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
Organization as process : the life histories of CORE and SNCC Farmer, Elizabeth M. Zeiders, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
Authoritarianism in the United States Navy D'Eugenio, Barbara Hannon, 1945- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Crowding and housing satisfaction : an exploratory study Joyce, Kathleen Marie. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Disaster and the restructuring of organization Linn, John Robert, 1944- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
Ability grouping practices as determinant of student-teacher interaction Merritt, Stephen Russell, 1946- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Play preferences in children's art : a study of gender roles Pullen, Amelia Baxter, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Students and sociology : life histories and evaluations of the undergraduate experience Bunster, Mark, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini : in light of Shi'i history Neary, Brigitte U. Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
Metropolitan social worker attitudes and orientations : an empirical investigation Pellett, Lea Buchanan, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Ideology and change in the kibbutz Wilhelms, Jeffrey Jay, 1948- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
A dialectical analysis of role enactment during the emergency period of natural disasters Myers, Kristen Anne, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Resource allocation at the university : research on the determinants of faculty morale Schmidt, Douglas Craig, 1962- Sociology 1986 Master of Arts
The Philippines in the twentieth century: Social change in recent decades Aguas y Quijano, Juan Vidal, 1951- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Political conflict and instability in Indonesia, 1949-1959 Stagg, Beatrice Jean, 1936- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
A role analysis of police chiefs in contemporary departments Wolf, Thomas, 1952- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
Occupational paths and prestige levels of sociology concentrators : do gender differences exist? Reenstra, Bonnie Lynn, 1967- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Substance abuse treatment in learning centers : a comparison across variables Flynn, Nicole Thomson, 1969- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
Disaster, action, and order : a substantive inquiry of Weber and Durkheim Bosworth, Susan Lovegren, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
The effects of friendship on the identification and acceptance of the mentally ill Weiner, Greta Ruth, 1940- Sociology 1972 Master of Arts
Theories of leadership : a contemporary analysis 1975-1989 Schwartzman, Robert D., 1956- Sociology 1990 Master of Arts
Social implications in Negro poetry : a study in Negro poetic expression Wynne, Robert Baker, 1906- Sociology 1933 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Social bonding, social learning, and delinquency : An examination of two etiological theories of deviance Ousey, Graham Cristopher, 1968- Sociology 1993 Master of Arts
The establishment of the Huguenots in Virginia Land, Mary Wilson Bohannan, 1905- Religion 1942 Master of Arts
The relationship between need for achievement in women and achievement goals : an application of Atkinson's expectancy-value theory Henry, Daina Paupe. Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
The effect of rest interval and intertrial interval on the acquisition of an instrumental avoidance response in rats Kirby, Raymond Hope, 1933- Psychology 1959 Master of Arts
Sexual assault and emotional intimacy Karageorge, Kathryn J., 1971- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Individual versus group resource-allocation performance González, Roxana M., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Risk in intimacy and relationship cognition : differences in the nature of relationship schemata as a function of perceptions of risk in intimacy Rosegrant, Melissa M., 1979- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
Neuropsychological function, recidivism, and community adjustment of the mentally ill chemically addicted (MICA) patient Smith, Robert Warren, 1962- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
The effects of PSAs on trust in romantic relationships Causey, Charles Lawson, 1978- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Parental bereavement and hospice participation : an evaluation of the Edmarc Hospice Program Biddle, Linda Diane, 1960- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
Perceptions of stress between business owners and business managers Kimmel, Andrea L., 1973- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Sex roles, ego identity, and intimacy in college women Wilson, Jane G., 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Moral judgments of Russian children : anticipated peer and parental knowledge of responses Schutte, Deborah Ann, 1970- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
The effects of bilateral adrenalectomy on the expression of maternal caretaking behaviors in the primiparous rat Dudley, Susan D., 1949- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
HIV status and perceptions of people living with AIDS Weber, Molly Allison, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Differential family characteristics of high and low aggressive children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Lease, Cynthia Ann, 1953- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
The work ethic, daily activities, and their relationship to satisfaction in retirement Hooker, Karen, 1955- Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
The development of children's understanding of incarceration Folk, Johanna B. Psychology 2012 Master of Arts
Incorporating the feedback of combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in the construction of a sleep disorders inventory Michaels, Stase Mikalajunas, 1947- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Mindfulness, meditation, and anger Griffin, Michael P., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
The facets beyond neuroticism : anxiety as a moderator of reactivity to daily negative events Simanski, John. Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
Susceptibility to activity-based anorexia Stanley, Eric Zane, 1968- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
Affective image recognition in valanced contexts Eden, Allison Lehner, 1977- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Unloved, unlovable, both, or none of the above ? : a contruct validity study of the depressive experiences questionnaire Fuhr, Susan K., 1964- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
Social learning and alcohol Lant, Ginger M., 1968- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Uncertainty of relative performance level within the SEM context Smith, Karen Ann, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Unusual responses and overinclusive thinking in subgroups of schizophrenics Gilfoil, David Michael, 1952- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts