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 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
Political alienation and its relationship to community residence Henneman, Paul C., 1955- Government 1981 Master of Arts
Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation : social relationships and material culture Leavitt, Genevieve. Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
Patsy Jefferson : deputy son Dandy, Gina, 1968- History 1998 Master of Arts
The role of the vestry in late seventeenth-century Virginia : Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, 1663-1680 and 1695-1700 Page, John Frederic, 1935- History 1969 Master of Arts
The problem of time in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel Curran, Patrick M., 1969- English 1994 Master of Arts
Nutrient standing stocks and partitioning in a forested coastal plain watershed : groundwater, stream and marsh creek Hartenstine, Sandra A., 1963- Marine Science 1991 Master of Arts
The response of the bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria to declining oxygen tensions Walsh, Dennis, 1949- Marine Science 1974 Master of Arts
Contemporary irish fiction : Lavin and Trevor Oehling, Richard, 1961- English 1985 Master of Arts
The Reynolds affair, party politics and sexuality in the early republic Gross, Alexandra Marie, History 2014 Master of Arts
The admission of religious nonconformists to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and to degrees in those universities, 1828-1871 Lund, Valerie K., 1952- History 1978 Master of Arts
From song to silence: the coding of music in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Dawson, Melanie, 1967- English 1990 Master of Arts
Public taste : a comparison of movie popularity and critical opinion Riley, R. Claiborne, 1950- Sociology 1982 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
A study of the implications of supervisory principles Graves, Eliot Boyd, 1904- Education 1935 Master of Arts
I will commence with my news : elite youth culture and communities of knowledge in early nineteenth century Williamsburg Stevens, Holly Nicole. History 2012 Master of Arts
When women say yes : sexual initiation, minority status, and opportunity costs Flippo, Chris A., 1962- Sociology 1987 Master of Arts
The Coffee house (where I occasionally sometimes go) : examining diversity in the urban meat diet of Williamsburg in the mid-eighteenth century Noack, Kelsey J. Anthropology 2009 Master of Arts
Blends of reactive diluents with phenylethynyl-terminated arylene ether oligomers Knudsen, Rachel Louise, 1971- Applied Science 1995 Master of Arts
Growth in a frontier society : population increases in the Northern Neck of Virginia MacKesson, Karla V., 1952- History 1976 Master of Arts
The Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
The infusion of stars and stripes : sectarianism and national unity in Little Syria, New York, 1890-1905 Kabbani, Manal History 2016 Master of Arts
Age-related differences in the prey-dropping behavior of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) Dunlavey, Eric G., 1972- Biology 2001 Master of Arts
Trading with the enemy : legal theory and the Civil War Breitenbach, Carole Johnson, 1955- History 1980 Master of Arts
Euro and African American student experiences and perceptions of skill and knowledge : a comparative analysis from the 1995 senior survey Rhodes, Erica McEachin, 1972- Sociology 1997 Master of Arts
Harem fantasies and music videos : contemporary Orientalist representation Johnson, Maya Ayana. American Studies 2007 Master of Arts
The Negro Building : African-American representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Watkins, Sarah, 1968- American Studies 1994 Master of Arts
Finding a sense of ease in the creation : or, Pychon's disinformational map to the stars Kenyon, Gregory Lee, 1962- English 1991 Master of Arts
Do sulfide-oxidizing bacteria produce light? Horak, Rachel Elizabeth Ann, 1978- Biology 2004 Master of Arts
A study in Virginia politics : the Virginia House of Delegates, 1794-1796 Beeman, Richard R. History 1965 Master of Arts
Cognitive storage modes for color memory Dunn, Edythe Burt, 1956- Psychology 1984 Master of Arts
Catalogue of interventions for systemic family therapy assessment Tafuri, Sydney Marissa, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Sex-related morphological differences in the dentition of Anolis Oculatus Grierson, Kevin William, 1965- Biology 1989 Master of Arts
Structural organization of the Hopewell city and Prince George County school system on a regional basis Smith, Charles William, 1907- Education 1946 Master of Arts
Situational and interpersonal influences on the perception of prosocial behavior Clark, Rosemary Eleanore. Sociology 1977 Master of Arts
So that I get her again : African American slave women runaways in selected Richmond, Virginia newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond, Virginia police guard daybook, 1834-1843 Sorensen, Leni Ashmore, 1942- American Studies 1996 Master of Arts
The effect of stimulus differentiation and intertrial interval on spontaneous alternation behavior in rats Bisese, Vernon Stephen, 1933- Psychology 1961 Master of Arts
Quantitative analysis of beach sand movement, Virginia Beach, Virginia Boon, John D. Marine Science 1968 Master of Arts
A literature of combat : African American prison writers of the Vietnam era Weber, John William, 1978- History 2002 Master of Arts
Modern psychology in physical education Gary, Willie Alberta. Physical Education 1929 Master of Arts
Iodine metabolism in sessile stages of Chesapeake Bay semaeostome jellyfish Olmon, Janet Evelyn, 1944- Marine Science 1972 Master of Arts
Economic survival in Colorado before and after the Silver Crash of 1893 Brophy, Sarah S., 1961- History 1987 Master of Arts
Latent self-revelation in Majorie Rawlings' Cross Creek Duckworth, Alexandra, 1968- English 1999 Master of Arts
Intergenerational transfer of conflict-management behaviors Cunningham, Susan Beth, 1968- Psychology 1994 Master of Arts
The function of the cellular hemoglobin in the arcid clam Noetia ponderosa (Say) Freadman, Marvin Alan, 1949- Biology 1974 Master of Arts
Racial interactions : a demographic perspective on juror biases in deliberations Elek, Jennifer K., 1981- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
They lie interred together : an analysis of gravestones and burial pattern in colonial Tidewater Virginia Crowell, Elizabeth Anne, 1954- History 1986 Master of Arts
Chloe Tyler Whittle : religion, gender, and identity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1876 van Zelm, Antoinette Gray, 1966- History 1992 Master of Arts
Hawaiian emancipation? : slavery, free labor, and indentured labor in nineteenth-century Hawaii Guerci, Mark Thomas, History 2015 Master of Arts
Benjamin Trott : miniature painter Verplanck, Anne Ayer, 1958- American Studies 1990 Master of Arts