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 2023

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Identifying Social Media Users that are Susceptible to Phishing Attacks, Zoe Metzger

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Assessment of treatment-specific tethering survival bias for the juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus in a simulated salt marsh, Cole Miller, A. Challen Hyman, Daniel Shi, and Romuald N. Lipcius

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Two London's in Williamsburg: Using Historical Imagination to Reinterpret the Meaning of Reconciliation and Memorialization in the Archive, Ethan Miller

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Minimal Network Structure for Turing Instability, Brendan Millis

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Effects of Open and Enclosed Space on Brain Activity (EEG): Brain Imaging in Surrounding Space, Elizabeth Moser

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Black Hole Entropy in AdS/CFT and the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism, Luke Mrini

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Gay and Gray with Something to Say: Internalizing Gender and Internalized Homophobia in Lesbians and Gay Men 60 and Over, Bjorn Mustard

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A World Half Created: The Imaginative Power of Sound in the Poetry of William Wordsworth, Trinity Myers

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Solvent-Mediated Photophysical Outcomes of Brown Carbon Chromophores, Ruby Neisser

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Pastries and Plots: Food Rhetoric and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s Plays, Juliet Nierle

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Seeing What We Can't: Evaluating implicit biases in deep learning satellite imagery models trained for poverty prediction, Joseph O'Brien

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“Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage:” Theology in the Organ Music of Paul Manz, Justin Oei

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Automorphisms of a Generalized Quadrangle of Order 6, Ryan Pesak

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Remote Acculturation: The Case of Attribution Styles among American Fans of Japanese Anime and Manga, Thu Pham

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Stress and Animal Therapy Rewards: The Impacts of Animal Interaction on Neurological Markers of Stress in College Students, Grace Phillips

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"The Unlucky Rebel": William Claiborne and the Evolution of the Kent Island Dispute, Adam Pleasants

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Where the wild worms are: Salinity tolerance, hyposaline stress, and survival of Carcinonemertes carcinophila, Alexandria Pomroy

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Policies to Improve Quality in Virginia’s Nursing Homes: The Role of Local Labor Markets, Lillian Pope

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Investigating the Relationship Between N2pc and Rapid Saccadic Eye Movements, Kezhen Qi

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The Probability Distribution of the Kaplan-Meier Product-Limit Estimator and its Application to Bias and Interval Estimation, Yuxin Qin

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Evaluating the Effects of Scopolamine on Anxiety in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Elsa Quillin

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Characterizing Environmental Regulation of Type I DNA Methyltransferase hsdM1 (HP0463) in Helicobacter pylori, Erin Ramsey

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Analyzing Cryptographic API Misuse in IoT Libraries, Sayyed Hadi Razmjo

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Exploring MK-STYX's Interaction with KDAC6 and Dynein, Quinton Reed

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“Deforesting the ‘Princely Trunk:’ Deforestation and Invasion in Shakespeare’s Plays”, Sarah Richman

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Characterizing a Novel Phage Particle: The Phagelet, Anne Roman

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Investigating the Stereotype Threat and its Influence on Test Performance and Anxiety, Maheen Saeed

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Priming Coconut Vasculature for Self-Healing Applications, Ben Sanders

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Environmental Factors Affecting Stream Salamander Distribution in the Lake Matoaka Watershed, Kara SantaLucia

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Examining the Robustness of an Advanced Self-Driving System through Simulation and Fault Injection, Philip Schowitz

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Predicting Respiratory Illness in Belize, Kayla Seggelke

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Materials Characterization for Microwave Atom Chip Development, Jordan Shields

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The Development of an AI Video Laryngoscope, Tianchen Shi and Avi Urbach

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Modeling Perinatal Outcomes in Disaggregated Asian American Subgroups, Suditi Shyamsunder

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Introducing Additional Protein Functionality via Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids, Hannah Smith

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The Effect of Varying Soil and hydrologic conditions on GPR interpretations to detect unmarked graves in Colonial Williamsburg, Vera Soltes

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Structurally-Aware Films' Impact on Theory of Mind, Aravind Sreeram

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Popular Culture, Politics, and the Papacy: The Alignment of Anglo-American Popular Music and the Modernizing Catholicism of John Paul II, 1979-1989, Isabella Maria Stark

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The People of Seljuq Baghdad, 1069-1089, Henry Stratakis-Allen

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Development of a 780 nm External Cavity Diode Laser for Rubidium Spectroscopy, Catherine Sturner

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Terror Management Theory in International Relations: Vladimir Putin and Slobodan Milosevic, Poojitha Tanjore

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The Age and Origin of Nelsonite in the Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Hannah Tebbens

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The Realities of Rape: Understanding the Foundations of a Woman’s Space in Ancient Greece and Rome, Georgia Thoms

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Considering the Accuracy of Fiat Boundaries: Ontology and Quantification, Lydia Troup

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The Development of an AI Video Laryngoscope, Avi Urbach and Tianchen Shi

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Spatial Variability of Alkali-metal Polarization, Lauren Vannell

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Embodied Nature: Biomimetic Architecture as a Philosophy and Practice, Tara Vasanth

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Man, Myth and Medicine: The Exchange of Healing Deities in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, Ryan Vincent

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From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, Geochronology, and Petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence, central Virginia, Olivia Wachob

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Investigating the Interaction between Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX and Vimentin, Gwen Wagner

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Exploring Moral Saints, Ruyu (Evelyn) Wang

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Dour Hour: The Effects of Policy Uncertainty on Investment Rates in Europe, Stanley Wang

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Stranded At Home: How the Absence of Men in Norwegian Whaling Communities Fostered Women's Civic Engagement, Katrine Roderburg Westgaard

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Comedy Laughter Tragedy: The AIDS Epidemic Through The Camera Lens of The American Sitcom, Natalie Wexler

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Identity Building in Appalachia, Alexia Wheeler

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Characterizing the Complex Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Shuttling, Olivia White

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Visualizing the Liminal: Confrontations with Female Passivity in Edith Wharton's Gothic Short Stories, Mikeila Whitney

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Chinese Roadbuilding and the Forest-Based Incomes of Indigenous and Rural Cambodians, Emma Williams

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A Journal of Those Times, Alexander Wolff

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Dealing with the Russian Bear: Central Asian Responses to the Russian Use of Military Force in the Post-Soviet Sphere, Aliia Woodworth

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"Lepers for Show": The Performance of Medical Authority and the Illusion of the Chinese Medical Threat in Nineteenth-Century America, Claire Wyszynski

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Goodbye... Ripples, Yaxi Xiao

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Merging Cross-Platform Gene Expression Data, Jiayi Xu

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Referential resolution for resumptive pronouns in island-violating sentences, Ruoqing Yao

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Associations Among Self-Regulation, Life Stress, and Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach, Yifan Yuan

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The Role of Calcium in Early Embryonic Development, Michelle Yue

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To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex: An Exploration of Medieval Christian and Jewish Sexual Values, Rachel Zaslavsky

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“Levers a Dansh” [Get Up and Dance]: Monastic Dance in Sixteenth-Century England as Revealed by The Gresley Dance Manuscript, Heidi Zmick

Honors Theses from 2022

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Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers, Sabrien Abdelrahman

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Assessing the Orthogonality of Genetic Circuits, Beteel Abu-Ageel

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Connecting Moral Injury and PTSD among Military Veterans: The Role of Problem-Focused Thought Rumination & Social Support, Emma Ackerman

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Long-term Data Reveal Differences in Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi between Nymph and Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis), Meghan Adams

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Approximating Star-Discrepancy with a Genetic Algorithm, Isabel Agostino

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French Colonialism and Botanical Naturalization: The Development of Vanilla on Réunion Island in the 19th Century, Sophia Alden

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Imagined Contact with Autism: The Effects of Labeling and Behaviors on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults, Annika Allen

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The Role of Homeownership in Taiwan's Low Fertility Story, William Anderson

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Tradition Under Scripture: The Patristic Theology of Luther and Calvin, Russell Carter Beisswanger

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The Role of Environment in Children's Acquisition of Motion Verbs, Alice Benjamin

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Period Doubling Cascades from Data, Alexander Berliner

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Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century, Jason Blau

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Cultural Evolution and the Intuitionist Paradigm in Ethics: Ethics as Creation, Nickolas J. Boylan

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“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman

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Remystifying the Modern World: Magical Realism and the Reappropriation of the Christian Imaginary in Beloved and The Master and Margarita, William Brake

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Quantum Federated Learning: Training Hybrid Neural Networks Collaboratively, Anneliese Brei

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Design of Environment-Controlled Analog Audio Effects, Jacob Brotman-Krass

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Optical Fiber-Linked Magnetometer Employing Artificial Intelligence for Magnetic Field Measurement, Sofia Brown

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The Cognitive & Educational Implications of Color Use in Drawing to Learn, Juliana F.M. Cantarutti

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Gas-Phase Proton Affinities for Twenty of the Proline-Containing Dipeptides, Henry Cardwell

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Sinfonietta in C Major: Music Composition and Conducting, Colin Carmody

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Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo

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Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman

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Psychological Peacebuilding: When the Time is Ripe for an Election, Kaiming Chen

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Carrying Capacity of Cultured Bivalves in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, and the Implications of Spatial Distribution and Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico

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Honey as a Biomonitor for Air Pollutant Deposition in the Eastern United States using Ion Chromatography and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cole Cochran

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The Written Word Bound by Devotion Unseen: Female Monasticism and Religiosity in the Visions of Gertrud the Great of Helfta, Jana Considine

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Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti

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'Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction, Allyson Cook

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The Reception of Diogenes in the Second Sophistic, Meggie Corcoran

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A Study of Transport in the SOL Region of Tokamaks, Gordon Jameson Crouse

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In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin