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.
Instructions to Submit Your Honors Thesis
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 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