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 2011
Visual Representations of the Holocaust in Memorials in the Czech Republic and America, Emily Sample
Mr. Socrates Goes To Washington: The Care of the Self and the Cultivation of Citizenship in Late-Modernity, Michael Christopher Sardo
Conflict of Color: White Activists in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, Blair Dickman Saunders
A Morphological and Phylogenetic Examination of the Miocene and Pliocene Bivalve Genus Chesapecten, Judith Anne Sclafani
Pitch, Frequency and Duration:Using Phonetic Correlates to Determine the Word-Level Stress Pattern of Tunisian Arabic, Erica Lauren Shifflett
"The Father of His Country": Peyton Randolph and the Definition of Liberty in Colonial Virginia, Julianne E. Sicklesteel
Le Déracinement de l'Utopie: Haussmannization and the Disciplining of the Revolutionary Imagination, Michael Smith
The Production of Novel Poly(arylene ethers) for Use as Radiation Shielding in Outer Space, Ellen Hutchins Speers
Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721, Anna E. Storm
"To Travel and Write" A Literary Pilgrimage and a Collection of Short Stories, Peter Collins Thomas
A Closer Look at Nonprofit Evaluation, Samanthe E. Tiver
Living in a History Museum: Local Perspectives on Colonial Williamsburg, Alexandra F. Volpert
Critical Exponents: Old and New, Olivia J. Walch
Modeling synaptic facilitation and depression in thalamocortical relay cells, Olivia J. Walch
Foraging and Reproductive Ecology of Intertidal Gastropods, Connor White
Endocrine Variation in a Population of Peromyscus leucopus with Divergent Life-History Strategies, Jordan White
The Pion in AdS/QCD, Ronald James Wilcox
An Experimental Analysis of the Role of Harmony in Musical Memory and the Categorization of Genre, David H. Witkowsky
Solution Theory for Systems of Bilinear Equations, Dian Yang
Gas-Phase Thermochemistry of Non-Protein Amino Acids by the Extended Kinetic Method, Vincent James Yannello
Baseball, Immigration, and Professionalization in the 19th century, Michael Young
Honors Theses from 2010
The Comparative Effect of Minority Vetoes on Shared Governance in Post-Conflict Consociational Societies: Case Studies of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon, Dina Abdel-Fattah
Shall-Issue Laws and the Structure of Crime Data, Bradley Howard Akin
"For ne'er was a story of such wit" Nostalgic Tragicomedy in Chinese Romeo and Juliets, Megan Ammirati
Emotion Regulation in Ghanaian and American Children: Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors, Ellen Claire Anderson
Nanay's Kusina or Carinderia? The Perceived Lack of Filipino Restaurants in American Dining, Amanda L. Tira Andrei
Identity and Memory in the Tatarstan Republic, Sarah Argodale
A Population Model for the Diamondback Terrapin: Implications for Conservation Management, Carolyn Ayers
Who Receives Aid from Faith-Based NGOs? An Analysis of Country Level Aid Commitments, Maura Bardos
Enhanced Preference for Ethanol Odor and Increased Voluntary Intake Following Exposure to Ethanol During the Early Postnatal Period, Ashley Breanne Barrineau
Motivation of Remittances and the Potential for Diaspora Philanthropy: Empirical Studies of Rural Bangladesh, and the US-Bangladeshi Diaspora, Saika Shaolin Belal
"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Lydia Barrett Blackmore
The Effects of Nintendo Wii FIT on Balance of Elderly Adults, Stephanie Allene Bomberger
The Revolution Will Be Recognized: Black South African Women's Fight Against Patriarchy and Apartheid, Candace Lillie Bond
Habitat Preferences and Predation of the Softshell Clam, Mya arenaria, in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Caitlin Mary Bovery
The Best That You Can Be: Conflicting Messages of Liberation and Oppression in Indian Cosmopolitan Magazine, Andrea Frances Brown
The Dissociation Approach and Associations to Visual Stimuli and Their Impact on Information Processing, Virginia Burk
Investigations of the Fragmentation Spectra of Heptapeptides Containing Lysine and its Non-Protein Amino Acid Homologs, Douglas William Challener
Mapping a Mutation: Characterization of the ax941 Mutant, Stephen Chi
Many Voices in the Temple: Liberal Californian Religious Leaders' Responses to Proposition 8, Margaret Clendenen
"Watchful Guardians of Liberty": The French Revolution and the Development of Democratic-Republicanism in Philadelphia, 1792-1797, Christopher James Consolino
Peer Victimization, Internalizing Symptoms, and Aggression among High-Risk Youth: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation, John L. Cooley
Chinese Environmental Policy: The New Ministry, Christine P. Dang
Photomodulation of Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles via Photochromic Dye Doping, Christina Marie Davis
Food Intake and Fertility: Variation in the Regulation of Appetite and its Role in Reproductive Status, Cori Lynn DeSanto
Politics Shifts Right: The Rise of Nationalism in Millennial Japan, Jordan Dickson
Mi smo Braća svi: We Are All Brothers, Courtney Brynn Downing
Why Do the Strong Quit?: Causes of Counterinsurgent Withdrawal During Overseas Insurgencies, Brian P. Doyle
Paralysis: A Collection of Short Stories, Sarah English
Illinois Culture, Christianity and Intermarriage: Gender in Illinois Country, 1650-1763, Caryne A. Eskridge
Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations, Michael Christopher Essman
Lost and Found: Localization of the Ubiquitin Ligase Slx5 to the Yeast Bud Neck, Cecilia Natalia A. Esteban
Timing and Magnitude of Soil Erosion in Owens Valley, California: A Combined 137Cs and 210Pbex Approach, Guy Nathaniel Evans
Skunk Ape: Stories and Poems, Aaron Fallon
Examining Compliance Rates of European Union Member States, Omar Farid
Conceptions of Religion: Exploring the Converging and Diverging Religious Philosophies of Muhammad Iqbal and Friedrich Nietzsche, Adam Miller Farrar
The Application of Four-Wave Mixing to Cold and Ultra-Cold Atom Imaging, Francesca Fornasini
Between Two Truths: Herman Melville's New Patriotism, Leah Fry
Using In Situ 10Be Soil Profiles to Date Fluvial Terraces of the South Fork, Shenandoah River, VA, Jonathan L. Garber
The Triumph of Reason: Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s, Andrew V. Garden
Studying the Nuclear Import of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Alpha using a Mammalian Two-Hybrid System, John Patrick Giddens
A Physiological and Evolutionary Study of the Plant Hormone Ethylene, Christopher Stephen Givens
The Optimization of Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis for Use with Profiling the Freshwater Viral Community, Dustin Robert Glasner
Time series of vertical flux of zooplankton fecal pellets on the continental shelf of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Miram Rayzel Gleiber
La Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration : une crise des valeurs républicaines?, Eve P. Grice
The Detection of Methionine Sulfoxide in Tubulin and Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, Tara D. Hagedorn
Dancing for Distinction: Pierre Beauchamps and the Social Dynamics of Seventeenth-Century France, Kathryn Kane Hansen
The Role of Lysogeny in the Microbial Ecology of Lake Matoaka, Erica Leigh Hart
A Case Study of Best Practices in Teaching Reading to English Language Learning Second Graders, Mary Henin
Preservers of Eigenvalue Inclusion Sets, Aaron Herman
"Hooray for Hollywood": Postwar Cinema and Trauma in Franco's Dictatorship in Spain, Nathan Hoback
Clarifying Intuitions about Moral Responsibility and the Self, Daniel Carl Homer
Sex is Still Politics: An Analysis of Race, Gender Performance, and Political Leaning in the Thomas-Hill and Clinton-Lewinsky Sex Scandals, Meghan Elizabeth Hottel
U.S.-China Bilateral Relations from 1989 to 2010 as a Consequence of Economic Changes, Jie Hou
A Veiled Sense of Security: Strategies toward the Deconstruction of Islamist Violence against Women in Iraq, Alexa J. Hoyne
Whole Transcriptomic Expression Differences in EBV Immortalized versus Primary B-Cells, Dolores Huberts
"The Cast-Off Mistress;" The changing face of seafaring in Conrad's Middle-fiction, Margaret Hutchison
Bistability in Differential Equation Model of Oyster Population and Sediment Volume, William Crowell Jordan-Cooley
Olympians, Richard Pell Jordan
Honor Killings in Jordan: An Examination of Public Discourse, Tala Karadsheh
Michael Tomasello on Language Development: The Puzzle of Human Linguistic Uniqueness, Joseph T. Kessler
3D Restoration of the Sugar Hollow Rift Basin Blue Ridge, Virginia, Andrew K. Laskowski
Looking the East End in the Face: The Impact of the British Monarchy on Civilian Morale in the Second World War, Amy Limoncelli
The Dynamical Behavior of a Two Patch Predator-Prey Model, Yuanyun Liu
Sacramental Exclusivity: Exploring the Bohemian Reformation and the contemporary Episcopal Church through Thomas Luckmann's The Invisible Religion, Jessica Carole Lowe
"I refuse these givens:" Reintegrating the Split Self in the Poetry of H.D. and Adrienne Rich, Jennifer Lynn MacLure
Champagne Taste on a Mauby Pocket: The Socioenvironmental History of Mauby in Barbados, Christopher A. Maggiolo
The Kinematics and History of Brittle Deformation in the Petersburg Granite, James K. McCulla
From a Land in the West: An Examination of the Possibility of Persian Influence on the Tibetan Bon Religion, Jeremy Ronald McMahan
Appropriating from the World of Business: Andy Warhol's Key to Success, Rusty Adam Meadows
The "silent dialogue": Parallel Trajectories of H.D.'s and Adrienne Rich's Poetic Treatment of Patriarchal Violence, Katherine E. Merk
Reactions to Daily Events as a Function of Emotionality, Social Support, and Familiarity with the Environment, Samuel S. Monfort
Little Shop of Horrors Comparative Lighting Designs Through Stage Directions, David Adams Moody
A Test of By-catch Reduction Devices on Commercial Crab Pots in a Tidal Marsh Creek in Virginia, Andrew Scott Morris
