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 2016
Telling the Stories that Can't Be Told: Translating War in Hemingway, Vonnegut, and O'Brien, Emily A. Nye
Black Holes and Finite-Temperature Field Theory in AdS/CFT, Jackson Cross Olsen
Utilizing Synthetic Tools to Address Biological Issues, Marshall Scott Padilla
Coming Home: Challenges Related to Reentry and Recidivism for Previously Incarcerated New Mothers, Sarah Ross Perry
Margaret Thatcher, Dilma Rousseff, & Angela Merkel: The Impact of Female World Leaders through Collaborative Negotiation, Alexandra Grace Phillips
Animating Animals: Exploring Modes of Animal Representation in Classic Animated Children’s Films, Meagan Phillips
Reconstructing a National Silhouette: Avant-Garde Fashion and Perceptions of the Japanese Body, Jon Dominick Querolo
Increasing Quantum Limited Sensitivity of Interferometers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, Hunter Blake Rew
Gay Men's Language in Italy: In-Group Perceptions and Attitudes, Anderson Davis Richardson
Merging Social and Natural Histories at Kiskiak: A Historical Ecology Study, Leanna Grace Richmond
Do Birds of a Feather Really Flock Together? Ideational Homophily and Development Policy Influence, Kristin Ritchey
Lieux de Memoire, Lieux d'Amnesie: la Tension Identitaire en Guadeloupe, Kristin Ritchey
Modeling the Fluid Dynamics of Filtering Structures in Suspension-Feeding Fish, Erin Michele Roberts
Construction of Bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane Alkaloids via Intermolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions, Jacob Gabriel Robins
Civil Patrols, Race, and Repression in Guatemala, 1982-1996, Jeremy Ross
Political Liberalism and a Theory of Justice: Recasting Justice as Fairness as a Political Conception of Liberal Justice, George Eric Rudebusch
Computing All Isolated Invariant Sets at a Finite Resolution, Martin Salgado-Flores
Quantifying Variation in the Seed Scatter-hoarder Relationship, Gina M. Sawaya
Antifascist Graffiti: Crime or Contribution?, Jillian Margaret Sequeira
Multi-proxy records of anthropogenic impacts on fluvial sediment discharge at Joppa Flats, Massachusetts, Justin Lee Shawler
What is your present religion, if any? None, not Nun., Ming Siegel
Peptide Fragmentation Studies on Doubly Charged Proline and Pipecolic Acid Containing Pentapeptides and Methods Development for an HPLC/MS Instrument for Proteomics Experiments, Hannah Emily Smith
The Effect of Ethanol, Methanol, and Water on the Hydrolytic Degradation of Polyamide-11, Patrick Smith
Creating a Computational Model of Prion Disease in the Human Neocortex, Christina Alexandra Stephens
Textiles and Trade: Williamsburg's Material Culture, 1699-1815, Evelyn M. Strope
Disgust: An Emotional Component of Conservative Attitudes toward Transgender Individuals, John Stuart
Sacred Grounds and Profane Plantations: The Spiritual Landscapes of Barbados, Myles Sullivan
Black Genocide, Reproductive Control, and the Crisis Pregnancy Center Movement: A Conspiracy Narrative of Racial Hegemonic Order, Jordan Taffet
Probing Single-Molecule Photophysics of Rhodamines on TiO2, Jenna Adrienne Uy Tan
Bittersweet Recollection: An Ecological Study of Nostalgia, Justin Leroy Thibault
The Effect of Climate on Population Dynamics of Butterfly Species across Southeastern Virginia, Morgan Nicole Thompson
Effects of Changes in Egg Size and Larval Food Supply on the Development of Two Species of Seastars, Stacy Nicole Trackenberg
Implications of Mycorrhizae and Seedling Competition for American Chestnut Restoration, Olivia Ryan Trani
Theobald Wolfe Tone as a Politician and Diplomat, Abigail Clancy Trevor
Normal Matrices Subordinate to a Graph, Morrison Turnansky
The Role of Parental Smoking on Children's Attentional Bias to and Evaluation of Smoking-Related Cues, Sarah Volz
The Revolutionary New Woman: Renegotiating her Social Contract through Sex, Nicole Walsh
Equitable Distribution of Microfinance: How language, ethnicity, and religion affect access to microcredit loans, Hallie Elizabeth Westlund
Characterization of Novel Export Sequences in the Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Cheyenne Williams
The Effect of Diversity Ideology on the Perception of Political Candidates Varying By Race, Karyne Nichelle Williams
Domino Reactions Involving Merged Cycloaddition and Cycloreversion Processes Affording Pyridine Products, Jill Williamson
Improving Optical Gyroscope Sensitivity Using a Fast Light Regime, Owen R. Wolfe
Graph packing with constraints on edges, Fangyi Xu
Species Invasion in a Network Population Model, Ryan Clive Yan
Arthur Matsu's College Years: Historicizing His 1920s Experiences, Benming Zhang
A Few Good Men: A Quantitative Analysis of High-Level People's Liberation Army (PLA) Promotion Patterns under Xi Jinping, Jimmy Zhongmin Zhang
(Un)Stable Manifold Computation via Iterative Forward-Backward Runge-Kutta Type Methods, Dmitriy Zhigunov
Honors Theses from 2015
Developmental responses to fluctuations in environmental conditions in echinoid echinoderms, Salma Abdel-Raheem
Disaster and Discourse: Reactions to the 1906 Courrières Colliery Mine Disaster, Jacob Abrams
Examining the Role of Cultural Paradigm Shift on Originalist Interpretation: Implications on the Second Amendment, Arvin Alaigh
Role of Cholinergic Projections to the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Probability Discounting in a Rat Model, Emma Albert-Stone
Discovering What Lies Below: the Exploration of William & Mary's Crypt Under the Chapel, Somayah S. Allibhai-Mawani
Anterior-Posterior Neural Axis Plasticity in the developing central nervous system of Xenopus laevis, Vollter Anastas
Open wounds, shrunk...but wounds still: Mental Illness in the Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leah C. Bailey
Characterization of Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX-Induced Neuronal Differentiation in PC12 Cells, Dallas A. Banks
Gentle Warlords: The Potential for Violent Non-State Actors to Provide Stability, Tyler Bembenek
Measurements of the lead-hydrocarbon cross section ratio for charged-current neutrino interactions, William F. Bergan
Of Myth and Memory: Collective Memory in the French World War II Museum, Elisabeth S. Bloxam
Purpose Over Performance: Student Perceptions of International Student Service Projects, Clare K. Boczon
A Quantitative Analysis of Insulin Signaling in Neurodegeneration, Elise M. Braatz
A Comparative Analysis of Five Greek Fountain Houses, Maura Brennan
A Test for Heritable Variation in Reproductive Response to Bisphenol A in a Population of White-footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus), Lauren N. Canestrini
Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Towards a Therapeutic EEG Neurofeedback Brain Computer Interface, Sean R. Chadwick
Initiation of Photochemical Reactions via FRET from Fluorescent Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Christian Chamberlayne
Effect of Parental Dependence and Escape Drinking on Affect and Attentional Bias to Alcohol-Related cues in Pre-Adolescents, Lauren Collier
Black Slaves, Christian Servants: Race and Legal Identity in Northampton and Middlesex Counties, Virginia, 1632-1705, Timothy A. Courtney
First-‐Row Transition Metal Coordination Compounds for the Electrocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen from Organic and Aqueous Solutions, Patrick M. Crossland
Patterns of Controversy: The Factors that Influence the Passage of Voter Identification Laws, Stephen D'Alessio
Novel methodologies to study protein S-glutathiolation using fluorescence spectroscopy, Jacob Daniels
Spatial Patterns of Municipal Annexation and the Impact on the Cost of Police Services, Kyle B. DeMaria
Determining Space Use of Breeding Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) Pairs in Southeastern Virginia, Akshay Deverakonda
A Rival to the West? Comparing the Effects of Chinese and World Bank Health Aid on Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Isabel Jane DoCampo
Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Zuzak's The Book Thief: Impossible Narration in Millennial Fiction, Maria Dougherty
From Activism to Annoyance: Framing, Threat, and Public Tolerance toward Protest, Samuel E.R. Dunham
Chinese National Identities and Understanding the Decision for War with India in 1962, Yuhao Du
Ingestion of Low Density Food Particles by Suspension-Feeding Goldfish, Kristin Edwards
Creating Cooperation: The Effects of Synchrony in Group Formation Cross-Culturally, Aleeya L. Ensign
“Among the Graves”: Constructing Community, Resistance, and Freedom on Nineteenth Century Plantation Burial Grounds, Whitney N. Fields
Priming for Supereruption: the hot pre-Peach Spring Tuff lavas and Peach Spring Tuff magmatic enclaves, Black Mountains, Arizona, Megan E. Flansburg
A Whole Way of Life: Online Communities and Console Gaming, Carlton Fleenor
"How Do I Know What I Think Till I See What I Say?" William James's and Carl Jung's Ideas on the Unconscious Mind As Applied to Stegner, Diana J. Floegel
Foundations of Empire: The American Military Government in the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902, Luke Frerichs
Persistent Population Biases in Branching Random Walk Algorithms, David J. Geroski
The Role of Histone Modifying Enzyme SUV420H2 in Pediatric Ependymoma., Sarah Goggin
Effects of Current Mood State on the Time-Frame Orientation of Mind-Wandering, William D. Gooding
Diffusion-Based Biomolecular Sensing Using Low-Field NMR, John S. Gray
Girls without Faces & Other Stories, Molly E. Greer
Historical Precedents and Early Modern Interpretations: English Histories of America, 1500-1700, Madeline H. Grimm
Does Entitativity Reduce Behavioral Attentional and Evaluative Biases Toward Homosexual Couples?, Nicholas M. Gupta
Life That Thrives In Hostility: Mexico's Indigenous Communities and Self-Defense Forces, Kassia M. Halcli
“A Constant Unfolding of Far-Resonate Action”: George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Spinoza, and the Ethics of Power, Zachary J. Hardy
Frederick's Chessboard: Domestic Institutions and the Origins of the Seven Years' War, Caitlin Hartnett
GEANT4 Simulation of Detector Properties in the MOLLER Experiment, Christopher R. Haufe
The Pendragon Cycle: Celtic Christianity in the Arthurian Legend through Bards, Prophets, and Historians, Rebecca L. Heine
To Grow or Defend? Effects of Competition and Herbivory on Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, Melissa H. Hey
On the Non-Symmetric Spectra of Certain Graphs, Owen Hill
Knickpoints and disequilibrium in an ancient orogen: A study of central Appalachian channel profiles around Crabtree Falls, Virginia, Michelle Hoon-Starr
Relaxation of Planar Graphs With d∆≥2 and No 4-Cycles, Heather A. Hoskins
