W&M ScholarWorks is the official repository for W&M Honors Theses. Digital theses became William & Mary's standard format beginning in 2016. Students are required to submit their thesis in electronic form, 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 W&M Scholar Works with inquires on access to individual honors theses.
Honors Theses from 2019
Supreme Court Opinion Authorship Attribution on a Case-by-Case Basis, Blake Phillips
The Effect of Parental Involvement on Education Aspirations and Outcomes of Children, Sraavya Poonuganti
Parental Incarceration as a Unique Risk Factor for Delinquency and Psychopathology: Examining Mentorship as a Buffer, Emma Preston
Labor Migration and Social Networking: Maasai Labor Migrants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Elise Rakoff
Using Gleaned Computing Power to Forecast Emerging-market Equity Returns with Machine Learning, Xida Ren
Machine Learning and Electron Track Reconstruction for the MOLLER Experiment, Mary Robinson
The status of the word-final domain and linguistically-constrained language learning cues, Megan Rouch
The Theological Thesis: Theology's Role in Western Epistemology, Thomas Rubino
Utilization of Unnatural Amino Acids in the Development of Novel Functions and Probing Applications, Brent Russell
"This Great Theatre of Nature": Henry Fielding and the Ancient Comic Stage, Stephen Ryan
Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Lower York River Estuary, Joshua Sacks, Mark J. Brush, and Iris C. Anderson
Proliferation & Instability: How Nuclear Weapons Acquisition Alters Inter-state Relations, Tyler Sagerstrom
Persuasion in Discourse: Evaluation Methods of Vegans, Kate Sandberg
An Examination of an Alternative Use for the Fear-Potentiated Startle Paradigm and the Effects of Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor Inhibition on Extinction Learning, Jessica Seidenberg
Fear Potentiated Startle and the Effects of Losartan on Extinction Learning, Jessica Seidenberg
Gender and the Connection between Distress Tolerance and Psychopathology, Megan Serody
Explaining Mental Health Care Delivery in United States Correctional Facilities, Devika Shankardass
The Methodological Puzzle of Phenomenal Consciousness: What it is, and Why it is Still Unsolved, Qiuyang Shen
Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice, Taro Shirakawa
Utilizing Machine Learning Classifiers to Identify SSH Brute Force Attacks, Dmytro Shmagin
Difference without Deference: An Individualistic Theory of Group Accommodation, Will Siegmund
A Qubit Algorithm for Simulating the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation, Connor Simpson
The Effect of Early Life Stress on Subjective Fear and Electrodermal Response Reactivity in an Adolescent Community Sample, Lorissa Simpson
Construction of an Auger Microscope, Charles Soulen
Mine, Brooke Stephenson
Iron Complexes for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Indira Stevens
Thoughtful Books and Thoughtful Lives: Androgyny and Gender Dynamics in the Works of Sherwood Anderson, Rick Stevenson
The Effects of Tax Revenue Changes on Economic Growth, Xiangwen Sun
Thyroid Hormone Receptor and Coregulators: A Dynamic Model, Xiaopeng Sun
MINERvA High Energy Test Beam Calibration, Jessica Sydnor
Leveraging NLP to Enable Analysis of User Driven Routines, Ruhao Tang
Partial Difference Sets in Nonabelian Groups and Strongly Regular Cayley Graphs, Gabrielle Tauscheck
The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket at Salisbury Cathedral: Ad Vesperas, Virginia Elizabeth Martin Tilley
Mutations in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Alpha 1 and Their Implications for Resistance to Thyroid Hormone Alpha, Elizabeth Trampenau
Characterizing Flame-resistant Polymers using Single-sided NMR, Anna Tsutsui
More Than Mortal: Divine Depictions of Livia in Early Imperial Portraiture and Literature, Lillian Waddill
Eventually Positive Matrices and Tree Sign Patterns, Madellyne Waugh
"Full of Internal Contradictions": A Neutral Case for the Invalidation of the Death Penalty, Carson A. Whitehurst
A Return to Camelot?: British Identity, The Masculine Ideal, and the Romanticization of the Royal Flying Corps Image, Abby S. Whitlock
The Sacred Touch of Hallowed Hands: Tracing the Holy through the Haptic in George Eliot’s Early Work, Katharine Isabel Williams
Sensational Investigations: Social decay and reform in the Victorian sensation novel, Colleen Wilson
A stage-structured oyster population model for reef restoration, Rachel Wilson
Nighttime Habitat Use and Movement of Two Anaxyrus Species in Southeastern Virginia, Olivia Windorf
Wordsworth's British Empire: Property, Liberty, and the Slave Question, Anna Wingfield
Narrating Public Space: Franz Kafka in Nationalized Prague, Jordan Wyner
Written in Stone: SEG XXXIV 1581, its Viewers, and their Perspectives, Robert Yancey
The Social Ecology of Empathy and Helping: A Comparison of Chinese and American University Students, Zihan Yang
The SUMO-Stress Response (SSR) in Normal and Cancerous Cells, Rui Yin
A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Perceptions of Drivers in Kenyan Health Care Quality, Rebecca Youngerman
Engagement from Afar: How the Role of the Diaspora Makes or Breaks National Secession Campaigns, Lincoln Zaleski
Continuous Opinion Dynamics on an Adaptive Network, Xinyu Zhang
Spectrogram Analysis of Blood Pressure on Neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Tianrui Zhu
Honors Theses from 2018
Children of the Bible: American Protestantism, "A Formula of Agreement," and the Twentieth-Century Ecumenical Movement, Brittany Acors
The Women of the PWA: The Politics and Writings of Rashid Jahan and Qurratulain Hyder, Mehr Ali
Counting Real Conjugacy Classes in Some Finite Classical Groups, Elena Amparo
Spectral Analysis of Lattice QCD Two-Point Correlation Functions, Elena Amparo
The Impact of Racial Group Status on Neural Activity, Belongingness, and Distress during Social Exclusion, Brian Anyakoha
The Effect of Internalizing Symptoms on Affect Recognition and Theory of Mind Performance in a Community Sample of Adolescents, Sarah Bottari
Particle Interactions with the Gill Rakers in the Filter-Feeding American Shad (Alosa sapidissima), Hannah Bruzzio
Income Segregation Across Schools and The Shapes of School Attendance Zones, Kathleen Bryant
Time-Course of Acute Exercise-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction, Morgan Bucknor
Stress Perception in L1 and L2 Spanish and English, Jessica Campbell
Strongly Real Conjugacy Classes in Unitary Groups over Fields of Even Characteristic, Tanner N. Carawan
Islamic Rhetoric in Pakistan: A Comparison at the National and Sub-national Levels, Ava Chafin
The Acid Response in Helicobacter pylori via the Two Component System ArsRS, Jiajia Chen
Quantitative Approaches in Bioengineering, Kalen Clifton
The Test-Retest Reliability of ERP Components as Assessed by the Brief Neurometric Battery, James D. Cole and Paul Kieffaber
Timelike Compton Scattering in the GlueX Experiment at Jefferson Lab, Alexandra Cramer
The Role of the Air Force in the Conduct of the Coup d’Etat, Graeme Cranston-Cuebas
A Mathematical Model of Late Phase Calcium Dyshomeostasis in Axon Degeneration Promoted by SARM1's NAD Cleavage Activity, Jessica Crowley
Clarity: An Exploration of Semantic Information Encoded in Mobile Application GUIs, Michael J. Curcio
Homeolog Gene Regulation in the Developing Allotetraploid Frog, Xenopus laevis, Ronald Cutler
"O God Within My Breast": The Religion of Emily Brontë, Christina Danberg
Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Fragmentation Studies of Tetrapeptides Containing Lysine and Its Homologs, AnnaTram Do
Anterior-Posterior Neural Axis Plasticity in Xenopus laevis, Chen Dong
A Song of Arms and of the Woman: Confronting Cleopatra in the Augustan Era through the Carmen de Bello Actiaco, Rachel Dubit
"Istwa Sa A Pa Senp": Body, Land, And Family In Haitian Afrofuturist Fiction, Sora Edwards-Thro
Are Approach-Avoidance Emotions Represented in the Brain as Approach-Avoidance Actions?, Channing Everidge
Efficacy of Intranasal Administration: A Clinical Approach to Attention, Jacob Feldmann
“Reader, I Did Not Marry Him:” Marriage Proposals, Choice, and Female Desire in the Victorian Era, Elizabeth Rose Flood
Resistance and Women's Solidarity in The Handmaid's Tale, from 1985 to 2017, Dana S. Florczak
Health and Medicine among First-Generation African Immigrants in the United States, Anne Fuller
Setting and Success in Resistance Campaigns, Eric Gelles
Accessing the Right to Choose: Factors Predicting the Enactment of State-Level Abortion Clinic Access Laws, Hannah Gourdie
Diatomaceous Solar Cells, Jesse Granger
External Cavity Diode Laser for Ultra-cold Atom Experiments, Benjamin Halkowski
Potential Stability of Matrix Sign Patterns, Christopher Hambric
Linguistic Feminism & The Body in 20th-Century French Feminist Texts, Lauren Hammett
The Guns of al-Fao: Saddam, the War, and the Weapons That Made it Possible, Travis Haycraft
Tonogenesis in Korean, Anna Henshaw
Breaking the Stereotype: Age and Public Opinion Towards Refugees in Germany, Michelle Hermes
Procedural Generation and Rendering of Ink Bamboo Painting, Yangyang He
