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 2021
Theories of Responsibility and Punishment in a Causally Determined World, Brett Restrick
Using Machine Learning to Track the Location of the Shock Train in Hypersonic Engines, Alison Reynolds
John Dickinson: The Development and Deployment of a Legal Mind: 1754-1774, Sophie Rizzieri
Abraham Hondius's Dog Market: Early Modern Animal Imagery in Transition, Sarah Roberts
Between Italic and Greek: Native Identity and Hybridity in Paestan-Lucanian Tombs, Ashton Rodgers
Memory Suppression: The Importance of Baseline Learning for the Think/No-Think Task, Curtis Rogers
The Myths of War: The Impact of the Falklands War on British Politics, Decolonization, and National Identity, Lindsey Rogers
Rapid Morphological Divergence in Three Introduced Cichlid Species, Khalil Russell
Exploring the $\phi\eta'$ Final State at GlueX, Elizabeth Salata
Reality and Strong Reality in Finite Symplectic Groups, Spencer Schrandt
Behind Every Successful Diplomat is Their Spouse: The Buffer Role of Indian and Pakistani Diplomatic Spouses, Sania Shahid
Dame Ethel Smyth and The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, and the "Bonds of Self", Mary Shannon
Toward a Holographic Transform for the Quantum Clebsch-Gordan Formula, Ethan Shelburne
Effects of Xanomeline on Attention in Rats, Grace Smith
My Voice, My Power: Finding Agency in the Creation of New Dramatic Work, Zoë Bowen Smith
The Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty on the Relationship Between Health Anxiety and COVID-related Stress and Precautions, Samantha Sorid
Investigating the Role of Novel Genes involved in the Wound-Healing Processes of Xenopus laevis Embryogenesis, Swathi Sowmitran
The Bermuda Dilemma, Eva-Mariam Ssekibenga
Whole and Hybrid: Resisting Essentialism in The Satanic Verses and The Impressionist, Louise Strange
Reality, Remembrance, and Self-Expression in the Language of Meta-Cinema, Viola Sun
Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the William & Mary College Woods reconstructed using Phytoliths, Timothy Terlizzi
Topology of the O(3) non-linear sigma model under the gradient flow, Stuart Thomas and Christopher Monahan
"La Noblesse de Diplôme": Evolution of the French Baccalauréat as an Instrument of Elite Selection, Nori Thurman
Developing Iron Complexes for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Benjamin Travis
Understanding Ideal Social Networking Strategies Based on Relational Mobility and Environmental Stability, Angela Vasishta
Photolysis of Methylglyoxal Brown Carbon, Lemai Vo
Morphosyntactic processing in semantically impoverished environments: Insight into measures and mechanisms, Madeleine Wade
International Trade and Revenue-Based Total Factor Productivity: A Firm-Level Analysis, Dongyang Wang
Female Familial Relationships in Valerius’ Argonautica and Statius’ Thebaid, Sophia Warnement
Unmasking Murder: Reconciling the Twin Depictions of Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Warrick
Dial E for Expansion: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Cooperation with the United States and NATO, Charles Williamson
Screenwriting for Television: Studying Creativity in the Genre of Murder-Mystery Shows, Mia Wilson
Holes in the Bro-zone: Exploring Departures from Hegemonic Masculinity in Social Fraternities, Krista Wink
The Humorous Tradition in Arthurian Grail Literature, Benjamin Woessner
"Summer's Gone:" Rethinking the History of the Beach Boys, 1961-1998, Grant Wong
Echo Fragments, Iris Wu
Effects of Gamete Age on Development in Asterias forbesi, Amanda Yeo
Archaeology Saves the Bay: The Sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fishery, Mary Young
Purple Magpie Terrace: A Story of His and Hers, Zheng Yu
Modeling Effects of Macroeconomic and Fundamental Factors in Equity Returns with Machine Learning, Xinzhi Zhang
Honors Theses from 2020
A By-Letter Comparison of the Andalusian and Maghrebi Calligraphic Scripts, Christopher Ahrens
Sleeping with the Television On: How Popular Culture Content Implicitly Informs Political Reality, Grace Amato
Underspecification in Language Processing, Adam An
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Problem, Junda An
The Commodification of Helen: Tracing the Phallic Economy of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Quinn Arnone
Development and Upgrade of a Laser Cooling and Trapping System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms, Bennett Atwater
Learning about Learning with Deep Learning: Satellite Estimates of School Test Scores, Heather M. Baier
Jefferson’s “Marble Mausoleum”: Incongruence in the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson, 1936-1943, Meredith Barber
Predator-Induced Phenotypic Plasticity Across Life History Stages in Echinoderms, Danielle K. Barnes
Adaptation of a Low-Cost Hyperpolarization Technique for Use with Single-Sided NMR, Ruth A. Beaver
Up Close and Personal: Ritual, Social Criticism, and the Russell Tribunal, Henry Blackburn
The Carver's Choice: Tilman Riemenschneider's Monochromatic Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Grace Bland
Young Adults’ Autistic Behaviors and Social Anxiety Predict Eye Fixations in Social Scenes, Minna Blottner
Confronting Toxicity from the Beehive: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Capitalism, Bianca Bowman
A study of matr3 and its effects on the neural progenitor cells of Xenopus laevis tadpoles, Kendall Branham
Skin and Bones: A Sculptural Exploration of Form and Structure, Evan Broennimann
Two Component System Independent Acid Response in Helicobacter pylori, Catharine Burgess
Changing Notions of Identity: Transformations in Jewish Self-Identification Before, During, and After the American Civil War, Heather Byrum
Studies in SEOP Hyperpolarized 3He: Measuring Ko and the Spatial Dependence of Alkali Polarization, Michael Cairo
Data Acquisition and Analysis for Helicity-Correlated Asymmetries in PREx-II, Quinn Campagna
Terra Nullius and the Svalbard Question: Exploring an Anomaly in International Law, Luke H. Campopiano
The Sun Sets on Chinchontepec: (Re)productions of Salvadoran Memory, Aida Campos
Investigating Differential Gene Expression in Zebra Finch Embryos due to Methylmercury Exposure, Natalie Caputo
Meet Your Meat: Imagined Intergroup Contact on Implicit and Explicit Responses to Food, Stephanie Cerrato
Wildcrafting Our Queerness: LGBTQ+ Art, Archiving, and Activism in Contemporary Appalachia, Maxwell Cloe
Lighting Design Analysis of She Kills Monsters, Christian Crabbs
Who's in Charge Here? How Motivations Shape Instances of CEO Activism, Clare DaBaldo
Investigating the Genetic Diversity of Viruses in Soil Using a Marker Gene Approach, Nakul Dar
The Use of Themself to Refer to a Singular Antecedent, Cassandra Davenport
Schieß, Bruder: Turkish-German Rap and Threatening Masculinity, Manasi Deorah
Trade Talks and Populist Thoughts: The Rise in Populist Rhetoric Following China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Samuel Desmarais
Worthy Widows, Feckless Fathers, and Innocent Babes: Experiences of Poverty in Early Industrial England, Emma Diduch
Photolytic Aging of 4-Nitrophenol: Effects of Fresh and Aged Secondary Organic Aerosol on Atmospheric Lifetimes, Lydia Dolvin
Rethinking the Genesis of Mudéjar Architecture in Medieval Toledo, Elizabeth Dowker
Evolutionary Dynamics of Alzheimer's-linked Prion Conformers in Yeast, Matthew M. Dungan
Charlotte Brontë's Victorian Women: A Psychological Analysis in Light of Jungian Theory, Virginia Elam
Choosing One’s Own Demise: Autopsy of a Student-Led International Alternative Break, Maya FarrHenderson
Atomic Magnetometry for the Detection of Cardio-magnetic Fields, Alexander Fay
RMSE-Minimizing Confidence Intervals for the Binomial Parameter, Kexin Feng
All the News Fit to Print: Egyptian and Tunisian Media Development and Political Toleration through Arab Spring, Seth Fiderer
The Self-Reference Effect: How Elaborative Processing and Associability Function Through Self-schemas, Jennifer Fiedler
The Role of Time and Nicotine Dose on Anxiety Measured with Light Enhanced Startle, Ross Fladeland
Border Control: The Use of Language as it Relates to Compensatory Control Theory, Elizabeth Flatt
The 'Rabbits' of Ravensbrück: Medical Experimentation at the Nazi Concentration Camp for Women, Jenna Galberg
Health Effects of Spousal Caregiving Among Elderly Americans, Renee Garrow
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tidal Marshes along an Estuarine Salinity Gradient, Megan Gillen
The Impact of the 1981 Automobile Voluntary Export Restraint on Commuting Zone Level within the United States, Owen Giordano
Disentanglement in a Contested Setting: Testing the Effects of Cultural Reminders on Kahan et al.'s Geoengineering Result, Michael Giovanniello
Gait Characterization Using Computer Vision Video Analysis, Martha T. Gizaw
Reviving Refuse: Individual Agency in Meknes, Morocco’s Waste Management Services, Anna Gleason
"The Most Eloquent Dissents:" Writ Writing at Parchman Penitentiary, Aleyah Gowell
The Relationship Between Emotion and Codeswitching in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers, Alyssa Grzesiak
Synesthesia and its Cognitive Correlates, Bailey Hall
Speaker into Specimen: The Representation of Dialect in Victorian Fiction, Hunter Hall
