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 2022
The Role of Relative Humidity on Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol Photolysis, Natalie Warren
Do You Hear What I Hear? Comparing Avian Hearing Across Taxonomic Groups, Sarah Weber
Investigation of the Spatial and Temporal Molecular Mechanisms behind Anterior-Posterior Axis Plasticity in Developing Xenopus laevis, Bryan Weselman
Just Two Lands? Language and Identity in Ancient Egypt, Annemarie Wolf
Between the Gay-Straight Binary: Gender and Sexual Identities as Peripheral Cues in Advertising, Matthew Wright
Robert Brandom on Semantics and the Objectivity of Conceptual Norms, Jiayu Wu
Copper(I) Iodide Complexes for the Detection of Aqueous Pyridine, Stephen Yachuw
Indeterminacy, Disagreement, and Reasonable Reference Magnetism, Jaocb (Hengyun) Yang
Performing Asian & White Racialization: Sumié Yotsukura's Your Best (Asian) American Girl: A Cabaret, Sumié Yotsukura
Intergroup Trust: An Examination of Expectations of Ingroup Favoritism in a Trust Game, Zhiwen Yu
Art Collectors and Collections in Contemporary China, Yuchen Zhou
The Characterization of the Type I DNA Methyltransferase hsdM1 (HP0463) in Helicobacter pylori, Elise Zimmerman
The Minimum Number of Multiplicity 1 Eigenvalues Among Real Symmetric Matrices Whose Graph is a Tree, Jacob Zimmerman
Honors Theses from 2021
Performance Implications of Memory Affinity on Filesystem Caches in a Non-Uniform Memory Access Environment, Jacob Adams
Oil Production and Performance of Ghana’s Manufacturing, Jutta Appiah
Small Town Happenings: Local News Values and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Newspapers, Dana Armstrong
On Developing Psych Ward: A Play Representing Mental Illnesses and Personality Disorders, Abeer Hisham Ayyoub
"Concerning the Immersion": Trends In and Attitudes Towards Mikvah Use Among Jewish Virginians, James Barrie
Composite Gravity in Curved Spacetime, Austin Batz
Gender in Time, Jake Beardsley
Progress Towards Electromagnetic Manipulation and Trapping of Micro-particles, Andrew John Beling
“All Is Quiet in Arlington”: The Desegregation of Arlington County Public Schools and How We Remember It, Ella Benbow
The Battle Between Expertise and Misinformation to Influence Public Opinion: A Focus on the Anti-Vaccination Movement, Alexandra Bongiorno
Wielding a Double-Edged Sword: U.S. Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and the “China Threat”, Emma Burleigh
Using Zebrafish to Test a Computational Model Linking REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and Parkinson’s Disease, Belle Buzzi
Blockchain in Healthcare: a New Perspective from Social Media Data, Andrew Caietti
Mausoleum, Madison Carel
Construction of Pyridine Derivatives Using 1,4-Oxazin-2-one Precursors through Cycloaddition / Cycloreversion Tandem Sequences, Nicole Carrillo Vallejo
Simulation and optimization of kinematics measurements for the MOLLER parity-violating electron-electron scattering experiment, Lauren Carver
Molecular Cluster Fragment Machine Learning Training Techniques to Predict Energetics of Brown Carbon Aerosol Clusters, Emily E. Chappie
Performing Generational Trauma: Quan Chau's The Specter, Quan Chau
Cacna1g transcript knockdown analysis via in situ hybridization, Jennifer (Shih-En) Chen
Cross-Dialectal Vowel Mapping and Glide Perception, Abram Clear
Message Reframing & COVID-19 Safety Precautions, Elise Coberly
A Voice from the Convent: Arcangela Tarabotti in Tridentine Venice, Zoe Connell
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of CO-NO: Intermolecular Interactions Drive Photochemical Outcomes, Daniel Costantino
SCOPE: Building and Testing an Integrated Manual-Automated Event Extraction Tool for Online Text-Based Media Sources, Matthew Crittenden
The Effect of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Sociability in Adult Rats, Ian Cropley
Concentration and Nurse Staffing Outcomes in the Healthcare Labor Market, Lizzy Crotty
Social Spaces, Tourism, “Instagrammability, and Authenticity: The Phenomenon of Eccentric and Aesthetic Cosmopolitan-Style Coffee Shops in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Margot Cunningham
Defining Sexism: The Impact of Elite Cues on Conceptualizations and Labeling of Gender-Based Prejudice, Leslie Davis
The Republic of Happiness: James Wilson, Political Thought, and the American Revolution, Kevin Diestelow
The Minimum Number of Multiplicity 1 Eigenvalues among Real Symmetric Matrices whose Graph is a Tree, Wenxuan Ding
A Neopragmatist Understanding of Mathematics, Yuan Dong
Tools in Bioengineering: From Bacteriophage to Bioprinting, Stephanie Do
mo(u)rning person, Kate Dragonetti
Like, Share, and Fight? The Role of Social Media and Cybernationalism in Exacerbating Tensions Between South Korea and Japan, Christina Durham
Contentious Vulnerability: Infrastructure, Assemblages, and Environmental Justice Communities, Mads Emmett
Movement in Crisis: The Position and Lived Experience of Venezuelan Crisis Migrants to the United States, Gustavo Espinosa
Designing and Constructing a Library of Well-characterized Mycobacterium smegmatis Promoters, Xiangyi Fang
The Denial Machine and its Effects on Climate Policy, Peter Faragasso
Measuring Mitochondrial Distribution in Neural Progenitor Cells in the Developing Brain of Xenopus laevis, Sihan Feng
Weight of Words: Moral Responsibility and Freedom of Speech, Sihan Feng
Accessing the Gray Area Between Phonetics and Phonology: the Development of Vowel Length as a Subphonemic Cue, Abby Fergus
The Role of Spider Silk in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration, Langston Forbes-Jackson
"Epic Poems in Bronze": Confederate Memorialization and the Old South's Reckoning with Modernity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
May the Forest Be With You: A Study of Urban Green Space Composition in Richmond, VA, Sydney Fuhrig
Work in the Twenty-First Century: A Marxist-Feminist Reconceptualization on a Communicative Model, Ziyi Fu
Mehr als ein Spiel: Far-Left and Far-Right Football Subcultures in Germany, Daisy Garner
The Effect of MK-STYX on the Interaction of HDAC6 and Ubiquitin, Emma Gergel
Multivalent Conjugation of Biologically Active Molecules Through use of Unnatural Amino Acids, Cameron Goff
The Metaphysics of Sexual Orientation: A Pluralist Account, Neal J. Going
Addressing Systemic Harms Through Restorative Justice Principles, Elissa Gosling
Attentional Bias to Positive and Negative Scenes Differs Based on Traits Related to Social Anxiety, Grace Haffner
The Remittance Behavior of High-skill Migrants: Evidence from Albania, Gillous Harris
Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios for Native and Hybrid Apps, Madeleine Havranek
Constructing Communities: The Effect of Housing Policy on County Populations and Election Outcomes, Ashley Hernandez Estrada
The Trend of Male Cross-dressing in the Chinese Video Game Community, Xuanye He
Experimental and Computational Electronic Quenching Dynamics of Nitric Oxide by Molecular Collisional Partners, David J. Hood
Autocratic Influence in Democratic Transitions: How the Timing of Constitutional Reform Impacts Democratic Consolidation, Benjamin Hotchner
Solidarity and Solitude: Disrupted Memories of AIDS in the Hemophilia Community, William Hubbert
The Enslaved People and the Tylers Too: Why It Is Imperative to Discuss Slavery in Public History, Meredith Jackson
Meeting the Lumpia Filipino: Self-Orientalism in Filipino America, Jamelah Jacob
Mysteries and Uncertainties in Tracing Cryptic Viral Infections, Melaina Jacoby
Molletism as a Paradigm: the Decline and Future of the Parti socialiste de France, Justin Kaley
Playing by the Rules: The Use of Special Rules in the Contemporary United States House of Representatives, Zachary Kirk
The Catalytic Effect and the IMF: The Relationship between Capital Inflows and IMF Program Characteristics, Matthew Levinson
Static and Dynamic Analysis in Cryptographic-API Misuse Detection of Mobile Application, Kunyang Li
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Pathways for Formation and Preparation of Natural Spider Silk Nanofibrils, Linxuan Li
Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: The Effects of Dual Orexin Receptor Blockade on an NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Model, Paige Little
Flipping the Castle: Evolution of Gothic Spaces in the Domestic Sphere, Kate Lucas
A Pain Free Nociceptor: Predicting Football Injuries with Machine Learning, Andrew Lyubovsky
The Female Kirk: Women's Participation in the Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions of Nature in Edith Wharton’s Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Quantifying Dimensions of the Vowel Space in Patients with Schizophrenia and Controls, Elizabeth Maneval
Revisiting British Zionism in the Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin
Alkylpyridinium Iodobismuthate Structural Determination and Analysis, Neal Marshall
A Simplified Computational Approach to Model Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Treatment with Gemcitabine, Lauren Mayer
Creating a Professional TV Show Pitch, Alexis Mays
Life is Ours to Choose: Empathy and Choice-Making in Detroit: Become Human, Mary McCants
To Fulfill What is Written: Reconsidering the Fulfillment-Formula Quotations of the Gospel of Matthew, Potter Cain McKinney
Laurence Sterne: A Different Way of Approaching the Notion of Life in the Early Novel, Robert Metaxatos
