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 2017
How Some Islamic Monarchies Use Religious Ideology to Maintain Domestic Control and Exert Regional Influence: a comparative study of Morocco and Saudi Arabia, Abigail M. MacMillan
In Between and Nowhere at all: How an Autobiography Reveals Hybridity, Francesca H. Maestas
A Cup of Imperial Taste: The Formation of Ceramic Aesthetics under Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), Kexin Ma
The Christian Right and Israel: A Love Story?, Joseph Malanson
A Mathematical Model of Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis, Matthew J. McGuinness
The Northern Novel of Manners: Wuthering Heights & The Invention of a Genre, Cameron I. Menchel
Words Matter: A Study of Justice-Oriented Communication by Chesapeake Bay Environmental Nonprofits, Rachel Merriman-Goldring
Natural Debts, Natural Dangers: An Ideology of Nation-State and Subject in an Immunology Text, Quinn Monette
"Qui me rendra présent?": Francophone Representations of Lebanese Civil War Memory, Paul Naanou
The Myth of Egalitarianism in Wartime and Austerity Britain, Sloane H. Nilsen
Personality and Fear Conditioning: Effects of Neuroticism, Rachel Maku C. Orleans-Pobee
Fluorescently-Labeled Glutathiones to Quantify Cysteine Reactivity, Saloni H. Patolia
Understanding Human-Landscape Interaction: Geoarchaeology in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, Katherine M. Peck
The Role of RNF4 in Stripping Transcriptionally-Active Huntingtin, Jen Peek
Optogenetic Investigations of the PreBötzinger Complex: Support for the Dbx1 Core Hypothesis, Francis D. Pham
The Value of Statistical Life for College Students in the Context of Death by Homicide, Brandon Posner
Links Between Maternal Emotion Socialization and Adolescents' Social Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Peer Emotion Socialization, Natalee N. Price
Thresholds of barrier island change: A case study of Parramore Island, Virginia Eastern Shore, Jessica L. Raff
Defining Ambiguous: Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel” and Carmilla, Holly E. Reynolds
Things Fall Apart: The Role of Small Arms Acquisition in Insurgent Fragmentation, Matthew K. Ribar
Fandom, Racism, and the Myth of Diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ashley S. Richardson
Characterization of Mixed N,S Donor Ligand and Group 12 Metal Complexes with X-Ray Crystallography, ESI-MS, and NMR, Mikhaila D. Ritz
Ambisyllabic Consonant Lengthening in English, Alexa Rosalsky
A Case Study in the Interdisciplinary: The Role of Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Academia and Museums, Alexnadra A. Rosenberg
Modulating Intra-Nuclear LC3 with Small Molecules Rescues Cells from an Aneuploidogen-Induced Phenotype, Daniel P. Rosenberg
Oscar Micheaux’s Cinematic Legacy: Through the Eyes of Contemporary Black Newspapers, Rachel E. Rosenfeld
Center Manifold Theory and Computation Using a Forward Backward Approach, Emily E. Schaal
Hemichordates as a model system for investigating intertidal zonation in soft sediments, Kharis R. Schrage
En Busca de la Alfabetización. Three 20th Century Literacy Movements in Spanish Speaking Countries: Impacts and Implications, Morgan Sehdev
Scattered Prizes: Colonial Fantasies and the Material Body in the English Renaissance Blazon, Aidan J. Selmer
Master of None: Understanding the 1.5 Generation of Asian Indian Youth, Nairuti Shastry
Building the Future from the Past: Evaluating the Relationship between Nostalgia and Imagination, Conor O. Smith
Self-Made Freak: The Exceptionalism of General Tom Thumb, The Celebrity Body, and the American Dream, Megan Sonner
Is Q Necessary? A Source, Text, and Redaction Critical Approach to the Synoptic Problem, Paul S. Stein
Tuning the pKa of Fluorescent Rhodamine pH Probes via Substituent Effects, Sarah G. Stratton
Language Patterns as Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Depression in Adolescence, Connor W. Symons
Effects of Medial Prefrontal Cortical Administration of the Orexin-2 Receptor Antagonist, TCS-OX2-29, on Attentional Performance in Rats, Austin R. Tapp
Involutions and Total Orthogonality in Some Finite Classical Groups, Gregory K. Taylor
Young Adults' Autistic Behaviors Predict P1 and N170 Responses to Emotion Stimuli, Sara C. Taylor
The Political Environment of Federal Rulemaking: An Analysis of Comment Submissions on Regulatory Outcomes, Michael R. Testa
"It's all about the Food:" Food, Land, and Sovereignty on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, Colleen M. Truskey
Real Consumer Language: A Corpus-Based Methodology for Genericide Claims and Trademark Protection, Quentin J. Ullrich
Development of Novel Chemical Strategies to Modulate Biological Function, Diya M. Uthappa
The Role of Basal Forebrain Orexin-2-Receptors in Attentional Performance in Rattus norvegicus, Abhya P. Vij
Infrared Study of Recluse Spider Silk, Stephanie Wang
A Woman’s Place in the State House: Exploring Backlash Effects of Women’s Increased Descriptive Representation, Emily S. Wasek
"A Corps of Much Service:" The German Regiment of the Continental Army, John B. Weaver
Characterization of Neural Network Backpropagation on Chiplet-based GPU Architectures, Colin A. Weinshenker
Vicarious Fear Learning: The Role of Empathy, Alexander L. Williams
Kalasiris and Charikleia: Mentorship and Intertext in Heliodorus' Aithiopika, Lauren Jordan Wood
Frontal, amygdalar, and temporal convergence in the primate ventral striatum: implications for Huntington’s disease, Ellen H. Yates
Visible Light Fluorescence Switching in Dye-Doped Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Xinzi Zhang
Wrinkleless Mylar Cylinders: Design and Prototyping for the BONuS detector at Jefferson Lab, Wenqing Zhao
Spatial Analysis with Applications on Real Estate Market Price Prediction, Yujing Zheng
Hawking Radiation and Classical Tunneling: a Numerical Study, Dmitriy Zhigunov
Exploring the Calvert Cliffs: Interpreting classic Miocene sequences through the application of strontium isotope stratigraphy and paleoecology, Joshua B. Zimmt
A Mathematical Model of Economic Growth of Two Geographical Regions, Xin Zou
Connecting Energy Metabolism and Neurodegeneration: Pyruvate Kinase and Oxidative Stress, Julia P. Zuercher
Honors Theses from 2016
Composting the City: Urban Farming in the Ethnographic Moment, Matthew William Abel
The Role of Spontaneous Intracellular Calcium Transients in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification in Xenopus laevis, Eileen Frances Ablondi
Mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori Adhesion Regulation and Impacts on Host Immune Response, Catherine Rose Acio
Political Attitudes and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Josh Albertson
Hydrogen-Bonding Control of Solvatochromism and Non-Radiative Decay in the Fluorescence of 3-Aminofluoren-9-one Derivatives, Isaac Gregory Alty
Group Discipleship and Individual Spirituality: Challenging Models of False Sanctity in Early Modern Italy and Spain, Mary Andino
Studies on the DAQ System of GRINCH detector, Peibo An
Acetylation Controls the Subcellular Localization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor α1, Cyril S. Anyetei-Anum
Homer's Music through Plato's Ears, Dereck Wayne Basinger
Light Entanglement via Four Wave Mixing through a Rubidium Vapor Cell, Haley Bauser
On Animal Rights, Speciesism, and the Nature of Social Change, Delaney Berman
Investigating Dispersal of Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Acorns by the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), Aaron Samuel Bland
Emotion Regulation and Friendship: The Shield and Sword against Adolescent Depression, Laurel Olivia Brockenberry
Oligomers and Polymers of Copper(I) With Dicyanobenzene and Cyanopyridine Ligands, Mark K. Broderick
Physical modeling of vortical cross-step filtration in the oral cavity of American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), Hannah Brooks
“Insane for the destination:” Disrupting the Teleological Impulses of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck, Noah Christopher Brooksher
The Lives of Others: The Colonial Gaze in Albanian Film Coproductions, Michael Burrows
Catharsis, Shannon Callahan
Sensitivity Determination in the CHIPS Neutrino Detector, Eve Adde Chase
Irreconcilable Modes of Masculinity: The Prevalence of Contemporary Irish-American Double-Protagonist Films, Anne Riley Curran
A Psychological Approach to the Special Composition Question, Connor Drake Dantzler
Renegotiating the Apocalypse: Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man", Kathryn Joan Darling
Growing Networks with Positive and Negative Links, Corynne Smith Dech
The Ludic Life of Things: Explorations in the Vitality of the Ludic Object in Contemporary Narratives, Eamonn deLacy
Mirror Neuron Activation Priming in Novice Versus Expert Ballet Dancers, Vanessa Duffie
Our Lady (a novel in progress), Molly Earner
Addressing the Problems in American Drug Policy: A Case for the Legalization of Drugs, Jackson A. Eskay
Interactive Relationships: An Exploration of Ceramic Surface and Form, Katie Fee
History Influencing History: Changing Perceptions of the Starving Time at Jamestown, Kelsey Fenske
“The Internal Conflict:” Navigating Transitional Education in Postwar Guatemala, Brenna Michelle Ferris
Are Neural Responses of University Students on the Broader Autism Phenotype Affected by Pain in Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members?, Katarina M. Fleckenstein
Heleluyvn Yvhikares ("I Will Sing Hallelujah") A Documentation of Muscogee-Seminole Hymns and Hymn-Singing Practice Within the Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nations of Oklahoma, Sarah Katherine Fredrick
Declaring War or Sentencing Criminals? Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Counterterrorism Success, Arielle Lehner Galston
Corrosion in a Molten Salt Environment, Samuel Peter Paiewonsky Girdzis
Development of cosmogenic 22Na as a tool to measure young water age in multiple watersheds, Claire Goydan
"Yeah, But You Rape Women": Hannibal Buress and the Comedy Community's Role in Shaping Public Opinion of the Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Allegations, Alexandra Granato
Development of a Digital Offset Laser Lock, Ian W. Hage
Molded from Clay: The Portrayal of Jews through the Golem in Yudel Rosenberg’s The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague and Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem, Reynolds Nelson Hahamovitch
Imposing Change: Analyzing Lustration Policies in Post-War Iraq and Germany, Michael Thomas Hamilton
Synthesis and Characterization of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Applications in Extraterrestrial Radiation Shielding, Josiah Arevalo Hammack
One Direction and the Marketing Machine, Megan Katherine Haney-Claus