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.
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Honors Theses from 2010
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
Spatially variable erodibility in bedrock channels produced by weathering, Brendan P. Murphy
Can We Predict and Manipulate Memory Intrusions in a Laboratory Setting?, Adah Murray
A Behavioral Examination of Complementarity and Specialization, Laura Virginia Nelson
Open Water: A Collection, Emily Newhook
Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Biracial Targets, Virginia Ann Newton
An Ephemeral Contributor to a Toxic Legacy? Group-Specific Molecular Identification of Prey in Mercury-Contaminated Spiders by PCR, Weston Thomas Northam
Scanning Early Data from the MINERvA Tracking Prototype, Colton O'Connor
The Important Importins: Nuclear Import of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor alpha, Laura Elizabeth Parente
The Synthesis and Subsequent Fluorescence Studies of Spirooxazine-Functionalized Poly(phenylene vinylene) Using the Gilch Polymerization Technique, Kathryn Anne Peth
The Maximum Cut Problem: Investigating Computational Approaches, Austin Powell
A novel C. elegans gene interfaces cell cycle and development in spermatogenesis, Marc S. Presler
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
Legislating Sex: The Influence of Public Opinion on Sex Education Policy in Virginia, Emily Suzanne Rafal
Social and Physiological Cognates of Looming Vulnerability to Anxiety, Kathleen T. Rhyner
Frequency Space Measurement of the Spectrum of a Mode-Locked Diode Laser, Brian Richards
Increasing Fathers' Involvement in Family Therapy: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study, Lisa Risely
Development of a Novel Delay Discounting Task: Evaluation of Nicotinic Receptor Blockade, Paige Lee Roseman
The effect of increased cAMP on the firing rate of thermosensitive neurons in the preoptic and anterior regions of the hypothalamus, Maya Sapiurka
The Effect of Nutrition Education on Children's Healthy Food Choices, Jennifer Schindler
The Effects of Attention on Consumption in Restrained and Non-Restrained Eaters, William Benjamin Schreiber
Shedding Light on Roman Social Life: An Integrative Approach to Domestic Space at Pompeii and Karanis, Megan Elizabeth Shuler
An Archaeological and Archaeometric Examination of Lead Contamination among Enslaved Populations in Barbados in the Early Colonial Era, Erik A. Siedow
An Urban Morphology of Fresno, California: Its Structure and Growth, Christopher Silveira
"To Say What the Law is:" John Marshall and His Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America, Jennifer L. Souers
Dangerous Sanctity: John Capgrave's The Life of St. Norbert and its Literary and Cultural Significance, James C. Staples
Understanding and Minimizing Flight Delay, Patrick Robert Steele
The effects of sexual dimorphism on survivorship in fossil ammonoids: A role for sexual selection in extinction, Claire E. L. Still
Formation of Highly Electrically Conductive Surface-Silvered Polyimide Films Under Exceptionally Mild Conditions, Tyler Stukenbroeker
The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy, K. Bailey Thomson
Interpreting Whiteness: Grappling with Race and Identity, Allen Koji Ukai
Closing the Communication Gap Between Undergraduates and Mathematics Professors, Daniel James Villarreal
Preparation and Study of a Rare Ternary Insulating Magnet, Thomas J. Wallin
Die deutsche Besetzung Serbiens: Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Hitlers Politik der Gewalt, Elizabeth Wheless
Finding a Sparse Solution of a Linear System with Applications to Coding Theory and Statistics, Andrew Gordon Wilcox
Equitable and Defective Coloring of Sparse Graphs, Harold Lee Williams II
Methods to Study Tubulin S-glutathionylation, Anna Jean Wirth
Honors Theses from 2009
The History, Printing, and Editing of The Returne from Pernassus, Christopher A. Adams
Jasper Johns: A Crisis in Criticism, Andrea Alvarez
