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
Principles underlying the effective use of a lay advisory committee in solving a community education problem Kent, Bruce Martin. Education 1952 Master of Education
A plan for improving the pupil activities program in a Virginia high school Postlethwait, Franklin Niel. Education 1952 Master of Education
A basketball charting system Osborne, Vernon. Physical Education 1953 Master of Arts
A survey of student opinion concerning selected aspects of the student personnel services of the College of William and Mary in Virginia Allen, Fred Seaman, 1931- Education 1953 Master of Education
An analysis of the Army education program Anderson, George Lester Education 1953 Master of Education
An appraisal of the guidance program of a large semi-rural high school Davis, Clarence Albert. Education 1953 Master of Education
Differential growth of the menhaden, B. tyrannus (Latrobe), during early development McCutcheon, Henry Norman. Marine Science 1953 Master of Arts
A study of the T formation in relation to its defenses Bowman, William Ekron. Physical Education 1953 Master of Arts
The foreign-trade zone and Hampton Roads : its commercial, industrial, and military possibilities Champion, George Peter. Economics 1954 Master of Arts
The establishment of sixth grade reading norms Dunn, Julian Bascom. Education 1954 Master of Education
Teaching as guidance Etheridge, Jeanne Bell. Education 1954 Master of Education
An analysis of the extent to which a high school meets the needs of a community Gilbert, E. Vernon. Education 1954 Master of Education
European influences in American education 1783-1860 Hatch, Sydney R. Education 1954 Master of Arts
A survey of the opinions of English professors in Virginia Colleges regarding desired preparation for their freshman English courses Owens, Elaine Robins. Education 1954 Master of Education
History of Woodrow Wilson Parent Teacher Association Wheeler, Lucille. Education 1954 Master of Education
A proposed curriculum guide for the seventh grade of the Matthew Whaley School Crank, Mary Eugenia. Education 1955 Master of Arts
Motion pictures and the retention of biological knowledge Eckstine, Allen M. Education 1955 Master of Arts
A study of the opportunities available to the United States Army soldier for acquiring a college degree Volz, Heinz Henry. Education 1955 Master of Arts
Humanism : a study of its historical development in philosophy and education, its modern significance as a theory of education, and its implications for the teaching of language arts in the secondary school Yarborough, Betty H. Education 1955 Master of Arts
The Baptist Church and Baptist Society in the Rappahannock area as depicted in Association and Church records, 1770-1870 Hudson, Elizabeth Gault. History 1955 Master of Arts
Age and length of menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) in the waters of Chesapeake Bay, with comments on the rate of growth Oglesby, Ray T. Marine Science 1955 Master of Arts
Common elements and differences in provisions for compulsory school attendance Calevas, Ann Elizabeth. Education 1956 Master of Arts
An experimental comparative investigation of the readability of a flat chalkborad and a curved chalkboard in a classroom Snelling, W. Rodman Education 1956 Master of Education
The effect of punishment at specific points in the response chain of the white rat Canestrari, Robert E., 1932- Psychology 1956 Master of Arts
An experimental study of academic achievement as a function of homogeneous grouping Koontz, William Francis. Education 1957 Master of Arts
Varina School, Henrico County, 1909-1957 Morton, Vera Palmore. Education 1957 Master of Education
An evaluation of the curriculum in English at Hampton High School Yates, Carleen Lillian Wells. Education 1957 Master of Education
Quakerism in Colonial Virginia Hunnicutt, Spotswood. History 1957 Master of Arts
The life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt, Rector of Bath parish, Dinwiddie County, Virginia Matthews, Elizabeth Weatherford History 1957 Master of Arts
The influence of English and Scottish universities on the curriculum of the College of William and Mary Wilbur, Barbara. History 1957 Master of Arts
The vestry book of Elizabeth City Parish, 1751-1784 History 1957 Master of Arts
Ecological and epidemiological studies of Nematopsis ostrearum, a sporozoan parasite of the oyster Crassostrea virginica, in lower Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries Feng, Sung Yen. Marine Science 1957 Master of Arts
The length and age composition of spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, in the pound net fishery of lower Chesapeake Bay Pacheco, Anthony Louis. Marine Science 1957 Master of Arts
A study of the effectiveness of a system of awarding varsity monograms to high school football players Hale, Leonard V. Physical Education 1957 Master of Arts
A comparative study of meristic variation in the American eel (Anguilla rostrata) and Atlantic anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) Ladd, Ernest C. Marine Science 1958 Master of Arts
Growth and reproduction of Eupleura caudata (Say) in the York River, Virginia MacKenzie, Clyde L., 1931- Marine Science 1958 Master of Arts
Length of deprivation and the day-night cycle as determinants of eating behavior Cicala, George A., 1935- Psychology 1958 Master of Arts
Degree of hunger in the rat : a review of the psychological literature Erdahl, Donna Lee, 1934- Psychology 1958 Master of Arts
Commissary James Blair of Virginia : a study in personality and power Harrison, Margaret Tressler Scott, 1910- History 1958 Master of Arts
The Federalist administration and the Whiskey insurrection Jack, William Irvine. History 1958 Master of Arts
The poor apprentices of Boston : indentures of poor children bound out apprentice by the overseers of the poor of Boston, 1734-1776 Millar, William Graham, 1934- History 1958 Master of Arts
The Tertium Quids and the election of 1808 Reed, Richard B. History 1958 Master of Arts
The beginnings of the Norfolk and Western Railway system, 1830-1870 Shufflebarger, Emmett Garnett. History 1958 Master of Arts
The rise of the port of Norfolk and its decline as a result of the embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812, 1680-1815 Blackwell, Cecil Llewellyn, 1902- History 1959 Master of Arts
The rise of the Burwells Blair, John L., 1935- History 1959 Master of Arts
The naval office in Virginia, 1692-1700 Gill, Harold Bledsoe. History 1959 Master of Arts
Acts not in Hening's statutes, 1702-1732, with a biographical sketch of William Waller Hening Winfree, Waverly Keith. History 1959 Master of Arts
Monogenetic trematodes from some Chesapeake Bay fishes McMahon, John Walter. Marine Science 1959 Master of Science
The independent effects of amounts of reinforcement and consummatory behavior on the acquisition of a BPR Hageman, Kenneth Charles, 1920- Psychology 1959 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