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 colonial history of Wye Plantation, the Lloyd family, and their slaves on Maryland's Eastern Shore : family, property, and power Speckart, Amy, 1971- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Oz in the valley of ashes : Visions of tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964 Mieras, Emily, 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The Friendship Fest : perfecting friendship through transnational musical performance Thompson, Nancy LeAnne. American Studies 2008 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
History written with lightning : religion, white supremacy, and the rise and fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr. Kidd, David Michael, American Studies 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Rituals, roots, and rectangles : the classical tradition in early American portraiture Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown, 1962- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770 Malone, Mollie C., 1974- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Picturing home : domestic painting and the ideologies of art Sprinkle, Mark. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Mann thinking across antebellum culture-- Mann Satterwhite Valentine's literary aspirations Owen, Deborah Lynn, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in Williamsburg : a comparative study of eighteenth-century brick houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston Barry, Andrew Craig, 1971- American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
Intertexual [sic] cadences, When wants and woes might be our righteous lot : excavating Phillis Wheatley's transcending voice of accent Bly, Antonio T. American Studies 1999 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
Food fight! : America's ideological battle over lunch Lautenschlager, Julie Lynn. American Studies 2003 Doctor of Philosophy
Shahrazad in the white city : Muslim women's agency through performance at the Columbian Exposition Jerome, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood. American Studies 2011 Master of Arts
Learning how to listen' : analyzing style and meaning in the music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson Barnett, LaShonda K. 1974- American Studies 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
Friends departed live : a study of the relationship between schoolgirl mourning pictures, female education, and cultural attitudes toward death in early nineteenth-century eastern Massachusetts Stewart, Janet Elizabeth, 1960- American Studies 1987 Master of Arts
Against bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the public intellectual Bumb, M. J. 1980- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Caroline Gordon's Christian vision : a conservative empowerment Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
A robe of eloquence : speech and power in the life and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 1998 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
Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
A cultural analysis of furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820 Prown, Johnathan, 1961- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Optical instruments used with prints in the eighteenth century Barry, Laura Pass. American Studies 2004 Master of Arts
African American history at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll, Nicole, 1974- American Studies 1999 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
Utopian spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2009 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
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Consumer under fire : the military consumer and the Vietnam War Cordulack, Evan, 1981- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
Keeping up appearances : Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774 Price, Virginia Barrett, 1968- American Studies 1998 Master of Arts
Rock 'n' roll stew : the Rolling Stones and blues music through the looking glass of American culture in the 1960's Woodward, Henry Canning, 1964- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Storyville : discourses in southern musicians' autobiographies Sutton, Matthew Daniel, 1972- American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
Remembering to forget : Gone with the Wind, Roots, and Consumer History Rose, Annjeanette C., 1968- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Pleasure and peril : shaping children's reading in the early twentieth century Korwin, Wendy. American Studies 2006 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
The poet, the poem, and the people : Etheridge Knight's American counterpoetics Chaltain, Sam. American Studies 1999 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
The road to ruins and restoration : Roland W. Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology Linebaugh, Donald W. American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Joshua Johnson revisted : filling the Lacunae Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, 1971- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Framing the woman artist : gender and art in Howells and Sargent Cohen, Matthew, 1970- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
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
The art of the public grovel : sexual scandal and the rise of public confession Bauer, Susan Wise. American Studies 2007 Doctor of Philosophy
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
Faithful child of God : Nancy Towle, 1796-1876 Bailey, Judith Bledsoe, 1942- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Preserving Virginia's vision of the past Reilley, Karen Merry, 1968- American Studies 1998 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
Preserving their form and features : the role of coffins in the American understanding of death, 1607-1870 Tharp, Brent W., 1964- American Studies 1996 Doctor of Philosophy
Why white men can't jump ... and black men can't think : an analysis of the American sports news media's coverage of basketball and its players from 1980 to the present Scaro, Robert Charles, 1970- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
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