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
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
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
