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 2013
An Investigatin of the Extent to Which Two African American Children With Autism Have Developed Social Language Variation, Kiara S. Savage
Language Attitudes of University of Cape Town Linguistics Students towards Codeswitching, Michael S. Schilling
How neural cells acquire an identity: the role of calcium activity and voltage-gated calcium channels in neurotransmitter phenotype specification in Xenopus laevis, Lindsay Schleifer
Paradise Lost: A Vulnerability Analysis of Vernazza, Italy After the 2011 Natural Disaster, Huan Song
An Investigation of the Autobiographical Memory Biases of Socially Anxious Individuals, Rose K. St. Clair
A Tale of Two Proteins: The Budding Yeast STUbL Subunit Slx5 Functionally Interacts with the SUMO Ligase Siz1, Eva P. Szymanski
Synthesizing Narrative Analysis with Peace and Conflict Studies: The Case of African Child Soldier Autobiographies, Elizabeth H. Tompkins
"worthy to be classed": Slavery and its Legacy in Grayson County, Virginia, Rebekah Elaine Turnmire
Justice and a Lack Thereof: Comparative Perspectives on Accountability in the Southern Cone, Elsa M. Voytas
The Personal of the Event: Subjectivity and the English Civil War, Henry Joseph Ware
A comparison of single-day versus multiple-day sampling designs using occupancy modeling, Kelly Watson
Modeling nymph lone star ticks in the changing landscape of the Virginian Peninsula: a tool for urban planning in the context of human health, Joanna Kathleen Weeks
Spanish Antisemitism? The Jews in Spain Under Francisco Franco, Allyson M. Zacharoff
Honors Theses from 2012
Divine Harmony Amongst Many Spheres: The Relationship Between Literal and Metaphoric Music in Shakespeare, Ann Katherine Allen
"The Spirit of Association": The Nelson Family and Commercial Resistance in Yorktown, Virginia 1769-1771, Eric F. Ames
'Nothing but a Pack of Boys:' Preble's Boys and the Culture of Honor in the Early Naval Officer Corps, 1798-1825, Roger A. Bailey
The Role of MK-STYX in Stress Granule Assembly/Disassembly, Justin Barr
Old Masters and Modern Intrigue: Reception of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Late Poetry of William Carlos Williams, Catherine E. Barth
Synchronous Oscillatory Solutions in a Two Patch Predator-Prey Model, Matthew H. Becker
A Model for Blue Crab Population in the Chesapeake Bay, Timothy J. Becker
Government Performance, Identity, and Support for Further Devolution in Europe, Nicholas Jacob Bell
The Nuclear Taboo Paradox: Destabilizing Consequences of the Norm, Andrew Bryan Bessler
Electrodynamics of Annealed and Unannealed La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Thin FIlms, Daniel Robert Branagan
Why Trust Really Matters: How Americans' Declining Trust in Government May Be Altering the Ideological Landscape, Devin Callison Braun
Maternal Incarceration: Effects on Caregivers' Mental Health, Adrian Bravo
Exchange Patterns in the Woodland-Period Chesapeake: An XRF Study, Alexandria Elizabeth Brown
Examining the Effect of a Body Image Cognitive Dissonance Prevention Program on Disordered Eating, Risky Alcohol Use, and Sexual Risk Taking, Meghan Kelsey Brown
The "Iona Chronicle" And Irish Politico-Ecclesiastical Connections: The Transmission of a Text Reconsidered, Andrew Budiansky
A form for all cities: The influence of local government form on civic participation, Molly Bulman
Franco-Senegalese Relations through the Lens of Development Aid (1895-2012), Bridget Marie Carr
Multicultural Science Education, Jerome J. Carter
Ephemeral Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay from Agricultural Runoff on the Virginia Coastal Plain, Emma Katherine Caverly
"No Order Save That Which Death Has Put There": Identity Formation In Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, Matthew Miles Chaney
Latin America during the Cold War: The Role of U.S. Soft Power, Kate Elizabeth Hagey Clough
Global Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators, Allison Leslie Corish
Cosmic-Ray Bounds on Lepton-Flavor-Violating Dark-Matter Decays, Ariel J. Cukierman
Debt Ceiling Politics, Christopher E. D'Alessio
Fabrication and Evaluation of Copper(I) Iodide Sensor Substrates, Lars Erik Dunaway
The (Re)Production Craze: Taylorism, the Modern American Family, and Non-Progressive Narratives in Edith Wharton's Late Fiction, Katelyn Durkin
Representaciones de la opresión social y la degradación medioambiental en la poética de Pablo Neruda y César Vallejo que trata la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939), Eleonora Maria Teresa Figliuoli
Current Account Determination in the Eurozone, Amy Filipek
Do Forecasters Know the Slope of the Phillips Curve?, David Thomas Fisher
Communal Identity through Cultural Essentialism: The Evolution of the American Anime and Manga Fan Community and the Orientalism of its Conception of Japan, Charles Joseph MacRobie Fliss
"For the Advancement of So Good a Cause": Hugh MacKay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, Andrew Phillip Frantz
Mirrors in the Sky: A Novel, Brianna Nicole Frentzko
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Mapping using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and the Effects of Retro-reflected Light on EIT, Jacob Alexander Fry
Using GIS to Quantify Riparian Buffer Bypassing in the Coastal Plain of Virginia within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Lyndsey Karin Funkhouser
Evaluating the Mismatch Negativity Response to Emotionally Salient, Frequency Modulated Tones, Diana Gal
A Victim Who Hasn't Been Wronged Yet: Can Events in the Future Make Us Selfish in the Present?, Dolores A. Gano
Strongly Real Conjugacy Classes of the Finite Unitary Group, Zach Gates
Visual Mismatch Negativity as an Indicator of Emotion Processing in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Personality Traits, Leigh Catherine Gayle
Legal Systems and Competing Notions of Justice: Explaining Variance in Religious and Nonreligious Philosophical Exemptions across Western Democracies, Chelsea Olivia German
Life History Trade-offs Between Growth and Reproduction in Wild Yeast, Simone M. Giovanetti
Synthesis of 1-(6-(dimethylamino)naphthalen-2-yl)-2,2-dimethylpropan-1-one as a Fluorescent Probe of Solvent Acidity in HSA, Amy Michele Green
The Opportunity Gap in the Age of Accountability: Experiences of Students from One Urban District, Danielle Greene
Development of an Ultra-Cold Atom Atomic Clock, Alexander Gvakharia
Transcriptional Regulation of the Acetone Carboxylase Operon via Two-Component Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori, Samuel Emerson Harvey
Impacts of Phage Predation on Microbial Dynamics in Temperate Ecosystems, Kaitlin R. Helsley
Shame of a Nation: The Evolution of Hanjian since the Late Qing, Stephen John Hurley
Role of Maternal Messages on Girls' Body Image and their Approach and Avoidance of Foods, Maegan Elizabeth Jones
The Laplacian on Isotropic Quantum Graphs: Solutions and Applications, Patrick King
Visions of the Good: International Politics and the Struggle for Justice, John F. Kirn III
How to Incite Audiences and Engage Actors: Environmental Theatre and the Second Circle, Larissa Anne Kruesi
Le Front Oublié: Une analyse de la représentation de la guerre par l'auteur francophone., Stephanie Kumah
Finding the Minimum Randic Index, Sarah Joyce Kunkler
From the Trenches of Stalingrad to the Digital Front: The Myth and Memory of WWII in the Soviet Union and the New Russia, Jacob Evan Lassin
Beyond Jericho: The Resurgence of German Jewish life since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Max Harrison Lazar
Combinatorial contribution of neuroendocrine variables and food intake to male fertility, Se-Jun Lee
Preparation of Spirooxazine-Functionalized Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles by Click Chemistry, Elena A. Lepekhina
Rehabilitating the Consequentialist View of Moral Responsibility, Adam Jared Lerner
"What You Can Learn From the Kinsey Report": Kinsey and the Gay and Lesbian Population, 1970-1993, Becky Little
Deference or Defiance: State Court Treatment of Blaine Amendments, Ani-Rae Lovell
Courting Revitalization: Companionate Marriage and the Problem of the Landed Gentry's Reform in Jane Austen, Meredith Paige Luze
Nationalism and the Nanjing Massacre, Emily Marie Matson
Hit: A Novella, Hannah McCarthy
Analysis and Simulation of an Optimal Control Model of an Oyster Population Displaying an Allee Effect, Timothy Raymond McDade
Design, Testing of a Prototype Heavy Gas Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (GRINCH) Detector, Christine McLean
Children with Incarcerated Mothers: Relations among Risk Factors, Child Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment, Rachel L. Miller
An Experimental Analysis of Power and Aggression in Close Relationships, Jennifer Leigh Mills
"And They Never Did Find Him": Dialogues of History, Geography, and Fear in Adolescent Legend-Tripping, Stephanie M. Monohan
Potential of PRODAN derivatives as chemosensors of the microacidity of cyclodextrin host-guest complexes, Hannah R. Naughton
Are Twisted Derivatives of PRODAN More Effective than Planar Derivatives as Detectors of Solvent Acidity in Micellar Solutions?, Zachariah Bach Nealy
Memory Derailed: Vichy Memory in International Court Cases and Business Legislation against the French National Railway, Diana Margaret Ohanian
"Yeah, My Mom is Milk and My Dad is Granola:" The Depiction of Interracial Relationships and Racial Hybridity in U.S. Visual Culture, Andrew M. Ojeda
Meta-analysis of Extinction Selectivity in Fossil Marine Bivalves and Gastropods, Emily Orzechowski
The Role of Affect in the Control of Attention to Monoracial and Racially Ambiguous Faces, Alice Grace Proia
Structural Geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia, Kevn Quinlan
Can sexual selection drive extinction and speciation? A case study in yeast., Luke Philip Reding
A Comparative Study of Feminine Reproduction in a Rhabditis Clade, Kathryn Rehain
Madness, Reason, and Truth: An Examination of Two Philosophical Debates, Catherine Leigh Robey
'A Counterfeit Presentment': The Duality of Portraiture in the Novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Sarah Catherine Ross
Close to Home: The Use of an Area-Based Socioeconomic Measure as an Indicator of Chlamydia Risk in Virginia, Sarah Eileen Salino
Maternal effects on reproduction and development in the mud snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, Daniel Bryan Schwab
Effects of Self-Other Distinctions on Attributes of Anxiety Symptoms, Nicole Scott
Perfect Partitions of Some (0,1)-Matrices, Jeffrey Soosiah
Variability of erodibility in bedrock-floored channels produced by differential weathering, Matthew S. Sparacino
Non-Combat Operations of China's Armed Forces in the 21st Century : Historical Development, Current Drivers and Implications for Military Projection, Austin Michael Strange
Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange of Lysine Homologs and Construction of a Nanospray Ionization Source, Rita N. Straus
Dancing Through Trauma in Post 9/11 New York, Jacqueline Marie Stykes
