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.

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Honors Theses from 2021

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The Female Kirk: Women's Participation in the Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey

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“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions of Nature in Edith Wharton’s Fiction, Jonathan Malks

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Quantifying Dimensions of the Vowel Space in Patients with Schizophrenia and Controls, Elizabeth Maneval

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Revisiting British Zionism in the Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin

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Alkylpyridinium Iodobismuthate Structural Determination and Analysis, Neal Marshall

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A Simplified Computational Approach to Model Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Treatment with Gemcitabine, Lauren Mayer

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Creating a Professional TV Show Pitch, Alexis Mays

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Life is Ours to Choose: Empathy and Choice-Making in Detroit: Become Human, Mary McCants

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To Fulfill What is Written: Reconsidering the Fulfillment-Formula Quotations of the Gospel of Matthew, Potter Cain McKinney

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Laurence Sterne: A Different Way of Approaching the Notion of Life in the Early Novel, Robert Metaxatos

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Linguistic Measures of Symptomatology in Schizophrenia, Celia Metzger

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Life stage explains variation in habitat use of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), Joyner Miller

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The Money War: America's Efforts to Police Terrorist Financing and Its Impact on Hawala Networks, Charlotte Mines

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Proteomic Analysis of Mycobacteriophage CrimD, William Moeller

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Interrogating Injustice: Carceral Feminism, Brock Turner, and the Dilemmas of Seeking Accountability for Sexual Violence in Our Prison Nation, Willa Quinn Moffatt

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Improving Society through Electrification: The Case of Solar Energy in Mozambique, Christian Moore

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Y-Maze Spontaneous Alternation and Response Alternation Task for Assessing Spatial Memory in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Emma Sophie Moore

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Children’s Approach-Avoidance Biases to Alcohol: The Role of Gender and Early Exposure, Maddie Moore

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Humic Acids as Sacrificial Electron Donors for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Allison Moyer

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Des Oiseaux Spectaculaires: Birds Observed and Imagined in French Court Culture Under Louis XIV, Sally Mullis

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How Differences in Political Ideology Impact Close Relationships, Erin Murray

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Andalucía en capas: Reconciling Andalusian Identity with Spanish and European Influence, Barham R. T. Nardo

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Characterizing the Microbiome of Floral Nectar of Asclepias syriaca and other Asclepias species, Heather Natterer

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Nonlocal Lorentz-violating Modifications of QED, Qian Niu

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Virginia Governance under Francis Fauquier during the Anglo-Cherokee War: A Catalyst for the Proclamation of 1763, Rory Oates

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Turbo Shell Scrapers from the Society Islands: An Ethnohistorical and Microfossil Analysis Approach, Carol Oordt

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The Line of Dichotomy: Standpoints and Meaning in Anne Truitt's Art, Charles J. Parsons

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Delineating the Role of Osgin1 in Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing in Xenopus laevis, Kushali Patel

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Investigating Charge Transfer Complexes in Brown Carbon Aerosols, Brianna Peterson

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A Survey of Methods to Determine Quantum Symmetry of Graphs, Samantha Phillips

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Determining Quantum Symmetry in Graphs Using Planar Algebras, Akshata Pisharody

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Evaluating Autophagy as a Mechanism for MK-STYX-induced Stress Granule Reduction, Tatiana Prioleau

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Synthesis and Biological Testing of Quinone-Based Natural Products, Yihan Qin

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A Comparison Between the Evolutionary Genomics of Pseudophosphatases MK-STYX and STYX, Yi Qi

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On Designing a Digital Marketplace for Bartering Course Registration, Daniel Quiroga

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Computed Semantics of Words Denoting Nebulous Human Concepts, Tristan Edmund Ramage

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M2 Receptor Antagonists and their role in Sustained attention, Faye Reid

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Theories of Responsibility and Punishment in a Causally Determined World, Brett Restrick

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Using Machine Learning to Track the Location of the Shock Train in Hypersonic Engines, Alison Reynolds

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John Dickinson: The Development and Deployment of a Legal Mind: 1754-1774, Sophie Rizzieri

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Abraham Hondius's Dog Market: Early Modern Animal Imagery in Transition, Sarah Roberts

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Between Italic and Greek: Native Identity and Hybridity in Paestan-Lucanian Tombs, Ashton Rodgers

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Memory Suppression: The Importance of Baseline Learning for the Think/No-Think Task, Curtis Rogers

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The Myths of War: The Impact of the Falklands War on British Politics, Decolonization, and National Identity, Lindsey Rogers

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Rapid Morphological Divergence in Three Introduced Cichlid Species, Khalil Russell

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Exploring the $\phi\eta'$ Final State at GlueX, Elizabeth Salata

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Reality and Strong Reality in Finite Symplectic Groups, Spencer Schrandt

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Behind Every Successful Diplomat is Their Spouse: The Buffer Role of Indian and Pakistani Diplomatic Spouses, Sania Shahid

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Examining the Effect of Music Journaling, in the Form of Biweekly Music Playlists, on the Vividness and Emotionality of Autobiographical Memory Recall, Emma Shahin

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Dame Ethel Smyth and The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, and the "Bonds of Self", Mary Shannon

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Toward a Holographic Transform for the Quantum Clebsch-Gordan Formula, Ethan Shelburne

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Effects of Xanomeline on Attention in Rats, Grace Smith

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My Voice, My Power: Finding Agency in the Creation of New Dramatic Work, Zoë Bowen Smith

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The Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty on the Relationship Between Health Anxiety and COVID-related Stress and Precautions, Samantha Sorid

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Investigating the Role of Novel Genes involved in the Wound-Healing Processes of Xenopus laevis Embryogenesis, Swathi Sowmitran

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The Bermuda Dilemma, Eva-Mariam Ssekibenga

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Whole and Hybrid: Resisting Essentialism in The Satanic Verses and The Impressionist, Louise Strange

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Reality, Remembrance, and Self-Expression in the Language of Meta-Cinema, Viola Sun

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Three Centuries of Vegetation Change in the William & Mary College Woods reconstructed using Phytoliths, Timothy Terlizzi

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Topology of the O(3) non-linear sigma model under the gradient flow, Stuart Thomas and Christopher Monahan

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"La Noblesse de Diplôme": Evolution of the French Baccalauréat as an Instrument of Elite Selection, Nori Thurman

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Developing Iron Complexes for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Benjamin Travis

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Understanding Ideal Social Networking Strategies Based on Relational Mobility and Environmental Stability, Angela Vasishta

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Photolysis of Methylglyoxal Brown Carbon, Lemai Vo

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Morphosyntactic processing in semantically impoverished environments: Insight into measures and mechanisms, Madeleine Wade

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International Trade and Revenue-Based Total Factor Productivity: A Firm-Level Analysis, Dongyang Wang

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Commodities, Currencies and Counter-gifts: A Chronological and Compositional Analysis of Glass Beads from Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria, Bailey Ward

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Female Familial Relationships in Valerius’ Argonautica and Statius’ Thebaid, Sophia Warnement

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Unmasking Murder: Reconciling the Twin Depictions of Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Warrick

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Dial E for Expansion: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Cooperation with the United States and NATO, Charles Williamson

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Screenwriting for Television: Studying Creativity in the Genre of Murder-Mystery Shows, Mia Wilson

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Holes in the Bro-zone: Exploring Departures from Hegemonic Masculinity in Social Fraternities, Krista Wink

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The Humorous Tradition in Arthurian Grail Literature, Benjamin Woessner

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"Summer's Gone:" Rethinking the History of the Beach Boys, 1961-1998, Grant Wong

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Echo Fragments, Iris Wu

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Model Thyroid Hormone Receptors' Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling with Agent-based Approach & Automated Fluorescence Intensity Measurement, Minhang Xu

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Effects of Gamete Age on Development in Asterias forbesi, Amanda Yeo

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Archaeology Saves the Bay: The Sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fishery, Mary Young

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Purple Magpie Terrace: A Story of His and Hers, Zheng Yu

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Modeling Effects of Macroeconomic and Fundamental Factors in Equity Returns with Machine Learning, Xinzhi Zhang

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Between Historical Continuity and Discontinuity: A Microhistory of Les Établis (Intellectual-Workers) during Les Années 68 (the years surrounding 1968) in France, Jialu Zou

Honors Theses from 2020

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A By-Letter Comparison of the Andalusian and Maghrebi Calligraphic Scripts, Christopher Ahrens

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Sleeping with the Television On: How Popular Culture Content Implicitly Informs Political Reality, Grace Amato

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Underspecification in Language Processing, Adam An

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Problem, Junda An

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The Commodification of Helen: Tracing the Phallic Economy of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Quinn Arnone

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Development and Upgrade of a Laser Cooling and Trapping System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms, Bennett Atwater

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Learning about Learning with Deep Learning: Satellite Estimates of School Test Scores, Heather M. Baier

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Jefferson’s “Marble Mausoleum”: Incongruence in the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson, 1936-1943, Meredith Barber

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Predator-Induced Phenotypic Plasticity Across Life History Stages in Echinoderms, Danielle K. Barnes

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Adaptation of a Low-Cost Hyperpolarization Technique for Use with Single-Sided NMR, Ruth A. Beaver

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Up Close and Personal: Ritual, Social Criticism, and the Russell Tribunal, Henry Blackburn

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The Carver's Choice: Tilman Riemenschneider's Monochromatic Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Grace Bland

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Young Adults’ Autistic Behaviors and Social Anxiety Predict Eye Fixations in Social Scenes, Minna Blottner

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Confronting Toxicity from the Beehive: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Capitalism, Bianca Bowman

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A study of matr3 and its effects on the neural progenitor cells of Xenopus laevis tadpoles, Kendall Branham

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Skin and Bones: A Sculptural Exploration of Form and Structure, Evan Broennimann

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Two Component System Independent Acid Response in Helicobacter pylori, Catharine Burgess

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Changing Notions of Identity: Transformations in Jewish Self-Identification Before, During, and After the American Civil War, Heather Byrum

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Studies in SEOP Hyperpolarized 3He: Measuring Ko and the Spatial Dependence of Alkali Polarization, Michael Cairo