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 2017
En Busca de la Alfabetización. Three 20th Century Literacy Movements in Spanish Speaking Countries: Impacts and Implications, Morgan Sehdev
Scattered Prizes: Colonial Fantasies and the Material Body in the English Renaissance Blazon, Aidan J. Selmer
Master of None: Understanding the 1.5 Generation of Asian Indian Youth, Nairuti Shastry
Building the Future from the Past: Evaluating the Relationship between Nostalgia and Imagination, Conor O. Smith
Self-Made Freak: The Exceptionalism of General Tom Thumb, The Celebrity Body, and the American Dream, Megan Sonner
Is Q Necessary? A Source, Text, and Redaction Critical Approach to the Synoptic Problem, Paul S. Stein
Tuning the pKa of Fluorescent Rhodamine pH Probes via Substituent Effects, Sarah G. Stratton
Language Patterns as Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Depression in Adolescence, Connor W. Symons
Effects of Medial Prefrontal Cortical Administration of the Orexin-2 Receptor Antagonist, TCS-OX2-29, on Attentional Performance in Rats, Austin R. Tapp
Involutions and Total Orthogonality in Some Finite Classical Groups, Gregory K. Taylor
Young Adults' Autistic Behaviors Predict P1 and N170 Responses to Emotion Stimuli, Sara C. Taylor
The Political Environment of Federal Rulemaking: An Analysis of Comment Submissions on Regulatory Outcomes, Michael R. Testa
"It's all about the Food:" Food, Land, and Sovereignty on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, Colleen M. Truskey
Real Consumer Language: A Corpus-Based Methodology for Genericide Claims and Trademark Protection, Quentin J. Ullrich
Development of Novel Chemical Strategies to Modulate Biological Function, Diya M. Uthappa
The Role of Basal Forebrain Orexin-2-Receptors in Attentional Performance in Rattus norvegicus, Abhya P. Vij
Infrared Study of Recluse Spider Silk, Stephanie Wang
A Woman’s Place in the State House: Exploring Backlash Effects of Women’s Increased Descriptive Representation, Emily S. Wasek
"A Corps of Much Service:" The German Regiment of the Continental Army, John B. Weaver
Characterization of Neural Network Backpropagation on Chiplet-based GPU Architectures, Colin A. Weinshenker
Vicarious Fear Learning: The Role of Empathy, Alexander L. Williams
Kalasiris and Charikleia: Mentorship and Intertext in Heliodorus' Aithiopika, Lauren Jordan Wood
Frontal, amygdalar, and temporal convergence in the primate ventral striatum: implications for Huntington’s disease, Ellen H. Yates
Visible Light Fluorescence Switching in Dye-Doped Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Xinzi Zhang
Wrinkleless Mylar Cylinders: Design and Prototyping for the BONuS detector at Jefferson Lab, Wenqing Zhao
Spatial Analysis with Applications on Real Estate Market Price Prediction, Yujing Zheng
Hawking Radiation and Classical Tunneling: a Numerical Study, Dmitriy Zhigunov
Exploring the Calvert Cliffs: Interpreting classic Miocene sequences through the application of strontium isotope stratigraphy and paleoecology, Joshua B. Zimmt
A Mathematical Model of Economic Growth of Two Geographical Regions, Xin Zou
Connecting Energy Metabolism and Neurodegeneration: Pyruvate Kinase and Oxidative Stress, Julia P. Zuercher
Honors Theses from 2016
Composting the City: Urban Farming in the Ethnographic Moment, Matthew William Abel
The Role of Spontaneous Intracellular Calcium Transients in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus laevis, Eileen Frances Ablondi
Mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori Adhesion Regulation and Impacts on Host Immune Response, Catherine Rose Acio
Political Attitudes and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Josh Albertson
Hydrogen-Bonding Control of Solvatochromism and Non-Radiative Decay in the Fluorescence of 3-Aminofluoren-9-one Derivatives, Isaac Gregory Alty
Group Discipleship and Individual Spirituality: Challenging Models of False Sanctity in Early Modern Italy and Spain, Mary Andino
Studies on the DAQ System of GRINCH detector, Peibo An
Acetylation Controls the Subcellular Localization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor α1, Cyril S. Anyetei-Anum
Homer's Music through Plato's Ears, Dereck Wayne Basinger
Light Entanglement via Four Wave Mixing through a Rubidium Vapor Cell, Haley Bauser
On Animal Rights, Speciesism, and the Nature of Social Change, Delaney Berman
Investigating Dispersal of Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Acorns by the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), Aaron Samuel Bland
Emotion Regulation and Friendship: The Shield and Sword against Adolescent Depression, Laurel Olivia Brockenberry
Oligomers and Polymers of Copper(I) With Dicyanobenzene and Cyanopyridine Ligands, Mark K. Broderick
Physical modeling of vortical cross-step filtration in the oral cavity of American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), Hannah Brooks
“Insane for the destination:” Disrupting the Teleological Impulses of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck, Noah Christopher Brooksher
The Lives of Others: The Colonial Gaze in Albanian Film Coproductions, Michael Burrows
Catharsis, Shannon Callahan
Sensitivity Determination in the CHIPS Neutrino Detector, Eve Adde Chase
Irreconcilable Modes of Masculinity: The Prevalence of Contemporary Irish-American Double-Protagonist Films, Anne Riley Curran
A Psychological Approach to the Special Composition Question, Connor Drake Dantzler
Renegotiating the Apocalypse: Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man", Kathryn Joan Darling
Growing Networks with Positive and Negative Links, Corynne Smith Dech
The Ludic Life of Things: Explorations in the Vitality of the Ludic Object in Contemporary Narratives, Eamonn deLacy
Mirror Neuron Activation Priming in Novice Versus Expert Ballet Dancers, Vanessa Duffie
Our Lady (a novel in progress), Molly Earner
Addressing the Problems in American Drug Policy: A Case for the Legalization of Drugs, Jackson A. Eskay
Interactive Relationships: An Exploration of Ceramic Surface and Form, Katie Fee
History Influencing History: Changing Perceptions of the Starving Time at Jamestown, Kelsey Fenske
“The Internal Conflict:” Navigating Transitional Education in Postwar Guatemala, Brenna Michelle Ferris
Are Neural Responses of University Students on the Broader Autism Phenotype Affected by Pain in Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members?, Katarina M. Fleckenstein
Heleluyvn Yvhikares ("I Will Sing Hallelujah") A Documentation of Muscogee-Seminole Hymns and Hymn-Singing Practice Within the Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nations of Oklahoma, Sarah Katherine Fredrick
Declaring War or Sentencing Criminals? Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Counterterrorism Success, Arielle Lehner Galston
Corrosion in a Molten Salt Environment, Samuel Peter Paiewonsky Girdzis
Development of cosmogenic 22Na as a tool to measure young water age in multiple watersheds, Claire Goydan
"Yeah, But You Rape Women": Hannibal Buress and the Comedy Community's Role in Shaping Public Opinion of the Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Allegations, Alexandra Granato
Development of a Digital Offset Laser Lock, Ian W. Hage
Molded from Clay: The Portrayal of Jews through the Golem in Yudel Rosenberg’s The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague and Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem, Reynolds Nelson Hahamovitch
Imposing Change: Analyzing Lustration Policies in Post-War Iraq and Germany, Michael Thomas Hamilton
Synthesis and Characterization of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Applications in Extraterrestrial Radiation Shielding, Josiah Arevalo Hammack
One Direction and the Marketing Machine, Megan Katherine Haney-Claus
Plasticity in egg placement in response to predator cues in the mud snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, Emily A. Harmon
Iron Complexes for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Carolyn L. Hartley
Fragmentation Studies of Lysine and Lysine Analog Containing Tetrapeptides, Zachariah Imran Hasan
Quantifying the Sensitivity of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis to Isospin Breaking, Matthew Ramin Hamedani Heffernan
Light-Enhanced Startle as an Experimental Model of Withdrawal, Augustin C. Hennings
Memory as Bayesian inference: On the connection between memory and the second law of thermodynamics, Wade Daniel Hodson
Why We Need Asian Pacific Islander American Studies, Jin Ho
Understanding North Korea in the Korean Diaspora: Teaching North Korea to American Students, So Dam Hong
Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Chantal Houglan
Row and Column Distributions of Letter Matrices, Xiaonan Hu
Investigation of Unnatural Amino Acids as a Means to Modulate Protein Function, Taylor Harrison Jacobs
Oil Shock Effects and the Business Cycle, Collin Jones
Paleomagnetic analysis of the Scottsville Mesozoic rift basin, Virginia: implications for regional geologic history, Nathan Charles Keithline
Relaxed Coloring of Sparse Graphs, Michael C. Kopreski
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Proton Affinity in Proline-Containing Dipeptides: Exploring the “Proline Effect”, Anton Luke Lachowicz
Unpacking the Psychosocial Effects of Institutional Racism, Ebony A. Lambert
The Language of Music and Math: An Investigation of Cross-Domain Effects of Structural Priming, Robert Anthony LaRose
The Formation of Fluvial Valleys on Alba Mons, Mars, Karin Eva Lehnigk
Breastfeeding Initiation Among Women Who Have Experience with Incarceration, Natalie R. Libster
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Four-Step Assessment Model in Structural Family Therapy, Edmund Maxwell Lichter
Keeping birds away from food using sonic technology: a potential for protecting crops, Waverly Gabrielle McClusky
Characterizing Importin Binding to Thyroid Hormone Receptor α1, Emma Lynn McGregor
Fed Up: Do Diet Violations Affect Implicit and Explicit Wanting and Liking in Restrained Eaters?, Gabrielle Brett Mecca
Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain, Cade Meinel
Studies of the development of intermolecular networks during the curing of coatings using single-sided nuclear magnetic resonance, Frances Jude Morin
The Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX Colocalizes to Aggresomes, Veronica L. Nagle
Total Synthesis of Peramine, a Defensive Alkaloid Produced by Endophytic Fungi of Cool Season Grasses Possessing Anti-Insect Properties, Matthew Rolfe Nelli
Memory, Narrative, and Identity Shifts in Modern Ireland, Erik David Nelson
