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.
Instructions to Submit Your Honors Thesis
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 2023
The ecological role of benthic foraging stingrays on fine-scale seagrass structure and function, Hayden Acors
Uncivilized Lullaby: Poems, Yalda Al-Ani
The Effect of Cortisol on Y-Maze Spontaneous Alternation Behavior in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Elizabeth Ancheril
Examining Factors Using Standard Subspaces and Antiunitary Representations, Paul Anderson
Modeling Plasma Physics Using Qubit Lattice Algorithms, Paul Anderson
First Row Metal Complexes for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of Artificial Photosynthesis, Ryan Anderson
Trivializing Maps for the O(2) Model in Two Dimensions, Balin Armstrong
Solidarity in Protest: A Case Study of the Brown Grove Community in Virginia, Julia Ashworth
Our Truth: CHamoru Oral History of World War II Events and Its Impact on Guam, Zeta Atoigue
Finite Temperature Holographic QCD via the Hard Wall Model, Jude Bedessem
Thrice They Ring, Natalie Berner
Mental Health Stigmatization: How Imagined Contact Affects In-group & Out-group Bias, Yvette Bivins-Sanchez
FDI and Environmental Externalities in Southeast Asia, Kevin Bloodworth
“Pass the Pickles”: Viewing Class and Dining in Virginia City, Nevada through the Pickle Castor, Sage Boucher
Sing of Arms and Disobedience: Reading Vergil's Aeneid in Milton's Paradise Lost, Brooke Braden
Assessing the Orthogonality of Synthetic Genetic Circuits, Avery Bradley
A Study of Reciprocal Underwater Motion and its Use in Algae Harvesting, Marguerite Bright
Keeping Ordinary: Licensing and Respectability among Loyalist Women Tavernkeepers in Revolutionary America, Katarina Bromkamp
Winston Churchill and the United States: The 'Wilderness Years', Grace C. Brooks
The Future of Digital Resistance: An Analysis of App Popularity During Service-Based Internet Shutdowns, Helena Buckman
On Conditional Reasons, Preston Budd
Modulation of Protein Function and Synthesis of Bioconjugates using Unnatural Amino Acids, Naya Burrow
Inalienable for whom? Activism and the politics of decolonial restitution in French museums, Alexandra Byrne
Context-Aware Engineering of Prokaryotic Chassis, Pinar Caglayan
Life History of Two Goatfishes in Hawaii and Alternative Methodologies in Life History Research, Duncan Campbell
Chronic Nicotine Exposure and its Effects on Fear and Anxiety Behaviours in Zebrafish, Ramprasanna Chandrasekar
Sleep and Early Childhood Stressors in College Students: Examining Alcohol Use as a Moderator, Sylvain N. Chassagneux
Investigating Electron Transport in Tokamaks Using Computer Simulation and Machine Learning, Javier Chiriboga
Radon Risk Mapping Using Uranium Series Geochemistry and Social Vulnerability in the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Heather Christensen
“I Maintained My Authority:” Gender and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Home, Maddie Cross-Kaplan
Power Profiling Smart Home Devices, Kailai Cui
Demographic Noise and Fragmentation in Stochastic Extinction, Cameron Curtis
“And We’ll Fight Them For 800 More”: Violence and Nationalism in Northern Ireland, Hadley Day
Talk To Your Elders: Asian American Community Building at W&M, 1984-2021, Isabella DiFulvio
Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005-2020, Caroline Donovan
College Adjustment, Substance Use Beliefs, Coping Motivations, and Problematic Use: A Moderated-Mediation Model among First Year College Students, Rebecca Dunaief
Crickets and cicadas sing: Terrestrial invertebrates in a San Rafael salt marsh, Carlee Dunn
The Effects of Loss of Orexin Neurons on Attention, Alejandra Eceizabarrena Sainz
The Role of Emojis on Social Attention in Individuals Differing in Autistic Traits and Social Anxiety, Kenzi Fergus
Rethinking ‘Feminicide’: The Role of Organized Crime Groups in Increased Rates of Feminicide in Mexico, Giselle Figueroa
Monoenergetic neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in Jupiter, George French
The President's Pawn: Racism, Discrimination, and Diversity in the Nation's Civil Service, Astrid Garcia
The Cult of the Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, and Womanhood in Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
Perceived Descriptive Norms, Academic Stress, and College Students' Sleep Habits, Elizabeth Germain
Fecal Pellet Production by North Atlantic Zooplankton, Michael Gibson
Design and Application of Surrogate Models for Hypersonic Inlet Physics, Owen Guch
COVID-19 Stress on College Students Mental Health: An Examination of Socioeconomic Status and Coping Flexibility, Ruth Hailemeskel
Emotional Wellbeing in Richmond Public Housing: The Role of Community Health Workers in Accessing Care, Carter Hall
"Looks Like Cotton Candy": Deconstructing Fascism in Post-War Japanese and Italian Horror Cinema, Nicholas Hall
Inclusive Double Differential Muon Neutrino CC Cross Sections on Various Nuclear Targets in MINERvA, Sarah M. Hawkins
Threads of Continuity: Investigating the Historical Context of the China Challenge and Its Implications for Current US Grand Strategy, Bennett Hawley
Investigating Thyroid Hormone Receptor Shuttling Patterns, Helen Heaton
Modeled Changes in Foredune Morphology Influenced by Storm Intensity, Sea-level Rise, and Mitigation Strategies, Selwyn Heminway
Goodbye, You: Stories of Loss and Life, Marissa Ho
Development of Data Science Tools for Photovoltaic Design and Super-Resolution Imaging, Grayson Hoy
Pion Detection for the MOLLER Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Experiment, Michael Tristan Hurst
Invasive and Native Crayfish Have Ecologically Distinct Diets: Evidence from DNA Metabarcoding of Gut Contents, Zoe Hutcheson
STARS: Scope Temperature Auto-Regulation System, Tyler Hutchison
Aggression In and Out of the Surrounding Space, Marissa Incer
Modeling the Effects of Seasonal Births and Predation on Disease Spread, Ally Introne
Design of an Apparatus for Strain Tuning of Materials., Ubaid Kazianga
From TikTok to Trad Goth: An Exploration of Posers, Subcultural Commodification, and the Function of Gatekeeping in the Goth Subculture, Laila Kennedy
Cognitive Decline and Contact Sports: The Relationship Between P3 Amplitude and Sub-concussive Head Impact, Elizabeth Kerman
Under the Blue Berets: Race and Ethnicity as Factors for Peacekeeping Success, Sam Ketchem
well/good, Azraf Khan
Entangled Agencies, Economic Contingencies, and Competing Ideologies: Williamsburg’s Complex Origins as a Place of National Historic Interest, Maximilian Kim
Examining the Nutritional Quality of Mixotrophic Dinoflagellates Using Elemental Ratios and Total Lipid Content, Delaney Kirr
Haunted Panes and Psychic Casements: Windows in Wuthering Heights and Villette, Mariana Kornreich
A Satellite Imagery Approach to Estimating Migratory Flows in Guatemala Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Sarah Larimer
Beyond a Partnership Ethic: Evolutions of Ecofeminism in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and Jean Hegland's Into the Forest, Catherine Lashley
kFactorVAE: Self-Supervised Regularization for Better A.I. Disentanglement, Joseph S. Lee
Examining Measures of EEG as Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Shuhan Liang
Longitudinal Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Friendship Quality: A Matter of Type and Time, Rachel Li
Bad Asians: How heritage language ability and perception affects Korean and Chinese college students’ identity, Grace Liscomb
1973: A Crossroads in British and International Energy Policy, Davis Little
I Do: Historicizing Marriage and Courtship in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816) and Their Screen Adaptations, Olivia Little
Peace Discourse in Postwar Japan: Emergence, Continuity, and Transformation, Xiuyu Li
The 9/11 Attacks’ Impact on Muslims’ Labor Market Outcomes in the United States, Yining Li
Exploring the Role of HDAC6 in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization, Giuliana Lopez
Searching for Satan in the Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney
The Impact of Television Portrayals of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Individuals with ASD, Sreya Mallipeddi
Isolation Induced Anhedonic Behavior in Adolescent but not Adult Sprague-Dawley Rats, Hayden McArdle
The Superpower of Sleep: Poor Sleep Quality Predicts Worse Executive Control Under Conditions of Stress, Lilly M. McClendon
Identifying Social Media Users that are Susceptible to Phishing Attacks, Zoe Metzger
Assessment of treatment-specific tethering survival bias for the juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus in a simulated salt marsh, Cole Miller, A. Challen Hyman, Daniel Shi, and Romuald N. Lipcius
Minimal Network Structure for Turing Instability, Brendan Millis
Effects of Open and Enclosed Space on Brain Activity (EEG): Brain Imaging in Surrounding Space, Elizabeth Moser
Black Hole Entropy in AdS/CFT and the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism, Luke Mrini
A World Half Created: The Imaginative Power of Sound in the Poetry of William Wordsworth, Trinity Myers
Solvent-Mediated Photophysical Outcomes of Brown Carbon Chromophores, Ruby Neisser
Pastries and Plots: Food Rhetoric and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s Plays, Juliet Nierle
