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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
Interconnections among self-awareness constructs in schizotypy: The importance of interoceptive sensibility, Kendall Beals
Examining the Mediating Effects of Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress on the Association Between Bereavement and Inflammation, Kylee Faith Behringer
'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
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.
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
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
A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy, Andrew Holzinger
The Shape of Things, Lena Kinder
Jump Strategy Changes in Collegiate Women Soccer Players, Madeline Klubertanz
Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Colby McClain
A Psychometric Evaluation of the PBSS-20 Among Sexual and Non-sexual Minority College Students, Alex Melville
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
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.
PROACTIVE DETECTION OF ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT: LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENHANCED TRAFFIC SAFETY, Richard Swilley
THE MAGIC OF SIGHT: EYES, GLASSES, AND BLINDNESS IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, Thalia Trussell
Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, Katie Weber
Between a Rock and a Better Place, Haley Wheat
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
Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials, Miranda Noland
Investigating the Response of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) to Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions, Abiola Obafemi
The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant's Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors, Olajuwon Olagbegi
A Systematic Review of the Viola palmata Species Complex in the Gulf Coastal Plain and Southern Appalachians, Jonathon Osborne
Biometric Assessment of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Recreational and Commercial Fisheries in Mississippi, USA, Nimah Folake Osho-Abdulgafar
Lack of Inflammatory Response in Mouse Embryonic Cells to Listeria Infection, Damilola Oyebode
A Study of the Ceramics at the Ebert Canebrake Site (1MC25), Andrew Patterson
On an Unshakeable Foundation: An Archaeological Investigation of the Postemancipation Black Community of Bass Street, the Church They Built, and the Lasting Identity They Formed in Nashville, Tennessee, Clélie Elizabeth Cottle Peacock
From Data to Defense: Optimizing Cyber Resilience by AI-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization, Sindhuja Penchala
The Relationship Between Overparenting, Psychological Needs Satisfaction, and Alcohol Use on Risky Sexual Behavior, Melanie Prater
Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front, Jerra Runnels
Understanding The Variability Of Circulation And Water Quality At Experimental Oyster Leases In The Mississippi Sound Using A High-Resolution Nested Modeling Approach, Shihab Hossain Saran
Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion, SABA SHAHID
Cost-Risk Analysis of the ERCOT Region Using Modern Portfolio Theory, Megan Sickinger
Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device, Brooklynn Smith
Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression, Summer Steely
Juvenile and subadult Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser desotoi) use of the Pascagoula River estuary, Sarah Stovall
French Foreign Policy and its Tendencies While Approaching International Relations Through Multilateralism, Dipin Subedi
Molecular Characterization of Stress Response in Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), Faizan Tahir
Investigation of the Microbiome of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Crassostrea virginica Larvae, Isabelle Townsend
Determining the Roles of Q-SNAREs in Mast Cell Tumor Necrosis Factor Exocytosis, John C. Vines
Under The Root, Gaven Wallace
Outside Influence and Troop Deployment, Cara Wilson
Modeling Hourly Storm Surges using Deep Learning Techniques, Md Abu Zafor