W&M ScholarWorks is the official repository for W&M Honors Theses. Digital theses become William & Mary's standard format beginning in 2016. Students are required to submit their thesis in electronic format, commonly called an ETD (electronic theses and dissertations) to W&M ScholarWorks.
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Access to Honors Theses
Honors theses from 2021 - onwards may have restricted access for a set time period or be restricted to On-Campus Access Only based on the author's choice. Honors theses prior to 2021 are restricted to On-Campus Access Only.
You may contact scholarworks@wm.edu with inquires on access to individual honors theses.
Honors Theses from 2022
Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers, Sabrien Abdelrahman
Assessing the Orthogonality of Genetic Circuits, Beteel Abu-Ageel
Connecting Moral Injury and PTSD among Military Veterans: The Role of Problem-Focused Thought Rumination & Social Support, Emma Ackerman
Approximating Star-Discrepancy with a Genetic Algorithm, Isabel Agostino
French Colonialism and Botanical Naturalization: The Development of Vanilla on Réunion Island in the 19th Century, Sophia Alden
Imagined Contact with Autism: The Effects of Labeling and Behaviors on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults, Annika Allen
The Role of Homeownership in Taiwan's Low Fertility Story, William Anderson
Tradition Under Scripture: The Patristic Theology of Luther and Calvin, Russell Carter Beisswanger
The Role of Environment in Children's Acquisition of Motion Verbs, Alice Benjamin
Period Doubling Cascades from Data, Alexander Berliner
Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century, Jason Blau
Cultural Evolution and the Intuitionist Paradigm in Ethics: Ethics as Creation, Nickolas J. Boylan
“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman
Quantum Federated Learning: Training Hybrid Neural Networks Collaboratively, Anneliese Brei
Design of Environment-Controlled Analog Audio Effects, Jacob Brotman-Krass
Optical Fiber-Linked Magnetometer Employing Artificial Intelligence for Magnetic Field Measurement, Sofia Brown
The Cognitive & Educational Implications of Color Use in Drawing to Learn, Juliana F.M. Cantarutti
Gas-Phase Proton Affinities for Twenty of the Proline-Containing Dipeptides, Henry Cardwell
Sinfonietta in C Major: Music Composition and Conducting, Colin Carmody
Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman
Psychological Peacebuilding: When the Time is Ripe for an Election, Kaiming Chen
Carrying Capacity of Cultured Bivalves in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, and the Implications of Spatial Distribution and Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico
The Written Word Bound by Devotion Unseen: Female Monasticism and Religiosity in the Visions of Gertrud the Great of Helfta, Jana Considine
Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti
'Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction, Allyson Cook
The Reception of Diogenes in the Second Sophistic, Meggie Corcoran
A Study of Transport in the SOL Region of Tokamaks, Gordon Jameson Crouse
In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin
The Effect of Subsidies on Small Exporting Sectors in Chile, Leah Damelin
Climate Change and Conservation of Milkweed: Evidence of Extensive Admixture Between Common Milkweed and Poke Milkweed, Elizabeth Davies
Using a Machine Learning Model to Predict Plant Inflorescences based upon its Soil Microbiome, Luke Denoncourt
Student Sleep Patterns when Exposed to Mindfulness Reminders, Zeyanna Dhalla
Chemical Analysis of Organic Compounds in Dew Water, Monica Dibley
Understanding Viral Impacts in Soil Microbial Ecology Through the Persistence and Decay of Infectious Bacteriophage Particles, Alli DiPietro
Investigating the Effect of Longhorned Milkweed Beetle Larval Root Feeding on Resprouting in Common Milkweed, Margaret Donnan
The Genetic Consequences of Selection for Plastic Adherence on Evolving Yeast Populations, Benjamin Epley
The Apocalyptic Mode in Contemporary Environmental Art, Victoria Erisman
Silver, Ships and Soil: Gift-Giving in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank
From Necessity to Novelty: Historic Trades in Colonial Williamsburg, Cecelia Rose Eure
Free Speech and Its Limits: An Exploration of Tolerance in the Digital Age, Jamie Forte
Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Morality and Motivation Behind the Algorithm, Avery Freeman
Analysis of eDNA to Assess Effects of Water Quality on Freshwater Fungal Diversity in a Virginia Coastal Watershed, Lauren French
Method for Protecting Satellites from Solar Energetic Particles Using Chaotic Magnetic Fields, Seth Gnesin
Investigating the Role of HDAC3 (KDAC3) and SIRT2 in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Trafficking, Jordan Gooding
The Effect of High School Racial Demographics on Cultural Competence in College Students, Lauren Grob
'Carcern' and 'Wordcræft': Enclosure, Connection and Gender in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and "Elene", Katherine Grotewiel
Validating Behavioral Testing Paradigm for Selective and Sustained Attention, Zixu Guo
Investigating the Effectiveness of GARCH(1,2) and COGARCH(1,2) Models in Estimating Volatility in the S&P500 Index, Ethan Hackett
Spectacular: A New Musical, Paul Hardin
Relating Occupancy Patterns to Multi-Life-History Scales for Pond-Breeding Anurans in Eastern Virginia, Patrick A. Hardner
Enumerating Switching Isomorphism Classes of Signed Graphs, Nathaniel Healy
True Price of a Pack: Tobacco Expenditure and Height-for-Age in Indonesia, Madeline Helfer
The Pandemic From Above: Estimating COVID-19 Cases Using Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery, John Hennin
The Application of Acetyltransferase Inhibitors and Neural Networks to Thyroid Hormone Receptor Mutants, Thomas Hess
The Other Synoptics: An Analysis of the Fourth Evangelist’s and Paul of Tarsus’ Opinion on the Significance of Jesus’ Death, the Aftermath of the Resurrection, and the Nature of Jesus, Austin A. Hillebrandt
The Journey of Unlearning: A Close Reading of Civil War Pedagogy in Alabama and Virginia, Michaela Hill
Revolutionizing Gender in One Minute or Less: Informally Theorizing Nonbinary Identity on TikTok, Miranda Huffer
Investigation of Tertiary Impact Cratering and Relation to Impact Physics Theory, Mikayla Huffman
Ambitious Boys and Girls: Childhood Failure and Gender Norms in Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ceci Hughes
Transcriptomic and Functional Analysis of Novel Mycobacteriophagelet Bernie and Prophage HerbertWM, Taiana James
Negation & Acosmism: Hegel's Acosmist Reading of Spinoza, Jared Jones
Metamor-Foes: Settlement Preferences and Post-Settlement Cannibalism in the Sea Star Asterias forbesi, Augustin Kalytiak-Davis
"But a Contraband is a Free Man:" Civil War Literature and the Figure of the "Contraband", Mary A. Kardos
Curating Couture: Collaborative Collections of Art & Design, Sandra Kaitlyn Kelso
Taking Transparent Action: Decolonizing the American Collective Memory of Ancient Greece in the Art Museum, Sydney M. Kennedy
Feelings of Fallenness: Affect and Gender in Victorian Fallen Woman Novels, Kate Kowalski
Portals to Healing: Relational Art Practices as Decolonial Antidotes to Transgenerational Trauma, Whitney Ledesma
The Basics of Diatom Frustules as 3D Printable Biomaterial: From Optimal Growth Media to Genetic Manipulation, Jindayi Liang
An Atomic Magnetometer based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Polarization Rotation, Jiahui Li
Age and Origin of the Albemarle-Nelson Mafic-Ultramafic Complex in Virginia's Eastern Blue Ridge: Rift Related Differentiated Sills?, Juliet Liscomb
Economic Impact of the Western Africa Ebola Outbreak--A Holistic Approach, Xufeng Liu
Modern Theory of Copositive Matrices, Yuqiao Li
Co-planar Waveguides for Microwave Atom Chips, Morgan Logsdon
Bayesian Spatial Model Development of Soil Core Organic Matter as a proxy for Blue Carbon Stocks within the Chesapeake Bay, Christian Longo
Do You Salt Your Soup: Investigating the Effect of Interference Control on the Cognitive Reflection Test, Matthew Lowrie
Disappearing Smoke: Why Black Pitmasters Are Being Left Behind by Commercialization within North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue, Charlotte Lucas
Regulation of Testis Stem Cell Behavior by the Novel Drosophila Gene Childless gambino, Natalie Luffman
On the Impact of Social Spending on Long-term Economic Performance in the USA, Jiayong Lu
Zao Wou-Ki: The Infinite Landscape, Laura Yuhua Luo
Modeling and Analyses of Mechanisms Underlying Network Synaptic Dynamics in Two Neural Circuits, Linda Ma
Islamist Reactions to Coup D’états, Maggie Manson
Voting Rules and Properties, Zhuorong Mao
State Political Entrepreneurs in the Age of Modi: Opposition Politics in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal from 2019-2021, Maxwell Markel
Analyzing Function of the Novel Gene, Childless Gambino, During Drosophila Development, Pedro Massa
Frequency and Success of Larval Clone Production in the Daisy Brittle Star Ophiopholis aculeata, Erin-Darby McClain
Examining Labor Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Occupational Lousiness Indicators, Wm. Brennan Merone
“A Sea of White Faces”: How Courtroom Portraits Undermine Justice in Virginia, Lauren Miller
Divided We Stand: An Investigation of America’s Dual Psyche and the FBI’s War on Anti-Americanism, Laura Mills
A Mathematical Model of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease, Julianne Miranda
Differential Protein Expression in Bacteriophages CrimD and Larva, Daria Moody
Showing Off and Going Out: China’s Vanity Project Phenomenon, Caroline Morin
