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 2008
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
"I Hate, I Love:" How Mothers Fail in Virginia Woolf's Fiction, Charlotte Savino
Synthesis and Characterization of Copper(I) Halide and Nitrate Complexes of Heterocyclic Thioureas, Aakarsh Saxena
Correlation of NIS mRNA levels with radioiodide uptake in mammary tumors and non-tumor mammary glands of MMTV-infected mice, Stephen Schworer
The Nexus of Business and Politics: The Case of Same-Sex Partner Benefits, Ryne Scott
The Effects of Cirazoline and Clonidine on the Firing Rates of Thermally Classified Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus of the Rat, Andrew Speidell
The Origins of Abbott Zoned Incised Ceramics in the late Middle Woodland Virginia Coastal Plain: An LA-ICP-MS Analysis, Laura Steadman
John Steuart Curry: A Pictorial Autobiography, Kathryn Lee Swanson
Transcription factor coexpression with GABAergic and glycinergic terminal differentiation genes, Daniel Cole Teasley
From Shadwell to Monticello: The Material Culture of Slavery, 1760-1774, Sarah E. Thomas
Parent-Child Concordance on Children's Emotion Regulation: Influence of Age, Gender, and Type of Emotion, Brooke Tortorella
Religion and the Political Sphere: The Limitations of Public Reason, Joshua Allen Turner
The Ecology of Scale, Joshua Wayland
Gas-Phase Acidities and Proton Affinities of Amino Acid Analogs from the Extended Kinetic Method, Ian Webb
"Though my people slay me, yet I will trust in them:" Varina Davis and the Elusive Paradigm of the Politically Elite Confederate Woman, Ashley Whitehead
Breaking the Silence: South African Muslim Responses to HIV/AIDS and a Theology of Compassion, Katherine Davila Willson
Linguistic Clues: The Foreign Language Learner's Use of Sortal Classifiers and Morphological Cues in Mandarin Chinese, Jennifer Lynn Wilson
Confronting Jihad: Past Experience and Counterterrorism Since September 11, Michael Woolslayer
Honors Theses from 2007
Reinventing Soviet visual memory :a case study of Marina Goldovskaia's documentary Solovki power, Erin Rebecca Alpert
"Again in the Providence of God:" Two Appalachian Women Inscribe Community, Family, and Faith on the Civil War, Elizabeth Jean Anderson
It Was Honest: The Politics of Authenticity in the American Folk Revival and British Punk Subcultures, John Frederick Bell
The New Idealism in International Relations: Hegelian Theory of the International System, John Kainer
Ceramics of the Spanish-Atlantic World, Kathryn Lee Swanson
Honors Theses from 2006
The diary of Fannie Fain of Blountville : defining allegiance in Civil War era East Tennessee, Jennifer M. Brickey
A Prototype for In Situ Packet Filtering, William Watson Cline
Waipaoa River: Physical & Chemical Analysis of an Active Margin River, Keith Moodhe
Honors Theses from 2004
Commodifying identities : representations of the intelligentsia in post-Soviet crime fiction, Joseph Matthew Kiser
The patriotism of the minority :the role of the African American soldier in the American Civil War, Benjamin Lee Miller
High art joins popular culture: the life and cover art of J.C. Leyendecker, Lindsay Anne Moroney
Honors Theses from 2003
Success in unity : John Corigliano's score to The red violin (1999), Michael Robert Glaser
The Albert Durant Collection: African American Life in the 1940s and 1950s in Williamsburg, Virginia, Daniel Frederick Hodapp
The Presentation of the History of Childhood in Living History Museums, Katherine Megan Johnson
Nonparametric Estimation of the Cumulative Intensity Function for a Nonhomogeneous Service Process, Eric Rozier
Honors Theses from 2002
The festival of world sacred music : recontextualizing religious ritual on the secular stage, Deborah Justice
Factors that Control Trail Conditions in the College Woods, Ryan Scott McKinney
The Hanoverian Interest; British Foreign Policy and the Electorate of Hanover, 1740-1760, John Wagner
The Patawomeck and the Dog Mart: Continuity, Identity, and Invented Tradition, Jason A. Zacchetti
Honors Theses from 2001
Distribution, Mineralogy and Geologic History of the Travertine-Marl deposits along Falling Spring Run, Verona, Virginia, Christopher A. Carroll
Renaissance men : Xu Guangqi, Matteo Ricci, and the Jesuit mission in China, David Heitz Hiett
The "grandness" of light opera : Giuseppe's [sic] Verdi's influence on Gilbert and Sullivan's The pirates of Penzance, Leonidas F. Lagrimas
"So Well Endowed": Economic Support of the College of William and Mary During the Colonial Period, Kristin A. Zech
Honors Theses from 2000
"The longed-for place" : Saewulf and twelfth-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Margaret Elizabeth Garnett
Simplex Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization, Adam P. Gurson
La peine de 'Doublage': la representation du bagne de la Guyane Francaise et le discours colonialiste, Amanda Alice Shoaf
Model-Assisted Pattern Search, Christopher M. Siefert
Honors Theses from 1999
A Grammatical Description of the Hitchiti Language, Jesse Mercer
Honors Theses from 1997
Molecular characterization of two Xenopus laevis metabotropic glutamate receptors: mGluR3 and mGluR5, Thomas Buss
"Wen I wuz young" : the socialization and education of slave children on low country plantations, 1800-1860, Elizabeth Marshall Keys
John De Sequeyra's Notes on diseases, Sarah C. McEntee
Honors Theses from 1996
The Causative Voice in Mikasuki, Marcy Coon
Geology of the Cactus Hill Archaeological Site (44SX202), Sussex County, Virginia, Kevin B. Jones
Honors Theses from 1992
Uncommon devotion: the character of one Union soldier, John C. W. Harper
Honors Theses from 1991
Universities under fire :the strategic management of budgetary retrenchment, A. Eric Kauders Jr.
Honors Theses from 1990
A Study of Shale as it Affects Carbonate Concretion and Barite Nodule Growth at an Outcrop of the Millboro Shale near Boiling Spring, Virginia, Christopher Weesner
Honors Theses from 1988
Did you say "utter nonsense?" : an examination of the linguisitic theories of F. de Saussure and Noam Chomsky, R.G. Herndon Jr.
Honors Theses from 1986
Christian realism and liberation theology : dialogue, dialectic, and sythesis, Elizabeth Frances McCloskey
Honors Theses from 1982
Reinhold Niebuhr and Jerry Falwell: the Christian in politics, James B. Comey
Honors Theses from 1981
Francis Schaeffer's assessment of Karl Barth : Christian apologist on the offensive, Ronald F. Wright
Honors Theses from 1973
The New York Nation and the Negro, 1865-1900, Roy R. Morris
Honors Theses from 1965
The establishment of Yugoslavia: a case study of political symbols and their manipulation, Robert Michael Gates
