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 2018
Evolutionary Competition as Religion: A Religio-Biological Model of the Maori and Vaisnava Sahajiya Traditions, Benjamin Highland
The Mechanisms of Pond Expansion in the Marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, Joshua Himmelstein
An Analysis of the Life and Work of Alice Fletcher and Frances Densmore, Lauren Hoak
A Mathematical Study of Competition and Adoption of Two Consumer Products, Chengli Huang
Maritime Governance: How State Capacity Impacts Piracy and Sea Lane Security, Yuito Ishikawa
Popular Motherist Activism in Argentina: Why do Mothers Radicalize?, Emily B. Jackson
The Role of Protein-coding and Regulatory Evolution in Speciation of Wild Yeast, Danting Jiang
Education in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Jiayue Jiang
Stripping the Paint: Uncovering the Self-Made Man in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby, Emma Elena Johnson
pH Tolerance and Luminescence in Vibrio fischeri, Devin Jones
Effect of Implicit and Explicit Prejudice on Perceptions of Drug Users of Different Races, Yajna Jowaheer
The Relation Between Trustworthy Behavior and Facial Mimicry: An Examination of Behavior in a Trust Game, Sulleen V. Kauffman
The Unusual Paradigm of the Acid Response Two Component System of Helicobacter pylori, Anna Kenan
Exploring Nucleophagy and Inflammation in the Tumor Microenvironment, Likhitha Kolla
Mental Health and Resource Utilization among Underrepresented Students Transitioning to College, Yoojin Kook
Kinematics of Brittle and Ductile Deformation in the Catoctin Formation near Rockfish Gap, Virginia, Katherine Lang
Photo-Controlled Release of Zinc Ions in Aqueous Solution with Simultaneous Fluorescence Detection, Tyler Larson
Imagining Oppression in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Heather Thompson Lawrence
Implementation and Analysis of the Nonlinear Decomposition Attack on Polycyclic Groups, Yoongbok Lee
Investigating Phenotypic and Genetic Variation in Quorum Sensing in Natural Isolates of the Model Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Benedict Lenhart
"Glimmerings, Hints, and Secret Amazements": William Blake, Walt Whitman, and the Spiritual Incantations of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", Elijah Levine
Lost and Found in Figurative Painting, Erin Lottes
Perceptual Experiences Cannot Be an Inference’s Conclusion, Yuanchen Lu
The Evolutionary and Genomic Analysis of the Axon Degeneration Gene SARM1 and use of similar genomic techniques on the C9ORF72 gene, Sri Harshavardhan Malapati
Police Officers and Personality Characteristics, Isabel Marcovici
The Creation of Original Cymbeline Companion Piece Lady Tongue for Professional Submission: Increasing Opportunity for Women in the Classical Theatre Sphere, Sarah Marksteiner
Transparent Sketches: A Field Journal of Silence, Annabel McSpadden
Firearms Trafficking in Virginia: Federal Firearms Licensees' Policy Perspectives, Emma Merrill
Winter's Bane: Part One, Jessica Molz
Pion Charge Exchange Cross Section on Liquid Argon, Kevin Nelson
Employing Unnatural Amino Acids Towards Therapeutic Bioconjugates, Zachary Nimmo
The importance of STEM: How Rust Belt universities can drive economic growth by supporting high-technology industry, Robert O'Gara
The Devil's Café au Lait: the Métis Question in Colonial French West Africa, 1870-1940, Rose Olwell
The Genetic Basis of Social Behaviors in Yeast: An Investigation into FLO11, Zachary Oppler
Effects of Traffic Noise on Foraging, Vigilance, and Aggression of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Sophia Palia
Imaging the Dynamics of CH2BrI Photodissociation in the Near Ultraviolet Region, Changen Pan
Characterizing the role of spe-6 in C. elegans spermatogenesis, Elena Parcell
Characterizing the Intracellular Distribution of Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptor α-1 A382PfsX7, Kristin Passero
The Effect of Appearance-Related Media on Cognitive Responses to Food, Rachel Plummer
Turning Detection in Sandbar Sharks Through Accelerometer Data, Benjamin Powell
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate History and Human-Driven Landscape Evolution in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Genevieve Pugsley
Exposure to environmentally-relevant levels of ultrasound has biological effects: reduction in the cellular growth of yeast colonies, Elizabeth M. Ransone
Relationship between Injury and Spirituality in Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, Katelyn Rennyson
Ultrasound noise pollution and the potential for chronic human exposure, Isabel Ritrovato
Founded Upon Death: A Structural Analysis of Tacitus' Annales, Nicholas Rudman
Althea Hunt: Behind the Curtain, Samantha Ryan
Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptors and the Potential Effects on Cancer, Michael Salomon
Virginia Woolf and the 'Objective' Camera: The Relationship Between Text and Image in Three Guineas and Orlando, Meilan Solly
Accessing Light-Sensitive Polycyclic Aromatics through an Alkynyl-Prins Cyclization, Daniel John Speer
Two-Mode Squeezing and Conservation of Optical Angular Momentum via Four-Wave Mixing in Rubidium, Nathan Super
Modeling Social Interactions of Yeast Biofilms with a Stochastic Spatial Simulation, Aparajita Sur
“Keeping It Real”: Re-diversification of French hip hop through Islam, Gender, and Globalization, Jesse Tanson
From Bias to Behavior: Predicting Prejudice Towards Autistic Individuals, Caitlin Taylor
"Back to Batoche: Métis History and Memory 1885-2015", Brendan Thomas
Development and Optimization of Bioconjugations to Probe and Modulate Protein Function, Christopher Travis
Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway, Catherine Valery
TP Matrices and TP Completability, Duo Wang
Towards an Interactionist Dualism, Yonghao Wang
A Flash of Creative Genius: The Effect of Implicit Motives on Inspiration, Xiaoqing Wan
Alkyl Arylinium Iodocuprate Clusters: Structural and Spectroscopic Diversity, Amelia Marie Wheaton
From Being to Thing: Personhood, Animalhood, and Deanimalization in the Human-Animal Relationship, Madeline White
The Doubly Stochastic Single Eigenvalue Problem: An Empirical Approach, John Wilkes and Charles Royal Johnson
Enhancing the Capabilities of Infrared Microscopy Apparatus, Ryan Wilmington
Citizenship and Partiality: Group Membership and the Bounds of Morality, Hannah Winckler-Olick
“A qué manera de libros y letras es inclinado”: las bibliotecas privadas de Navarra en los siglos XVI y XVII, Alexandra Wingate
J.S. Mill the Democrat: Connecting Mill, Athens, and Election Reform, Devon Wolfe
Investigation of the Catalytic Ability of Iron Complexes Containing Pendant Proton Relays for Proton Reduction, Shichuan Xi
Ultra-High Dimensional Statistical Learning, Yanxin Xu
Black Girl Magic: Intersectional Self-Definition in Young Adult Afrocentric Fantasy, Bezawit Yohannes
A New Upper Bound for the Diameter of the Cayley Graph of a Symmetric Group, Hangwei Zhuang
Honors Theses from 2017
Empirical Measures of Collective Capacity: A Social Network Approach, Matthew Anthony Adan
Love on a Blighted Star: Nature and Female Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Emily M. Armstrong
Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation by Cobalt Complexes, Jessica E. Armstrong
"If there be such space:" Haunted Landscapes and Crises of Sonhood in Cormac McCarthy's Westerns, Kayla M. Armstrong
Acute Intoxication Affects Pavlovian Conditioning in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Fabiana T. Arrazola
Receptor Gone Rogue: Investigating Localization of a Cancerous Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Michelle Barbeau
Photocontrol of pH via Doped Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Aaron I. Bayles
The Role of Executive Control Deficits in Cognitive Correlates of Dysphoria, Christian A. L. Bean
Differential Regulation of Drosophila Testis Development by BMP Signaling, Merci N. Best
The Mechanism of NMDA Receptor Mediated Increased in Gamma Oscillation Frequency, Prajal Bishwakarma
Hooligans or Saboteurs? Democratic Backtracking in Eastern Europe, Courtney A. Blackington
Anterior-Posterior Axis Plasticity in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis, Lyuba Bolkhovitinov
Plateau Potential Fluctuations and Intrinsic Membrane Noise, Daniel Scott Borrus
Neural Correlates of Multisensory Integration and the Role of Musical Experience, Victoria A. Bostler
Are You What You Eat? Selective Sequestration of Toxic Milkweed Cardenolides in the Monarch Butterfly, Jacob Brammer
“No Great Mischief if They Should Fall”: Scottish Highland Soldiers in the French and Indian War, Douglas Breton
Rites: Poems, Lydia G. Brown
An Analysis of the Effects of Isocurvature Fluctuations in Dantes Inferno Multi-Field Inflation Models, Brandon M. Buncher
Cultural Variation in Causal Attribution as an Adaptive Strategy: the Role of Relational Mobility, Hannah L. Bunting
The Efficacy and Safety of Six-Weeks of Pre-Workout Supplementation in Resistance Trained Rats, Justin P. Canakis
TP and TN Completability of Border Patterns, Haoge Chang
Paintings with Doors: Three Case Studies from the Fifteenth Century Netherlands, Jacqueline T. Chapman
