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
Marston Parish 1654-1674 : a community study McKinney, Jane Dillon, 1943- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Sugar manufacturing in the West Indies : a study of innovation and variation France, Linda Gail, 1956- Anthropology 1984 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
The secret history of the Mcherrin Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in early colonial Virginia Ross, Douglas E. Anthropology 2002 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
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
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake McLaughlin, Pegeen Amy, 1968- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Evolution of mill settlement patterns in the Antietam drainage, Washington County, Maryland Frye, Susan Winter, 1959- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Inequality in early Virginia : a case study from Martin's Hundred Edwards, Andrew C., 1949- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Creole gumbo : ingredients for maintaining Creole identity at Laura Plantation Schupp, Katherine W., 1972- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
A medley of contradictions : the Jewish diaspora in St. Eustatius and Barbados Miller, Derek Robert, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Nineteenth century enslaved African Americans' coping strategies for the stresses of enslavement in Virginia Campo, Allison Michelle, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Virginia Indians, NAGPRA, and cultural affiliation: revisiting identities and boundaries in the Chesapeake/ Masur, Laura Elizabeth, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Historical archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia Polk, Roni Hinote, 1950- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
The Department of Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition : Motives, methods, and messages Gauss, Jeffrey Daryl, 1953- Anthropology 1994 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
From Kaolin to Claymount : landscapes of the 19th-century James River stoneware industry Mueller-Heubach, Oliver Maximilian, 1981-, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Afro-Barbadian Foodways : analysis of the use of ceramics by freed Afro-Barbadian estate workers Chambers, Camille Lois, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Derogatory to the rights of free-born subjects: racialization and the identity of the Williamsburg area's free black population from 1723-1830/ Schumann, Rebecca Anne, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
The John Page house site : an example of the increase in domestic brick architecture in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia Pickett, Dwayne Webster, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
An archaeological survey of the governor's land, James City County, Virginia Sprinkle, John Harold, 1960- Anthropology 1984 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Setting the best table in the country : food and labor at the Coloma gold mining town Ogborne, Jennifer Honora, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Inviting the principle gentlemen of the city : privacy, exclusivity, and food complexity in colonial taverns Gryctko, Lauren Elizabeth, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
Plough deep while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and to keep : an analysis of plow ownership in eighteenth century York county Virginia Waske, Zachary John, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Working with tools : work, identity, and perception communicated through the material culture of work in the context of the Rideau Canal construction 1826-1832 Plousos, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella, 1949- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Who is archaeology's public? : a critical analysis of public images and expectations of archaeology Bartoy, Kevin M. Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
African-American influence on the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe : evidence from nineteenth century probate inventories and population census records of York County, Virginia and Worcester County, Maryland Mamary, Albert James M., 1967- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Mt. Greylock : the years before protection 1760-1900 Denault, Susan Ann, 1959- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
The urban archaeology of early Spanish Caribbean ports of call : the unfortunate story of Nombre de Dios Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda, 1976- Anthropology 2009 Doctor of Philosophy
Could you point me to your nearest clay source, please? : a XRF study of Barbadian historic era ceramics Kirby, Benjamin Crossley, Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
From the middle of nowhere : place-making on my supermodern American road Werner, Maxwell Allen, Anthropology 2013 Master of Arts
Archaeology goes to school : a cooperative approach to teaching history through archaeology Schuster, Paul David, 1972- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
The Beasley wharf complex : a study of frontier interaction in the lower Great Lakes in the late 18th century Carter, Trevor Ryan, 1973- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Education, literacy and ink pots : contested identities in post-emancipation Barbados Devlin, Sean Edward. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Great Blue Herons and River Otters : the changing perceptions of all things wild in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Chesapeake Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene, 1961- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Efficient action in the construction of field fortification : a study of the civil war defenses of Raleigh, North Carolina Higgins, Thomas F. Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
Master-slave relations : a Williamsburg perspective Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
The diasporic world of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860 Sayers, Daniel O. Anthropology 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Canary red : preserving cochineal and contrasting colonial histories on Lanzarote Mattes, Sarah , Anthropology 2015 Master of Arts
The illustrated map : cartography and power in seventeenth century Virginia Green, Christine Jeanette, 1973- Anthropology 2000 Master of Arts
Tavern' by the saltpan : New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682-1782 Antczak, Konrad A., Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Subsistence and social behavior : evolving strategies in the rural New England landscape Dean, Susannah, 1970- Anthropology 1999 Master of Arts
Breaking the mold : sugar ceramics and the political economy of 18th century St. Eustatius Miller, Derek Robert. Anthropology 2008 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
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
St. Eustatius : acculturation in a Dutch Caribbean colony Kandle, Patricia Lynn, 1953- Anthropology 1985 Master of Arts
An ethnoarchaeological study of the cisterns in Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles Harper, Ross K., 1964- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts