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
To be amiable and accomplished : fitting young women for upper-class Virginia society 1760-1810 Eberlein, Tori Ann, 1958- History 1982 Master of Arts
An analysis of a five-point program of supervision in a county Ramsey, Curtis Lee. Education 1952 Master of Arts
A comparison of meristics and morphometrics between two strains of pond cultured striped bass (Morone saxatilis) Gornak, Steven. Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
Shakespeare's development Massey, Elsie Lee. English 1929 Master of Arts
Steepest descent techniques for operator equations Suit, William T. 1937- Mathematics 1967 Master of Arts
The influence of similarity to an actor on an observer's attributions for negative behaviors Gudleski, Gregory Daniel, 1967- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
The evolution of Confederate policy regarding interbelligerent commerce in the Civil War Rutherford, Judith Baker, 1940- History 1965 Master of Arts
Synthesis of 2-alkylidene-1,3-cyclohexanediones Manson, Mary Virginia, 1962- Chemistry 1984 Master of Arts
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Legislated towns in Virginia, 1680-1705 : growth and function, 1680-1780 Chernichowski, Beth-Anne, 1951- History 1974 Master of Arts
Childhood, colonialism and nation-building : the role of childhood in the construction of race, class and gender in seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Virginia Barrett, Autumn Rain Duke, 1972- Anthropology 2004 Master of Arts
By virtue of kinship and similarity and experience : the double motif in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood and The violent bear it away Mullane, Deirdre K. English 1980 Master of Arts
Differential growth of the menhaden, B. tyrannus (Latrobe), during early development McCutcheon, Henry Norman. Marine Science 1953 Master of Arts
Maternal and paternal socialization of children's sadness : links to emotion regulation, psychopathology, and social functioning Poon, Jennifer Ann, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Christina Rossetti : a feminist visionary Currence, Cindy K., 1957- English 1990 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
Pacific trade winds : towards a global history of the Manila Galleon Thomas, Matthew F. History 2011 Master of Arts
Legal sanctions and the consensus of crime seriousness Cole, William Dalton, 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
Determinants of criminal court sentencing Lovko, Jennifer Rae, 1965- Sociology 1994 Master of Arts
Photosynthetic responses of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) to light and sediment sulfide in a shallow barrier island lagoon Goodman, Jill Lynn, 1968- Marine Science 1992 Master of Arts
The image of a woman's authority : representations of Elizabeth I in portrait and film McLees-Frazier, Heather Armstrong. History 2009 Master of Arts
Downtown revitization : a functionalist analysis Knighton, Janice Jacqueline, 1958- Sociology 1985 Master of Arts
Development of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) for the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in tissues of aquatic biota Gaylor, Michael O., 1966- Chemistry 1997 Master of Arts
The National Committee for Citizens in Education : a descriptive analysis Crutchfield, Elizabeth Lewis, 1931- Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
The relevance of social isolation to the community tenure of former mental patients Hargadon, Sue Ellen. Sociology 1981 Master of Arts
Some hydrographic conditions found in winter in lower Chesapeake Bay and their possible effects on the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun) population MacGregor, John Strathern. Marine Science 1950 Master of Arts
Teh hell or teh work' the woman adrift and morality for three turn-of-the-century american authors Hawes, Elizabeth Cowen, 1967- English 1991 Master of Arts
Ecology of marine invertebrate fouling organisms in Hampton Roads, Virginia Calder, Dale R. Marine Science 1966 Master of Arts
You are not the father! : family, blood, race and Maury in America Markarian, Robyn Elizabeth, American Studies 2013 Master of Arts
Aspects of volume regulation in two estuarine invertebrates : Glycera Dibranchiata (Annelida) and Modiolus Demissus (Mollusca) Beardsley, Ana Marie, 1963- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
The measurement of flame temperatures with coated, electrically heated thermocouples Miller, Irvin Milton, 1921- Chemistry 1971 Master of Arts
The geomorphology and shallow structure of the northeastern New Jersey continental slope Scott, Nicole D., 1970- Marine Science 1995 Master of Arts
Variation and prediction of water temperature in York River estuary at Gloucester Point, Virginia Hsieh, Bernard B. 1949- Marine Science 1979 Master of Arts
The Metompkin Islands : a case study in ownership and management of a dynamic barrier system Niebuhr, David Harold, 1961- Marine Science 1993 Master of Arts
The development of the local school administrative unit in Virginia and the consequent enlargement of the duties of the local administrator Donahoe, Cashell. Education 1945 Master of Arts
Brandy and the natives of New France Bridges, Anne Ramonda, 1962- History 1987 Master of Arts
In search of the Southern identity : the lady, the farmwife, and the nonslaveholders of York County Virginia, 1850-1860 Flotten, Chesley Homan, 1974- History 1998 Master of Arts
Evaluation of sediment sources and sinks : a sediment budget for the Rappahannock River estuary Lukin, Craig G. Marine Science 1983 Master of Arts
The reader's reflection in Swift's A Voyage to Laputa Trapp, Jaime A., 1967- English 1992 Master of Arts
The vascular flora of Fort Eustis, City of Newport News, Virginia Appler, Phyllis Ann Kline, 1947- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Exhorting or extorting? : George Whitefield's financial controversies Beales, Kristen Elizabeth, History 2014 Master of Arts
Early english firearms : a re-examination of the evidence Straube, Beverly Ann, 1947- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts
The influence of location, seagrass species and water depth on the settlement and distribution of early stage blue crabs Pardieck, Renee A. Marine Science 1996 Master of Arts
The Mount Pleasant service complex : salvaging interpretations from previously acquired data Grow, Megan Elizabeth, 1972- Anthropology 2005 Master of Arts
The shock of brass on porcelain : egotism and The sacred fount Pye, Georgia Taft, 1947- English 1981 Master of Arts
Not a child to be controuled : autonomy and dependence in Virginia gentry families, 1750-1780 Kerrison, Catherine, 1953- History 1994 Master of Arts
Individual versus group resource-allocation performance González, Roxana M., 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Clockmaking clerics and ropemaking lawyers : mixing occupational roles in early modern Spain Gregory, Aaron Joshua. History 2012 Master of Arts
An assessment of tributyltin contamination in sediments and shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay Espourteille, Francois A., 1960- Marine Science 1988 Master of Arts
The development of political theory in colonial Massachusetts, 1688-1740 Dufour, Ronald P. 1947- History 1970 Master of Arts