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
The mystery of evil in five works by Graham Greene Arata, Stephen D. English 1984 Master of Arts
The myth of the questing hero in two travel books by Graham Greene and Robert Byron King, Ashley Elizabeth, 1964- English 1988 Master of Arts
The mythical monolith: American China policy and the Sino-Soviet split, 1945-1972 Blunt, Rhonda Smither, 1947- History 1978 Master of Arts
The nail making industry in early Virginia Keene, John Tracy, 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts
The narrator in the Middle English bird debates : a dynamic convention Constantelos, Stephen B., 1971- English 1996 Master of Arts
The National Committee for Citizens in Education : a descriptive analysis Crutchfield, Elizabeth Lewis, 1931- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The nature of Virginia opposition to Great Britain Duff, Stella F. History 1949 Master of Arts
The naval office in Virginia, 1692-1700 Gill, Harold Bledsoe. History 1959 Master of Arts
The necessary good : the true ethic of Sister Carrie Essex, David John, 1953- English 1986 Master of Arts
The need for attention to cognitive development in the preparation and practice of mental health counselors as advocates for social justice Whitfield-Williams, Mary. Education 2012 Doctor of Philosophy
The need for guidance in a small rural high school Justis, Edward Tabb. Education 1940 Master of Arts
The need for guidance in Pennington High School Beeler, Robert Emerson. Education 1950 Master of Arts
The need for that certain article of furniture : women's experiences in French colonial Louisiana Fitzgibbons, Ellen Margaret, 1966- History 1997 Master of Arts
The needs of the Negro schools of Virginia Bush, Leslie Eley. Education 1922 Master of Arts
The Negro American : images and identities Healey, Joseph F., 1945- Sociology 1970 Master of Arts
The Negro Building : African-American representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Watkins, Sarah, 1968- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
The Negro in colonial Virginia 1619-1765 Hook, Francis Moore. History 1952 Master of Arts
The Negro in Richmond on the eve of and during the Civil War Reid, Gurney Holland, 1904- History 1936 Master of Arts
The negros to serve forever : the evolution of Black's life and labor in seventheenth-century Virginia, Kamoie, Laura Croghan. History 1994 Master of Arts
The nesting ecology of several species of herons and the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) in three heronries in Virginia Warren, Barbara Susan, 1953- Biology 1977 Master of Arts
The New American magazine McCollough, Carol Lynn Toop, 1945- History 1973 Master of Arts
The New Orleans free people of color and the process of Americanization, 1803-1896 Gourdet, Camille Kempf, 1978- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
The New Orleans riot of 1866 : the anatomy of a tragedy Vandal, Gilles. History 1978 Doctor of Philosophy
The new right Reiley, Elizabeth Julia, 1954- Sociology 1984 Master of Arts
The North Carolina Bar, 1746-1776 Martin, William David, 1953- History 1982 Master of Arts
The not-so-public history of Colonial Williamsburg's port resident-ferrykeepers : interpreting the Moody family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781 Scott, Angela Maria. American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
The Nottoway of Virginia : a study of peoplehood and political economy, c. 1775-1875 Woodard, Buck W., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
The novel as vanishing point : fiction as epistemology in Little Dorrit Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. English 1984 Master of Arts
The office of the principal secretary in the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558) : some aspects of the conduct of state business Long, David Frederick, 1949- History 1977 Master of Arts
The official letters of Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor of Virginia, 1768-1770 McGaan, Dianne Jean, 1945- History 1971 Master of Arts
The Olive branch petition to the king, 1775 Cooper, Lorna Gayle, 1941- History 1967 Master of Arts
The omegatron in ultra high vacuum partial pressure analysis Bradford, James McLure. Physics 1964 Master of Arts
The once and future friend : Tennyson's exploration of human immortality Simons, Melinda, 1972- English 1996 Master of Arts
The organizational culture of the academic department : a case study of a department of biological sciences Smith, Martha Anne, 1955- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
The orientation of crystallites in molded graphites Schryer, David R. Chemistry 1970 Master of Arts
The origins and development of Virginia's student assessment policy : a case study Sims, Serbrenia J. Education 1989 Doctor of Education
The origins of the British expedition to the Carolinas, 1775-1776 Moran, William Leo, 1938- History 1966 Master of Arts
The origins of the presidential election : the creation of the electoral college through the first federal elections Mazzei, Giacomo, 1973- History 2004 Master of Arts
The ortho to para transition in muonic molecular hydrogen Clark, Jessica H. D. Physics 2002 Doctor of Philosophy
The osmotic fragility of red blood cells of marine animals : a comparative study Demanche, Robert, 1955- Biology 1980 Master of Arts
The other Civil War : Lincoln and the Indians Nichols, David A. 1939- History 1975 Doctor of Philosophy
The other faces of Mount Rushmore : tourism, advertising, and the commodity of experience McNutt, Jill Angela, 1966- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The overseers of the poor in Accomac, Pittsylvania, and Rockingham counties, 1787-1802 Usry, Robert M. History 1960 Master of Arts
The oxidation of -cyclodextrin via the photolysis of 6- -cyclodextrin benzoyl formate Creswick, Heather Alison, 1970- Chemistry 1993 Master of Arts
The oxygen equilibrium properties of hemerythrin in solution and in coelomic cells of Phascolopsis Gouldi London, Maria, 1950- Biology 1973 Master of Arts
The Page family of Rosewell and Mannsfield : a study in economic decline Leviner, Betty Crowe. History 1987 Master of Arts
The Pamunkey Indian Museum : collaboration, display, and the creation of a tribal museum Bowen, Rachel Elaine, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
The Panama Canal treaties : a possible exception to the usual relationship between public opinion and foreign policy Johnston, Donna Sibley, 1943- Government 1978 Master of Arts
The paradox between self-sovereignty and universal law in The Octopus Hauer, Kathryn Bruzas, 1961- English 1985 Master of Arts
The parasite fauna of the wreckfish, Polyprion americanus, in the North Atlantic Ocean: application to host biology and stock identification Fennessy, Colleen Jill, 1970- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science