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 2024
Lingua Asia: Decolonizing Heritage Language Education, Collin Absher
Use of Molecular Logic Gates for the Tuning of Chemosensor Dynamic Range, Orhan Acikgoz
Meditation, Education, and Transformation: An Empirical Test of Students’ Experiences in a Meditation and Wellness Course, Kevin A. Aviles
Re-evaluating Egalitarian Design in Contemporary Danish Society, Alice Baughman
Ceramics of Chthonic Cults: A Comparative Analysis of Pottery from Mediterranean Chthonic Sanctuaries, Julia Bowers
ShoulDetector: Shoulder Motion Detection with Conductive Fabric Sensors, Matthew Chen, Kenneth Koltermann, Gang Zhou, and Huajie Shao
Evaluating Environmental Enrichment as a Preventative Treatment in a Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Ainsley Craddock
Investigating Protein Interactions Modulating Thyroid Hormone Receptor Localization, Caroline Danielski
A Combination of Environmental and Landscape Variables Drives Movement and Habitat use in Two Anaxyrus spp. in the Eastern Coastal Plain, Alexander Ferentinos
"Thirsteth for the Blood of America": Propaganda and Violence during the American Revolution, Taylor Fischer
Playing As A Girl: How Women Navigate Gender and Sexism in Online Video Games, Malise Foss
Metal Antipyrine Complexes for Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction, Nicole A. Fritsch
The Study of the Potential for Positive and Negative Color Connotation Through Associations, Jamesa Mecayla Gray
"For the Price to Live": Imprisoned Plasma Donation and the 1979 Louisiana Prison Plasma Boycotts, Kaya Guthrie
Characterization of the Helicobacter pylori Nitric Oxide Induced Outer Membrane Protein Gene, hofD, Jessica Lynn Horner
Assessing the Catalytic Activity and Conservation of the C. elegans protein SPE-54, Jack Howell
Priestesshoods as Expressions of Civic Identity, Isabella Kershner
Understanding and Harnessing the Blinking Behavior of Emitters for Single-Molecule Imaging, Isabelle Kogan
Philosophy of 'As If': Contemporary Applications and Defense, Ryan Kopelman
The Economic Effects of Democratization: A Review of the Third Wave, Noah Lansing
Against a Ternary Analysis of Syllable Strength: Positional Variation in the Vowel Inventory of English, Joseph Lorber
Harmony of the Spheres: a Suite for Orchestra, Evan Maly
Plotting the Battlefield: Russia's Use of Language and Memory to Legitimize Aggression Against Ukraine, Izabella Martinez
Process Modeling the Neuroprotective Effects of a Plant-Based Diet on Parkinson's Disease, Julia Mitchell
Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory, Andrew Pendleton
Fray Martín de Castañega’s 1529 Treatise on Magic and Superstition: Demonology, Reform, and Authority in Pre-Tridentine Iberia, Isabel Pereira-Lopez
THE WEIGHT OF US, Susannah Perry
T.R. Tonight: the Strenuous Life, Jake Augustus Poppiti
Mathematical Modeling and Examination into Existing and Emerging Parkinson’s Disease Treatments: Levodopa and Ketamine, Gabrielle Riddlemoser
Personality Pathways: Depression and Nonsuicidal Self-injury in College Students, Olivia Ritchey
Perceptions of relational mobility and loneliness among American university students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Carina Rosenberg
A Look Down the Well: Exploring Co-educational Femininity through a Twentieth-century Dormitory Feature at William & Mary, 1926-1944, Charlotte Russell
“Due to the Tender and Close Relationship”: The Italian Inquisition’s Investigations of Jews and Christians in the Sixteenth Century, Jacob Schapiro
Investigating Organic Fluorophores for Blink-Based Multiplexing, Amelia Seabury
The Self in the Mirror of Despair: Søren Kierkegaard on the Authentic Christian Life, Yi Shao
Optimizing Single-Molecule Blink-Based Multiplexing, Emma Smith
Beyond Human Players: Investigating AI Participation in Public Goods Games, Sydney Smith
Proton Affinities for Proline and Pipecolic-Acid Containing Dipeptides, Georgia Westbrook
Developing Politics While Detained: How Juvenile Incarceration Impacts Political Participation and Behavior, Jonathan Wilkins
IMPACT OF INTERFACIAL SOLVATION ENVIRONMENTS ON NITROPHENOL PHOTOCHEMISRY, W. Churchill Wilkinson
Training Grammaticality: Can people be taught to perceive the singular ‘they’ as grammatical?, Val Willham
A God For All Places: Experiencing a Localized Mithraism, Ian Wilson
Enhancing Federated Learning with Deep Generative Model, Yile Xu
To Memory Now I Can't Recall, Woojin Yoon
Emotion Regulation Choice, Flexibility, and Effectiveness in the Face of Interpersonal Stress, Quanhan Zhou
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
Training Theory of Mind: The Impact of Discourse and False Belief Experience, Alaina Collings
“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
Young Women's Diagnostic Experiences in an RVU-Driven Healthcare Market, Elizabeth Annette Dell
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
Sign Language and Constructing Categories: The Cognitive Link, Nicole Eubanks
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
