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 2024
Stretching the Hard-Boiled Detective: From Hammett and Chandler to Paretsky and Himes, Chloe Moore
A New Metaphysical Approach to Intersectionality, Kia Morawetz
Feminist Realizations of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction, Amanda Mullet
Causes of changing parallel plasma velocity in the Large Plasma Device, Leo Murphy
Shaping Western Views of Homosexuality in 20th Century Europe Through Community, Sarah Palluconi
The Ballad of a Thin Man: The Birth of Rock Criticism Through Bob Dylan and the Press, Elizabeth Paras
Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory, Andrew Pendleton
Fray Martín de Castañega’s 1529 Treatise on Magic and Superstition: Demonology, Reform, and Authority in Pre-Tridentine Iberia, Isabel Pereira-Lopez
THE WEIGHT OF US, Susannah Perry
DNA Methylation and the Regulatory RNA HPnc4160 in Helicobacter pylori, Celeste Phillips
Paraíso perdido: narrativas de exilio venezolano, Pendaar Pooyan
T.R. Tonight: the Strenuous Life, Jake Augustus Poppiti
Starting Early: Returns on Kindergarten Attendance in Indonesia, Daniel Posthumus
Faraday Rotation Results Associated with the Photoionized Gas of IC 1396, Ramisa Akther Rahman
Exercise-Induced Production of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Exhibits Neuroprotective Effects, Julia Rashid
Mathematical Modeling and Examination into Existing and Emerging Parkinson’s Disease Treatments: Levodopa and Ketamine, Gabrielle Riddlemoser
Personality Pathways: Depression and Nonsuicidal Self-injury in College Students, Olivia Ritchey
Lower Paraspinal Muscle Quality is Associated with Reduced Health Related Quality of Life During Cancer Treatment, Jacob Rodrigues
Perceptions of relational mobility and loneliness among American university students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Carina Rosenberg
Pompeiian Mill-Bakeries: Spatial Organization and Social Interaction, Madeleine Rubin
A Look Down the Well: Exploring Co-educational Femininity through a Twentieth-century Dormitory Feature at William & Mary, 1926-1944, Charlotte Russell
“Due to the Tender and Close Relationship”: The Italian Inquisition’s Investigations of Jews and Christians in the Sixteenth Century, Jacob Schapiro
“Resurrecting Petersburg, Virginia: Harnessing Black History, Community Heritage, and Cultural Tourism for the Renewal of an Overlooked City”, Caroline Schneider
Investigating Organic Fluorophores for Blink-Based Multiplexing, Amelia Seabury
Desertion and Discontent in the East German Border Police, 1948-1959, Rose Shafer
Synthesis of Pyridine Derivatives: Cycloaddition/Cycloreversion of 1,4-Oxazinone Intermediates, Zannatul Shahla
The Self in the Mirror of Despair: Søren Kierkegaard on the Authentic Christian Life, Yi Shao
Harnessing the Power of Virtual Reality for Organic Chemistry Education, Jungmin Shin
Molecular Dynamics simulations of Solid-Liquid Interfaces for NMR Relaxometry, Jacob Simonpietri
The DIY Ethic in Richmond, Virginia’s Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
God and True Being: Loving in Freedom, Travis Slocumb
Streamlining Care: Empowering Healthcare Providers through iOS Development, Claudia Smith
Optimizing Single-Molecule Blink-Based Multiplexing, Emma Smith
Beyond Human Players: Investigating AI Participation in Public Goods Games, Sydney Smith
Where the Thunder Dragon Lives: The Case of Human Capital Flight in Bhutan, Grace Subu
Quantifying Blue Carbon Storage of the Two Dominant Temperate Seagrass Species in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Caitlin E. Sughrue, Alyson Hall, Grace D. Molino, Serina Wittyngham, Matthew L. Kirwan, Robert J. Orth, and Christopher J. Patrick
The Catch Up, Katie Taguchi
AI-ing the Future: An Analysis of Past Treaty Features in Regulating Innovative Technologies, Sophia Tammera
A 35-year lake ice phenology record reveals climate change impacts on High Arctic, Jialu Tao
An Experimental Test on the Effects of Digital Framing Disputes on Social Movement Organization’s Mobilization and Organizational Image, Alison Trahan
Defining Greekness: The Effect of Ethnic Identity on Foreign Policy Opinions, Iliana Tzafolias
spe-54 required for directed cell motility in Caenorhabditis elegans sperm, Corinne Vanella
“We catch them all!”: Discourse analysis of Trump’s and Biden’s stancetaking and legitimation practices on Twitter, Megha Vasudevan
How Films and Television See Cults, Shani "Kami" Vigilant
Investigating the relationship between calcium spiking frequency and neural development in Xenopus laevis, William Vroom
Consumers, Commodities, and Connections: King and Queen County, Virginia as a Window to the Eighteenth-Century Commercial Marketplace, Cecilia Weaver
James Thomson Callender, Culture, and Controversy in the Early American Republic, Amy Weitzman
Beyond the Exit: MoMA Design Store & the Extended Museum Experience, Anna C. Wershbale
Proton Affinities for Proline and Pipecolic-Acid Containing Dipeptides, Georgia Westbrook
Developing Politics While Detained: How Juvenile Incarceration Impacts Political Participation and Behavior, Jonathan Wilkins
Seba’s Snakes: Exploring the Shifting Relationship between Art, Economy, and Science in 18th-century Europe, Anna Wilkinson
IMPACT OF INTERFACIAL SOLVATION ENVIRONMENTS ON NITROPHENOL PHOTOCHEMISRY, W. Churchill Wilkinson
Training Grammaticality: Can people be taught to perceive the singular ‘they’ as grammatical?, Val Willham
A God For All Places: Experiencing a Localized Mithraism, Ian Wilson
Health Characteristics of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants, Ellen Windham
Improving the Scalability of Neural Network Surface Code Decoders, Kevin Yipu Wu
Enhancing Federated Learning with Deep Generative Model, Yile Xu
The Expression and Function of CG11180/Chigno in Adult and Developing Drosophila Ovaries, Cheng Yang
To Memory Now I Can't Recall, Woojin Yoon
Estimating the Payoffs of Variance Swaps using GARCH(1,1) and COGARCH(1,2), Nicholas Zehnle
Emotion Regulation Choice, Flexibility, and Effectiveness in the Face of Interpersonal Stress, Quanhan Zhou
Honors Theses from 2023
The ecological role of benthic foraging stingrays on fine-scale seagrass structure and function, Hayden Acors
Uncivilized Lullaby: Poems, Yalda Al-Ani
The Effect of Cortisol on Y-Maze Spontaneous Alternation Behavior in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Elizabeth Ancheril
Examining Factors Using Standard Subspaces and Antiunitary Representations, Paul Anderson
Modeling Plasma Physics Using Qubit Lattice Algorithms, Paul Anderson
First Row Metal Complexes for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of Artificial Photosynthesis, Ryan Anderson
Trivializing Maps for the O(2) Model in Two Dimensions, Balin Armstrong
Solidarity in Protest: A Case Study of the Brown Grove Community in Virginia, Julia Ashworth
Our Truth: CHamoru Oral History of World War II Events and Its Impact on Guam, Zeta Atoigue
Finite Temperature Holographic QCD via the Hard Wall Model, Jude Bedessem
Thrice They Ring, Natalie Berner
Mental Health Stigmatization: How Imagined Contact Affects In-group & Out-group Bias, Yvette Bivins-Sanchez
FDI and Environmental Externalities in Southeast Asia, Kevin Bloodworth
“Pass the Pickles”: Viewing Class and Dining in Virginia City, Nevada through the Pickle Castor, Sage Boucher
Sing of Arms and Disobedience: Reading Vergil's Aeneid in Milton's Paradise Lost, Brooke Braden
Assessing the Orthogonality of Synthetic Genetic Circuits, Avery Bradley
A Study of Reciprocal Underwater Motion and its Use in Algae Harvesting, Marguerite Bright
Keeping Ordinary: Licensing and Respectability among Loyalist Women Tavernkeepers in Revolutionary America, Katarina Bromkamp
Winston Churchill and the United States: The 'Wilderness Years', Grace C. Brooks
The Future of Digital Resistance: An Analysis of App Popularity During Service-Based Internet Shutdowns, Helena Buckman
On Conditional Reasons, Preston Budd
Modulation of Protein Function and Synthesis of Bioconjugates using Unnatural Amino Acids, Naya Burrow
Inalienable for whom? Activism and the politics of decolonial restitution in French museums, Alexandra Byrne
Context-Aware Engineering of Prokaryotic Chassis, Pinar Caglayan
Life History of Two Goatfishes in Hawaii and Alternative Methodologies in Life History Research, Duncan Campbell
Chronic Nicotine Exposure and its Effects on Fear and Anxiety Behaviours in Zebrafish, Ramprasanna Chandrasekar
Sleep and Early Childhood Stressors in College Students: Examining Alcohol Use as a Moderator, Sylvain N. Chassagneux
Investigating Electron Transport in Tokamaks Using Computer Simulation and Machine Learning, Javier Chiriboga
Radon Risk Mapping Using Uranium Series Geochemistry and Social Vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Heather Christensen
