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 immigrant, the native son, and the ambassador : the transnational travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira Cohen, Amber Shandling. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Quick! Do something manly! : the Super Bowl as an American spectacle of hegemonic masculinity, violence, and nationalism Huebenthal, Jan, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Civilizing the savages : Cherokee advances, white settlement, and the rhetoric of removal Gibson, Tracey Ann, 1958- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
The kids are (all) right : baby-boomers and the rhetoric of childhood in the picture books of Chris Van Allsburg Sprinkle, Mark. American Studies 1993 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
Saints and soldiers of humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo Lee, Sarah Jaggi, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur Wright, Sarah Bird. American Studies 1995 Doctor of Philosophy
Voters in a foreign land : alien suffrage and citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926 Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Let us now praise service men : a history of the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945 Neel, Hildy Michelle. American Studies 1998 Doctor of Philosophy
Caroline Gordon's Christian vision : a conservative empowerment Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Strange fruit : images of African Americans in advertising cards and postcards, 1860-1930 Holder, Meghan Brooke. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
The search for a New England character : change, the town, and the wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York Gable, Nicolette. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
You are not the father! : family, blood, race and Maury in America Markarian, Robyn Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
John A. Lomax : documenting the myth of the American West Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe, 1972- American Studies 1995 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
Unrapping the gangsta : the changing role of the performer from toast to gangsta rap Symons, Andrea L. D., 1980- American Studies 2003 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
Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods : the many images of maroons throughout the American South Williams, Angela Alicia, 1974- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
The first thing out the window : race, radical feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the edge of time Mann, Kimberly Lynn. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
Society of souls : spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
What is best and most typical : nostalgia, transgression, and capitalism at the Virginia State Fair 1946-1976 Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. American Studies 2012 Master of Arts
Authorship and individualism in American literature DeBrava, Valerie, 1964- American Studies 2000 Doctor of Philosophy
Class act : negotiating art and market in the career of Isadora Duncan Gittinger, Anne Meredith. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
The not-so-public history of Colonial Williamsburg's port resident-ferrykeepers : interpreting the Moody family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781 Scott, Angela Maria. American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624 : a delicate and necessary seat for a city or chief fortification Cobb, John Michael, 1948- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916 Peake, Laura Ann, 1965- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Early english firearms : a re-examination of the evidence Straube, Beverly Ann, 1947- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Interminority relations in the early 1990s in California : conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans Yamazato, Akiko, 1977- American Studies 2003 Master of Arts
Re-shaping documentary expectations : new journalism and direct cinema Zuber, Sharon L. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Walk to freedom : how a violent response to the civil rights protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge unwillingly created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rainville, Brian Clement. American Studies 2009 Master of Arts
The vermin-killers : pest control in the early Chesapeake Newman, Megan Haley. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Justice is a perpetual struggle : the public memory of the Little Rock school desegration crisis Devlin, Erin Krutko. American Studies 2011 Doctor of Philosophy
You have no boss here to work for : women and labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing communities O'Grady, Elizabeth Marie. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
1500 by 1939 by 1998--these are the measurements of Malinche's body : an analysis and review of twentieth-century interpretations of nationality Diaz, Ella Maria, 1977- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Dying virgins and mourning mothers : a study in American mourning iconography Veder, Robin, 1968- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Absalom, Absalom! and the southern code of honor Gardner, Kevin, 1962- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Benjamin Trott : miniature painter Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Let all things be done decently and in order : gender segregation in the seating of early American churches Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. American Studies 2009 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
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
Anime in America, Disney in Japan : the global exchange of popular media visualized through Disney's Stitch Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. American Studies 2010 Master of Arts
Fixing what has been broken : the United States' actions in the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 invasion Yost, Jonathan David, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
In Parisian salons and Boston's back streets : reading Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia Lewes, David W. American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
The master's merry : Slave prosecutions and punishments in York County, Virginia, 1700 to 1780 Willis, Anne Romberg, 1935- American Studies 1995 Master of Arts
Julia Gardiner Tyler a president's bride and plantation mistress in the age of domesticity Singleton, Elizabeth Marie, 1961- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts