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
A formal analysis of the clay pipes from Green Spring Crass, David Colin, 1958- Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
Inequality in early Virginia : a case study from Martin's Hundred Edwards, Andrew C., 1949- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake McLaughlin, Pegeen Amy, 1968- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Pin-up art, interpreting the dynamics of style Derry, Linda K., 1954- Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
The diasporic world of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860 Sayers, Daniel O. Anthropology 2008 Doctor of Philosophy
The technique of the Poquoson-style log canoe Moran, David Andrews, Anthropology 2014 Master of Arts
Eyewitnesses to surrender : domestic site archaeology at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park Kostro, Mark, 1974- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Ceramic acquisition patterns at Meadow Farm, 1810-1861 Hunter, Robert R., 1955- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Ethnicity in the graveyard Goodwin, Conrad M., 1940- Anthropology 1981 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
Small though the spot is : settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798 Metz, John David, 1966- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Satisfying Williamsburg's meat tooth : butchers and bones in inter-bellum Williamsburg, Virginia Alblinger, Carrie 1966- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
The churchyard enclosure around the Elizabeth City Parish Church of 1728 : with systemic and proxemic considerations Garland, Anne W. H. Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
Peripheral vision : mimesis and materiality along the James River, Virginia, 1619-1660 Sikes, Kathryn Lee McClure, Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
An interpretation of firearms in the archaeological record in Virginia 1607-1625 Larson, Bruce J., 1953- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
Eighteenth-century wharf construction in Baltimore, Maryland Norman, Joseph Gary, 1959- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation : social relationships and material culture Leavitt, Genevieve. Anthropology 1981 Master of Arts
Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty : women's spheres and culinary arts Harbury, Katharine E., 1950- Anthropology 1994 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
A study of transition in plantation economy : George Washington's whiskey distillery, 1799 Anderson, Anna Catherine Borden, 1971- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
A comparative analysis of two colonial Virginia populations : a skeletal consideration Koubek, Jana Elisa, 1956- Anthropology 1982 Master of Arts
An allegory for life : an 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas Turner, Grace S. R., Anthropology 2013 Doctor of Philosophy
Profanely and in great scandall' : deviance, authority, and social control in Middlesex and Surry counties, Virginia, 1672-1682 Thurlow, Matthew Adrian, 1978- Anthropology 2003 Master of Arts
The Fulling Mill at Mountain Falls, Virginia : an ethnographic history Richard, Cassandra Faye, 1949- Anthropology 1987 Master of Arts
The pottery and kiln of Green Spring : a study in 17th century material culture Smith, James M., 1949- Anthropology 1981 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
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
Archaeology goes to school : a cooperative approach to teaching history through archaeology Schuster, Paul David, 1972- Anthropology 1996 Master of Arts
Between slavery and freedom : African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863 Maris-Wolf, Edward Downing, 1974- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
Grand River landings, Ottawa County, Michigan Linebaugh, Donald W. Anthropology 1982 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 Settlement of Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, Michigan : a cultural resource study Robinson, Gary G. Anthropology 1987 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
Education, literacy and ink pots : contested identities in post-emancipation Barbados Devlin, Sean Edward. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
For profit and function : consumption patterns and outward expression of Quakers as seen through historical documentation and 18th century York County, Virginia probate inventories O'Donnell, Darby, 1975- Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
The Federal archeology program as seen from the inside Scherff, Susan Katherine, 1951- Anthropology 1987 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
Breaking the mold : sugar ceramics and the political economy of 18th century St. Eustatius Miller, Derek Robert. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Clay Landing : a nineteenth century rural community on the Florida frontier Principe, Jill Catherine. Anthropology 2008 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
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
Mt. Greylock : the years before protection 1760-1900 Denault, Susan Ann, 1959- Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
The equipment of the Virginia soldier in the American Revolution Gallup, Andrew John, 1946- Anthropology 1991 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
Trade networks and artifact analysis : a comparison of elite households 1780-1810 Microys, Rion Renee, 1965- Anthropology 1994 Master of Arts
History, memory, and [archaeological?] heritage at Nombre de Dios, Panama Siudzinski, Meghan Habas. Anthropology 2008 Master of Arts
Domestic brick architecture in early colonial Virginia Ross, Douglas E. Anthropology 2002 Master of Arts
The Effect of soils on settlement location in Colonial Tidewater, Virginia Lukezic, Craig, 1959- Anthropology 1986 Master of Arts
Master-slave relations : a Williamsburg perspective Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. Anthropology 1990 Master of Arts
An archipelago of coal pits : predicting archeological features in the Richmond, Virginia coalfield Hernigle, Jacqueline Louise, 1963- Anthropology 1991 Master of Arts