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
Ecology and Conservation of Diamondback Terrapins in Virginia, Cypress Ambrose
Investigating Viral Impact on Nitrogen Cycling Through Phage-host Interactions in Soil, Madeleine R. Assaad
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
Adjective order as a word learning cue in preschool-aged children, Arlen Beyer
Breaking and Setting the Pattern: European Influences on Early Catalan Nationalism, Gabriel Black-Planas
Ceramics of Chthonic Cults: A Comparative Analysis of Pottery from Mediterranean Chthonic Sanctuaries, Julia Bowers
A mathematical model of revascularization following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, Sarah Brownstein
Modeling Group 3 Medulloblastoma: Describing the Interconnected Pathway of the Most Common Pediatric Brain Cancer, Amber Cantú
Primary Productivity of a Bermuda Reef Community in Relation to Irradiance and Flow, Luisa Castro-Meirelles
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
Novel Concepts for Habitat Suitability of the Federally Threatened Plant Aeschynomene virginica, Abigail DeCesare
Frogs with a Southern Drawl: Maintenance of Species Boundaries Between the Northern & Southern Cricket Frog, Julia Drennan
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
Theology and Revolution?: Negotiating Heritage in Gerhard Brendler’s Biography of Martin Luther, Terence Flannery
Bringing Synthetic Biology from the Flask to the Soil (Microcosm), Megan Fleeharty
Racializing Modernity in Language/Education: Mainstream Conceptions and Queer Alternatives in Taiwan, Hudson R. Fortney
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
Non-Canonical Amino Acids for Multivalent Conjugation and Light-Mediated Protein Modulation, Robert Kinsman Gourdie
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
Neurogenesis: Impact of Mitochondrial Activity on Neural Progenitor Cell Differentiation via TFAM Expression, Madeleine Harris
"Act as a strong advocate...": An anthropological analysis of human rights commissions in the United States, Ginny Helmandollar
“Experimental Philosophy, For Gentlemen and Ladies:” A Foundling Hospital Token History, 1741-1756, Rachel Hogue
Pillaging Antiquity: Structure, Narrative Intent, and Indo-European Parallels in Math uab Mathonwy, Colin Horn
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
Comparison of Vulnerabilities from Smart Home Devices in Chinese and Global Market, Yihe Jiang
Priestesshoods as Expressions of Civic Identity, Isabella Kershner
Characterizing mitochondrial movement and distribution in radial glial neural progenitor cells, Maggie Kettelberger
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
A Comparison of Neo-Hobbesian Social Contract Theory and Anthropological Accounts of Socio-Political Complexity, Benjamin Lee
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
Utilizing User-Centered Design to Optimize the Mechanical and Electrical Components of a Wireless Video Laryngoscope for First Responders, Julia Ann Merti
Process Modeling the Neuroprotective Effects of a Plant-Based Diet on Parkinson's Disease, Julia Mitchell
A New Metaphysical Approach to Intersectionality, Kia Morawetz
Feminist Realizations of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction, Amanda Mullet
Shaping Western Views of Homosexuality in 20th Century Europe Through Community, Sarah Palluconi
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
DNA Methylation and the Regulatory RNA HPnc4160 in Helicobacter pylori, Celeste Phillips
T.R. Tonight: the Strenuous Life, Jake Augustus Poppiti
Starting Early: Returns on Kindergarten Attendance in Indonesia, Daniel Posthumus
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
Pompeiian Mill-Bakeries: Spatial Organization and Social Interaction, Madeleine Rubin
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
“Resurrecting Petersburg, Virginia: Harnessing Black History, Community Heritage, and Cultural Tourism for the Renewal of an Overlooked City”, Caroline Schneider
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
Harnessing the Power of Virtual Reality for Organic Chemistry Education, Jungmin Shin
The DIY Ethic in Richmond, Virginia’s Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
Optimizing Single-Molecule Blink-Based Multiplexing, Emma Smith
Beyond Human Players: Investigating AI Participation in Public Goods Games, Sydney Smith
The Catch Up, Katie Taguchi
An Experimental Test on the Effects of Digital Framing Disputes on Social Movement Organization’s Mobilization and Organizational Image, Alison Trahan
Investigating the relationship between calcium spiking frequency and neural development in Xenopus laevis, William Vroom
Consumers, Commodities, and Connections: King and Queen County, Virginia as a Window to the Eighteenth-Century Commercial Marketplace, Cecilia Weaver
James Thomson Callender, Culture, and Controversy in the Early American Republic, Amy Weitzman
Beyond the Exit: MoMA Design Store & the Extended Museum Experience, Anna C. Wershbale
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
Health Characteristics of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants, Ellen Windham
Enhancing Federated Learning with Deep Generative Model, Yile Xu
The Expression and Function of CG11180/Chigno in Adult and Developing Drosophila Ovaries, Cheng Yang
To Memory Now I Can't Recall, Woojin Yoon
Estimating the Payoffs of Variance Swaps using GARCH(1,1) and COGARCH(1,2), Nicholas Zehnle
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
