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 2010
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
Optical Filtering with Phase Singularities, William Ames
The Effects of Dialect, Gender, and Group Identity on Person Perception, Kayla Anders
Creating Citizens: Civics Education, Civic Socialization and Engagement Patterns, Allison Penelope Anoll
Box-Counting Dimension and Beyond, Kassie Archer
The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia, Katherine Caufield Arnold
Children's Emotional Expression within a Close Friendship Dyad, Lisa Paige Bateman
Monomer and Polyimide Production for Radiation Shielding Purposes in Manned Space Exploration, Norah Bate
The Cognitive Advantage of Percussive Auditory Information, Sarah Haller Baum
Comprehensive Discursive Organizing: Rethinking Political Representation and Community Organizing through a Discursive Lens, Nicholas James Belanger
Investigations of the Fragmentation Spectra of Peptides Containing Lysine and its Non-Protein Amino Acid Homologs, Matthew Cooke Bernier
"Nasty Holes" and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City, Michael Albert Blaakman
The Emperor and the Duke: A Comparative Leadership Analysis of the Battle of Waterloo, Sara Elizabeth Black
Body Language: The Presence and Absence of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and Barbara Kruger, Joan E. Bowlen
Investigations into Alternative Sources of Disturbance and Bias in the Implied Volatility Surface, Daniel M. Byler
Online Social Networks and Their Relationship to Social Capital and Political Attitudes, Daniel M. Byler
A Characterization of Optimal Strategies in a Reciprocal Product Dumping Environment, Bryan Callaway
Cretaceous and Paleogene Sedimentary Units of the Northern Fish Lake Plateau, Central Utah, Joyce E. Carbaugh
The Relationship Between Delinquent Behavior, Adolescent-Parent Relationships, and Intergenerational Cycles of Crime, Kelly Elizabeth Carter
Analyzing Mitochondrial DNA from Ancient Colonial Cattle, Meghan Elizabeth Cavanaugh
Persistence of Intermittent Hypoxia Exposure Acclimation to Simulated High Altitude, Reina L. Chamberlain
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours": How Music and Musicians Propelled Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008, Jacob Charron
A Study Of Multiplicative Preservers, Sean Ian Clark
A Computational Investigation of FTY720P-Mediated Neuroprotection in Multiple Sclerosis, Hannah C. Cohen
Making Connections: Science and Theatre in Complicites Mnemonic, Stephen Cole
Un Modelo de Resistencia, un Estado Neoliberal: Teacher and Student Responses to the Death of Carlos Fuentealba, Allison C. Corbett
"Turning the Fly Around" The Relationship between Wittgenstein's Discussion of Meaning and the Self: An Exegesis and Defense, Sean W. Dalby
Construction, Testing and Characterization of Vertical Drift Chambers for Qweak, Douglas C. Dean III
Looking Backwards and Forwards: Developing the Archaic and the Modern in Philippine Sustainable Design, Clarissa Isabelle L. Delgado
Eye Movements While Zoning Out During Reading: Implications for Mind Wandering and Metaconsciousness, Kurt Andrew DeSoto
Federal Principals, State Agents, and Teacher Quality: Factors affecting States Implementation of No Child Left Behind's Highly Qualified Teacher Provision, Meghan Theresa Dunne
"A Past Rooted in Pain": Skeletal Trauma in the African Burial Ground, Jennifer Dutcher
Decentralization and Corruption: A Model of Interjurisdictional Competition and Weakened Accountability, Jonathan Eggleston
David vs. Goliath: Offense-Defense Theory and Asymmetric Wars, Alexander Ely
Recognizing variability in eighteenth-century plantation diet through pattern analysis, Maria Therese Fashing
Native Dog Burials and Associated Ritual in Coastal Virginia and Beyond, Jennifer Fitzgerald
The Watermen of White Oak & The Patawomeck Tribe, William Clark Foster
Wordsworth and the Odic Tradition, Lindsay Gail Gibson
Mood Manipulation Effects on the Characteristics and Retrieval of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories, Jennifer Gimbert
An Introduction to Painting Conservation, Greta Colleen Glaser
Live. Work. Emplace.: An Ethnography of New Town as Spatial Performance, Paul Gottschling
Modeling the Effects of Harvesting on Virginia's Black Bear Population, David William Gould
Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences, Samantha L. Grill
Postnatal Supplemental Choline Facilitates Extinction of Fear in Adolescent Rats, Natasha Chandini Hakkal
The Effects of Race, Gender, and Clothing Style on Stereotype Activation, Andrew Douglas Hale
Survival of Adult Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) at a Site Contaminated by Mercury, Kelly Kristen Hallinger
Peer Relations of Children with Incarcerated Parents, Ashley Sierra Hampton
Three Pool Model of Calcium Signaling, Daniel Hariprasad
Midwives and Medical Texts: Women's Healing Practices in the Crown of Aragón, 1300-1600, Alice Conner Harman
The Role of Notch Signaling in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus Laevis, Michael S. Harper
Ceramic Production in Middle Woodland Communities of Practice: A Cordage Twist Analysis in Tidewater Virginia, Anna Hayden
Voicing the Mutilated Woman's Story: The Intertextual Relationship Between Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner, Ashley Hockensmith
Engaging Local Ideas about Healthy Eating to Combat Protein-Energy Malnutrition in West Africa: The Centrality of Mothers to Kwashiorkor Prevention in Ghana, E Allison Honenberger
Revealing the Wizard Behind the Curtain: Deconstructivist Fairytale Politics in the Works of Margaret Atwood, Anne Sexton, and Angela Carter, James Devin Hood
Secrets in Switzerland : Allen W. Dulles' impact as OSS station chief in Bern on developments of World War II & U.S. dominance in post-war Europe, Jennifer A. Hoover
Social Components of Speech Evaluation: Person Perception of Black and White Voices, Shanon Dawn Huston-Willis
"The Fall of the House of Usher": Making the Musical, Michael James Johnson
Religious Mouths and Religious Bodies: Speaking the Body of Christ at St. Bede Parish, Jonna Knappenberger
Rapid Eye Movement Effects on Traumatic Memories: A Test of the Working Memory Hypothesis, Rebecca Helene Koppel
Synthesis and Luminescent Behavior of Piperazinium Chlorocuprates(I) and Copper(I) Iodide and Bromide Complexes of Aliphatic Diamine Ligands, Jacob Edwin Kuperstock
Geology and Structural History of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Albemarle County, Virginia, Graham Lederer
Design and Construction of the MTest Detector, Andrew Leister
Negotiating 'Popular' Religion: Clerical and Lay Culture in Thirteenth-Century Exempla, Jaimie Lewis
Structure and Luminescence of Copper(I) Cyanide Networks Incorporating Monoamine, Diamine, and Monoimine Ligands, Amanda Noelle Ley
Software Engineering of a Direct Search Package for Nonlinear Optimization, Charles Michael Liarakos
Mining the Movie Museum: The Mutoscope Collection at the National Museum of American History, Ryan Lintelman
American-educated Chinese Students and Their Impact on U.S.-China Relations, Joshua A. Litten
Genetic Variation in Food Intake and GnRH Neurons in Female White-footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus), Tara Penny Florina Mahoney
Duesenberg, America's Premier Historical Automobile, Jeffrey Carter Mason
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
