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 2014
“Things as they are/Are changed upon the blue guitar”: Wallace Stevens and the Visual Arts, Olivia Sweet
Determination and Simulation of Kinematic Parameters in the Qweak Experiment, Rachel C. Taverner
Investigating Facial Mimicry Responses to Emotional Stimuli in Spanish-English Bilinguals, Benjamin D. Thomas
The Reverie Genre: Rousseau, Dostoevsky, Eliot, and the Roots of Modern Consciousness, Corinne Tucker
'What Light. What Possibilities. What Hope." Revolutionary Millennialism in José Rivera's Marisol, Rebecca A K Turner
Development of an Ultracold Rubidium-85 System for Magnetic Molecules and Feshbach Physics, Elana K. Urbach
Cobalt Salen Complexes for Catalytic Hydrogen Production, Matthew J. Van Dongen
An Osteological Analysis of 18th Century Dog Burials at the Williamsburg Public Amoury, Katherine R. Wagner
To Polish or Demolish? : The Resurgence and Reimagining of American Rail, Ryan R. Warsing
Charlotte Bronte's Other Belgian Novel: Sex, the Foreign Body, and the Legacy of Brussels in "Jane Eyre", Rachel M. Watson
The Effect of Gender, Type of Statement, and Individual Differences on Perceptions of Individuals who Make and Confront Sexist Remarks, Danielle M. Weber
"To Thine Own Self Be True": Robert F. Kennedy, The Inner Cities, and the American Civil Rights Movement 1963-1968, Dwight A. Weingarten
"You gon' let me hold that card": Directive speech acts and authority in The Wire, Benjamin P. Weissman
Evolutionary Conservation of a Modified Spermatogenesis Program in Rhabditis Nematodes with Skewed Sex Ratios, Ethan S. Winter
Linear and Nonlinear Trees: Multiplicity Lists of Symmetric Matrices, Eric Wityk
Photophysics of Single Rhodamine Dye Molecules on TiO2 Substrates, Natalie Wong
"Infallible Proofs": Math, Knowledge, and Religion in the Medieval Islamicate World, Deborah Wood
Discordia in Concordia: The Two-Step Development of the Post-Gratian Gloss and the Emergence of a New Era in Canon Law, Zachary A. Woodward
Honors Theses from 2013
Silencing the Black Body; A Look at Non-Traditional Casting in a Liberal Arts Education, Nathan L. Alston
The Aftertaste of Memories: Capturing the Cultural Zeitgeist in Fiction, Arthi Aravind
"New Music to the Very Ears of God": Heloise the Composer, Taylor Ann Ashlock
Effect of Chronic Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Anxiety in Adulthood, Bilal Ashraf
"The vernacular of light": Wallace Stevens' Constructions of Belief, Emma Carter Aylor
Searching for a Voice in Bongo-land: Bongo Fleva Music and the Global Imagination in Neoliberal Tanzania, Fiona A. Balestrieri
Voyages, Aaron Aubrey Barksdale
United States Foreign Policy and Multilateral Institutional Effectiveness, Kathryn E. Beaver
Über das Verhältnis von Apollo und Dionysos und seinen Belang für den Wahrheitsbegriff bei Nietzsche: zu einer Anerkennung der größeren Bedeutsamkeit von "Die Geburt der Tragödie", Thomas Donald Bettge
The Gaze of the Woman Artist in Novels by the Sisters Bronte, Elaine L. Bevington
Maternal effects on cloning frequency, larval development, and juvenile size in the seastar Asterias forbesi, Holly N. Blackburn
Synthesis and Characterization of Silica-Coated Nanoparticles for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges
Characterization of Polyamide-12; Hydrolysis Kinetics Comparison, and the Study of Crude-oil Pipeline Applications, Charles J. Blevins
Allometry of reproduction, weapon size, and colony size in social shrimp: A comparative analysis of four eusocial species in genus Synalpheus, Sarah Bornbusch
Community and the Site of Memory: The Effect of Internationalization on Community-Museum Relations, Chelsea Bracci
Using Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators to Accurately Track Temperature Fluctuations, Bain A. Bronner
Infrared Reflectance of Materials at Elevated and Cryogenic Temperatures, Daniel J. Brooker
A Mathematical Model of Renal Cell Carcinoma, Taylor M. Broome
Imaginando el derecho "natural" en el imperio español: Apropiaciones del discurso científico y la posesión de los Andes en la historiografía colonial, Katherine Brown
Divine on Display: The Śiva Nataraja Bronze in an American Museum, Nina Cavazos
Surmounting Solo Status: Beliefs and Previous Experience Buffer Solo Women's Learning, Kimberly E. Chaney
The History Question in Sino-Japanese Relations, Wenfan Chen
Metis: Mocking Data for Usability & Privacy, Brett Cooley
Narrative and the News: The Permeation and Potential Propaganda of the Storytelling Style through Broadcast Media, Shannon K. Crawford
Parent-Child Emotion Talk in Relation to Parental Socialization and Emotion Regulation: The Role of Parent and Child Gender, Laura M. Crespo
Characterizing rock erodibility and channel geometry along the longitudinal profile of a bedrock-floored river, Maxwell T. Cunningham
Musically Understanding the Emotional Content of Speech, Kevin D. Deisz
Organochlorine Pesticides in the Pantanal: A Qualitative and Semi-Quantitative Water Analysis, Aidan De Sena
The Harrowing of Hell, a Paschal Oratorio, Patrick Connor Benedict Dittamo
That the Future may learn from the [reconstructed] Past': Nationalism and Social Drama at Colonial Williamsburg, Eli N. Dollarhide
Representative Bureaucracy and Latino Student Achievement: A Case for Increased Minority Representation in US Public School Districts, Meredith Gail Dost
The Origins of Hatred: An Analysis of Antisemitic Political Cartoons in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Meredith Lee Duffy
Disadvantage and Self-interest: Social Class and Policy Preferences, Andrew M. Engelhardt
Looking for Reality in Latin Love Elegy, Brett C. Evans
The Enemy Within: Internecine Conflict in the Second Kingdom of Kush, Sophia Farrulla
The Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX Induces Neuronal Differentiation in PC12 Cells, Brittany M. Flowers
The Wrong Right Stuff: Why NASA Consistently Fails at Congress, Andrew Follett
Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museums in Virginia Represent Slavery, Jill Found
Letters, Desire, and the Novel in the Late Nineteenth Century, Kayla Grant
A Population Density Model of Domain Calcium-Mediated Inactivation of L-Type Ca Channels, Kiah Hardcastle
Okun's Law across the Business Cycle: New Evidence on the Sources of Asymmetries, James C. Harkrader Jr.
Collider Signals of Bosonic Technicolor, Jennifer Hays
Creating an American Identity--Propaganda During the Second World War, Sarah K. Higgins
Design and Synthesis of Novel Hydrogen-Rich Polyimides for Radiation Shielding, David J. Hill
Exercise-Induced Sirtuin Expression in Blood Vessels and Skeletal Muscles of Rats, Rebecka M. Hoffman
Analyzing Ancient Mitochondrial DNA from Fontabelle Emergency Excavation Site Remains, Katherine Hoptay
"kind of armour, being peculiar to America" The American Hunting Shirt, Neal Thomas Hurst
To Arrive and Conquer: An Individual's Rite of Passage through Recognition of Ritual on Stage, Jamar C. E. Jones
Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in France and the United States, Alix G. Kashdan
Heritable Variation in Responsiveness to Photoperiod, Reproduction, and Immune Function in a Population of Peromyscus leucopus, Katherine E. Kaugars
Perceptions of Alleged Criminals as a Function of Target Race, Media Presentation, and Prejudice Level, Aylin Kaya
Redefining the "Women's Movement" in Modern Japan, Allison Elizabeth Kennington
Generalizing Holographic Superconductors, Patrick King
'The Winter's Tale:' Liminality and Communitas in Analysis and Performance, Benjamin Lauer
Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Atoms, Gunhee Lee
The Investigation of Radiation Detectors with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout, Matthew A. Loftus
Liminal Agency: Texts, Textiles, and Gendered Performance in the Courtship Narrative of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Emily L. Loney
Effects of coal transportation on heavy metal contamination in wetland environments along the Virginia Peninsula, John Lovette
Statistical Inference Based on Upper Record Values, Daniel J. Luckett
The Effect of Masked Performance Techniques on the Perception of Identity, Nicholas Martin
Copper(I) Bromide and Copper(I) Iodide Complexes of Aliphatic Diamine and Tetramine Ligands, Shannon M. McCullough
Mozi: the Man, the Consequentialist, and the Utilitarian, Grace H. Mendenhall
'For A Woman': The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses, Hannah Metheny
"Obscene Odes on the Windows of the Skull": Deconstructing the Memory of the Howl Trial of 1957, Kayla D. Meyers
"The Green Book": A Representation of the Black Middle Class and Its Resistance to Jim Crow through Entrepreneurship and Respectability, Meagen Kathleen Monahan
On Almost Normal Matrices, Tyler J. Moran
Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Export Pathways, Hallie N. Nelson
State Education Leadership and Exit Examination Policy: A Study of Centralization and Partisanship, Avery Danforth Newton
Ultrastructure of the Gill Rakers in American Shad, Alosa sapidissima (Clupeidae), Katherine Ericson Nolan
Think Place: Geographies of National Identity in Oman, Gretchen Nutz
Finding Open Locating Dominating Sets on Infinite and Finite Graphs, Allison Oldham
Materially Mandated, Barbara Pearsall
The Political Unconscious of Hannah Arendt: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis, Judson R. Peverall
Still Lives, Claire Lewis Pittman
Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Experiments and Peptide Fragmentation Studies of Lysine and its Homologues, Charlotte B. Platner
"The Ornament of Human Society": Anti-Southernism in New England Common Schools, Zack Quaratella
John Locke and the Creation of Liberal Subjects, Mason H. Rayner
Dvořák and James: Pragmatism and the Music of America's Fin de Siècle, Matthew F. Reese
Amrita Sher-Gil: Conversations in Modernism, Michelle S. Repper
An Investigatin of the Extent to Which Two African American Children With Autism Have Developed Social Language Variation, Kiara S. Savage
