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
I'm really just an American : the archaeological importance of the Black towns in the American West and late-nineteenth century constructions of blackness Winsett, Shea Aisha. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
A desire for fired clay from far away : analysis of ceramics from a seventeenth-century domestic site in Bridgetown, Barbados Gibson, Anne M. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Fortifications of St. Eustatius : an archaeological and historical study of defense in the Caribbean Howard, Bryan Paul, 1965- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Free African-American archeology : interpreting an antebellum farmstead Ryder, Robin Leigh, 1959- Anthropology 1991 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
Clay Landing : a nineteenth century rural community on the Florida frontier Principe, Jill Catherine. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
The tanner and boundary maintenance : determining ethnic identity Sheppard, William James, 1964- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Hanna's Town : a frontier town in western Pennsylvania Wood, John Perry, 1963- Anthropology 1993 Master of Arts
Pig remains at the Ashbridge Estate, Toronto : the importance of swine in the settlement of upper Canada Reading, Joanna Elizabeth, 1966- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Chickasaw material culture and the deerskin trade : an analysis of two eighteenth century Chickasaw sites in northeast Mississippi Underwood, John Robert, 1972- Anthropology 1998 Master of Arts
Gender ideology at the Lowell Boott Mills : a material culture analysis Ehner, Carolyn Michelle, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Gathering places, cultivating spaces : an archaeology of a Chesapeake neighborhood through enslavement and emancipation 1775-1905 Boroughs, Jon Jason, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Colonial women in the Pennsylvania and Virginia Gazettes Bergendahl, Lisa Kay, 1971- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
To and from places beyond : examining low-fired coarse earthenwares and informal trade networks among enslaved Bermudians in the 18th and 19th centuries Zimmet, Sarah Helen. Anthropology 2012 Master of Arts
Federal recognition politics and collaborative archaeologists : the need for a cultural consensus Martin, Alexandra Grace. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Heavy metal archaeology : an examination of lead's significance for the interpretation of archaeological bone Regan, Peter Andrew. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Rediscovering the dead : practical applications of remote sensing in historic cemeteries Strutt, Michael A., 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
The Effect of soils on settlement location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia Lukezic, Craig, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
History, memory, and [archaeological?] heritage at Nombre de Dios, Panama Siudzinski, Meghan Habas. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Delftware chronology : a new approach to dating English tin- glazed ceramics Shlasko, Ellen, 1961- Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Dwelling in space through knowledge of place : building on epistemological understandings of the seventeenth-century British Atlantic Bassett, Hayden Frith, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in early colonial Virginia Ross, Douglas E. Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Putting flesh on the bones : theoretical and methodological approaches to butchery analysis in historical archaeology Gilmore, R. Grant 1972- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
The fruits of their labors : exploring William Hamilton's greenhouse complex and the rise of American botany in early federal Philadelphia Chesney, Sarah Jane, Anthropology 2014 Doctor of Philosophy
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
The preservation and deconstruction of Hawaiʻi plantation style architecture : Aiea, Waipahu, and Ewa Way, Jessica Margaret. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Seneca hair combs as material culture : a study Vasey, April Jean, 1964- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts
Funerary treatment and social status : a case study of colonial Tidewater Virginia Mackie, Norman Vardney, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Degrees of relatedness : the social politics of Algonquian kinship in the contact era Chesapeake Woodard, Buck W. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
The inter-colonial trade of domestic earthenwares and the development of an American social identity Steen, Carl R. Anthropology 1989 Master of Arts
Ontological blackness : an investigation of 18th century burial practices among captive Africans on the Island of Barbados Brown, Brittany Leigh, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Creole gumbo : ingredients for maintaining Creole identity at Laura Plantation Schupp, Katherine W., 1972- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Of panicoids and pooids : an environmental archaeology study of the seventeenth-century houselot at Rich Neck Plantation, Williamsburg, Virginia Sullivan, Kelly Ann, 1972- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Dooley's ferry : the archaeology of a civilian community in wartime Drexler, Carl Gilbert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Excavations at the Barton-Swift-Nolan House : Antebellum material culture in the Georgia Piedmont Brooks, Christopher Andrew, 1959- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
From sight to site to website : travel-writing, tourism and the American experience in Haiti, 1900-2008 Yarrington, Landon Cole. Anthropology 2010 Master of Arts
Middlesex County, New Jersey gravestones 1687-1799 : shadows of a changing culture Veit, Richard Francis, 1968- 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
Historical settlements in Sarpy County, Nebraska, 1803-1900 Sawyer, Monique Ernestine, 1958- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Merrymaking at the Madisons' : feasting, alcohol, and political strategy Heacock, Christine Hope, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Living on the periphery : a study of an eighteenth-century Yamasee mission community in colonial St. Augustine White, Andrea Paige, 1975- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
National identity in Turkey Wood, Seth Robertson, 1973- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Community bulding after emancipation : an anthropological study of Charles' Corner, Virginia, Mahoney, Shannon Sheila, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
By word of mouth : an examination of myth and history at the Benares estate Garden, Mary-Catherine E., 1966- Anthropology 1995 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
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
Here stands a high bred horse: a theory of economics and horse breeding in Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780; a statistical model Kleppertknoop, Lily, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
An Archaeological assessment of Middlesex County, Virginia Lichtenberger, Randy Michael, 1967- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
All sorts of china ware ... large, noble and rich chinese bowls : Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain in Virginia Madsen, David Andrew, 1966- Anthropology 1995 Master of Arts
The monetary material culture of plantation life : a study of coins at Monticello Whitley, Cynthia Ann, 1956- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts