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
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
A New England state of mind : identity and commodification in Yankee magazine, 1935-1942 Sargent, Andrew Robert. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Gotta travel on: a view of the American road from Bob Dylan's rolling thunder revue, 1975/ Shine, Matthew David, 1968- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Society of souls : spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
New Deal housing on the Virginia Peninsula : challenging Jim Crow paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens Carroll, Frederick James, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
What's a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires? : Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
I would not begrudge to give a few pounds more elite consumer choices in the Chesapeake, 1720-1785 : the Calvert house ceramic assemlage Patrick, Steven Edward, 1963- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Envisioning Black childhood : Black nationalism, community, and identity construction in Black Arts movement children's literature Crawford, Meredith Meagan, 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Re-shaping documentary expectations : new journalism and direct cinema Zuber, Sharon L. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Selling America in the seventeenth century : the contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the establishment of the English colony in America Smith, Sibley Judson, 1955- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Harmony and dissonance : Mennonite visions of community and identity. Chowning, Elizabeth Jane, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
A dollar book for a dime! : the vernacular of cheapness and the Beadle dime handbooks Adams, Sarah Elisabeth. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
The vermin-killers : pest control in the early Chesapeake Newman, Megan Haley. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
You just had that gut feeling' : film, memory, and the lynching of James Byrd, Jr. Piper, William Brian, 1980- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
Seeking the living among the dead : African American burial practices in Surry County, Virginia Johnson, Deanda Marie, 1977- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Strategic victimization : news photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the revisualization of America Williams, Margaret Keeton. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Schoolhouses remembered : the story behind the nostalgic image : an active pursuit of the truth Cude, Michelle Dawn, 1966- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Rituals, roots, and rectangles : the classical tradition in early American portraiture Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Conspicuous presence : Tom Wolfe's one man show Galante, Vera do Val, 1956- American Studies 1993 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
Celebrity and the national body : encounters with the exotic in late nineteenth-century America Nichols, Caroline Carpenter, 1974- American Studies 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The corporate person : how U.S. courts transformed a legal phantom into a powerful citizen DeMeola, Zachariah J., American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Screening the Revolution : Williamsburg, the story of a patriot as historic artifact, history film, and hegemonic struggle Simpson, Jenna Anne, 1982- American Studies 2006 Master of Arts
I like things simple, but it must be simple through complication : re-reading Gertrude Stein Marcus, Hilary Jennifer, 1980- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
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
Unstable compounds : progressive and regressive impulses in four contemporary American documentaries and the prospect for social change Bransford, Stephen Henry, 1973- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
Landlords, tenants, and rental property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780 Powers, Emma Lou, 1951- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Beating songs : blues, violence, and the male body in the films of Spike Lee Gaines, Mikal J. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
The brownies' book : an open window to early twentieth-century African American childhood Clark, Regina Ann. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The mistakes of yesterday, the hopes of tomorrow : prison, pop music, and the Prisonaires Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 1997 Master of Arts
Caroline Gordon's Christian vision : a conservative empowerment Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Domestic management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and her slaves Geraghty, Mary, 1958- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
A certain kinship : the first exhibitions of American folk art, New York, 1924-1932 Chasse, Sarah Noble. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Sites of southern memory : the autobiographies of Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray O'Dell, Darlene, 1962- American Studies 1997 Doctor of Philosophy
The Alan Lomax photographs and The music of Williamsburg (1959-1960) Aarlien, Peggy Finley, 1964- American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
African American civil rights museums : a study of the R.R. Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia Draper, Christina S., American Studies 2015 Master of Arts
Spousal abuse in the Army Palmer, James, 1965- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Two steps from the blues : creating discourse and constructing canons in blues criticism Dougan, John M., 1954- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond telling the news : the mission of public journalism, 1996 Burton, Pamela Sue, 1965- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
William M. McClaskey : a tavern keeper in his community, 1834- 1844 by Lisa Gail Royse. Royse, Lisa Gail, 1957- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
English mineral exploration in the new world Heuvel, Lisa L. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts