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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
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Dressing behavior in eighteenth century Virginia 1740-1800 Masters, Joanna Margaret, 1965- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
The Shenandoah River gundalow and the politics of material reuse Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- American Studies 2000 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
Prescription and practice : a comparison of child-care manuals, fashion journals and mail-order catalogues on the subject of children's dress 1875-1900 Bates, Christina Jean, 1952- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
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
The Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations Yaguchi, Yujin, 1966- American Studies 1999 Doctor of Philosophy
Plastic capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the deregulation of consumer credit Klimchock, Carolee Anne, 1975- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
The proper role of religious conviction in moral-political discourse Owens, Jerry, 1959- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
Society of souls : spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination Nelson, Robert, 1973- American Studies 2006 Doctor of Philosophy
The fashionable set : the feasibility of social tea drinking in 1774 Ligon, Samantha M., 1976- American Studies 1999 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
To draw pleasure and instruction : Robert Gilmor, Jr. and collecting the early republic Yorimoto, Janine M., American Studies 2013 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
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
Notions of refinement and displays of dignity in African-American home spaces, 1885-1935 Pickens, Roxane Victoria, 1971- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Bill Hicks : a study in national character Osborn, Adam Gardner, 1977- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Yorktown shipwreck 44YO88 : stores and cargo from a British naval supply vessel from the American War for Independence Broadwater, John D. American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
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
Re-shaping documentary expectations : new journalism and direct cinema Zuber, Sharon L. American Studies 2004 Doctor of Philosophy
Re-taking it to the streets : investigating hip-hop's emergence in the spaces of late capitalism Kosanovich, Kevin Waide. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Remembering American wars in three controversial displays : the wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center Pleasant, Joanna E., 1973- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
The vermin-killers : pest control in the early Chesapeake Newman, Megan Haley. American Studies 2001 Doctor of Philosophy
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
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
Morphological variability in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century english wine bottles Pittman, William E., 1949- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Mann thinking across antebellum culture-- Mann Satterwhite Valentine's literary aspirations Owen, Deborah Lynn, 1966- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
A world of goods : the printer's economy in eighteenth-century Virginia Richardson, Kari S., 1973- American Studies 2000 Master of Arts
Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the manufacturing of a new social reality in Richmond, Virginia Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Who controlled cruise? : The 1983 deployment of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom and the post-1945 anglo-american special relationship in defence Donald, Colin James, 1958- American Studies 1989 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
Goods-- agreeable to the Association : the Scottish merchant trade and early tea boycotts in Virginia Kuettner, Angelika Ruth, 1980- American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
An officer and a lady Scott, Kathleen Marie, 1975- American Studies 2001 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
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
An interpretive plan for the Newry, South Carolina cotton mill museum Hawkins, Callie Pettit. American Studies 2011 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
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
Landlords, tenants, and rental property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780 Powers, Emma Lou, 1951- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
A cultural analysis of furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820 Prown, Johnathan, 1961- American Studies 1993 Master of Arts
Humble servants, prideful patriarchs : submission and servanthood in rhetoric of the Promise Keepers Smith, Erica J., 1961- American Studies 2002 Master of Arts
Private land development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748 : building a community Hellier, Cathleene Betz, 1956- American Studies 1989 Master of Arts
Caroline Gordon's Christian vision : a conservative empowerment Subramanian, Alexandra, 1966- American Studies 1992 Master of Arts
Blue notes and brown skin : five African-American jazzmen and the music they produced in regard to the American civil rights movement Anderson, Benjamin Park, 1979- American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
You(s) on the tube : deconstructing (American) (cyber) selves inscribed in the diary blog and diary vlog McDonald, Ryan James. American Studies 2008 Master of Arts
Friendly meetings : the art of conquest and the mythical origins of Pennsylvania, ca. 1620-1771 Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- American Studies 2001 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
Fair and tender ladies at Tinker Creek : women writers coming of age Parrish, Nancy C., 1952- American Studies 1993 Doctor of Philosophy

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