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Theses from 2025

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EMPOWERING NARRATIVES OR MARKETING STRATEGY? NIGERIAN AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO FEMVERTISING IN THE “JOY SOAP ‘MY LIFE, MY SCRIPT’ CAMPAIGN”, Oare Danielle Addeh

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Interconnections among self-awareness constructs in schizotypy: The importance of interoceptive sensibility, Kendall Beals

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Examining the Mediating Effects of Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress on the Association Between Bereavement and Inflammation, Kylee Faith Behringer

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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, William Browning

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Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen, Lucas C. Campbell

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Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Fisheries Management, Calvin Chee

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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.

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Population Estimates, Demography, and Habitat Assessment of the Pearl River map turtle (Graptemys pearlensis) in the Pearl River Drainage of Mississippi, Noah Devros

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Social Sprouts: A Play-Based Packaged Intervention - Improving Peer Interactions in Early Childhood Classrooms with a Novel Group Contingency, Brittany D. Garza

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Does Resilience Moderate the Relation Between Caregiver Behaviors and Post-Traumatic Symptoms in Young Adults?, Akila Uma Gopalkrishnan

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Contact Surface Curvature Length Specifies Graspability, McKenzie Gunter

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Negative Affect and Cannabis Use Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Effect of Protective Behavioral Strategies, Morgan Haga

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Demon Horse: The Functions of Family, Taylor Madison Hankins

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Key-Based Authentication Scheme for eVTOL Drones Using Chebyshev Chaotic Maps, Eduardo A. Hernandez Escobar

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Osteology, Morphometrics, and Phylogenetic Systematics of the ‘Booneville Dinosaur’ (Ornithopoda: Hadrosauridae) From the Early–Middle Campanian Coffee Formation of Northeastern Mississippi, Derek Alexander Hoffman

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A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy, Andrew Holzinger

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The Shape of Things, Lena Kinder

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Jump Strategy Changes in Collegiate Women Soccer Players, Madeline Klubertanz

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Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Colby McClain

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A Psychometric Evaluation of the PBSS-20 Among Sexual and Non-sexual Minority College Students, Alex Melville

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Impact of Temperature and Microbial Infection on the Honey Bee Hemocytes, Michael E. Oeth

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Ghana’s Shift from Non-Alignment to Alignment: A Comparative Case Study of Foreign Policy Under Geopolitical Pressures, Bernice Owusu

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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement, Holli Elaine Parker

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Evaluating Coordination and Variability Within Collegiate Basketball Players Using Vector Coding, Minali G. Patton

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Doin' Time: Entertainment and Exploitation at Decommissioned Prison Museums in the United States, Jessi Robbins

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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Arleigh Rodgers

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Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Noisy Observations, Sagar Shrestha

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Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division “Over There,” 1917-18, Christian Singletary

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Growing To Normal Size, India R. Smith Ms.

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PROACTIVE DETECTION OF ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT: LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENHANCED TRAFFIC SAFETY, Richard Swilley

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THE MAGIC OF SIGHT: EYES, GLASSES, AND BLINDNESS IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, Thalia Trussell

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Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, Katie Weber

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Between a Rock and a Better Place, Haley Wheat

Theses from 2024

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Promoting Preschool Teachers’ Maintenance and Generalization of Behavior-Specific Praise Through Multitiered Consultation, Claudia Abril Ochoa

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The Emerging Impacts of Tourism on The Economy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Oil and Tourism, Dania Abu Jabal

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Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria, Elif Acarlar

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The Vascular Flora of Marion County, Mississippi, Amos Adams

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Peripheral Vascular Function in Young Adults with Increased Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease, Ryan S. Aultman

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YouTube Influencers in Bangladesh: Analyzing Message Strategies of Sponsored Ads in Vlogs, Monira Begum

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Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida, Andrew Bowen

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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, Rachel Broome

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Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale, Samantha Burleson

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Exploring Autistic Individuals’ Perspectives of Social Skills Interventions, Sarah Butt

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Thermal Modeling of Cooling Time of Submarine Dacite Lapilli Tuff: Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, Kyler Byrd

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Salinity Tolerance of Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, Andrew Coomes

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Geomorphic Assessment and Flow Modeling of Pearl Darter (Percina aurora) Habitat in the Pascagoula River Watershed, Malia Davidson

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Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics, Charles Downey

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"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi, Sarah Drivon

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Increasing PRIDE Skills for Child Engagement Using iPCIT with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jordan Etherington

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Exploring Overbank Sediment Deposition Variation in Heavily Modified Floodplains of the Lower Mississippi River: A Sedimentological and Geophysical Analysis, Seth Fradella

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Soldiers in the Sideshows: The 409th Infantry Regiment in World War II, Nicholas Garrett

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Shaping the Supreme Court, Evelyn Danielle Guerra

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Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs, William Harris

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3D Analysis of Fe-Ti Oxides and How They Affect Crystal-Plastic Deformation in Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge, Sarah Hill

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The Effects of Amphibole- and Sulfide-Producing Melts on Crustal Strength in Gabbros of Lower Oceanic Crust in Oceanic Core Complexes, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Indian Ridges, Trevor Hoffmann

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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

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Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783, Michael Andrew Howell

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Identifying New Potential Breeding Pond Sites for the Dusky Gopher Frog in Southern Mississippi, Shelbie Kellum

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Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models, Subeksha Khanal

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Examining the Effects of Food Supply on Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larval Performance and Settlement Potential in Delaware Bay and Mississippi Sound, James C. Klein

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The Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation in the Relationship Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Negative Parenting, and Child Externalizing Behaviors, Maddison Knott

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Effects of Increasing Cycling Cadence on Post-Cycling Gait Velocity: An Experimental Study, Nitu Lama

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The Communicative Experiences of Potential New Members (PNMS) in Greek Life Recruitment, Ashley Lankford

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Development of a Flow Cytometry Method for the Identification and Enumeration of Enterococcus faecalis, Riza Magbitang

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"WE WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS UNTIL WE GET IT": THE WOMEN'S JURY MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1938-1968, Paige Mason

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Detection Instructions on Additive and Contradictory Misinformation in Older and Younger Adults Using Eyewitnessed Visual Scenes, Monika Mazela

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An Examination of the Strong Start Intervention to Support the Pro-Social Behaviors in At-Risk Head Start Students, Merrick McEvoy

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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

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How Speech-Language Pathologists Account for Self-Determination Across the Progression of Dementia, Emilee McGahee

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Evaluating Technology Delivered Repeated Reading with Diverse Learners, Kayla McVay

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Investigating Nekton Response to Changing Salinities in the Mississippi Sound: An Experimental and Statistical Approach, Adam Murray

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Effects of Identity and Competency-Based Rejection and Acceptance on Online versus Face to Face Reaffiliation Preferences in Adults, August Namuth

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The Assessment of Autonomic Function in Young Adults with an Elevated Risk of Metabolic Syndrome, Ta'Quoris Newsome

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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials, Miranda Noland

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Investigating the Response of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) to Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions, Abiola Obafemi

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The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant's Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors, Olajuwon Olagbegi

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A Systematic Review of the Viola palmata Species Complex in the Gulf Coastal Plain and Southern Appalachians, Jonathon Osborne

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Biometric Assessment of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Recreational and Commercial Fisheries in Mississippi, USA, Nimah Folake Osho-Abdulgafar

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Lack of Inflammatory Response in Mouse Embryonic Cells to Listeria Infection, Damilola Oyebode

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A Study of the Ceramics at the Ebert Canebrake Site (1MC25), Andrew Patterson

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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

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From Data to Defense: Optimizing Cyber Resilience by AI-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization, Sindhuja Penchala

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The Relationship Between Overparenting, Psychological Needs Satisfaction, and Alcohol Use on Risky Sexual Behavior, Melanie Prater

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Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front, Jerra Runnels

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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

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Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion, SABA SHAHID

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Cost-Risk Analysis of the ERCOT Region Using Modern Portfolio Theory, Megan Sickinger

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Supplemental High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Experiences: a Study on Graduate Student Self-Efficacy, Confidence, and Knowledge with Pre-Service Training, Emily Sikes

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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device, Brooklynn Smith

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Projected Range Shift of the Atlantic Surfclam, Spisula solidissima, and the Ocean Quahog, Arctica islandica, Under Climate-Induced Benthic Warming: Forecasting Fishery Influence in the Mid-Atlantic Bight Throughout the 21st Century, Molly Mae Spencer

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Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression, Summer Steely

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Juvenile and subadult Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser desotoi) use of the Pascagoula River estuary, Sarah Stovall

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French Foreign Policy and its Tendencies While Approaching International Relations Through Multilateralism, Dipin Subedi

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Molecular Characterization of Stress Response in Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), Faizan Tahir

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Investigation of the Microbiome of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Crassostrea virginica Larvae, Isabelle Townsend

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Determining the Roles of Q-SNAREs in Mast Cell Tumor Necrosis Factor Exocytosis, John C. Vines

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Under The Root, Gaven Wallace

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Promoting Greater Granularity in Climate Research: A Case Study Analyzing Perceptions of Anthropogenic Climate Change Among Students, Faculty, and Staff at The University of Southern Mississippi, Kelly Wegmann

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Outside Influence and Troop Deployment, Cara Wilson

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Modeling Hourly Storm Surges using Deep Learning Techniques, Md Abu Zafor