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
Paint by nation : Thomas Kinkade and the conversion of American culture Feman, Seth Alexander. American Studies 2005 Master of Arts
A search for the body : Lécriture Féminine and Delta Wedding Nichols, Diane Truitt, 1945- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
Fifty gentlemen total strangers : a portrait of the First Continental Congress Barzilay, Karen N. American Studies 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
The squared circle and that household box : the relationship between wrestling, television and American culture Stewart, Brian, 1978- American Studies 2001 Master of Arts
When southern labor stirred : the literary reaction to Gastonia Bradford, Robert Dale, 1960- American Studies 1986 Master of Arts
Screening the Revolution : Williamsburg, the story of a patriot as historic artifact, history film, and hegemonic struggle Simpson, Jenna Anne, 1982- American Studies 2006 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
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
A comparative study of the use of figurative language by Plato and St. Paul Williams, Joseph Boyd, 1910- Ancient Languages 1943 Master of Arts
Gimmie shelter : union shelters of the Civil War, a preliminary archaeological typology Jensen, Todd L., 1971- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
The cowrie shell in Virginia : a critical evaluation of potential archaeological significance Pearce, Laurie Elisabeth, 1967- Anthropology 1992 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Rediscovering the dead : practical applications of remote sensing in historic cemeteries Strutt, Michael A., 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Carried on at a very great expense and never produced any profit : the Albemarle Iron Works (1770-72) Brothers, James Harvey, 1952- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
My bumbling smiths... : an inter-site comparative analysis of rural and urban blacksmithing in eighteenth-century Virginia Bessey, Sandra Fiona, 1968- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
An archipelago of coal pits : predicting archeological features in the Richmond, Virginia coalfield Hernigle, Jacqueline Louise, 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
In the crucible of the frontier : the emergence and decline of a trading site in early colonial Virginia Burke, Patrick Brendan, 1981- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
An archaeological survey of Bettie's Hope Estate Christensen, Catherine M., 1964- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
African-American family and society on the lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880 McDonald, Bradley Michael, 1968- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Interpretation and historical archaeology : telling stories of the past at the Watt Farm, Mechanicsville, Virginia Jordan, Sarah, 1976- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Seneca hair combs as material culture : a study Vasey, April Jean, 1964- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
From ads to artifacts : the selling power of gender ideology in America, 1890-1910 Clark, Andrea Griffin, 1973- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
Excavations at the Barton-Swift-Nolan House : Antebellum material culture in the Georgia Piedmont Brooks, Christopher Andrew, 1959- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
America's other peculiar institution : exploring the York County Free Black register as a means of social control, 1798-1831 Butts, Andrew Jefferson, 1974- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
A formal analysis of the clay pipes from Green Spring Crass, David Colin, 1958- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
That's how you find out how real archaeologists work--when you do it yourself : children's experiences with archaeology Derbish, Mary, 1974- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Wealth and society in eighteenth century Bermuda : a view from the colonial capital of St. George's Metz, Cara Anne Harbecke Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Perceptions of poverty : Material life among the tenements of New York City during the nineteenth century Haley, Megan Mary, 1968- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Dietary bioarchaeology : late Woodland subsistence within the coastal plain of Virginia Dore, Berek J. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Middlesex County, New Jersey gravestones 1687-1799 : shadows of a changing culture Veit, Richard Francis, 1968- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Recovering elements in historical archaeology : the use of soil chemical analysis for overcoming the effects of post-depositional plowing Fischer, Lisa E., 1972- Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
By word of mouth : an examination of myth and history at the Benares estate Garden, Mary-Catherine E., 1966- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Enshrining the past : archaeology, history and memory at Fort St. Anne, Isle La Motte, Vermont Desany, Jessica Rose. Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Ethnicity in the graveyard Goodwin, Conrad M., 1940- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
An historical archaeological examination of a battlefield landscape : an example from the American Civil War battle of Wilson's Wharf, Charles City County, Virginia Harwood, Jameson Michael, 1975- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Forts of the chieftains : a study of vernacular, classical, and Renaissance influence on defensible town and villa plans in 17th-century Virginia Hodges, Charles Thomas, 1950- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Social equalization and social resistance : a symbolic interactional approach to strategies of African American slave populations Smith, Frederick H. 1966- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Work Enough for Head and Heart : dramatic interaction and the social dynamics of the Steward-Planter Relationship in antebellum Tidewater Virginia Kennedy, Neil Macrae, 1968- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Ghosts on the coast of paradise : identifying and interpreting the ephemeral remains of Bermuda's 18th century shipyards Dworsky, Joel Garrett. Anthropology 2011 Master of Arts
The ceramics from 44JC298 : an undocumented late-eighteenth century domestic site, James City County, Virginia White, Esther Celeste, 1962- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Shipbuilding in Maryland, 1631-1850 Ford, Ben. Anthropology 2001 Master of Arts
An Archaeological assessment of Middlesex County, Virginia Lichtenberger, Randy Michael, 1967- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
Community in Gloucestertown, Virginia : the context and archaeology of town development in 17th and 18th century Virginia Fisher, Karen B., 1960- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Boat-wrights in a port of black diamonds : waterfront landscapes of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal's Cumberland, Maryland terminus Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981- Anthropology 2006 Master of Arts
Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation : social relationships and material culture Leavitt, Genevieve. Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
The pottery and kiln of Green Spring : a study in 17th century material culture Smith, James M., 1949- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts