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 2009
Spirituality or Savagery? How the term jihad has been manipulated by political actors throughout Islamic history, Alexander Charles Mayer
Phylogenetic relationships and morphological changes in Venericardia on the Gulf Coastal Plain during the Paleogene, Kate McClure
"Lifting As We Climb": An Exploration of Older Black Men's Willingness to Help Younger Black Men Seeking Work, Franklin D. McFadden
Spontaneous Amide Bond Formation of Amino Acids in Aqueous Solution, Sarah Joan Milam
The Role of the US Forest Service Amidst Change: A Framework for Effective Ecosystem Management in the Face of Climate Change, Aubrey David Miller
Helium-3 Density Measurements Using Atomic Pressure Broadening, Sara Elizabeth Mohon
The Development of Merchants Square: Colonial Imagery and the Consequences of Redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and Other Small Towns, 1910-1955, Matthew Morrill
Preserving, Displaying, and Insisting on the Dress: Icons, Female Agencies, Institutions, and the Twentieth Century First Lady, Rachel Morris
Hemispheric Interaction in Simple and Complex Tasks: A Study of Interlimb Coordination, Kevin Jacob Mutch
Emotion and the perception of biological motion, Dillon Niederhut
Consuming Fictions: Trauma and Ideology in Irish Famine Literature, Sean O'Mealia
Increasing Knowledge and Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in Children: Does the Type of Exposure Matter?, Chelsea Osborne
Investigating Computational Aspects of the Coincidence Condition for Substitutions of Pisot Type, Brian Paljug
Attitudes Toward Mental Disorders, Meghan Marie Posey
The Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of Thyroid Hormone Receptor [alpha] in Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cell Lines, Jeremy Michael Powers
Hill House, Not Sane: Shirley Jackson's Subversion of Conventions and Conventionality in The Haunting of Hill House, Ryen Christopher Rasmus
The New Romantics: Romantic Themes in the Poetry of Guo Moruo and Xu Zhimo, Shannon Elizabeth Reed
A Word Game: Trends of Associative Processing in Individuals with Schizotypal Characteristics, Kathryn Tierney Roberts
Going with the Flow: Identifying a Single Commonality in Written and Performed Acting Theory, Katharine A. Schellman
Unveiling the Unconscious: The Influence of Jungian Psychology on Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Amy Elizabeth Sedivi
Telling the People's Truth: Soviet Fairy Tale Film and the Construction of a National Bolshevik Film Genre, Vadim Shneyder
William Wells and the Old Northwest, 1770-1812, Cameron Michael Shriver
The Ethereal System: Ambience as a New Musical Identity, Daniel Siepmann
Bismuth(III) Catalyzed Cyclic Ether Syntheses, Lee Colyer Speight
Portraits of Professional Men in the Gilded Age: An Investigation of the Life and Art of Thomas Eakins, John Eric Starcher
Specialization Methods and Cataphoricity in Coreference Resolution, Robert Staubs
Oral Morphology of the Suspension-feeding American Shad, Alosa sapidissima, Timothy James Storm
Secure Passwords Through Enhanced Hashing, Benjamin Strahs
I Declare War on Typology: Breaking the Silence of Borderland Peoples through Case Study Archaeology at the Fall Zone, Jessica Taylor
Alongshore Variations in Foreshore Morphology, Grain Size, and Wave Dissipation at a Shore Line Erosional Hotspot, Ethan John Theuerkauf
Braid Groups and Evolution Algebras, Carolyn Elaine Troha
Mutualism between Clownfish and Sea Anemones: A Computational Model, Elizabeth Carroll Truelove
Practice Makes Perfect: An ERP Analysis of the Effects of Physical Practice on Cortical Signal As Evidenced by the N500, Jessica Van Sciver
Instrument of Enlightenment: A Cultural History of the Pipe Organ in Pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth-Century France, Laura Frances Wagstaff
Education and Islamic Radicalization in the Arabian Peninsula, Rachel Walsh
Bare Bedrock Erosion Rates in the Central Appalachians, Virginia, Jennifer Whitten
Agile Radio Frequency Source for Hyperfine Manipulation of Ultra-Cold Atoms, Justin Winkler
Reproduction Rate Strategies in White-Footed Mice, Niha Zubair
Honors Theses from 2008
The Blood Jet of Poetry: Muse myths, poetic influence, and the common text of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Nathaniel Scott Amos
Space, Secularism, and the Expansion of Forced Child Begging in Senegal, 1850-2008, Hannah Brown Ayers
Molecular Hydrogen: A theoretical investigation into the one electron densities of the first three 1Σ+g states, Jefferson Bates
The Mega-, Melo-, and Meta-Drama in Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera, Kristin Boos
Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870, Maria Dale Booth
Effect of Emotion on Achievement Goal Performance, Elizabeth Bott
Boys Don't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses: Gender, Vision Aids, and Persona in the Early American Republic, Laura E. Brandt
Targeting of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Variants to Aggresomes, Abigail Brunner
Combining Field Data and Computer Modeling to Improve Designs for Two Wet Detention Ponds in James City County, VA, Nathan Alan Burgess
Bone Breakage and the Taphonomy of Cooking: An Actualistic Study, Graham Callaway
Constructing an Ethnic Identity: A Study of the Gravestones of Catholic German-Americans, Lenore Cebulski
Damned Woman, Christopher Lamont Chaulk
Race, Wealth, and Charter Schools, Constance Margarete Clark
Effect of Interstitial Impurities on the Residual Resistivity of Niobium Thin Films, Justin Connell
A Study of Genetic Code by Combinatorics and Linear Algebra Approaches, Tanner Jennings Crowder
From Color Line to Colorblind: Changing African American Perceptions of the Japanese during World War II, Jennie Anne Davy
Harmful Offense to Others: A New Liberty-Limiting Principle and the 'New' Child Pornography, Devin DeBacker
Mode-Locked Diode Laser for Precision Optical Frequency Measurements, Brian DeSalvo
The Syntax and Semantics of Tongan Noun Phrases, Melissa Devane
"Unhappy Differences:" The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia, Allison Finkelstein
Exploring Informality: An Empirical Analysis of the Informal Economy, Sadie Gardner
Deconstructing the Gender Card: An Examination of Femininity Performance in US Elections, Lauren Garrett
Simultaneous Presence and Absence: Representation of the Holocaust at the Jewish Museum Munich, Emily Geizhals
"Beauty, Enlightenment, and Comfort at Top Speed" : Cognitive spaces and blending in the fictional universes of Kurt Vonnegut and Gabriel García Márquez, James Michael Gertzog
The Effect of Diet on Reproductive Inhibition in Photoresponsive White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus), Connie Gibbons
The Convergence of Science and Art: Conserving a Print of Hannah Snell, Sarah Gowen
Discursive Opposition to Symbolic Violence in the Nobel Lectures of Latin American Laureates, Olga Grosh
The Economics of Roadside Bombs, Matthew Hanson
From Brown v. Board to Parents v. Seattle: The Future and Constitutionality of Desegregation in American Public Schools, Jeree Harris
Newly Discovered Mesozoic Basins in the Virginia Blue Ridge: Sedimentology, Provenace, Structure, and Tectonics, Ari Hartmann
From Maiden to Matron: Victorian Heroines and the Creation of Domestic Identity, Margaret Patricia Harvey
Community Supported Agriculture as Revitalization: Reconnecting the Farm and the Dinner Table, Jordan P. Howell
An Analysis of COX-2 Derived Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in the Alpha-1 and Alpha-2 Adrenoreceptor-Mediated Responses of Thermally Classified Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus, Terence Edward Imbery
American Missionaries in Turkey and Northern Syria and the Development of Central Turkey and Aleppo Colleges, 1874-1967, Judd W. Kennedy
Institutions and Economics: The Effectiveness of Reconstruction Efforts in Bosnia, Ashley Kramer
Can Foreign Aid Give an Incentive for Good Governance? The Case of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Jordan, Robert R. Landicho
Creating Time: Rhythmic Processes and Metrical Forming in Schoenberg's Opus 22, "Vier Orchesterlieder", Olivia Lucas
Use of Non-Native Macroalgal Habitat by Hatchery-Reared and Wild Blue Crab Juveniles, Kristin Mahalak
Plugging into Worship: How Contemporary Christian Music Is Impacting Church Musicians, David McClendon
Multiplicity Lists for Classes of Hermitian Matrices whose Graph is a Certain Tree, Paul McMichael
A Survey of Social Choice Failures: Majority and Borda Rules, Lauren Nicole Merrill
Strategy-Proofness on the Condorcet Domain, Lauren Nicole Merrill
I'm Not a Monk, but I'm a Bodhisattva: Green Gulch Farm and the Expression of Zen Buddhism in America, Natasha Mikles
A Million Little Pieces, Incorporated: How Oprah Winfrey Maintained Her (Non)Capitalist Media Empire, Adam Jason Miller
Broad and Narrow Cultural Comparisons of Children's Emotion Regulation: Studies of Ghana and the United States, Diana Morelen
Rewriting Myth: New Interpretations of La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Guadalupe in Chicana Feminist Literature, Patricia Nelson
Trees and the Implicit Construction of Eigenvalue Multiplicities, Jonathan Nuckols
Evidence for knickzone generation and landscape disequilibrium through surficial studies of the James River, central Virginia Piedmont, Lauren Parker
The Effects of Rhythmic and Arrhythmic Eye Movements on Memory Recall, Amy Marie Pastva
Horse Husbandry in Colonial Virginia: An Analysis of Probate Inventories in Relation to Environmental and Social Changes, Kimberley Peck
The Impact of Ambient Noise on Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Nestling Begging, Sajithya Thapthinie Perera
Searching for Tectonic Moments: Geochemical Tracers in Young Anatolian Basalts, Sivas, Turkey, Charles Plummer
A G2 Electroweak Model, Ashwin Rastogi
Cultural Value in Historical Pastiche, Timothy Robinson
Derivation of an Operator-Based Spatial Noncommutativity Parameter, Kevin Carr Sapp
