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Theses from 2025
EMPOWERING NARRATIVES OR MARKETING STRATEGY? NIGERIAN AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO FEMVERTISING IN THE “JOY SOAP ‘MY LIFE, MY SCRIPT’ CAMPAIGN”, Oare Danielle Addeh
Reflecting on Racial Microaggressions: The Impact on Food Consumption in Minority Women, Khadiza Akter
Radical Right Populism: Factors Within European Nations, Brittany L. Barnhardt
Interconnections among self-awareness constructs in schizotypy: The importance of interoceptive sensibility, Kendall Beals
"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde, Haley Beasley
Examining the Mediating Effects of Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress on the Association Between Bereavement and Inflammation, Kylee Faith Behringer
Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex, Benjamin E. Brockway
'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, William Browning
Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen, Lucas C. Campbell
Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Fisheries Management, Calvin Chee
Modeling Food Assemblage Dynamics in Western Mississippi Sound Regarding Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larval Performance, Emma B. Coltman
Studying the Effect of Zinc 3-(Dibutylamino) Propionate (ZDAP) Additive on Fire Retardant, Mechanical, and Physical Characteristics of Epoxy-Amine Networks, Jackie D. E. Davies Jr.
Predominant-Dominant Chains in Japanese Video Game Music, Evan R. Davis
Spatial Behavior and Population Estimation of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys Temminckii), Patrick Delisle
Using Inquiry Classroom Experiences to Correct Student Misconceptions in Elementary Science: An Action Research Study, Hope A. Ellison
Social Sprouts: A Play-Based Packaged Intervention - Improving Peer Interactions in Early Childhood Classrooms with a Novel Group Contingency, Brittany D. Garza
Does Resilience Moderate the Relation Between Caregiver Behaviors and Post-Traumatic Symptoms in Young Adults?, Akila Uma Gopalkrishnan
Contact Surface Curvature Length Specifies Graspability, McKenzie Gunter
Scalable High-Resolution Simulation of the Prey-Predator Model, with a Non-Local Consumption of Prey, Emmanuel Hackman
Demon Horse: The Functions of Family, Taylor Madison Hankins
Key-Based Authentication Scheme for eVTOL Drones Using Chebyshev Chaotic Maps, Eduardo A. Hernandez Escobar
Osteology, Morphometrics, and Phylogenetic Systematics of the ‘Booneville Dinosaur’ (Ornithopoda: Hadrosauridae) From the Early–Middle Campanian Coffee Formation of Northeastern Mississippi, Derek Alexander Hoffman
Female Preference and Prezygotic Isolation In the Fundulus Notatus Species Complex, Emilee K. Holderness
A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy, Andrew Holzinger
Population Status and Trends of the Ringed Sawback (Graptemys oculifera) in The Pearl River Drainage of Mississippi and Louisiana, McAulay Jaunsen
High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy of Ostracods in the Ozan Formation of Texas and Arkansas, Denali L. John
The Shape of Things, Lena Kinder
Jump Strategy Changes in Collegiate Women Soccer Players, Madeline Klubertanz
Inside the Walls of the Asylum: Exploring the Lives of Individuals in the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935), Savannah V. Logan
Forgotten Landscapes: Using Original Land Surveys to Understand the Historic Distribution of Cane Brakes in Wayne County, MS, Chad Mackness
Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Colby McClain
Connecting For Success: Evaluating the Frequency of Check & Connect Meetings on Student Behavior, Kaylee S. McKinney
A Psychometric Evaluation of the PBSS-20 Among Sexual and Non-sexual Minority College Students, Alex Melville
Trust Across Difference in Radical Social Movement Organizations: The Case of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Kerstin Miller
The Effects of Distraction on Confidence Rating Reactivity During Cued-Recall, Amelia G. Morehead
Impact of Temperature and Microbial Infection on the Honey Bee Hemocytes, Michael E. Oeth
Ghana’s Shift from Non-Alignment to Alignment: A Comparative Case Study of Foreign Policy Under Geopolitical Pressures, Bernice Owusu
“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement, Holli Elaine Parker
Evaluating Coordination and Variability Within Collegiate Basketball Players Using Vector Coding, Minali G. Patton
An Analysis of Wall Vault Burials From Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans, Rebecca Plants
Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States, Mamunor Rashid
Doin' Time: Entertainment and Exploitation at Decommissioned Prison Museums in the United States, Jessi Robbins
“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Arleigh Rodgers
Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Noisy Observations, Sagar Shrestha
Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division “Over There,” 1917-18, Christian Singletary
Growing To Normal Size, India R. Smith Ms.
Assessment of Estuarine Respiration and Benthic Nutrient Fluxes in Mississippi Sound, Nur Pasha Sufian
PROACTIVE DETECTION OF ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT: LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENHANCED TRAFFIC SAFETY, Richard Swilley
Investigating the Effect of Attentional Control on Source Monitoring and DRM Memory Performance, Alexa Tringali
THE MAGIC OF SIGHT: EYES, GLASSES, AND BLINDNESS IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, Thalia Trussell
Investigating Compound Flood Using Remote Sensing And Hydrodynamic Modeling, Raihan Uddin Ahmed
Colonial Policing in Nigeria: British Tactics of Economic Control and the Hypocrisy of Order, 1900-1930, Abel Tobechukwu Ugwu
Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, Katie Weber
Between a Rock and a Better Place, Haley Wheat
Do Finances Determine Our Fate?: Understanding the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Inflammation, and Cancer Recurrence Risk, Faith Wilbourne
Theses from 2024
Promoting Preschool Teachers’ Maintenance and Generalization of Behavior-Specific Praise Through Multitiered Consultation, Claudia Abril Ochoa
The Emerging Impacts of Tourism on The Economy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Oil and Tourism, Dania Abu Jabal
Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria, Elif Acarlar
The Vascular Flora of Marion County, Mississippi, Amos Adams
Peripheral Vascular Function in Young Adults with Increased Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease, Ryan S. Aultman
YouTube Influencers in Bangladesh: Analyzing Message Strategies of Sponsored Ads in Vlogs, Monira Begum
Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida, Andrew Bowen
Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, Rachel Broome
Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale, Samantha Burleson
Exploring Autistic Individuals’ Perspectives of Social Skills Interventions, Sarah Butt
Thermal Modeling of Cooling Time of Submarine Dacite Lapilli Tuff: Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, Kyler Byrd
Salinity Tolerance of Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, Andrew Coomes
Geomorphic Assessment and Flow Modeling of Pearl Darter (Percina aurora) Habitat in the Pascagoula River Watershed, Malia Davidson
Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics, Charles Downey
"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi, Sarah Drivon
Increasing PRIDE Skills for Child Engagement Using iPCIT with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jordan Etherington
Soldiers in the Sideshows: The 409th Infantry Regiment in World War II, Nicholas Garrett
Shaping the Supreme Court, Evelyn Danielle Guerra
Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs, William Harris
NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR FLOOD RISK MITIGATION: MAPPING AND HYDROLOGICAL MODELING IN AN UNDER-RESOURCED URBAN AREA ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST, Jennifer Makenzie Holifield
Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783, Michael Andrew Howell
Identifying New Potential Breeding Pond Sites for the Dusky Gopher Frog in Southern Mississippi, Shelbie Kellum
Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models, Subeksha Khanal
Effects of Increasing Cycling Cadence on Post-Cycling Gait Velocity: An Experimental Study, Nitu Lama
The Communicative Experiences of Potential New Members (PNMS) in Greek Life Recruitment, Ashley Lankford
Development of a Flow Cytometry Method for the Identification and Enumeration of Enterococcus faecalis, Riza Magbitang
"WE WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS UNTIL WE GET IT": THE WOMEN'S JURY MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1938-1968, Paige Mason
An Examination of the Strong Start Intervention to Support the Pro-Social Behaviors in At-Risk Head Start Students, Merrick McEvoy
Assessing The Impacts Of Grazing By Piney Woods Cattle And Controlled Burning On The Herbaceous Layer In An East Gulf Coastal Plain Longleaf Pine Woodland, William McFarland
How Speech-Language Pathologists Account for Self-Determination Across the Progression of Dementia, Emilee McGahee
Evaluating Technology Delivered Repeated Reading with Diverse Learners, Kayla McVay
Effects of Identity and Competency-Based Rejection and Acceptance on Online versus Face to Face Reaffiliation Preferences in Adults, August Namuth
The Assessment of Autonomic Function in Young Adults with an Elevated Risk of Metabolic Syndrome, Ta'Quoris Newsome