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
Modeling Movement: A machine-learning approach to track migration routes after displacement, Ethan Harrison
An Empirical Study of Bicycle Sharing Systems Using a Product Diffusion Context, Lincoln Hartnett
Conformational Changes of Lactate Dehydrogenase Isozymes, Benjamin Hauk
The Rise and Fall of ‘New Ulster’: Northern Irish Politics in Flux, 1963-1969, Aaron Higgins
Euthyphro, Non-Conditional Valuing, and the Possibility for Evaluative Error: A Humean Approach to Animal Ethics, Elisabeth Holmes
Material Affection: An Exploration of Materiality in the Anthropocene, Ella Kasten
Employing Unnatural Amino Acids to Develop Bioconjugations, Multivalent Conjugates, and Protein Modulation Strategies, Elizabeth King
Impact on Personality on Attitudes towards Diversity and Diversity Initiatives, Sana Lall-Trail
Examining Professional Athletes’ Role as Political Opinion Leaders, Carl Lasker
Deposition and Deformation of Marbles at the Blue Ridge - Piedmont Transition, Central Virginia, Evan Laughlin
Impacts of Spatial and Temporal Variation on the Benthic Nitrogen Cycle in the York River Estuary, Evan Lawrence
Photocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen Catalyzed by Iron (III) Polypyridyl Complexes, Margaret Lawrence
Sizes of Self-Assembled Spider Silk Nanofibrils, Angelica Lin
Attentional Bias to Low-Calorie Foods in Restrained Eaters, Yuxin (Vicky) Liu
Characterization of TRα1 Mutants Associated with Metabolic Disorders and Cancer, Carolina Lopez Silva
Joan of Archetype: Gendered Images of Joan’s Heroism in French Cinema, Julianna Luecke
The functional role of mitochondria in neural progenitor cells, Alyssa Luz-Ricca
Synthesis and Investigation of Asymmetric Diyne and Polyyne Compounds for Biological Activity, Lauren Mazur
Development of Convolutional Neural Nets for Κ/π Differentiation at the GlueX Experiment, Matthew McEneaney
The Homoerotic Architectures of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Samuel McIntyre
Navigating Neoliberalism: Sounds, Spaces, and Success in Kuala Lumpur's Underground Rap Scene, Helen Gypsy McMillian
Studying and Correcting for Helicity-Correlated False Asymmetries in the PREx II and CREx Experiments, Carrington Metts
“You Only Have Time to Explode’”: Nathanael West’s Novels, Mass Media, and Illusory Dreams, Edward Millman
Italian Feminism and the Actualization of Libertà in the 1970s: The Role of Women in the Reproductive Landscape, Cody Daniel Mills
Learning & Planning for Self-Driving Ride-Hailing Fleets, Jack Morris
Effect of Spatial Surround and Sound on Individuals, Taylor Noem
Probing the Localization Patterns and Selectivity Filter of Thyroid Hormone Receptor alpha 1 Mutants, Jerry O'Dwyer
White Liberalism: Jordan Peele Reads Harper Lee, Nicholas Oviedo-Torres
The Effect of Intranasal Orexin A on the Interaction between Social Isolation Stress and Attention, Saurav Pattanayak
A Space of Their Own: Women's Political Involvement in 1790s United States Capitals, Tessa Payer
Using Unnatural Amino Acid Technologies to Immobilize and Regulate Proteins, Emily Mae Peairs
Assessing the Implementation of India’s New Health Reform Program, Ayushman Bharat, in Two Southern States: Kerala and Tamil Nadu, Kalyani Pillai
Effects of nicotine on attention: role of orexin-1 receptors, Stacy Pitcairn
The Artist as Archaeologist of the Colonial Archive: Towards a New Political Imaginary, Kristen Popham
Constructing History: John Everett Millais and The North-West Passage, Eleanor Pschirrer-West
Just Right White: The Lord of the Rings Franchise and Postmodern Race and Racism, Brooke Rees
Moroccan Identity in the 1980s: The Theory and Policy Implications of Studying Moroccan Identity, Heather Rodenberg
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
