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
Negation & Acosmism: Hegel's Acosmist Reading of Spinoza, Jared Jones
Metamor-Foes: Settlement Preferences and Post-Settlement Cannibalism in the Sea Star Asterias forbesi, Augustin Kalytiak-Davis
"But a Contraband is a Free Man:" Civil War Literature and the Figure of the "Contraband", Mary A. Kardos
Curating Couture: Collaborative Collections of Art & Design, Sandra Kaitlyn Kelso
Taking Transparent Action: Decolonizing the American Collective Memory of Ancient Greece in the Art Museum, Sydney M. Kennedy
Feelings of Fallenness: Affect and Gender in Victorian Fallen Woman Novels, Kate Kowalski
Portals to Healing: Relational Art Practices as Decolonial Antidotes to Transgenerational Trauma, Whitney Ledesma
The Basics of Diatom Frustules as 3D Printable Biomaterial: From Optimal Growth Media to Genetic Manipulation, Jindayi Liang
An Atomic Magnetometer based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Polarization Rotation, Jiahui Li
Age and Origin of the Albemarle-Nelson Mafic-Ultramafic Complex in Virginia's Eastern Blue Ridge: Rift Related Differentiated Sills?, Juliet Liscomb
Economic Impact of the Western Africa Ebola Outbreak--A Holistic Approach, Xufeng Liu
Modern Theory of Copositive Matrices, Yuqiao Li
Co-planar Waveguides for Microwave Atom Chips, Morgan Logsdon
Bayesian Spatial Model Development of Soil Core Organic Matter as a proxy for Blue Carbon Stocks within the Chesapeake Bay, Christian Longo
Do You Salt Your Soup: Investigating the Effect of Interference Control on the Cognitive Reflection Test, Matthew Lowrie
Disappearing Smoke: Why Black Pitmasters Are Being Left Behind by Commercialization within North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue, Charlotte Lucas
Regulation of Testis Stem Cell Behavior by the Novel Drosophila Gene Childless gambino, Natalie Luffman
On the Impact of Social Spending on Long-term Economic Performance in the USA, Jiayong Lu
Zao Wou-Ki: The Infinite Landscape, Laura Yuhua Luo
Modeling and Analyses of Mechanisms Underlying Network Synaptic Dynamics in Two Neural Circuits, Linda Ma
Islamist Reactions to Coup D’états, Maggie Manson
Voting Rules and Properties, Zhuorong Mao
State Political Entrepreneurs in the Age of Modi: Opposition Politics in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal from 2019-2021, Maxwell Markel
Analyzing Function of the Novel Gene, Childless Gambino, During Drosophila Development, Pedro Massa
Frequency and Success of Larval Clone Production in the Daisy Brittle Star Ophiopholis aculeata, Erin-Darby McClain
Examining Labor Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Occupational Lousiness Indicators, Wm. Brennan Merone
“A Sea of White Faces”: How Courtroom Portraits Undermine Justice in Virginia, Lauren Miller
Divided We Stand: An Investigation of America’s Dual Psyche and the FBI’s War on Anti-Americanism, Laura Mills
A Mathematical Model of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease, Julianne Miranda
Differential Protein Expression in Bacteriophages CrimD and Larva, Daria Moody
Showing Off and Going Out: China’s Vanity Project Phenomenon, Caroline Morin
And the Band played On...But Should It?: Educational media and the AIDS crisis, Jillian Murphy
Framing the Female Narrative: Male Audiences and Women's Storytelling Within Two Brontë Novels, Sammy Murphy
Design and Partial Assembly of a Promoter Characterization Circuit for Mycobacteria, Elias H. Nafziger
Using Deep Learning with Satellite Imagery to Estimate Deforestation Rates, Maeve Naughton-Rockwell
The Bodies Politic: Sex, History, and the Promise of a Black Queer America, Jonathan Newby
Development of Convolutional Neural Network for Particle Identification in the GlueX DIRC Detector, Joshua O'Cain
The Architecture of Clothing: Notions of Public and Private Space, Savannah Orsak
Machine Learning in Healthcare: Improving the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 Patients, Soheb Osmani
An Investigation of Self-Regulation as a Mediator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Future Addictive Behaviors, Marina Pantner
Alkali Linewidths under High Temperatures and Pressures of 3He, Michael Parker
Developing a Comprehensive 300-year Record of Contaminant Shifts in Lake Matoaka, Virginia, Rachel Parthasarthy
Transcriptome Analysis of Zebra Finch Tissue After Chronic Low-Level Methylmercury Exposure, Paula Petersen
'Geomorlic' or 'Eorlic?' Uncovering Early English Emotional Communities in "The Wanderer," "Deor," and "The Wife’s Lament", Hunter Phillips
Constructing a Usable Past in Putin's Russia: St. Alexander Nevsky from Screen to Stone, Caroline Prout
Metamorphic Success of Sea Star Larval Clones, Alexis Abigail Reece
The Boys are Back in School: Increased Chinese Import Exposure’s Effect on Community College Enrollments, Georgiana Reece
Cultivation through Excavation: Performing Community and Partnership in the Historic First Baptist Church Project, Eleanor S. Renshaw
The Tale of Two Counties: A Case Study Analysis of Sociological and Systemic Health Barriers in Powhatan and Galax County, Virginia, Rebecca Rogers
The Energy-Growth Nexus in India and the United States, Stephen Rosene
On Certain Antinomies of Freedom: Divine Foreknowledge and Immutability, Tanja T. Rounds
Apparel Barbarous: The Reconstruction of an Early Modern Irish Mantle, Margaret Sheridan
The Enumeration of Minimum Path Covers of Trees, Merielyn Sher
Synthesis and Biological Testing of Small-Molecule Mitochondrial Complex I Inhibitors, Willough Sloan
Investigating Text Mining Techniques Within the Context of Politicized Social Media Data, Grace Smith
Friendship Formation Across Cultures: How Do People Meet Their Friends?, Jacqueline Smith
Communism and the Politics of Cultural Labeling: Patriotism and Piety in American Life, Mark Smith
In Search of Phonetic Evidence for Prosodically-Motivated Aspiration, McKinley Sprinkle
Counting Holes in Physical Systems - Applications of Computational Homology to Systems in Physics -, Sage Stanish
Development of a Video Laryngoscope with AI Assisted Epiglottis Bounding and Automatic Recording, Carson Stillman
Reset The Boundary: State Activism in Juvenile Transfer Reform, Yuchen Tang
Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs and Undesirable Healthcare Expenditures, Cody Sanford Taylor
Development of a Vector Magnetometer based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in 87Rb Atomic Vapor, Alexander Toyryla
Cultural Variations in Experiences of Stress in a Diverse Sample of Adults, Anisha Vanka
Induction and Quantification of shRNA-Induced Cacna1g Knockdown in the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region of Mice, Ann Vonasek
Accelerating Gesture Detection DNNs on Mobile Devices with Model Pruning and Whole Application Optimization Co-Design, Charles Wang
Schur Class Power Series over the Quaternions, Rongbiao Wang
Within-host Model of Poliovirus Control by Defective Interfering Particles and Interferon, Wei Wang
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
