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 2023
Training Theory of Mind: The Impact of Discourse and False Belief Experience, Alaina Collings
“I Maintained My Authority:” Gender and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Home, Maddie Cross-Kaplan
Power Profiling Smart Home Devices, Kailai Cui
Demographic Noise and Fragmentation in Stochastic Extinction, Cameron Curtis
“And We’ll Fight Them For 800 More”: Violence and Nationalism in Northern Ireland, Hadley Day
Young Women's Diagnostic Experiences in an RVU-Driven Healthcare Market, Elizabeth Annette Dell
Talk To Your Elders: Asian American Community Building at W&M, 1984-2021, Isabella DiFulvio
Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005-2020, Caroline Donovan
College Adjustment, Substance Use Beliefs, Coping Motivations, and Problematic Use: A Moderated-Mediation Model among First Year College Students, Rebecca Dunaief
Crickets and cicadas sing: Terrestrial invertebrates in a San Rafael salt marsh, Carlee Dunn
The Effects of Loss of Orexin Neurons on Attention, Alejandra Eceizabarrena Sainz
Sign Language and Constructing Categories: The Cognitive Link, Nicole Eubanks
The Role of Emojis on Social Attention in Individuals Differing in Autistic Traits and Social Anxiety, Kenzi Fergus
Rethinking ‘Feminicide’: The Role of Organized Crime Groups in Increased Rates of Feminicide in Mexico, Giselle Figueroa
Monoenergetic neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in Jupiter, George French
Roads Less Traveled: Abortion, Interstate Commerce, and the Post-Dobbs Politics of Travel, Caleb Fulford
The President's Pawn: Racism, Discrimination, and Diversity in the Nation's Civil Service, Astrid Garcia
The Cult of the Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, and Womanhood in Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
Perceived Descriptive Norms, Academic Stress, and College Students' Sleep Habits, Elizabeth Germain
Fecal Pellet Production by North Atlantic Zooplankton, Michael Gibson
Design and Application of Surrogate Models for Hypersonic Inlet Physics, Owen Guch
COVID-19 Stress on College Students Mental Health: An Examination of Socioeconomic Status and Coping Flexibility, Ruth Hailemeskel
Emotional Wellbeing in Richmond Public Housing: The Role of Community Health Workers in Accessing Care, Carter Hall
"Looks Like Cotton Candy": Deconstructing Fascism in Post-War Japanese and Italian Horror Cinema, Nicholas Hall
Inclusive Double Differential Muon Neutrino CC Cross Sections on Various Nuclear Targets in MINERvA, Sarah M. Hawkins
Threads of Continuity: Investigating the Historical Context of the China Challenge and Its Implications for Current US Grand Strategy, Bennett Hawley
Investigating Thyroid Hormone Receptor Shuttling Patterns, Helen Heaton
Modeled Changes in Foredune Morphology Influenced by Storm Intensity, Sea-level Rise, and Mitigation Strategies, Selwyn Heminway
Goodbye, You: Stories of Loss and Life, Marissa Ho
Development of Data Science Tools for Photovoltaic Design and Super-Resolution Imaging, Grayson Hoy
Pion Detection for the MOLLER Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Experiment, Michael Tristan Hurst
Invasive and Native Crayfish Have Ecologically Distinct Diets: Evidence from DNA Metabarcoding of Gut Contents, Zoe Hutcheson
STARS: Scope Temperature Auto-Regulation System, Tyler Hutchison
Aggression In and Out of the Surrounding Space, Marissa Incer
Modeling the Effects of Seasonal Births and Predation on Disease Spread, Ally Introne
Design of an Apparatus for Strain Tuning of Materials., Ubaid Kazianga
From TikTok to Trad Goth: An Exploration of Posers, Subcultural Commodification, and the Function of Gatekeeping in the Goth Subculture, Laila Kennedy
Cognitive Decline and Contact Sports: The Relationship Between P3 Amplitude and Sub-concussive Head Impact, Elizabeth Kerman
Under the Blue Berets: Race and Ethnicity as Factors for Peacekeeping Success, Sam Ketchem
well/good, Azraf Khan
Entangled Agencies, Economic Contingencies, and Competing Ideologies: Williamsburg’s Complex Origins as a Place of National Historic Interest, Maximilian Kim
Examining the Nutritional Quality of Mixotrophic Dinoflagellates Using Elemental Ratios and Total Lipid Content, Delaney Kirr
Haunted Panes and Psychic Casements: Windows in Wuthering Heights and Villette, Mariana Kornreich
A Satellite Imagery Approach to Estimating Migratory Flows in Guatemala Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Sarah Larimer
Beyond a Partnership Ethic: Evolutions of Ecofeminism in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and Jean Hegland's Into the Forest, Catherine Lashley
kFactorVAE: Self-Supervised Regularization for Better A.I. Disentanglement, Joseph S. Lee
Children’s Ability to Use Word-Learning to Help Differentiate Pre-Obstruent Vowel Length, Rowan Levick
Examining Measures of EEG as Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Shuhan Liang
Longitudinal Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Friendship Quality: A Matter of Type and Time, Rachel Li
Bad Asians: How heritage language ability and perception affects Korean and Chinese college students’ identity, Grace Liscomb
1973: A Crossroads in British and International Energy Policy, Davis Little
I Do: Historicizing Marriage and Courtship in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816) and Their Screen Adaptations, Olivia Little
Parameter Estimation for Patient Enrollment in Clinical Trials, Junyan Liu
Peace Discourse in Postwar Japan: Emergence, Continuity, and Transformation, Xiuyu Li
The 9/11 Attacks’ Impact on Muslims’ Labor Market Outcomes in the United States, Yining Li
Exploring the Role of HDAC6 in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization, Giuliana Lopez
Linda Brent’s Condition(s) in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl": Medical, Physical, Emotional, and Authorial, Allyson Lowe
Searching for Satan in the Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney
The Impact of Television Portrayals of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Individuals with ASD, Sreya Mallipeddi
Isolation Induced Anhedonic Behavior in Adolescent but not Adult Sprague-Dawley Rats, Hayden McArdle
The Superpower of Sleep: Poor Sleep Quality Predicts Worse Executive Control Under Conditions of Stress, Lilly M. McClendon
Identifying Social Media Users that are Susceptible to Phishing Attacks, Zoe Metzger
Assessment of treatment-specific tethering survival bias for the juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus in a simulated salt marsh, Cole Miller, A. Challen Hyman, Daniel Shi, and Romuald N. Lipcius
Minimal Network Structure for Turing Instability, Brendan Millis
Effects of Open and Enclosed Space on Brain Activity (EEG): Brain Imaging in Surrounding Space, Elizabeth Moser
Black Hole Entropy in AdS/CFT and the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism, Luke Mrini
Gay and Gray with Something to Say: Internalizing Gender and Internalized Homophobia in Lesbians and Gay Men 60 and Over, Bjorn Mustard
A World Half Created: The Imaginative Power of Sound in the Poetry of William Wordsworth, Trinity Myers
Solvent-Mediated Photophysical Outcomes of Brown Carbon Chromophores, Ruby Neisser
Pastries and Plots: Food Rhetoric and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s Plays, Juliet Nierle
Seeing What We Can't: Evaluating implicit biases in deep learning satellite imagery models trained for poverty prediction, Joseph O'Brien
“Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage:” Theology in the Organ Music of Paul Manz, Justin Oei
Automorphisms of a Generalized Quadrangle of Order 6, Ryan Pesak
Remote Acculturation: The Case of Attribution Styles among American Fans of Japanese Anime and Manga, Thu Pham
Stress and Animal Therapy Rewards: The Impacts of Animal Interaction on Neurological Markers of Stress in College Students, Grace Phillips
"The Unlucky Rebel": William Claiborne and the Evolution of the Kent Island Dispute, Adam Pleasants
Where the wild worms are: Salinity tolerance, hyposaline stress, and survival of Carcinonemertes carcinophila, Alexandria Pomroy
Policies to Improve Quality in Virginia’s Nursing Homes: The Role of Local Labor Markets, Lillian Pope
Investigating the Relationship Between N2pc and Rapid Saccadic Eye Movements, Kezhen Qi
Evaluating the Effects of Scopolamine on Anxiety in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Elsa Quillin
Characterizing Environmental Regulation of Type I DNA Methyltransferase hsdM1 (HP0463) in Helicobacter pylori, Erin Ramsey
Analyzing Cryptographic API Misuse in IoT Libraries, Sayyed Hadi Razmjo
Exploring MK-STYX's Interaction with KDAC6 and Dynein, Quinton Reed
“Deforesting the ‘Princely Trunk:’ Deforestation and Invasion in Shakespeare’s Plays”, Sarah Richman
Characterizing a Novel Phage Particle: The Phagelet, Anne Roman
Investigating the Stereotype Threat and its Influence on Test Performance and Anxiety, Maheen Saeed
Priming Coconut Vasculature for Self-Healing Applications, Ben Sanders
Environmental Factors Affecting Stream Salamander Distribution in the Lake Matoaka Watershed, Kara SantaLucia
Examining the Robustness of an Advanced Self-Driving System through Simulation and Fault Injection, Philip Schowitz
Predicting Respiratory Illness in Belize, Kayla Seggelke
Materials Characterization for Microwave Atom Chip Development, Jordan Shields
