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
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
The People of Seljuq Baghdad, 1069-1089, Henry Stratakis-Allen
Development of a 780 nm External Cavity Diode Laser for Rubidium Spectroscopy, Catherine Sturner
Terror Management Theory in International Relations: Vladimir Putin and Slobodan Milosevic, Poojitha Tanjore
The Age and Origin of Nelsonite in the Central Virginia Blue Ridge, Hannah Tebbens
The Realities of Rape: Understanding the Foundations of a Woman’s Space in Ancient Greece and Rome, Georgia Thoms
Considering the Accuracy of Fiat Boundaries: Ontology and Quantification, Lydia Troup
The Development of an AI Video Laryngoscope, Avi Urbach and Tianchen Shi
Spatial Variability of Alkali-metal Polarization, Lauren Vannell
Embodied Nature: Biomimetic Architecture as a Philosophy and Practice, Tara Vasanth
Man, Myth and Medicine: The Exchange of Healing Deities in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, Ryan Vincent
From the Iapetus to the Atlantic: Geology, Geochronology, and Petrology of the eastern Blue Ridge cover sequence, central Virginia, Olivia Wachob
Investigating the Interaction between Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX and Vimentin, Gwen Wagner
Exploring Moral Saints, Ruyu (Evelyn) Wang
Dour Hour: The Effects of Policy Uncertainty on Investment Rates in Europe, Stanley Wang
Stranded At Home: How the Absence of Men in Norwegian Whaling Communities Fostered Women's Civic Engagement, Katrine Roderburg Westgaard
Comedy Laughter Tragedy: The AIDS Epidemic Through The Camera Lens of The American Sitcom, Natalie Wexler
Identity Building in Appalachia, Alexia Wheeler
Characterizing the Complex Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Shuttling, Olivia White
Visualizing the Liminal: Confrontations with Female Passivity in Edith Wharton's Gothic Short Stories, Mikeila Whitney
Chinese Roadbuilding and the Forest-Based Incomes of Indigenous and Rural Cambodians, Emma Williams
A Journal of Those Times, Alexander Wolff
Dealing with the Russian Bear: Central Asian Responses to the Russian Use of Military Force in the Post-Soviet Sphere, Aliia Woodworth
"Lepers for Show": The Performance of Medical Authority and the Illusion of the Chinese Medical Threat in Nineteenth-Century America, Claire Wyszynski
Goodbye... Ripples, Yaxi Xiao
Merging Cross-Platform Gene Expression Data, Jiayi Xu
Referential resolution for resumptive pronouns in island-violating sentences, Ruoqing Yao
The Role of Calcium in Early Embryonic Development, Michelle Yue
To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex: An Exploration of Medieval Christian and Jewish Sexual Values, Rachel Zaslavsky
Honors Theses from 2022
Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers, Sabrien Abdelrahman
Assessing the Orthogonality of Genetic Circuits, Beteel Abu-Ageel
Connecting Moral Injury and PTSD among Military Veterans: The Role of Problem-Focused Thought Rumination & Social Support, Emma Ackerman
Approximating Star-Discrepancy with a Genetic Algorithm, Isabel Agostino
French Colonialism and Botanical Naturalization: The Development of Vanilla on Réunion Island in the 19th Century, Sophia Alden
Imagined Contact with Autism: The Effects of Labeling and Behaviors on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults, Annika Allen
The Role of Homeownership in Taiwan's Low Fertility Story, William Anderson
Tradition Under Scripture: The Patristic Theology of Luther and Calvin, Russell Carter Beisswanger
The Role of Environment in Children's Acquisition of Motion Verbs, Alice Benjamin
Period Doubling Cascades from Data, Alexander Berliner
Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century, Jason Blau
Cultural Evolution and the Intuitionist Paradigm in Ethics: Ethics as Creation, Nickolas J. Boylan
“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman
Quantum Federated Learning: Training Hybrid Neural Networks Collaboratively, Anneliese Brei
Design of Environment-Controlled Analog Audio Effects, Jacob Brotman-Krass
Optical Fiber-Linked Magnetometer Employing Artificial Intelligence for Magnetic Field Measurement, Sofia Brown
The Cognitive & Educational Implications of Color Use in Drawing to Learn, Juliana F.M. Cantarutti
Gas-Phase Proton Affinities for Twenty of the Proline-Containing Dipeptides, Henry Cardwell
Sinfonietta in C Major: Music Composition and Conducting, Colin Carmody
Asking for Forgiveness: Negotiating the Creation of Memory through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Geologic Controls on 137Cs Cycling by Terrestrial Vegetation in the Eastern U.S., Kathleen Chellman
Psychological Peacebuilding: When the Time is Ripe for an Election, Kaiming Chen
Carrying Capacity of Cultured Bivalves in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, and the Implications of Spatial Distribution and Environmental Change, Sophia Chirico
The Written Word Bound by Devotion Unseen: Female Monasticism and Religiosity in the Visions of Gertrud the Great of Helfta, Jana Considine
Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti
'Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction, Allyson Cook
The Reception of Diogenes in the Second Sophistic, Meggie Corcoran
A Study of Transport in the SOL Region of Tokamaks, Gordon Jameson Crouse
In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin
The Effect of Subsidies on Small Exporting Sectors in Chile, Leah Damelin
Nucleotide Sequences and Transcriptomes of Inspiratory Neurons of the PreBötzinger Complex in Neonatal Mice, Caroline K. David
Climate Change and Conservation of Milkweed: Evidence of Extensive Admixture Between Common Milkweed and Poke Milkweed, Elizabeth Davies
Using a Machine Learning Model to Predict Plant Inflorescences based upon its Soil Microbiome, Luke Denoncourt
Student Sleep Patterns when Exposed to Mindfulness Reminders, Zeyanna Dhalla
Chemical Analysis of Organic Compounds in Dew Water, Monica Dibley
Understanding Viral Impacts in Soil Microbial Ecology Through the Persistence and Decay of Infectious Bacteriophage Particles, Alli DiPietro
Investigating the Effect of Longhorned Milkweed Beetle Larval Root Feeding on Resprouting in Common Milkweed, Margaret Donnan
The Genetic Consequences of Selection for Plastic Adherence on Evolving Yeast Populations, Benjamin Epley
The Apocalyptic Mode in Contemporary Environmental Art, Victoria Erisman
Silver, Ships and Soil: Gift-Giving in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Emma Eubank
From Necessity to Novelty: Historic Trades in Colonial Williamsburg, Cecelia Rose Eure
Free Speech and Its Limits: An Exploration of Tolerance in the Digital Age, Jamie Forte
Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Morality and Motivation Behind the Algorithm, Avery Freeman
Analysis of eDNA to Assess Effects of Water Quality on Freshwater Fungal Diversity in a Virginia Coastal Watershed, Lauren French
Method for Protecting Satellites from Solar Energetic Particles Using Chaotic Magnetic Fields, Seth Gnesin
Investigating the Role of HDAC3 (KDAC3) and SIRT2 in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Trafficking, Jordan Gooding
The Effect of High School Racial Demographics on Cultural Competence in College Students, Lauren Grob
'Carcern' and 'Wordcræft': Enclosure, Connection and Gender in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and "Elene", Katherine Grotewiel
Validating Behavioral Testing Paradigm for Selective and Sustained Attention, Zixu Guo
Investigating the Effectiveness of GARCH(1,2) and COGARCH(1,2) Models in Estimating Volatility in the S&P500 Index, Ethan Hackett
Spectacular: A New Musical, Paul Hardin
Relating Occupancy Patterns to Multi-Life-History Scales for Pond-Breeding Anurans in Eastern Virginia, Patrick A. Hardner
Enumerating Switching Isomorphism Classes of Signed Graphs, Nathaniel Healy
True Price of a Pack: Tobacco Expenditure and Height-for-Age in Indonesia, Madeline Helfer
The Pandemic From Above: Estimating COVID-19 Cases Using Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery, John Hennin
The Application of Acetyltransferase Inhibitors and Neural Networks to Thyroid Hormone Receptor Mutants, Thomas Hess
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
The Journey of Unlearning: A Close Reading of Civil War Pedagogy in Alabama and Virginia, Michaela Hill
Revolutionizing Gender in One Minute or Less: Informally Theorizing Nonbinary Identity on TikTok, Miranda Huffer
Investigation of Tertiary Impact Cratering and Relation to Impact Physics Theory, Mikayla Huffman
Ambitious Boys and Girls: Childhood Failure and Gender Norms in Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ceci Hughes
Transcriptomic and Functional Analysis of Novel Mycobacteriophagelet Bernie and Prophage HerbertWM, Taiana James
