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
The Tea Party in American Politics, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Investigation of Copper(I) Cyanide for Use as a Luminescent Sensor Device, Matthew Dembo
I Am No Man; J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as Gender-Progressive Text, Justine A. di Giovanni
The Influence of Risk Society on Summer Camp Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Enrichment Programs in Distinctive Contexts, Sarah K. Ebert
An Evaluation of Effective Structures for Campus Sustainability Programs At Institutions of Higher Education, Lauren C. Edmonds
Studies of NOvA neutrino flux with NDOS, Jeffrey S. Eldred
Facilitating Conflict: The Effect of Non-state Material Aid to Insurgencies, Chelsea Leigh Estancona
Remas(k)ulating the American Man: Fear and Masculinity in the Post-9/11 American Superhero Film, Carolyn P. Fisher
INSIDE THE TRAP OF A YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID (CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM VAR. PUBESCENS): THE EFFECTS OF 'LIGHT WINDOWS' AND FLOWER ORIENTATION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF A NATIVE BEE (ANDRENA MACRA), Nicole Jacqueline Forrester
Protocol Design for Sensor Networks, Harry Tian Gao
Poles and Zeros of Generalized Carathéodory Class Functions, Yael Gilboa
TRPM4/5's Role in Inspiratory Calcium-Activated Nonspecific Cation Current, Adam Mitchell Goodreau
The DREAM Act: Extending Citizenship to the 1.5 Generation and Consequences for American Democracy, Emily Gottschalk-Marconi
It Took a War: The End of Slavery in West Virginia, Mark Guerci
"That Thing that Ends All Other Deeds": Silence as a Literary Device in the Suicides of Shakespeare's Female Characters, Amanda Guiliano
Implicit Affective Responses to Smoking Cues: A Comparison of Smoking Groups and Withdrawal States, John Randall Haight
"Heretofore Considered Legendary": The Harpy of 1784 and Meanings of Monstrosity in Eighteenth-Century France, Philippe Langellier Bellevue Halbert
The Temporal Dynamics of the Bacterial Communities in Lake Matoaka, an Eutrophic, Freshwater Lake, Dana Michelle Hardbower
ERP and Behavioral Correlates of Temporal Processing Dysfunction in Schizotypy, Jamie Hershaw
Manufacturing a Renaissance, Heart Hettinger
Translation, Criticism, and/or Politics: Assessing and Contextualizing Ezra Pound's "Homage to Sextus Propertius", Brendan Ross Higgins
Topological Characterization of Extinction in a Coupled Ricker Patch Model, Benjamin Robert Holman
The Staircase: Evolution of Design and Use in Elite, Domestic Virginia Architecture 1607-1812, Erin Marie Holmes
Evaluation of Micro-Preconcentrators and Solid Phase Microextraction Fibers for MEMS-based Gas Chromatography Systems, Ashley Marie Hoover
Discovering El Cuaderno: An Examination of the Zugarramurdi Witch-Hunts and Three Debating Inquisitors, 1609 - 1614, Meredith Lindsay Howard
Marginal Man: An Exploration of Hypermasculinity in Black Male Protagonists in Light in August, Native Son, and Invisible Man, Kathryn Susan Ikeler
Dating Deformation: Thermochronology and Chemical and Mineralogical Changes in the Blue Ridge Basement Complex in Virginia, Chelsea Jenkins
Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments: Tudor Government Policies Towards Irish Poets in the Sixteenth Century, Jennifer Brooke Joyce
On the Margins of Cool: Women Poets of the Beat Generation, Megan R. Keeling
The Richmond & Petersburg Railroad: A Story of Antebellum Southern Success, John J. Kelly
Convenient, Bismuth Mediated, One-pot, Two Component Synthesis of 2,6-Disubstituted-3,4-Dihydropyrans, Robert Frederick Lambert
Automatic Detection of Flaws in Recorded Music using Wavelet Fingerprinting, Ryan Laney
A Comparison between Mid-Eighteenth Century Rural and Urban Chesapeake Elite Consumption Patterns of Wild Fauna, Maria Gabriela Lapera
The Guernica Effect: The Power and Legacy of Picasso's Guernica, Casey Lesser
Synthesis of 1-(5-methylhexyl)-2,3,8,9-tetrahydro-1H-naphtho[2,1-e]indol-6(7H)-one, Nicholas Lopez
Crosstalk between SUMO and Ubiquitin Systems: The STUbL Subunit Slx5 Interacts with the SUMO E3 Ligase Siz1, Brooke Campbell Matson
Gender and Health Care Reform: The Power of Party and Perspective, Alexa McClanahan
Characterization of Thermoregulatory Efferents to the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Rat Hypothalamus, Virginia D. McLane
The Bare Necessities: Ascetic Indian Sages in Philostratus' 'Life of Apollonius', Samuel McVane
Archaeologists as Authors and the Stories of Sites: A Defense of Fiction in Archaeological Site Reporting, Allison Jane Mickel
Changing Marriage, Learning Marriage: Marriage and Higher Education, Elizabeth Fox Miller
Scottish Chaucerians: Transforming and Reclaiming a Discarded Category, Christina Mitchell
The Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Depositional Environment of Vertebrate Microfossil Bonebeds from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana, Sean Michael Moran
13 Recommendations for the Teaching of Elementary Latin at the Collegiate Level, Irene Rebecca Morrison-Moncure
Bridging the Achievement Gap: An Exploratory Study of a Virginia School, William B. Morris III
The Leningrad Symphony: A Screenplay, Maria K. Moy
Aggravated Aggregates: The Role of a Retroviral Oncoprotein and Pseudophosphatase in Cellular Responses, Michelle R. Munyikwa
An American Troubadour: The Career and Life of Alfred Kreymborg as a Modernist and Beyond, Benjamin Dwight Norris
Absorption of Various Small Organic Acid-water and Alcohol-water Solutions into Polyamide-11, Kyle Overdeep
NMR Studies of the T1z Relaxation Times of the PMSN Ferroelectric, Joseph Palamara
Persistent Activity in Assortative Networks of Integrate and Fire Neurons, Matthew D. Peppe
Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Ferruginous Quartzites in the Chopawamsic Terrane, Piedmont Province, Virginia, Bradley J. Peters
Basins of Attraction in Stage Structured Populations, Georgia Waite Pfeiffer
"Our voices will not be silenced": Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, and the Silences of History, Victoria Paige Pinkston
The Political Economy of the Vanishing Marginals: Tiebout Sorting and the American Political System, Brandon M. Pizzola
Stuffing the Mattress: An Experiment on Risk and Bank Runs, Taylor Kaye Porter
The Sublime Uniting Romanticism and Feminism in Jane Austen, Elizabeth Brooke Powell
Trading Guns for Butter: Foreign Aid and Nuclear Proliferation, Sneha Raghavan
Start-Up Grants to Unemployed Immigrants in Germany: A Means to Reach Employment Parity?, Eric D. Robinson
Optimization of Drift Chamber Performance for The Qweak Experiment, Peyton Rose
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
