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
Movement in Crisis: The Position and Lived Experience of Venezuelan Crisis Migrants to the United States, Gustavo Espinosa
Designing and Constructing a Library of Well-characterized Mycobacterium smegmatis Promoters, Xiangyi Fang
The Denial Machine and its Effects on Climate Policy, Peter Faragasso
Measuring Mitochondrial Distribution in Neural Progenitor Cells in the Developing Brain of Xenopus laevis, Sihan Feng
Weight of Words: Moral Responsibility and Freedom of Speech, Sihan Feng
Accessing the Gray Area Between Phonetics and Phonology: the Development of Vowel Length as a Subphonemic Cue, Abby Fergus
The Role of Spider Silk in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration, Langston Forbes-Jackson
"Epic Poems in Bronze": Confederate Memorialization and the Old South's Reckoning with Modernity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
May the Forest Be With You: A Study of Urban Green Space Composition in Richmond, VA, Sydney Fuhrig
Work in the Twenty-First Century: A Marxist-Feminist Reconceptualization on a Communicative Model, Ziyi Fu
Mehr als ein Spiel: Far-Left and Far-Right Football Subcultures in Germany, Daisy Garner
The Effect of MK-STYX on the Interaction of HDAC6 and Ubiquitin, Emma Gergel
Multivalent Conjugation of Biologically Active Molecules Through use of Unnatural Amino Acids, Cameron Goff
The Metaphysics of Sexual Orientation: A Pluralist Account, Neal J. Going
Addressing Systemic Harms Through Restorative Justice Principles, Elissa Gosling
Attentional Bias to Positive and Negative Scenes Differs Based on Traits Related to Social Anxiety, Grace Haffner
The Remittance Behavior of High-skill Migrants: Evidence from Albania, Gillous Harris
Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios for Native and Hybrid Apps, Madeleine Havranek
Constructing Communities: The Effect of Housing Policy on County Populations and Election Outcomes, Ashley Hernandez Estrada
The Trend of Male Cross-dressing in the Chinese Video Game Community, Xuanye He
Experimental and Computational Electronic Quenching Dynamics of Nitric Oxide by Molecular Collisional Partners, David J. Hood
Autocratic Influence in Democratic Transitions: How the Timing of Constitutional Reform Impacts Democratic Consolidation, Benjamin Hotchner
Solidarity and Solitude: Disrupted Memories of AIDS in the Hemophilia Community, William Hubbert
The Enslaved People and the Tylers Too: Why It Is Imperative to Discuss Slavery in Public History, Meredith Jackson
Meeting the Lumpia Filipino: Self-Orientalism in Filipino America, Jamelah Jacob
Mysteries and Uncertainties in Tracing Cryptic Viral Infections, Melaina Jacoby
The New Idealism in International Relations: Hegelian Theory of the International System, John Kainer
Molletism as a Paradigm: the Decline and Future of the Parti socialiste de France, Justin Kaley
Playing by the Rules: The Use of Special Rules in the Contemporary United States House of Representatives, Zachary Kirk
The Catalytic Effect and the IMF: The Relationship between Capital Inflows and IMF Program Characteristics, Matthew Levinson
Static and Dynamic Analysis in Cryptographic-API Misuse Detection of Mobile Application, Kunyang Li
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Pathways for Formation and Preparation of Natural Spider Silk Nanofibrils, Linxuan Li
Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: The Effects of Dual Orexin Receptor Blockade on an NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Model, Paige Little
Flipping the Castle: Evolution of Gothic Spaces in the Domestic Sphere, Kate Lucas
A Pain Free Nociceptor: Predicting Football Injuries with Machine Learning, Andrew Lyubovsky
The Female Kirk: Women's Participation in the Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions of Nature in Edith Wharton’s Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Quantifying Dimensions of the Vowel Space in Patients with Schizophrenia and Controls, Elizabeth Maneval
Revisiting British Zionism in the Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin
Alkylpyridinium Iodobismuthate Structural Determination and Analysis, Neal Marshall
A Simplified Computational Approach to Model Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Treatment with Gemcitabine, Lauren Mayer
Creating a Professional TV Show Pitch, Alexis Mays
Life is Ours to Choose: Empathy and Choice-Making in Detroit: Become Human, Mary McCants
To Fulfill What is Written: Reconsidering the Fulfillment-Formula Quotations of the Gospel of Matthew, Potter Cain McKinney
Laurence Sterne: A Different Way of Approaching the Notion of Life in the Early Novel, Robert Metaxatos
Linguistic Measures of Symptomatology in Schizophrenia, Celia Metzger
Life stage explains variation in habitat use of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), Joyner Miller
The Money War: America's Efforts to Police Terrorist Financing and Its Impact on Hawala Networks, Charlotte Mines
Proteomic Analysis of Mycobacteriophage CrimD, William Moeller
Interrogating Injustice: Carceral Feminism, Brock Turner, and the Dilemmas of Seeking Accountability for Sexual Violence in Our Prison Nation, Willa Quinn Moffatt
Improving Society through Electrification: The Case of Solar Energy in Mozambique, Christian Moore
Y-Maze Spontaneous Alternation and Response Alternation Task for Assessing Spatial Memory in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Emma Sophie Moore
Children’s Approach-Avoidance Biases to Alcohol: The Role of Gender and Early Exposure, Maddie Moore
Humic Acids as Sacrificial Electron Donors for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Allison Moyer
Des Oiseaux Spectaculaires: Birds Observed and Imagined in French Court Culture Under Louis XIV, Sally Mullis
How Differences in Political Ideology Impact Close Relationships, Erin Murray
Andalucía en capas: Reconciling Andalusian Identity with Spanish and European Influence, Barham R. T. Nardo
Characterizing the Microbiome of Floral Nectar of Asclepias syriaca and other Asclepias species, Heather Natterer
Nonlocal Lorentz-violating Modifications of QED, Qian Niu
Turbo Shell Scrapers from the Society Islands: An Ethnohistorical and Microfossil Analysis Approach, Carol Oordt
The Line of Dichotomy: Standpoints and Meaning in Anne Truitt's Art, Charles J. Parsons
Delineating the Role of Osgin1 in Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing in Xenopus laevis, Kushali Patel
Investigating Charge Transfer Complexes in Brown Carbon Aerosols, Brianna Peterson
A Survey of Methods to Determine Quantum Symmetry of Graphs, Samantha Phillips
Determining Quantum Symmetry in Graphs Using Planar Algebras, Akshata Pisharody
Evaluating Autophagy as a Mechanism for MK-STYX-induced Stress Granule Reduction, Tatiana Prioleau
Synthesis and Biological Testing of Quinone-Based Natural Products, Yihan Qin
A Comparison Between the Evolutionary Genomics of Pseudophosphatases MK-STYX and STYX, Yi Qi
On Designing a Digital Marketplace for Bartering Course Registration, Daniel Quiroga
Computed Semantics of Words Denoting Nebulous Human Concepts, Tristan Edmund Ramage
M2 Receptor Antagonists and their role in Sustained attention, Faye Reid
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
