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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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.

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Honors Theses from 2010

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Can We Predict and Manipulate Memory Intrusions in a Laboratory Setting?, Adah Murray

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A Behavioral Examination of Complementarity and Specialization, Laura Virginia Nelson

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Open Water: A Collection, Emily Newhook

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Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Biracial Targets, Virginia Ann Newton

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An Ephemeral Contributor to a Toxic Legacy? Group-Specific Molecular Identification of Prey in Mercury-Contaminated Spiders by PCR, Weston Thomas Northam

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Scanning Early Data from the MINERvA Tracking Prototype, Colton O'Connor

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The Important Importins: Nuclear Import of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor alpha, Laura Elizabeth Parente

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The Synthesis and Subsequent Fluorescence Studies of Spirooxazine-Functionalized Poly(phenylene vinylene) Using the Gilch Polymerization Technique, Kathryn Anne Peth

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The Maximum Cut Problem: Investigating Computational Approaches, Austin Powell

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A novel C. elegans gene interfaces cell cycle and development in spermatogenesis, Marc S. Presler

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The Effect of 24-Hour Television News on American Democracy and The Daily Show as a Counterbalance to 24-Hour News: A History, Thomas W. Queen

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Legislating Sex: The Influence of Public Opinion on Sex Education Policy in Virginia, Emily Suzanne Rafal

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Social and Physiological Cognates of Looming Vulnerability to Anxiety, Kathleen T. Rhyner

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Frequency Space Measurement of the Spectrum of a Mode-Locked Diode Laser, Brian Richards

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Increasing Fathers' Involvement in Family Therapy: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study, Lisa Risely

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Development of a Novel Delay Discounting Task: Evaluation of Nicotinic Receptor Blockade, Paige Lee Roseman

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The effect of increased cAMP on the firing rate of thermosensitive neurons in the preoptic and anterior regions of the hypothalamus, Maya Sapiurka

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The Effect of Nutrition Education on Children's Healthy Food Choices, Jennifer Schindler

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The Effects of Attention on Consumption in Restrained and Non-Restrained Eaters, William Benjamin Schreiber

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Shedding Light on Roman Social Life: An Integrative Approach to Domestic Space at Pompeii and Karanis, Megan Elizabeth Shuler

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An Archaeological and Archaeometric Examination of Lead Contamination among Enslaved Populations in Barbados in the Early Colonial Era, Erik A. Siedow

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An Urban Morphology of Fresno, California: Its Structure and Growth, Christopher Silveira

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"To Say What the Law is:" John Marshall and His Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America, Jennifer L. Souers

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Dangerous Sanctity: John Capgrave's The Life of St. Norbert and its Literary and Cultural Significance, James C. Staples

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Understanding and Minimizing Flight Delay, Patrick Robert Steele

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The effects of sexual dimorphism on survivorship in fossil ammonoids: A role for sexual selection in extinction, Claire E. L. Still

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Formation of Highly Electrically Conductive Surface-Silvered Polyimide Films Under Exceptionally Mild Conditions, Tyler Stukenbroeker

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The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy, K. Bailey Thomson

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Interpreting Whiteness: Grappling with Race and Identity, Allen Koji Ukai

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Closing the Communication Gap Between Undergraduates and Mathematics Professors, Daniel James Villarreal

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Preparation and Study of a Rare Ternary Insulating Magnet, Thomas J. Wallin

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Die deutsche Besetzung Serbiens: Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Hitlers Politik der Gewalt, Elizabeth Wheless

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Finding a Sparse Solution of a Linear System with Applications to Coding Theory and Statistics, Andrew Gordon Wilcox

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Equitable and Defective Coloring of Sparse Graphs, Harold Lee Williams II

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Methods to Study Tubulin S-glutathionylation, Anna Jean Wirth

Honors Theses from 2009

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The History, Printing, and Editing of The Returne from Pernassus, Christopher A. Adams

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Jasper Johns: A Crisis in Criticism, Andrea Alvarez

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Optical Filtering with Phase Singularities, William Ames

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The Effects of Dialect, Gender, and Group Identity on Person Perception, Kayla Anders

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Creating Citizens: Civics Education, Civic Socialization and Engagement Patterns, Allison Penelope Anoll

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Box-Counting Dimension and Beyond, Kassie Archer

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The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia, Katherine Caufield Arnold

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Children's Emotional Expression within a Close Friendship Dyad, Lisa Paige Bateman

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Monomer and Polyimide Production for Radiation Shielding Purposes in Manned Space Exploration, Norah Bate

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The Cognitive Advantage of Percussive Auditory Information, Sarah Haller Baum

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Comprehensive Discursive Organizing: Rethinking Political Representation and Community Organizing through a Discursive Lens, Nicholas James Belanger

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Investigations of the Fragmentation Spectra of Peptides Containing Lysine and its Non-Protein Amino Acid Homologs, Matthew Cooke Bernier

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"Nasty Holes" and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City, Michael Albert Blaakman

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The Emperor and the Duke: A Comparative Leadership Analysis of the Battle of Waterloo, Sara Elizabeth Black

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Body Language: The Presence and Absence of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and Barbara Kruger, Joan E. Bowlen

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Investigations into Alternative Sources of Disturbance and Bias in the Implied Volatility Surface, Daniel M. Byler

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Online Social Networks and Their Relationship to Social Capital and Political Attitudes, Daniel M. Byler

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A Characterization of Optimal Strategies in a Reciprocal Product Dumping Environment, Bryan Callaway

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Cretaceous and Paleogene Sedimentary Units of the Northern Fish Lake Plateau, Central Utah, Joyce E. Carbaugh

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The Relationship Between Delinquent Behavior, Adolescent-Parent Relationships, and Intergenerational Cycles of Crime, Kelly Elizabeth Carter

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Analyzing Mitochondrial DNA from Ancient Colonial Cattle, Meghan Elizabeth Cavanaugh

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Persistence of Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Acclimation to Simulated High Altitude, Reina L. Chamberlain

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"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours": How Music and Musicians Propelled Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008, Jacob Charron

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Ecological Interactions Across a Plio-Pleistocene Interval of Faunal Turnover: Naticid Cannibalism North and South of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Max Christie

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A Study Of Multiplicative Preservers, Sean Ian Clark

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A Computational Investigation of FTY720P-Mediated Neuroprotection in Multiple Sclerosis, Hannah C. Cohen

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Making Connections: Science and Theatre in Complicites Mnemonic, Stephen Cole

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Un Modelo de Resistencia, un Estado Neoliberal: Teacher and Student Responses to the Death of Carlos Fuentealba, Allison C. Corbett

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"Turning the Fly Around" The Relationship between Wittgenstein's Discussion of Meaning and the Self: An Exegesis and Defense, Sean W. Dalby

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Construction, Testing and Characterization of Vertical Drift Chambers for Qweak, Douglas C. Dean III

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Looking Backwards and Forwards: Developing the Archaic and the Modern in Philippine Sustainable Design, Clarissa Isabelle L. Delgado

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Eye Movements While Zoning Out During Reading: Implications for Mind Wandering and Metaconsciousness, Kurt Andrew DeSoto

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Federal Principals, State Agents, and Teacher Quality: Factors affecting States Implementation of No Child Left Behind's Highly Qualified Teacher Provision, Meghan Theresa Dunne

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"A Past Rooted in Pain": Skeletal Trauma in the African Burial Ground, Jennifer Dutcher

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Decentralization and Corruption: A Model of Interjurisdictional Competition and Weakened Accountability, Jonathan Eggleston

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David vs. Goliath: Offense-Defense Theory and Asymmetric Wars, Alexander Ely

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Recognizing variability in eighteenth-century plantation diet through pattern analysis, Maria Therese Fashing

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Native Dog Burials and Associated Ritual in Coastal Virginia and Beyond, Jennifer Fitzgerald

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The Watermen of White Oak & The Patawomeck Tribe, William Clark Foster

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Tectonic Significance of the Late Neoproterozoic Swift Run Formation and Basement-Cover Unconformity in the Virginia Blue Ridge, Adam Gattuso

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Wordsworth and the Odic Tradition, Lindsay Gail Gibson

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Mood Manipulation Effects on the Characteristics and Retrieval of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories, Jennifer Gimbert

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An Introduction to Painting Conservation, Greta Colleen Glaser

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Live. Work. Emplace.: An Ethnography of New Town as Spatial Performance, Paul Gottschling

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Modeling the Effects of Harvesting on Virginia's Black Bear Population, David William Gould

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Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences, Samantha L. Grill

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Postnatal Supplemental Choline Facilitates Extinction of Fear in Adolescent Rats, Natasha Chandini Hakkal

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The Effects of Race, Gender, and Clothing Style on Stereotype Activation, Andrew Douglas Hale

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Survival of Adult Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) at a Site Contaminated by Mercury, Kelly Kristen Hallinger

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Peer Relations of Children with Incarcerated Parents, Ashley Sierra Hampton

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Three Pool Model of Calcium Signaling, Daniel Hariprasad

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Midwives and Medical Texts: Women's Healing Practices in the Crown of Aragón, 1300-1600, Alice Conner Harman

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The Role of Notch Signaling in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus Laevis, Michael S. Harper

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Ceramic Production in Middle Woodland Communities of Practice: A Cordage Twist Analysis in Tidewater Virginia, Anna Hayden

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The Set of All Countable Ordinals: An Inquiry into Its Construction, Properties, and a Proof Concerning Hereditary Subcompactness, Jacob Hill

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Voicing the Mutilated Woman's Story: The Intertextual Relationship Between Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner, Ashley Hockensmith

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Engaging Local Ideas about Healthy Eating to Combat Protein-Energy Malnutrition in West Africa: The Centrality of Mothers to Kwashiorkor Prevention in Ghana, E Allison Honenberger

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Revealing the Wizard Behind the Curtain: Deconstructivist Fairytale Politics in the Works of Margaret Atwood, Anne Sexton, and Angela Carter, James Devin Hood

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Secrets in Switzerland : Allen W. Dulles' impact as OSS station chief in Bern on developments of World War II & U.S. dominance in post-war Europe, Jennifer A. Hoover

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Social Components of Speech Evaluation: Person Perception of Black and White Voices, Shanon Dawn Huston-Willis

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"For Yours is the Kingdom of God": A historical analysis of liberation theology in the last two decades and its significance within the Christian tradition, Virginia Irby

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Field, Petrographic, and Geochemical Constraints on the Geologic History of the Fees Rhyolite Member : Mount Rogers Formation, Blue Ridge Province, VA, Sara C. James

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"The Fall of the House of Usher": Making the Musical, Michael James Johnson

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Religious Mouths and Religious Bodies: Speaking the Body of Christ at St. Bede Parish, Jonna Knappenberger

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Rapid Eye Movement Effects on Traumatic Memories: A Test of the Working Memory Hypothesis, Rebecca Helene Koppel