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 2015
A Study of the Cosmic Ray Rate in the CHIPS-M Prototype Detector, Brandon Taylor Kriesten
Thiols in Glycolysis: Effects of Cysteine Modification on Pyruvate Kinase Activity, Taylor K. Lain
The Modern European: An Analysis of Ethnic Minority Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Elisabeth Laird
Muscle Unloading Induced Sex Specific Neurophysiological and Myofiber Profile Adaptations, Colleen Leathrum
Understanding Secession: An Analysis of the 2012-2014 Debates on Independence in Scotland and Catalonia, Lucas A. Leblanc
Studies Directed Toward the Synthesis of Aristopyridinone A, Maren K. Leibowitz
Modeling the Effect of Cooperativity on Ligand-Driven Fluctuations of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors, Jeffrey Y. Liu
Deconstructing Terror: The Political Theatre of Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, and Martin Crimp, Beatrice Loayza
A Battle for Rights Justification: Millian Utilitarianism vs. Scanlonian Contractualism, Jose A. Lopez Jr.
Portraits of Strangers, Dana Lotito
The Effects of Gabapentin on the Firing Rates of Thermoregulatory Neurons in the Preoptic Anterior Hypothalamus in Modulation of Hot Flashes, Lindsay A. Maguire
Evidence Uptake among International Nutrition Actors: A Case Study in Uganda, Emily Mahoney
Effects of Rhythmic Stress on Unstressed Syllables, Anna Gwenyth Pye Marry
Thrown Into America: Existentialism in the New World, William Toler Marsh
Bouts of Brain Fever: Female Rebellion and the Dubiety of Illness in Victorian Fiction, Stephanie R. Mason
Electro- and Photocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen by Iron Polypyridyl Complexes, Kathryn J. Mayer
Development of Novel Chemical Techniques to Address Biological Questions, Johnathan C. Maza
The association between 5-HTTLPR and spontaneous facial mimicry: An investigation using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), Addie N. Merians
"How Do They Do It?": Characteristics of Successful Teachers of African American Students, Chloe C. Miksovic
A petrologic and structural analysis of metavolcanic rocks in the western Piedmont and eastern Blue Ridge provinces, central Virginia, Ciara M. Mills
Not All Politicians Are the Same: The Effect of Gender and Political Party on Candidate Evaluation, Minu V. Nagashunmugam
Spread of Adaptation and Migration Load in a Spatially Structured Population, Scott W. Nordstrom
Effect of Exercise on Attentional Bias to Food in Restrained and Emotional Eaters, Emily Tyne O'Gorman
Investigation of the interaction between graphene oxide and a biopolymer surface, Pei Pang
Somatization in the Social Environment: Relations to Victimization and Friendship Processes Among Middle School Students, Naomi J. Parr
Antonio Vallejo Nágera and the Discourse of Eugenics in Francoist Spain, Ethan F. Pearlstein
3D Printing Scintillating Detectors for Field Emission Detection in Niobium SRF Cavities, Alice E. Perrin
Genetic and Cytological Analysis of SPE-6, a C. elegans Tau Tubulin Kinase, Jackson J. Peterson
The impacts of fire on the home range and social connectivity of a tropical passerine, Payton M. Phillips
Embedding Justice: Shaming Rituals in Reintegrative Justice Systems: Spain, California, and New South Wales, William M. Plews-Ogan
"We Made You": The Contrived and Contested Nature of Authenticity in American Folk and Hip Hop Subcultures, Kathryn E. Plunkett
“The Borehole Has Given Us a Chance:” Health, Hygiene, and Human Development in Karamoja, Uganda, Laura E. Pugh
Development of a Site-Selective Protein Immobilization Methodology Utilizing Unnatural Amino Acids, Benjamin K. Raliski
High Performance Co-Polyimide Synthesis for Cosmic Radiation Shielding, Jarrell H. Raper
Balancing the Scales: Examining relationships between Maternal Agency and Child Nutrition in Differing Developing World Contexts, Alison C. Roberts
Reasonable Expectations: State Appellate Courts and the Third-Party Doctrine, Tanner M. Russo
The Middle Institutions Trap: A Parabolic Association Between Institutions and Income For OPEC Countries, Jake W. Schneider
"A product of her body as well as soul": Narrative fullness and the feminine body in the work of Julia Ward Howe, Sarah J. Schuster
Taming of Monsters: The Postdramatic Case for Copenhagen, Shaan Y. Sharma
Being An "Extraterrestrial:" The Need for Academic Emphasis on the Intersection of Race and Sexuality, Marvin D. Shelton Jr.
Measuring Cannibalism Rates in the Zooplankton Copepod Species, Acartia tonsa, Katherine Shipman
The Right Fit: Improving the Algorithm that Matches Students to Colleges Based on Test Scores, Carolyn A. Shira
Epic Nonsense: The Genesis of Me Prometheus, Emerson F. Sieverts
Language Deficits Assessed in an Aphasic Patient, Rachel Sillcox
An Analysis of State and Nationwide Legislation on Women’s Healthcare Access in Virginia, Lillian Singer
Studies of Polarized Helium-3 Cell Lifetimes, Andrew N. Smith
Growth and Characterization of Gold Nanostructures Produced from Diatomaceous Algae, David A. Specht
The Effects of Methylmercury on Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis during Zebra Finch Neural Development, Monika E. Stančiauskaitė
Effect of Hyperons on Pion Asymmetries Measured in the Qweak Experiment, Marcus S. Starman
The Impact of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway and CRM1-Independent Exportins on Thyroid Hormone Receptor Localization and the Expression of T3-Responsive Genes, Mary Elizabeth R. Stern
3D Printing, Jackson B. Stone
An Archaeological Survey of Barbados Battery: The Good Shepherd Project, Ashby M. Sturgis
Naerisarang (내리사랑), Or an Elder’s Love for the Young: Vietnamese and Filipina Marriage Migrants as Preservers of the Korean Patriline, Danielle Y. Tassara
Synthesis and Characterization of pH-Sensitive Rhodamine 6G Spirolactam Structures, Grace H. Taumoefolau
Modeling Tick-Borne Diseases in the Virginia and Middle Peninsula, Molly S. Teague
The Erosion of Brianzolo: The Impact of Standard Italian on a Dialect and a Cultural Identity, Regina Casey Thompson
A Smoking Structure: Firm Organization in the Transatlantic Tobacco Trade, Hannah K. Tucker
Payoffs, Probabilities, and Preferences: Relative Risk Aversion Across Treatments of Multiple Payoff Structures., Andrew L. Turscak III
Unnatural Amino Acids in Proteins for Development of Novel Biochemical Tools, Jordan Villa
Ecology and Theatre: Teaching Environmental Stewardship Through Performances of The Jungle Book, Stephanie A. Vinsavich
He Do the Police in Different Voices: the Influence of Detection Fiction in T. S. Eliot's Works, Claire Weaver
Narrativity in French Depictions of the Crusades, Sydney Morgan Weaver
Counter to Intelligence: The Glamorization of Espionage in the International Spy Museum, Melanie R. Wiggins
The Electro- and Photocatalytic Activity of a Ni-NNSS Schiff-Base Complex for Hydrogen Generation, Catherine F. Wise
Assessing the Role of Maternal and Community Capabilities in Preventing Childhood Diarrhea, Stephanie E. Wraith
Cu(I) Networks With Polycyanoaromatic Ligands, Congqi Yang
Production of B Modes in the CMB from Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Christopher G. Zoghby
Honors Theses from 2014
"Can't They Stop The Guns?" Trauma and Inter-War Detective Fiction, Kyla J. Ainsworth
Democratic Activism and Partitioned Space in Online Muslim Communities, Andrew H. Anderson
Mathematical Analysis of ALS Biochemistry, Emily Rose Bainwol
"The Art of Questioning": Interrogations of Exceptionalist History and Cultural Mythology in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and William Faulkner, Hannah R. Barnhart
The Geometry, Kinematics, and History of the Thousand Lake Fault System, Central Utah, Hanna C. Bartram
Unravelling the Consumer Brain: The Role of Emotion in Purchase Behavior, Enrique Bello
"Wit so rare and grace so peerless": The Collaborative Construction of Frances Sargent Osgood's Public Image, Madeline V. Benjamin
Yard Areas and Middens: The Creation of Space by the Enslaved at Fairfield Plantation, Colleen Betti
Designing with Gendered Space: Incorporating Gender into the Scenic Design of Clybourne Park, Joshua Blum
A Love Story, a Tragedy, or Both, Hannah Boes
Olfactory Ratio as a Potential Proxy for Behavior in Theropoda, William H. Brightly
A Summary of Virginia High School English Teachers’ Cultural and Linguistic Classroom Experiences: Learning about Learning and Talking about Talking, Rachel E. Brooks
Local Zeta Functions over p-Adic Fields, Stephen P. Cameron
Cooperation in a Repeated Public Goods Game with a Probabilistic Endpoint, Daniel M. Carlen
The Internal Foe: Rethinking Slave Resistance in Antebellum America, Bryan Casey
Culture-as-bit: Culture and Cultural Evolution, Mitchell T. Caudill
“All Persons Living and Dead Are Purely Coincidental:” Unity, Dissolution, and the Humanist Wampeter of Kurt Vonnegut’s Universe, Danielle M. Clarke
An Iron Polypyridyl Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Generation in Aqueous Solutions, Gannon P. Connor
When George Washington's Ghost Turned Handsprings: South African Conflict and American Identity, 1899-1902, Robin K. Crigler
Songs of Love and Revolution: Performing Gender, Reforming Heterosexuality, and Escaping Domesticity in the Musicals of the Takarazuka Revue, Elizabeth M. Denny
Investigating Water Ice in Persistently Shadowed Craters in Mercury's North Polar Region, Ariel N. Deutsch
Commitment without Control: The Burdensharing Dilemma in the US-Japan Alliance, Jake A. Douglas
"See here my show": Providence and The Theatrum Mundi in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Miles S. Drawdy
Population Matrix Model for American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) and the Implications for Re-introduction, Elise C. Elwood
Freedomland, Elyse J. Endick
¿Quién amuralla una voz?: Poetry, Resistance, and Memory within Franco’s Prisons, Crosby D. Enright
Blurred Lines: Exploring Poetic and Musical Subjectivity in Verlaine and Debussy's "Romances sans paroles", Emily Eyestone
One State, One People, One Language: A Comparison of Chinese and Soviet Langauge Policy in the 20th Century, Rachel Faith
Synthesis of a Novel Unnatural Amino Acid for Protein Incorporation and Click Mediated Conjugation, Christopher A. Farley
Political Chameleons: An Exploration of Personality and Political Conformity, Taylor N. Feenstra
BMP Regulation of Stem Cell Development During Drosophila Testis Formation, Ashley P. Fidler
Increasing the Hydrogen Content of Aromatic Polyimides for Radiation Shielding, Geoffrey T. Geberth
