, James Brian, 1962- Biology 1988 Master of Arts
At the core of the Cold War : Soviet foreign policy and the German question 1945-1990 Cheek, Marc Randall, 1964- Government 1991 Master of Arts
Athletic women in fiction and fact : the portrayal of women involved in athletic activity in novels from 1890-1920's Vera, Kristi Marie, 1961- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Atmospheric input of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to the sea surface microlayer Gallo, Lino J. Marine Science 1990 Doctor of Philosophy
Atoms, pounds and poor relations : the illusion of an Anglo-American special relationship, 1941-1946 Gustafson, Edward J., 1976- History 2000 Master of Arts
Attachment security and partner presence as moderators to automatic responses to stress in women Feeney, Brooke C., 1969- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Attention to and categorization of monoracial and racially ambiguous faces Kittel, Julie Ann. Psychology 2012 Master of Arts
Attitudes toward drinking and drunkeness in seventeenth-century Virginia Bonnett, Kendra. History 1976 Master of Arts
Attitudes toward women and levels of personality development Capasso, Deborah Richardson, 1950- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Attribution of behavioral and characterological fault towards the victims of a disaster Davis, Matthew Scott, 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Attribution of responsibility in paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics Payne, Mary Ruth Marsh, 1947- Psychology 1975 Master of Arts
Au integration of case-based and model-based reasoning and its application to physical system faults Karamouzis, Stamos T., 1963- Computer Science 1993 Doctor of Philosophy
Auditory evoked potentials of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) Bartol, Soraya M., 1970- Marine Science 1994 Master of Arts
Augustus Carmichael : a metaphor of the artist Adams, Mary Beverly, 1958- English 1989 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Authority and consent : politics, power, and plunder in Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1745 Woytonik, Kristen Ann. History 2011 Master of Arts
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Autobiographical images : photography and identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior and China men Allison, Nancy Etta, 1959- English 1993 Master of Arts
Autoecology of Paraprionospio pinnata (Polychaeta: Spionide) along an estuarine gradient Hinchey, Elizabeth K. 1970- Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
Automated data acquisition for analysis of fly ash by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry Dowds, Eileen, 1956- Chemistry 1989 Master of Arts
Automated fish species classification using artificial neural networks and autonomous underwater vehicles Doolittle, Daniel Foster, 1972- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Automated peak identification for time-of-flight mass spectroscopy Chen, Haijian, 1976- Physics 2005 Doctor of Philosophy
Automated reductions of Markov chain models of calcium release site models Hao, Yan, 1984- Applied Science 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Automatically generating random test data for relevant and implicitly defined subdomains Murphy, John Alexander, 1984- Computer Science 2008 Master of Science
Availability of humic nitrogen to phytoplankton See, Jason Holt, 1976- Marine Science 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Availability of lead, zinc, copper, and cadmium to the peregrine falcon (Falco Peregrinus) from waterfowl of the Craney Island disposal area Davis, Douglas Stephen, 1950- Biology 1988 Master of Arts
Avian communities of created and natural wetlands : saltmarshes of southeast Virginia DesRochers, David William, 1977- Biology 2003 Master of Arts
Azalea tissue culture Curry, Albert G., 1953- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
Baccalaureate prepared women in nursing : return to graduate education in nursing in midlife Ritch-Brant, Barbara Ann. Education 1995 Doctor of Education
Bacchus and bellum : the Anglo-Gascon wine trade and the Hundred Years War (987 to 1453 A.D.) Turgeon, Christopher D., 1970- History 2000 Master of Arts
Bacterial dynamics and community structure in the York River Estuary Schultz, Gary Edward, 1962- Marine Science 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Bacterial properties and dissolved organic matter distributions in the Black Sea Morgan, Jessica A., 1976- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Bacterial response to crude oil spillage in a salt marsh Herwig, Russell Paul, 1952- Marine Science 1978 Master of Arts