Final theses produced by undergraduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Honors Theses from 2025
The Relation Between Perceived Parental Physical Maltreatment and Psychological Problems: Moderation by Conservative Religiosity, Margaret Freeman
Storytelling or Telling Stories: An Analysis of Disnarration in Music Videos, Victoria Garrett
Using EEG to measure attentional spreading across objects, Dawson L. Green and Michael Pratte
Closing Chapter: A Stratum VIB Reconstruction of Areas I7, I8, J7, and J8 at Tell Halif, Madelynn R. Green
Bipyridine-containing, bio-inspired ligand to support manganese for oxidative catalysis, Jennifer R. Greer
Paper or Digital? Comparing Vocabulary Learning From Internet Search to a Physical Dictionary, Olivia L. Hamilton
"If I Just Wasn't A Lady": A Study of the Belles Gone Bad in David Selznick's Gone With The Wind and Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, Annie Kirkpatrick
“Take This Job and Shove It”: How Black Women’s Fight for Economic Rights Informed Their Participation in the Broader Social Movements of the Twentieth Century, Kyndle Diane Lee
Elemental Humanity: A Hybrid Collection of Creative Work & a Critical Introduction Exploring Relevant Genres & Themes, Haylee G. Morman
The Antagonistic Triad and Interpersonal Problems: The Role of Rejection Sensitivity, Abby G. Pulver
Perceptions of Climate Change among the Public and Broadcast Meteorologists in Mississippi, Annea Scales
Eye Tracking Features Predict Individual Differences in Forgetting Rates, Alyssa R. Williams and Jarrod Moss
Honors Theses from 2024
Parenting Practices and Attachment Levels in Relation to Externalizing Behaviors in Children Raised by Nonparental Caregivers, Kourtney Mia Barfield
The Relations between the Financial Wellbeing of Custodial Grandparents, their Overall Wellbeing, and their Perceived Social Support, Paige L. Miller
Sir Nicholas: Chivalric Tropes and Dickens's Critique of the Aristocracy in Nicholas Nickleby, Erin Quinn
Honors Theses from 2022
Adopting Lactobacillus and Organic Acids as Alternative Treatments to Necrotic Enteritis, Javad A'arabi
Investigating Differing COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes Within Families, Sarah Dulaney
Sentiment trends in political tweets: a case study of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madeline Enlow
The Flaming Cross: The Methodist Church in Mississippi During the Civil Rights Era, Jonathan Franz
“Being a Chi O to a Fraternity Boy is the Greatest Thing That Could Happen”: Reputation, Heterosocialization, and Status Among Sorority Women, Anne Elizabeth Harrington
Extinguish the Spark: Mass Protests as a Determinant of Journalist Killings, 1992 - 2020, Ryan Jarratt
“Fragrantasia: 24 Ekphrastic Poems about Scent”, Maeve Rigney
Independent Investigations of the Relationships Between Altruistic Behavior and Empathy With Depression, Colton Watson
Honors Theses from 2021
The Narrative of Salvation and Ritual Re-Presentation in Piers Plowman, Dylan Bufkin
Loss, Reckless Behavior, and Jane Austen’s Realism in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, Lindsey Downs
The Indirect Effect of Childhood Trauma on Body Mass Index Through Exercise Frequency, Andreana Durham
Neurodiversity and Online Communities: Why They Matter, Laura Ingouf
Healing Hands: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Germanic Understanding of Medicine and Monarchy, Elizabeth Lucas
Measuring Immigrant Integration in the United States South, Ashton Porter
Terror Tactics: Vehicular attacks in Israel, Garrett Smith
Image Denoising Methods Based on Partial Differential Equations and Non-Local Means Filter, Ben Spencer
Is it Harder to Run for Office As a Republican Woman? Attitudes Among Republican Voters Towards Women Candidates, Georgiana Swan
Honors Theses from 2020
Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity: Case Studies of Filipino Immigrant Families in Mississippi, Joy Cariño
Understanding Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Sarah Claxton
Motion Elicits Emotion, Emma Denson
Romance, War, and Narrative Ethics in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair and Ian McEwan's Atonement, Avery Ferguson
The Effect of Family Structure and Mental Health on Childhood Bullying Behaviors, Kierstynn Hunter
Examining the Intentional Use of Rhetoric in Legal Argumentation to Advocate for Foster Care Reform, Marisa Laudadio
Documented: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of ICE Raids of Mississippi Poultry Plants, Ben Mackin
Effects of TCDD on B Cell Populations in Various Anatomic Locations in EAE, Amye McDonald
A Genetic Analysis of the Invasive Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the Cayman Islands, Blaklie Mitchell
The New Künstlerroman by Women Writers, Hannah Phillips
Straddling the Color Line: The Parallels of Passing as a Motif from William Wells Brown to Nella Larsen, Claire Schwartz
Language Endangerment in an Urbanizing Tanzania, David Sides
Colorblind Racism in White Women's Education Activision in the South, Emily Tingle
Honors Theses from 2019
The Antifungal Occidiofungin Disrupts Morphological Switching in the Polymorphic Fungus Candida albicans, Aaron Albee
Becoming Inhuman, Becoming Monstrous: Representation and Sacrifice in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Lauren Beukes's Broken Monsters, Anna Catherine Bills
The Read Scare: Reading Stereotype Threat in College Aged Males, Rachel A. Booth
Gentry's Mississippi: The Southern Gothic in Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe, Gentry Burkes
A Critique of Environmental Rhetoric Used During World Environment Day, William Calderon
Exploring and improving the uses of near-term quantum annealers, Nic Ezzell
Towards a Metaethics Grounded in a Simplified Process Metaphysics, Benjamin Kromann
Neuroscience and You: A look into societal interaction with neuroscience both internally and online, Ciarra Smith
Citizen trust of the police in the United States: How bad is it, and what can we do to fix it, Mariah K. Warner
Honors Theses from 2018
Evaluation of a natural challenge model of zebrafish with Influenza A virus, Kelvin Blade
Gene Expression Changes by Neuroprotectant Novel Antidotes to Organophosphates, Meghan L. Brino
The Proto-Romantic Politics of Reading: The Aesthetic Presence of Dante in the Cockney School, Meredith Hilliard
"Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again:" Burke's Perspective by Incongruity and the Shifting Image of the Handmaid, Morgan Hydrick
KOH Treated Biochar: An Improved Material for the Removal of Aqueous Contaminants, Cody Layne
Young Churchill: The Development of Greatness, Kennedy Moehrs
Critias of Athens and the Sisyphus Fragment, Sarah Adison Phillips
Yellow Jack's Wrath: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic and Public Health in Mississippi, Kyle Winston
What does China's Belt and Road Initiative mean to the U.S.?, Feifei Zeng
Honors Theses from 2017
The impact social withdrawal in depression has on social functioning, Clayton H. Allred
Decoding the contents of working memory using EEG provides evidence for the sensory recruitment hypothesis, Allison L. Bruning
Reducing social demands in child eyewitness memory using robot interviewers, A. Zachary Buchanan
Characterization of pyridostatin and its interactions with c-MYC g-quadruplexes, Zachary G. Cuny
Suicidality and depression of those raised in kincare, Theresa Fitchie
Acceptance of marginalized couples, Shaquela Hargrove
Factors impacting retention among African American students at Mississippi State University, Ariel Johnson
The seventh party system? Social homophily and the reemergence of culturally-based political coalitions, Tony Laudadio
The in vitro effects of glucosamine on equine and canine platelet aggregation and thromboxane synthesis, Gabrielle Rands
The Effects of Media Multitasking on Congitive Control, Seth Thomas
Honors Theses from 2016
Measurement of material thickness using X-ray attenuation, Oliver Mikhail H. Gaerlan
"Make Margaret Atwood fiction again": Burke's perspective by incongruity and the shifting image of the Handmaid, Morgan Hydrick
Phase space simulation of relativistic twisted electron Mott scattering, John K. Madsen
Shakespeare's own Metamorphosis: Transformations in the reception of Ovid in Shakespearean plays, Lien Van Geel
Love of the law: The ethical Christology of Southern Baptist rhetoric and language concerning the LGBTQ community, Alexander James Ward
'The Crisis of 1297': Royal prerogative, the Commonality, and the limitations of the crown, Zachary J. Warren
Cicero and Epicureanism, Ryan Williams
Honors Theses from 2015
Out of place: Stories, Molly Beckwith
Determining the photometric capabilities of the CTIO 0.9-m telescope, Cameron Clarke
Honors Theses from 2014
Invisible men and women: A critique of the critiques of particularity in African American literature, Donald Mayfield Brown
Honors Theses from 2013
Geothermal energy potential in Oktibbeha County: Is Mississippi really hot?, Cary Ruth Lindsey
Honors Theses from 2012
A novel spin-light polarimeter for the Electron Ion Collider, Prajwal Mohanmurthy
