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GWS: Gender and Women's Studies: Books+

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Find Dissertations

Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Full Text: indexes dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

UC Berkeley dissertations: Go to UC Library Search and look up authors. Also helpful to see dissertations written in your department which you can do by doing a subject or keyword search:

  • subject: university of california berkeley dept of sociology dissertations
  • keyword: berkeley dissertations education
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Recent UC Berkeley dissertations are freely available online to anyone, anywhere with access to the internet.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources.