W&M ScholarWorks is the official repository for W&M Honors Theses. Digital theses become William & Mary's standard format beginning in 2016. Students are required to submit their thesis in electronic format, commonly called an ETD (electronic theses and dissertations) to W&M ScholarWorks.
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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.
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Honors Theses from 2018
"O God Within My Breast": The Religion of Emily Brontë, Christina Danberg
Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Fragmentation Studies of Tetrapeptides Containing Lysine and Its Homologs, AnnaTram Do
Anterior-Posterior Neural Axis Plasticity in Xenopus laevis, Chen Dong
A Song of Arms and of the Woman: Confronting Cleopatra in the Augustan Era through the Carmen de Bello Actiaco, Rachel Dubit
"Istwa Sa A Pa Senp": Body, Land, And Family In Haitian Afrofuturist Fiction, Sora Edwards-Thro
Are Approach-Avoidance Emotions Represented in the Brain as Approach-Avoidance Actions?, Channing Everidge
Efficacy of Intranasal Administration: A Clinical Approach to Attention, Jacob Feldmann
“Reader, I Did Not Marry Him:” Marriage Proposals, Choice, and Female Desire in the Victorian Era, Elizabeth Rose Flood
Resistance and Women's Solidarity in The Handmaid's Tale, from 1985 to 2017, Dana S. Florczak
Health and Medicine among First-Generation African Immigrants in the United States, Anne Fuller
Setting and Success in Resistance Campaigns, Eric Gelles
Accessing the Right to Choose: Factors Predicting the Enactment of State-Level Abortion Clinic Access Laws, Hannah Gourdie
Diatomaceous Solar Cells, Jesse Granger
External Cavity Diode Laser for Ultra-cold Atom Experiments, Benjamin Halkowski
Potential Stability of Matrix Sign Patterns, Christopher Hambric
Linguistic Feminism & The Body in 20th-Century French Feminist Texts, Lauren Hammett
The Guns of al-Fao: Saddam, the War, and the Weapons That Made it Possible, Travis Haycraft
Tonogenesis in Korean, Anna Henshaw
Breaking the Stereotype: Age and Public Opinion Towards Refugees in Germany, Michelle Hermes
Procedural Generation and Rendering of Ink Bamboo Painting, Yangyang He
Evolutionary Competition as Religion: A Religio-Biological Model of the Maori and Vaisnava Sahajiya Traditions, Benjamin Highland
The Mechanisms of Pond Expansion in the Marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, Joshua Himmelstein
An Analysis of the Life and Work of Alice Fletcher and Frances Densmore, Lauren Hoak
A Mathematical Study of Competition and Adoption of Two Consumer Products, Chengli Huang
Maritime Governance: How State Capacity Impacts Piracy and Sea Lane Security, Yuito Ishikawa
Popular Motherist Activism in Argentina: Why do Mothers Radicalize?, Emily B. Jackson
The Role of Protein-coding and Regulatory Evolution in Speciation of Wild Yeast, Danting Jiang
Education in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Jiayue Jiang
Stripping the Paint: Uncovering the Self-Made Man in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby, Emma Elena Johnson
pH Tolerance and Luminescence in Vibrio fischeri, Devin Jones
Effect of Implicit and Explicit Prejudice on Perceptions of Drug Users of Different Races, Yajna Jowaheer
The Relation Between Trustworthy Behavior and Facial Mimicry: An Examination of Behavior in a Trust Game, Sulleen V. Kauffman
The Unusual Paradigm of the Acid Response Two Component System of Helicobacter pylori, Anna Kenan
Exploring Nucleophagy and Inflammation in the Tumor Microenvironment, Likhitha Kolla
Mental Health and Resource Utilization among Underrepresented Students Transitioning to College, Yoojin Kook
Kinematics of Brittle and Ductile Deformation in the Catoctin Formation near Rockfish Gap, Virginia, Katherine Lang
Photo-Controlled Release of Zinc Ions in Aqueous Solution with Simultaneous Fluorescence Detection, Tyler Larson
Imagining Oppression in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Heather Thompson Lawrence
Implementation and Analysis of the Nonlinear Decomposition Attack on Polycyclic Groups, Yoongbok Lee
Investigating Phenotypic and Genetic Variation in Quorum Sensing in Natural Isolates of the Model Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Benedict Lenhart
"Glimmerings, Hints, and Secret Amazements": William Blake, Walt Whitman, and the Spiritual Incantations of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", Elijah Levine
Lost and Found in Figurative Painting, Erin Lottes
Perceptual Experiences Cannot Be an Inference’s Conclusion, Yuanchen Lu
The Evolutionary and Genomic Analysis of the Axon Degeneration Gene SARM1 and use of similar genomic techniques on the C9ORF72 gene, Sri Harshavardhan Malapati
Police Officers and Personality Characteristics, Isabel Marcovici
The Creation of Original Cymbeline Companion Piece Lady Tongue for Professional Submission: Increasing Opportunity for Women in the Classical Theatre Sphere, Sarah Marksteiner
Transparent Sketches: A Field Journal of Silence, Annabel McSpadden
Firearms Trafficking in Virginia: Federal Firearms Licensees' Policy Perspectives, Emma Merrill
Winter's Bane: Part One, Jessica Molz
Pion Charge Exchange Cross Section on Liquid Argon, Kevin Nelson
Employing Unnatural Amino Acids Towards Therapeutic Bioconjugates, Zachary Nimmo
The importance of STEM: How Rust Belt universities can drive economic growth by supporting high-technology industry, Robert O'Gara
The Devil's Café au Lait: the Métis Question in Colonial French West Africa, 1870-1940, Rose Olwell
The Genetic Basis of Social Behaviors in Yeast: An Investigation into FLO11, Zachary Oppler
Effects of Traffic Noise on Foraging, Vigilance, and Aggression of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Sophia Palia
Imaging the Dynamics of CH2BrI Photodissociation in the Near Ultraviolet Region, Changen Pan
Characterizing the role of spe-6 in C. elegans spermatogenesis, Elena Parcell
Characterizing the Intracellular Distribution of Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptor α-1 A382PfsX7, Kristin Passero
The Effect of Appearance-Related Media on Cognitive Responses to Food, Rachel Plummer
Turning Detection in Sandbar Sharks Through Accelerometer Data, Benjamin Powell
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate History and Human-Driven Landscape Evolution in the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Genevieve Pugsley
Exposure to environmentally-relevant levels of ultrasound has biological effects: reduction in the cellular growth of yeast colonies, Elizabeth M. Ransone
Relationship between Injury and Spirituality in Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, Katelyn Rennyson
Ultrasound noise pollution and the potential for chronic human exposure, Isabel Ritrovato
Founded Upon Death: A Structural Analysis of Tacitus' Annales, Nicholas Rudman
Althea Hunt: Behind the Curtain, Samantha Ryan
Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptors and the Potential Effects on Cancer, Michael Salomon
Virginia Woolf and the 'Objective' Camera: The Relationship Between Text and Image in Three Guineas and Orlando, Meilan Solly
Accessing Light-Sensitive Polycyclic Aromatics through an Alkynyl-Prins Cyclization, Daniel John Speer
Two-Mode Squeezing and Conservation of Optical Angular Momentum via Four-Wave Mixing in Rubidium, Nathan Super
Modeling Social Interactions of Yeast Biofilms with a Stochastic Spatial Simulation, Aparajita Sur
“Keeping It Real”: Re-diversification of French hip hop through Islam, Gender, and Globalization, Jesse Tanson
From Bias to Behavior: Predicting Prejudice Towards Autistic Individuals, Caitlin Taylor
"Back to Batoche: Métis History and Memory 1885-2015", Brendan Thomas
Development and Optimization of Bioconjugations to Probe and Modulate Protein Function, Christopher Travis
Eclogitization and Shear Zone Kinematics in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway, Catherine Valery
TP Matrices and TP Completability, Duo Wang
Towards an Interactionist Dualism, Yonghao Wang
A Flash of Creative Genius: The Effect of Implicit Motives on Inspiration, Xiaoqing Wan
Alkyl Arylinium Iodocuprate Clusters: Structural and Spectroscopic Diversity, Amelia Marie Wheaton
From Being to Thing: Personhood, Animalhood, and Deanimalization in the Human-Animal Relationship, Madeline White
The Doubly Stochastic Single Eigenvalue Problem: An Empirical Approach, John Wilkes and Charles Royal Johnson
Enhancing the Capabilities of Infrared Microscopy Apparatus, Ryan Wilmington
Citizenship and Partiality: Group Membership and the Bounds of Morality, Hannah Winckler-Olick
“A qué manera de libros y letras es inclinado”: las bibliotecas privadas de Navarra en los siglos XVI y XVII, Alexandra Wingate
J.S. Mill the Democrat: Connecting Mill, Athens, and Election Reform, Devon Wolfe
Investigation of the Catalytic Ability of Iron Complexes Containing Pendant Proton Relays for Proton Reduction, Shichuan Xi
Ultra-High Dimensional Statistical Learning, Yanxin Xu
Black Girl Magic: Intersectional Self-Definition in Young Adult Afrocentric Fantasy, Bezawit Yohannes
A New Upper Bound for the Diameter of the Cayley Graph of a Symmetric Group, Hangwei Zhuang
Honors Theses from 2017
Empirical Measures of Collective Capacity: A Social Network Approach, Matthew Anthony Adan
