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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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.

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Honors Theses from 2023

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Structurally-Aware Films' Impact on Theory of Mind, Aravind Sreeram

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Popular Culture, Politics, and the Papacy: The Alignment of Anglo-American Popular Music and the Modernizing Catholicism of John Paul II, 1979-1989, Isabella Maria Stark

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The People of Seljuq Baghdad, 1069-1089, Henry Stratakis-Allen

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Development of a 780 nm External Cavity Diode Laser for Rubidium Spectroscopy, Catherine Sturner

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Terror Management Theory in International Relations: Vladimir Putin and Slobodan Milosevic, Poojitha Tanjore

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The Age and Origin of Nelsonite in the Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Hannah Tebbens

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The Realities of Rape: Understanding the Foundations of a Woman’s Space in Ancient Greece and Rome, Georgia Thoms

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Considering the Accuracy of Fiat Boundaries: Ontology and Quantification, Lydia Troup

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The Development of an AI Video Laryngoscope, Avi Urbach and Tianchen Shi

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Spatial Variability of Alkali-metal Polarization, Lauren Vannell

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Embodied Nature: Biomimetic Architecture as a Philosophy and Practice, Tara Vasanth

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Man, Myth and Medicine: The Exchange of Healing Deities in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, Ryan Vincent

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From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, Geochronology, and Petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence, central Virginia, Olivia Wachob

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Investigating the Interaction between Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX and Vimentin, Gwen Wagner

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Exploring Moral Saints, Ruyu (Evelyn) Wang

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Dour Hour: The Effects of Policy Uncertainty on Investment Rates in Europe, Stanley Wang

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Stranded At Home: How the Absence of Men in Norwegian Whaling Communities Fostered Women's Civic Engagement, Katrine Roderburg Westgaard

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Comedy Laughter Tragedy: The AIDS Epidemic Through The Camera Lens of The American Sitcom, Natalie Wexler

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Identity Building in Appalachia, Alexia Wheeler

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Characterizing the Complex Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Shuttling, Olivia White

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Visualizing the Liminal: Confrontations with Female Passivity in Edith Wharton's Gothic Short Stories, Mikeila Whitney

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Chinese Roadbuilding and the Forest-Based Incomes of Indigenous and Rural Cambodians, Emma Williams

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A Journal of Those Times, Alexander Wolff

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Dealing with the Russian Bear: Central Asian Responses to the Russian Use of Military Force in the Post-Soviet Sphere, Aliia Woodworth

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"Lepers for Show": The Performance of Medical Authority and the Illusion of the Chinese Medical Threat in Nineteenth-Century America, Claire Wyszynski

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Goodbye... Ripples, Yaxi Xiao

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Merging Cross-Platform Gene Expression Data, Jiayi Xu

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Referential resolution for resumptive pronouns in island-violating sentences, Ruoqing Yao

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Associations Among Self-Regulation, Life Stress, and Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach, Yifan Yuan

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The Role of Calcium in Early Embryonic Development, Michelle Yue

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To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex: An Exploration of Medieval Christian and Jewish Sexual Values, Rachel Zaslavsky

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“Levers a Dansh” [Get Up and Dance]: Monastic Dance in Sixteenth-Century England as Revealed by The Gresley Dance Manuscript, Heidi Zmick

Honors Theses from 2022

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Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers, Sabrien Abdelrahman

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Assessing the Orthogonality of Genetic Circuits, Beteel Abu-Ageel

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Connecting Moral Injury and PTSD among Military Veterans: The Role of Problem-Focused Thought Rumination & Social Support, Emma Ackerman

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Long-term Data Reveal Differences in Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi between Nymph and Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis), Meghan Adams

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Approximating Star-Discrepancy with a Genetic Algorithm, Isabel Agostino

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French Colonialism and Botanical Naturalization: The Development of Vanilla on Réunion Island in the 19th Century, Sophia Alden

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Imagined Contact with Autism: The Effects of Labeling and Behaviors on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults, Annika Allen

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The Role of Homeownership in Taiwan's Low Fertility Story, William Anderson

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Tradition Under Scripture: The Patristic Theology of Luther and Calvin, Russell Carter Beisswanger

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The Role of Environment in Children's Acquisition of Motion Verbs, Alice Benjamin

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Period Doubling Cascades from Data, Alexander Berliner

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Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century, Jason Blau

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Cultural Evolution and the Intuitionist Paradigm in Ethics: Ethics as Creation, Nickolas J. Boylan

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“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman

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Remystifying the Modern World: Magical Realism and the Reappropriation of the Christian Imaginary in Beloved and The Master and Margarita, William Brake

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Quantum Federated Learning: Training Hybrid Neural Networks Collaboratively, Anneliese Brei

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Design of Environment-Controlled Analog Audio Effects, Jacob Brotman-Krass

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Optical Fiber-Linked Magnetometer Employing Artificial Intelligence for Magnetic Field Measurement, Sofia Brown

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The Cognitive & Educational Implications of Color Use in Drawing to Learn, Juliana F.M. Cantarutti

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Gas-Phase Proton Affinities for Twenty of the Proline-Containing Dipeptides, Henry Cardwell

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Sinfonietta in C Major: Music Composition and Conducting, Colin Carmody

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Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo

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Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman

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Psychological Peacebuilding: When the Time is Ripe for an Election, Kaiming Chen

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Carrying Capacity of Cultured Bivalves in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, and the Implications of Spatial Distribution and Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico

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Honey as a Biomonitor for Air Pollutant Deposition in the Eastern United States using Ion Chromatography and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Cole Cochran

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The Written Word Bound by Devotion Unseen: Female Monasticism and Religiosity in the Visions of Gertrud the Great of Helfta, Jana Considine

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Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti

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'Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction, Allyson Cook

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The Reception of Diogenes in the Second Sophistic, Meggie Corcoran

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A Study of Transport in the SOL Region of Tokamaks, Gordon Jameson Crouse

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In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin

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The Effect of Subsidies on Small Exporting Sectors in Chile, Leah Damelin

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Nucleotide Sequences and Transcriptomes of Inspiratory Neurons of the PreBötzinger Complex in Neonatal Mice, Caroline K. David

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Climate Change and Conservation of Milkweed: Evidence of Extensive Admixture Between Common Milkweed and Poke Milkweed, Elizabeth Davies

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Using a Machine Learning Model to Predict Plant Inflorescences based upon its Soil Microbiome, Luke Denoncourt

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Student Sleep Patterns when Exposed to Mindfulness Reminders, Zeyanna Dhalla

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Chemical Analysis of Organic Compounds in Dew Water, Monica Dibley

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Understanding Viral Impacts in Soil Microbial Ecology Through the Persistence and Decay of Infectious Bacteriophage Particles, Alli DiPietro

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Investigating the Effect of Longhorned Milkweed Beetle Larval Root Feeding on Resprouting in Common Milkweed, Margaret Donnan

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Uncovering Global Trends in Multicellularity in Natural Isolates of the Model Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Impacts on “Accidental Virulence”, Luke Ekdahl

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The Genetic Consequences of Selection for Plastic Adherence on Evolving Yeast Populations, Benjamin Epley

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The Apocalyptic Mode in Contemporary Environmental Art, Victoria Erisman

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Silver, Ships and Soil: Gift-Giving in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank

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From Necessity to Novelty: Historic Trades in Colonial Williamsburg, Cecelia Rose Eure

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Free Speech and Its Limits: An Exploration of Tolerance in the Digital Age, Jamie Forte

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Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Morality and Motivation Behind the Algorithm, Avery Freeman

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Analysis of eDNA to Assess Effects of Water Quality on Freshwater Fungal Diversity in a Virginia Coastal Watershed, Lauren French

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Hypertension Severity Impacts Declines in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Among Women Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer, Riya Garg

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Method for Protecting Satellites from Solar Energetic Particles Using Chaotic Magnetic Fields, Seth Gnesin

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Investigating the Role of HDAC3 (KDAC3) and SIRT2 in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Trafficking, Jordan Gooding

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The Effect of High School Racial Demographics on Cultural Competence in College Students, Lauren Grob

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Braving the Breakers: A Study of U.S. Political Polarization & the United States’ International Reputation as a Reliable Global Partner, Paige Groome

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'Carcern' and 'Wordcræft': Enclosure, Connection and Gender in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and "Elene", Katherine Grotewiel

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Validating Behavioral Testing Paradigm for Selective and Sustained Attention, Zixu Guo

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Investigating the Effectiveness of GARCH(1,2) and COGARCH(1,2) Models in Estimating Volatility in the S&P500 Index, Ethan Hackett

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Spectacular: A New Musical, Paul Hardin

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Relating Occupancy Patterns to Multi-Life-History Scales for Pond-Breeding Anurans in Eastern Virginia, Patrick A. Hardner

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Enumerating Switching Isomorphism Classes of Signed Graphs, Nathaniel Healy

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True Price of a Pack: Tobacco Expenditure and Height-for-Age in Indonesia, Madeline Helfer

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The Pandemic From Above: Estimating COVID-19 Cases Using Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery, John Hennin

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The Application of Acetyltransferase Inhibitors and Neural Networks to Thyroid Hormone Receptor Mutants, Thomas Hess

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The Other Synoptics: An Analysis of the Fourth Evangelist’s and Paul of Tarsus’ Opinion on the Significance of Jesus’ Death, the Aftermath of the Resurrection, and the Nature of Jesus, Austin A. Hillebrandt

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The Journey of Unlearning: A Close Reading of Civil War Pedagogy in Alabama and Virginia, Michaela Hill

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Revolutionizing Gender in One Minute or Less: Informally Theorizing Nonbinary Identity on TikTok, Miranda Huffer

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Investigation of Tertiary Impact Cratering and Relation to Impact Physics Theory, Mikayla Huffman

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Ambitious Boys and Girls: Childhood Failure and Gender Norms in Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ceci Hughes

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Transcriptomic and Functional Analysis of Novel Mycobacteriophagelet Bernie and Prophage HerbertWM, Taiana James