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 2020
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
Who Does The Dying?: 'Martial Races' and War Time Unit Deployment in the Indian Army, Ammon Frederick Harteis
Impacts of Projected Sea Level Rise on Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Habitats in Virginia, Holly Funkhouser, Robert Isdell, and Randy Chambers
Gardens Beneath the Ash: Contextualizing Naturalistic Imagery within Pompeii's Urban Fabric, Rebecca Marie Gaborek
Calculating a Drought Vulnerability Index for South Africa based on Social and Biophysical Characteristics, Mollie Gaines
Food Neophobia in Children and the Role of Sensory Characteristics of Food, Elizabeth Gallary
The Art of Repression: Digital Dissent and Power Consolidation in El-Sisi’s Egypt, Wesley Garner
Chiral Transport in Anisotropic Materials, Jacopo Gliozzi
Minimal Principal Series Representations of SL(3,R), Jacopo Gliozzi
Food Insecurity in Local Communities: How Data Collection Can Improve Community Policy, Allison Greenday
Sometimes Enemies, Sometimes Friends, Christopher David Gundermann
An Incongruous Present: Identifying the Absurd Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s "Requiem for a Nun" (1951), Blake Hani
1,4-Benzoquinone and 1,4-Naphthoquinone Natural Products: C-H Functionalization and Enzymatic Activity, Zhenyu Han
"The Celebrated Madame Campan": Educating Republican Mothers à la Française in Nineteenth-Century America, Lydia Heaton
On the Divergence of Schopenhauerian and Schweitzerian Ethics-of-Will, Bryce Herndon
Political Motivations in Government Debt Issuance: Evidence from Mexico, Daniel Herrera
Reassessing the Neustadt as a Site of Outstanding Cultural Value, Sophie Higgerson
The Rust on Gideon’s Trumpet: A Theoretical Diagnostic of Public Defense in America, Luke Hogg
Impact of China's One Belt One Road Initiative at Different Geographical Scales, Yuxiang Hou
Image at Surface, Zhengyang Huang
Remembering the River: Traditional Fishery Practices, Environmental Change and Sovereignty on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Alexis Jenkins
Measuring Magnetic Field Gradients using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Rb Vapor, Ravn Jenkins
Creation and Characterization of Synthetic Biological Tools for Modular Genetic Circuit Design, Ethan Jones
Reducing Quantum Uncertainty via Spatial Optimization, Austin T. Kalasky
Creative Currencies: Circulation and Sovereignty in The Alchemist, Urania, and The Blazing World, Jacqueline Keshner
Haunted Housewives: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Gothic, Caroline Kessler
How Classifications Shape Asylum Seeker and Italian Interactions and Experiences in Siena, Italy, Erin Kitchens
When Science Isn’t Enough: The Importance of a New Social Contract for Conservation Communication, Deborah Kornblut
Atlanta's Curtain Call: AIDS Activism on the Southern Stage, Matthew Kowal
Electrocatalysis for Proton and Oxygen Reduction Reactions, William Lake
Controlled Hierarchical Biomaterial Utilizing Diatom Nanostructure, Benjamin Lazarus
Canine Ceremonialism in the Algonquian Chesapeake: An Eventful Archaeology of Dog Burials at the Hatch Site, Caroline Lehman
