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 2019
Creation and Characterization of Synthetic Biological Tools for Modular Genetic Circuit Design, Ethan Jones
Reducing Quantum Uncertainty via Spatial Optimization, Austin T. Kalasky
Creative Currencies: Circulation and Sovereignty in The Alchemist, Urania, and The Blazing World, Jacqueline Keshner
Haunted Housewives: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Gothic, Caroline Kessler
How Classifications Shape Asylum Seeker and Italian Interactions and Experiences in Siena, Italy, Erin Kitchens
When Science Isn’t Enough: The Importance of a New Social Contract for Conservation Communication, Deborah Kornblut
Atlanta's Curtain Call: AIDS Activism on the Southern Stage, Matthew Kowal
Electrocatalysis for Proton and Oxygen Reduction Reactions, William Lake
Controlled Hierarchical Biomaterial Utilizing Diatom Nanostructure, Benjamin Lazarus
Canine Ceremonialism in the Algonquian Chesapeake: An Eventful Archaeology of Dog Burials at the Hatch Site, Caroline Lehman
« Je suis harki » : les sphères de la mémoire harkie, Sarah Lettau
Pre-Modern Japanese Proto-nationalism: A Study of Japanese Confucianism’s Intellectual History, Zhengyuan Ling
A Portrait of Women’s Property: An Analysis of Married Women’s Property Rights in The Portrait of a Lady, The Spoils of Poynton and Howards End, Kelsey Llewellyn
Determinations of Proton Affinities of Methylated Cysteine and Serine Homologs, Danielle Long
Arrested Development: Political Barriers to Modern Pretrial Reform, Alexander Love
Exploring the Blinking Dynamics of Eosin Y Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Photocatalysis Using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Pauline Lynch
A Comparative Analysis of Media and Legislative Rhetoric on Gun Control, Samyuktha Mahadevan
Urban Environmental Gentrification: Evaluating the Impact Large Green Infrastructure Projects Have On Urban Residents, Maxim Maiello
The Impact of Cancer-associated Mutations in Thyroid Hormone Receptor on Its Localization, Sri Harshini Malapati
Comparison of Global Solution Methods to a Zero Lower Bound Model, Emily Martell
Recovering Affiliates: Reclassifying Emily Dickinson's Variant Poems, Anna McAnnally
The Relationship Between Child and Mother-Reported Maternal Behaviors and Children’s Family Drawings: Impact of Child Gender and Age, Rita McInerny
Urban Renewal in the Colonial Capital: Contextualizing the Williamsburg Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Zach Meredith
Exploring Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Emergent Gravity, John Mitchell
The use of foundational mathematical modeling techniques to inform understanding & design of complex biological systems, Callan Monette
An Analysis of Whether Victorian England Shares Central Tenets of Modern Rape Culture, Emily Murray
An 8000-year record of climate and environmental change from Lake Sandsvatn, Faroe Islands, Emily Barrows Mushlitz
Small Town Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Challenges for Mayor’s Courts in Ohio, Alexander Nocks
Modelling Deer-Vehicle Collisions on Virginia Roads, Yorick Oden-Plants
Billy's Burg: Investigating Colonial and Capitalist Constructions through Poetry, Ryan Onders
White Plague, White City: Landscape and the Racialization of Tuberculosis in Washington, D.C. from 1846 to 1960, Ivie Orobaton
Cryptic Viral Infections In Benthic Biofilm Communities, Alexandra Payne
Immigration and Belonging: Chinese Immigration to Argentina 论阿根廷中国移民的归属感及身份认同, Emily Pearson-Beck
Supreme Court Opinion Authorship Attribution on a Case-by-Case Basis, Blake Phillips
The Effect of Parental Involvement on Education Aspirations and Outcomes of Children, Sraavya Poonuganti
Parental Incarceration as a Unique Risk Factor for Delinquency and Psychopathology: Examining Mentorship as a Buffer, Emma Preston
Labor Migration and Social Networking: Maasai Labor Migrants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Elise Rakoff
Using Gleaned Computing Power to Forecast Emerging-market Equity Returns with Machine Learning, Xida Ren
Machine Learning and Electron Track Reconstruction for the MOLLER Experiment, Mary Robinson
The status of the word-final domain and linguistically-constrained language learning cues, Megan Rouch
The Theological Thesis: Theology's Role in Western Epistemology, Thomas Rubino
Utilization of Unnatural Amino Acids in the Development of Novel Functions and Probing Applications, Brent Russell
"This Great Theatre of Nature": Henry Fielding and the Ancient Comic Stage, Stephen Ryan
Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Lower York River Estuary, Joshua Sacks, Mark J. Brush, and Iris C. Anderson
Proliferation & Instability: How Nuclear Weapons Acquisition Alters Inter-state Relations, Tyler Sagerstrom
Persuasion in Discourse: Evaluation Methods of Vegans, Kate Sandberg
An Examination of an Alternative Use for the Fear-Potentiated Startle Paradigm and the Effects of Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor Inhibition on Extinction Learning, Jessica Seidenberg
Fear Potentiated Startle and the Effects of Losartan on Extinction Learning, Jessica Seidenberg
Gender and the Connection between Distress Tolerance and Psychopathology, Megan Serody
Explaining Mental Health Care Delivery in United States Correctional Facilities, Devika Shankardass
The Methodological Puzzle of Phenomenal Consciousness: What it is, and Why it is Still Unsolved, Qiuyang Shen
Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice, Taro Shirakawa
Utilizing Machine Learning Classifiers to Identify SSH Brute Force Attacks, Dmytro Shmagin
Difference without Deference: An Individualistic Theory of Group Accommodation, Will Siegmund
A Qubit Algorithm for Simulating the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation, Connor Simpson
The Effect of Early Life Stress on Subjective Fear and Electrodermal Response Reactivity in an Adolescent Community Sample, Lorissa Simpson
Construction of an Auger Microscope, Charles Soulen
Mine, Brooke Stephenson
Iron Complexes for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Indira Stevens
Thoughtful Books and Thoughtful Lives: Androgyny and Gender Dynamics in the Works of Sherwood Anderson, Rick Stevenson
The Effects of Tax Revenue Changes on Economic Growth, Xiangwen Sun
Thyroid Hormone Receptor and Coregulators: A Dynamic Model, Xiaopeng Sun
MINERvA High Energy Test Beam Calibration, Jessica Sydnor
Leveraging NLP to Enable Analysis of User Driven Routines, Ruhao Tang
Partial Difference Sets in Nonabelian Groups and Strongly Regular Cayley Graphs, Gabrielle Tauscheck
The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket at Salisbury Cathedral: Ad Vesperas, Virginia Elizabeth Martin Tilley
Mutations in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Alpha 1 and Their Implications for Resistance to Thyroid Hormone Alpha, Elizabeth Trampenau
Characterizing Flame-resistant Polymers using Single-sided NMR, Anna Tsutsui
More Than Mortal: Divine Depictions of Livia in Early Imperial Portraiture and Literature, Lillian Waddill
Eventually Positive Matrices and Tree Sign Patterns, Madellyne Waugh
"Full of Internal Contradictions": A Neutral Case for the Invalidation of the Death Penalty, Carson A. Whitehurst
A Return to Camelot?: British Identity, The Masculine Ideal, and the Romanticization of the Royal Flying Corps Image, Abby S. Whitlock
The Sacred Touch of Hallowed Hands: Tracing the Holy through the Haptic in George Eliot’s Early Work, Katharine Isabel Williams
Sensational Investigations: Social decay and reform in the Victorian sensation novel, Colleen Wilson
A stage-structured oyster population model for reef restoration, Rachel Wilson
Nighttime Habitat Use and Movement of Two Anaxyrus Species in Southeastern Virginia, Olivia Windorf
Wordsworth's British Empire: Property, Liberty, and the Slave Question, Anna Wingfield
Narrating Public Space: Franz Kafka in Nationalized Prague, Jordan Wyner
Written in Stone: SEG XXXIV 1581, its Viewers, and their Perspectives, Robert Yancey
The Social Ecology of Empathy and Helping: A Comparison of Chinese and American University Students, Zihan Yang
The SUMO-Stress Response (SSR) in Normal and Cancerous Cells, Rui Yin
A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Perceptions of Drivers in Kenyan Health Care Quality, Rebecca Youngerman
Engagement from Afar: How the Role of the Diaspora Makes or Breaks National Secession Campaigns, Lincoln Zaleski
Continuous Opinion Dynamics on an Adaptive Network, Xinyu Zhang
Spectrogram Analysis of Blood Pressure on Neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Tianrui Zhu
Honors Theses from 2018
Children of the Bible: American Protestantism, "A Formula of Agreement," and the Twentieth-Century Ecumenical Movement, Brittany Acors
The Women of the PWA: The Politics and Writings of Rashid Jahan and Qurratulain Hyder, Mehr Ali
Counting Real Conjugacy Classes in Some Finite Classical Groups, Elena Amparo
Spectral Analysis of Lattice QCD Two-Point Correlation Functions, Elena Amparo
The Impact of Racial Group Status on Neural Activity, Belongingness, and Distress during Social Exclusion, Brian Anyakoha
The Effect of Internalizing Symptoms on Affect Recognition and Theory of Mind Performance in a Community Sample of Adolescents, Sarah Bottari
