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 2018
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
Love on a Blighted Star: Nature and Female Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Emily M. Armstrong
Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation by Cobalt Complexes, Jessica E. Armstrong
"If there be such space:" Haunted Landscapes and Crises of Sonhood in Cormac McCarthy's Westerns, Kayla M. Armstrong
Acute Intoxication Affects Pavlovian Conditioning in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Fabiana T. Arrazola
Receptor Gone Rogue: Investigating Localization of a Cancerous Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Michelle Barbeau
Photocontrol of pH via Doped Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Aaron I. Bayles
The Role of Executive Control Deficits in Cognitive Correlates of Dysphoria, Christian A. L. Bean
Differential Regulation of Drosophila Testis Development by BMP Signaling, Merci N. Best
The Mechanism of NMDA Receptor Mediated Increased in Gamma Oscillation Frequency, Prajal Bishwakarma
Hooligans or Saboteurs? Democratic Backtracking in Eastern Europe, Courtney A. Blackington
Anterior-Posterior Axis Plasticity in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis, Lyuba Bolkhovitinov
Plateau Potential Fluctuations and Intrinsic Membrane Noise, Daniel Scott Borrus
Neural Correlates of Multisensory Integration and the Role of Musical Experience, Victoria A. Bostler
Are You What You Eat? Selective Sequestration of Toxic Milkweed Cardenolides in the Monarch Butterfly, Jacob Brammer
“No Great Mischief if They Should Fall”: Scottish Highland Soldiers in the French and Indian War, Douglas Breton
Rites: Poems, Lydia G. Brown
An Analysis of the Effects of Isocurvature Fluctuations in Dantes Inferno Multi-Field Inflation Models, Brandon M. Buncher
Cultural Variation in Causal Attribution as an Adaptive Strategy: the Role of Relational Mobility, Hannah L. Bunting
The Efficacy and Safety of Six-Weeks of Pre-Workout Supplementation in Resistance Trained Rats, Justin P. Canakis
TP and TN Completability of Border Patterns, Haoge Chang
Paintings with Doors: Three Case Studies from the Fifteenth Century Netherlands, Jacqueline T. Chapman
Investigating Biological Properties Utilizing Synthetic Methods, Lindsay E. Chatkewitz
Does 5-propionyl-1-dimethylaminonapthalene Fluoresce through a TICT State?, Tao Chen
Interactions between Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Regime Switching Process, Zihao Chen
Beyond "self-eating": The Role of the Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX in Regulating Autophagy, Patrick Christian
Working the Garden: Women and Religion in Apocalyptic Fiction, Sarah C. Collier
U.S. Combat Morale in the World Wars: The European Theater of Operations, Monica J. Cronin
Responding to International Health Emergencies: Comparing the World Health Organization Response to Ebola and Zika, Halia M. Czosnek
Regulation of Neurite Outgrowths by the Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX in PC12 cells and Primary Neurons, Arya Dahal
Prosthetics in Performance: Exploring the Relationship Between Ballet Dancers and Their Pointe Shoes, Georgia E. Dassler
The Role of EU and NATO Conditionality on Developing Democracies: A Georgian Case Study, Carolyn A. De Roster
The Fitness Effects of Biofilm Formation and Toxin Production in Natural Yeast Isolates, Bernadette M. Deschaine
Saving Babies Using Big Data, Evan Dienstman
Advancements in the Photocatalysis of Iron Complexes and the Electrocatalysis of Cobalt Complexes for Hydrogen Generation, Ryan J. DiRisio
A Numerical Study of Non-Perturbative Unification, John C. Donahue
Understanding Colorism Through the Perceptions and Social Interactions of African Diasporic Women, Ebimene Doubeni
Feminist Theatre: A Practical Application, Rosalynd I. Duerr
Metabolism and Oxidative Stress: Understanding the Role of Reactive Cysteines in Pyruvate Kinase, Mary Cate Duff
Metabolism and Oxidative Stress: Understanding the Role of Reactive Cysteines in Pyruvate Kinase, Mary Cate Duff
Erschaffung interkultureller Identität durch Sprachkontakte in den Texten von Yoko Tawada, Shihao Du
The Neurometric Correlates of Trauma Using the Brief Neurometric Battery (BNB), Lauren N. Dybel
The virulence factor OipA in Asian isolates of Helicobacter pylori, Kexin Fan
The Subversion of Wagnerian Gender Dynamics in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sophia S. Farion
3-3-1 Models With Unique Lepton Generations and Analysis of Higgs Decays, Karen Ficenec
When the World Becomes Flesh: The International Day of Remembrance as Spatially Redressing Hampton, Virginia's Buckroe Beach, Amirio Freeman
Pragmatic Creative Interventions in Latin America, Catherine Freund
Variations in flanking residues of thyroid hormone receptor alpha1 isoform, Christine W. Gao
Nameless Art in the Mao Era, Tianchu Gao
A Threefold Defense of Perceptual Dogmatism, Hunter R. Gentry
A Novel Method for Quantifying Spatial Patterns in Plants, Logan H. George
Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Diplomacy and the Democratization of Taiwan, Cody A. Grogan
Exploring the Multi-Mode Structure of Atom-Generated Squeezed Light, Melissa A. Guidry
Characterization of Venusian atmospheric dynamics using Venus Express images and ground-based observations, Jacob L. Gunnarson
Cytological and Bioinformatical Analysis of SPE-26, a C. elegans Kelch-like Protein that Functions during the Karyosome Stage of Spermatogenesis, Stephen A. Gurley
Aphra Behn, One of Churchill’s Top Girls?: Assessing Caryl Churchill’s Lack of Deference to Behn’s Legacy, Hayley A. Hahn
Structural Comparison of Copper(II) Thiocyanate Pyridine Complexes, Joseph V. Handy
Operating Under Uncertainty: The Public and Private Funding of Domestic Violence Service Providers in Virginia, Jenifer N. Hartley
The Effect of Cross-Sloped Surfaces on Running Kinematics, Erin Heald
Patients, Prose, and Poetry: The Medical and Literary World of William Carlos Williams, Sarah Heins
F. psychrophilum resistant and susceptible rainbow trout show differences in abundance of IgT+ and IgM+ B cells, Erin Hennessey
Characterizing the Growth Rate of a Corrosion Layer on Stainless Steel in a Molten Salt Environment, Calvin E. Hensler
Alternative Notions of Dissent: Punk Rock’s Significance in the Soviet Union and East Germany, Gabrielle E. Hibbert
An Analysis of Outer Inflammatory Protein A in cag Pathogenicity Island Negative and Positive Strains of Helicobacter pylori, Danielle N. Horridge
Utilization of Unnatural Amino Acids in Novel Bioconjugates and Probing Applications, Christina A. Howard
Can You See It? Facial Expression Leakage in Response to Emotional Intensity, Samuel Ault Jens
Composed in the Closet: Ingolf Dahl's A Cycle of Sonnets, Cody M. Jones
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Reimagining Urban Place and Governance in Semarang, Indonesia, Emmaleah K. Jones
A Spectralist Approach to the Vibrations of the Universe, Kevin M. Kay
Total synthesis of barettin: Model study of specialized aldol condensation to directly access diketopiperazine targets, Elizabeth W. Kelley
Yet Another French Exception: The Legal, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of France’s Support for the Digital Right to Be Forgotten, Zarine Kharazian
A Defense of Retributivism as a Theory of Punishment, Samantha Kim
Improving Water Barrier Properties of Epoxy Coatings with Addition of Graphene Oxide, Sang H. Kim
Holographic Non-perturbative Thermodynamic Systems, Michael C. Kopreski
Continuing Improvements of the Sharkduino Animal Tag System, William Laney
Community Radio in Guatemala: A Half-Century of Resistance in the Face of Repression, Polly W. Lauer
Examination of Noninvasive Alternatives to Blood Pressure Waveform Measurement in Preterm Infants, William E. Lawrence
American Education Reform and the Humanism of Mathematics, 1890-1940, James Leach
The Effect of Conformity to Feminine Norms on Women’s Food Consumption after a Sad Mood Induction, Thomas P. Le
Chilling the Right to a Jury Trial: The Unconstitutionality of Jury Costs, Stephanie E. Levin
Analyzing Political Bias through a User-Friendly Interface, Colin Lightfoot
A study of a novel self-fertility mechanism in the hermaphroditic nematode Rhabditis sp. SB347, Xiaoxue Lin
Mathematical Studies of Optimal Economic Growth Model with Monetary Policy, Xiang Liu
