W&M ScholarWorks serves as the repository for W&M undergraduate honors theses. Students are required to submit their thesis in electronic format, commonly called an ETD (electronic theses and dissertations) to the repository.
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Honors theses may have restricted access for a set time period or be restricted to On-Campus Access based on the author's choice. Additionally, William & Mary Libraries places On-Campus Access and long term embargos on Creative Writing, Non-Fiction theses.
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Honors Theses from 2020
Autocratic Liberalization and Gendered Speech: Evidence from the Parliament of Singapore, Elizabeth Rosen
The Mexican Ex-Voto Tradition as a Potential Subversion of Authority, Samantha Ros
Measuring Anti-Vaxx Sentiment on Social Media, Campbell Scheuerman
Iron polypyridyl complexes for electrocatalytic proton reduction, Zachary Schiffman
#LGBT: Regulation and Categorization of LGBT+ Discourse on Tumblr, Sara Schmieder
Tell Me What You Really Think (A Novel), Marriya Schwarz
Subgroup Diversity in Higher Education: A Case Study for Asian American Recruitment, Emma Shainwald
A Mathematical Model for the Trend and Prediction of Movie Revenue, Yuxin Shang
Emergency Contact, Sophia Shealy
Inclusive Language Use and Instruction in Spanish: A Community-Informed Approach to Implementing Linguistic Changes in Education, Cristina Sherer
Real is What You Make It: An Analysis of Authenticity and Inspiration in Daily Life, Cameron Shifflett
Resting Heart Rate Variability at Sea Level Predicts Arterial Desaturation during Acute Exercise in Hypoxia, Kelsey Short
Analysis of Modelling Deficiencies that Contributed to the High Unanticipated Loan Losses Incurred During the Housing Price Collapse of the Great Recession, Jennifer Shulman
Verbs of Motion: Effects of Cross-linguistic Transfer in Spanish-English Bilingual Children, Rebecca Smyder
Development of Wearable Sensors for Gait Analysis, Jorden Smyth
Flipping the Kill-Switch: Why Governments Shut Down the Internet, Elizabeth Sutterlin
J.G. Ballard and the Anthropocene, Noah Terrell
Dynamics of Sensory Integration of Olfactory and Mechanical Stimuli Within the Response Patterns of Moth Antennal Lobe Neurons, Harrison Tuckman
Determination of Thermodynamic Properties of Non-Protein Amino Acids and Characterization of Multimers of Carbamazepine, Gwendylan Turner
Design of Smart, Lipid-Secreting Nasal Probiotic for the Suppression of Respiratory Viral Infections, Julia Urban
Blue Cathedral, Jessica Urgo
In the Cathedral of the Devil: Young Witches of Navarre, 1608-1614, Olivia Louise Vande Woude
The Advantages of 241Am as a Dating Tool in Sedimentary Systems, Paul Volante
Fighting for Religious Freedom; Muhammad Ali and His Battle Against the U.S. Supreme Court, Jessica Wakelin
Unmasking a Terrane Triple Point in Central Virginia, Ryan Walter
The Relation of Parental Incarceration to Child Self-Perception and School Programming Impacts, Sierra Walters
Non-linear Modifications of Black-Scholes Pricing Model with Diminishing Marginal Transaction Cost, Kaidi Wang
Modernity Leave: The Sexual Mother of the French New Wave & Beyond, Theodore Wansink
Four-Wave Mixing with Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer, Hana Warner
THE EFFECTS OF MERCURY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEAVY METAL EXPOSURE ON GENE EXPRESSION, Maya Watson
Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land, Angela Rose Granados West
Bilingualism and Emotion: How do Spanish-English Bilinguals Experience the Two Languages Differently?, Caitlyn Whitesell
Inferring Diet of Clidastes liodontus through Comparative Skull and Pterygoid Tooth Morphology of Toxicoferan Squamates, Ian Wilenzik
X Chromosome Segregation During Spermatogenesis in Auanema rhodensis XX Males, Emily Ling Xu
Stage-structured Blue Crab Population Model with Fishing, Predation and Cannibalism, Fangming Xu
Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Degenerate Four-wave Mixing via Rubidium Vapor, Kangning Yang
The Overrepresentation of Female Students in For-Profit Higher Education, Madeleine Yi
The Legacy of State Farms on Ethiopia’s Spatial Structural Transformation, Henry Larkin Young
Chemical Transformation of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosols Due to Photolytic Aging, Hongmin Yu
Structural Analysis of the Shores Mélange at the Seven Islands, central Virginia Piedmont, Terri Zach
Imperial Professionals: American Protestant Female Medical Missionaries to China, 1880-1930, Yutong Zhan
Modeling Hybrid Novel Traits: A case study in complex petal pigment patterning in hybrid Mimulus, Xingyu Zheng
Honors Theses from 2019
On Macroeconomic Nowcasting and Forecasting with Satellite Imagery and Convolutional Neural Networks, Adam Abate
The Dimetrodon dilemma: Reassessing posture in sphenacodontians and related non-mammalian synapsids, Caroline Patterson Abbott
The Genetic Basis Underlying the Evolution of Commensal Microbes to Opportunistic Pathogens, Maliha Ahmad
Totally Positive Completable Matrix Patterns and Expansion, David Allen
Cloning and Characterizing Nrf2-Antioxidant Pathway Gene Expression During Embryonic Neurogenesis in Xenopus laevis., Nana Yaa Amoh
Egoism and the Repugnant Conclusion, Nathaniel Anderson
Sketching to Learn in High School Biology Classrooms, Emma Arents
(In)Human Anatomies: Constructions of Whiteness and Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Katherine Avery
Light Limitation of Eelgrass, Zostera marina, by The Egg Capsules of The Mud Snail Tritia obsoleta, Matthew Baker
Exclusive neutral pion production and Compton scattering at GlueX, Zach Baldwin
The Impact of Guided Pretend Play on Preschool Children's Theory of Mind, Valerie P. Bambha
Using the Prisoner’s Dilemma to Evaluate Personality Indicators of Cooperation, Vansh Bansal
A General Weil-Brezin Map and Some Applications, Benjamin Bechtold
The relationship between acute exposure to hypoxia and heart rate variability in unacclimatized individuals, Grace Becker
Disentanglement of Whisker Deflection Velocity and Direction, Srijan Bhasin
Peer-Mediated Interventions for Middle School Students with High-Functioning Autism, Katelyn Birchfield
Median Energy Imaging of Supernova Remnants with Chandra X-ray Observatory, Anne Blackwell
Interactions Between an Education Polygenic Score and SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood, James Bolyard
'I walk pure before God!': Narrative Structure and Reimagined Negotiations in the Victorian Female Bildungsroman, Devon Boyers
An investigation of the role of Ttyh1 in neuronal development via CRISPR/Cas9 genetic knockouts in Xenopus Laevis, Sabrina Bracero
Spatial Encoding with Single-sided NMR, Madeline Brass
Pion Identification through Machine Learning for the MOLLER Experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Anne-Katherine Burns
Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles in a Virginia Mill Pond Provide a Record of Local and Regional Coal Combustion, Kayla Cahoon
Rankin-Cohen Brackets and Fusion Rules for Discrete Series Representations of SL(2,R), Emilee Cardin
Identity in Flux: Gender Norms and the English Language in Today’s Ukraine, Melanie Carter
Flow Dynamics in the Oral and Opercular Cavities of the American Shad (Alosa sapidissima), Cassandra Chang
Deconstructing Patriarchal War Narratives: State Mythmaking and Documentary Prose of Svetlana Alexievich, Molly Charles
Annual Movement Patterns and Microhabitat Use of Two Anaxyrus Species in the Southeastern Coastal Plain, Courtney Check
The New Covenant: Welfare Reform and American Exceptionalism, Villemaire Choo
“Deceived by Misrepresentations”: An Examination of Nicolino Calyo’s "Servants at a Pump", Rachel Ciampoli
Ghosts of the Anthropocene, Riley Covert
Twitter Sentiment Analysis on Leicester City's Phenomenal 2015/16 EPL Title Winning Season, Eyosyas Dagnachew
Universal Love and “Ageless Ambiguity”: Political Erasure in Call Me By Your Name, Alicia Devereaux
Deconstructing Resilience: Running, Personality, and Psychopathology, Laila Drury
U/Pb Zircon Evidence for a Cryptic Suture in the Goochland Terrane, Virginia, Hope Duke
Everyone is Pro-life: The Historical and Cultural Influences on Elite Discourse of Abortion in Argentina, Emily Earls
Christianity During Times of Crisis: The European Refugee Movement, Kathryn Eckler
(Re-) Staging Translation: Meaningful Interaction with Hindu Devotional Objects in the Western museum, Emma Efkeman
Identity Among Barbadian University Students and Their Attitudes to Migrant Labor, Daniil Eliseev
Jumping through Hoops: The Rise and Demise of the Hoop Petticoat in the Eighteenth Century, Charlotte Engel
How Effective are Retention Ponds at Mitigating the Effects of Urban Runoff?, Joanne C. Ensley
Optimizing Silver Nanoparticles for Pigment Identification in Art, Carolyn Farling
Effect of Descriptive Social Norms on Implicit and Explicit Responses to Foods, Giselle Ferguson
Crazy Women and Crazier Men: Mental Illness and Gender in Television Shows and Fan Conversations, Hannah Ferster
Meridian, Benjamin Fox
Peer Emotion Socialization and the Development of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence, Sara Franklin-Gillette
Reaching with Light: The Impact of Remote Tool Use on Size and Distance Perception, Sarah Grace Frary
