USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)
This collection contains scanned and born digital theses created by undergraduate Honors students at the USF St. Petersburg campus. Here, the Honors Program took shape in the early 1990s, with a thesis project serving as the culminating experience in a student’s undergraduate academic journey. Between 1994 and 2011, thesis projects were printed and bound, and the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library added physical copies to the circulating collection and Special Collections. As technology improved, the library scanned these volumes and added them - as well as incoming, born-digital theses - to the NPML Digital Archive. Now a part of the OneUSF Judy Genshaft Honors College, St. Pete students may still choose to complete a thesis to fulfill the undergraduate research requirement in their curriculum.
For more information on the Judy Genshaft Honors College, visit https://www.usf.edu/honors.
Browse Honors theses from 1994-present below.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Stand Your Ground: An Analysis of Today and a Forecast of the Future, Erica N. Beers
Tax Loopholes and Expenditures : An Analysis, Ed B. Bernal
Jury Decision-Making: Normative and Informational Influences, Daniel Brown
Socioemotional Benefits of Animal-Assisted Occupational Therapy with Children: A Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research, Christine E. Bruzek
Regeneration Rates of the Brittle Star Ophiocoma echinata Under Conditions of Near-Future Ocean Acidification and Temperature, Steven E. Bruzek
Looting on the Digital Sea: An Economic Analysis of Music Piracy, Jesse S. Daw
Halted movements, James Foster
An Ideal American Currency: We Can Eliminate Our National Debt, Valerie M. Gannon
Venerating Violence: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Post-Civil War Sri Lanka, Heather Lee
EVOLUTION OF MATERNAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE ORDER CROCODYLIA, Ileisy Lobaina
The Influence of Gene Transfer Agents in Symbiodinium Associated Microbial Communities and the Coral Holobiont, Kelly O'Connell
The Effectiveness of Teaching Ethics, and How Different Majors Perceive One Another’s Ethics, Sarah Smith
Unintentional Gerrymandering: Why Location Matters in Politics, Thomas P. Towzey
Crossover: Race and the Changing Culture of the NBA, Roger Walker
A Cultural and Historical Narrative of the Titanic, Jillian Woodfield
The Fall: A Short Absurdist Film Process Essay, Carmela Zabala
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISTRESS IN THE ABSENCE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER TYPES OF DISTRESS, Rachel Baumsteiger
The Road to Finding Your Roots, Jenna Bowman
Palermo’s Subterranean Necropolis: The Capuchin Catacomb, Mary Buckland Rutan
Memoirs of a Painted Woman, Karleigh Chase
Intent to Study Abroad: The Role of Subjective Social Status and Intolerance of Ambiguity, Sean Ericson
Homophobia and Beliefs about Gender Roles, Caitlin B. Forshier
Occupy Images: Examining Identity and the Occupy Movement, Emily Gorman
Sugars: Seductive, Sweet, Secret and Deadly, Kaitlyn Gross
Photosynthetic Solar Cells Using Chlorophyll and the Applications Towards Energy Sustainability, Lucas J. Hoerner
Autism in the Workforce, David A. Holbrook
The Problem, One Solution, and The Future : An Investigation of Current and Future Insect Pest Management, Tanjim Hossain
Burst Goes the Real Estate Bubble: Mortgage Fraud and Changes in Mortgage Processes, Kathryn A. Keller
Maternal Exploitation, Bethany Levenson
How we represent and memorialize the Holocaust: museums, sites and memorials in the United States, Chelsea J. Meredith and Michelle M. Pizzolato
Home Gardens as Transported Landscapes: Ethnobotanical Encounters with Southeast Asian- American Horticulturists, Lauren A. Munim
Spellweaver : a novel, Cyrus Newcomb
Species abundance and distribution of squid in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay with a focus on biology, Christine Oliver
County Level Wetland Protection in the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Dana L. Parkinson
Ecosystem Services of Waste-Material and Designed Artificial Reefs, Benjamin N. Prueitt
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Misstatement Amounts and Associated Penalties for Fraudulent Financial Reporting, Maria Babajanian
Drugs, Guns, Police and Spatial-Temporal Analysis, Kristen N. Berg
Saving September : a thesis about bullying in two acts, John Jay Boda
The Cyprus Question: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, Cristen Borling
Leaving Mississippi, Summerly S. Brown
Aerial Dance: Under the Sea, Miranda Cooper
The Effect of Nest Relocation and Beach Renourishment on the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) in Pinellas County, Florida, Lauren Dellert
Expression and Portraiture, Anna Griffin
Gathering and Interpreting Components of Diverse International Courts to Create a New Judicial Framework: A Case Study of the ICTY, SCSL, and IST, Alexander Licznerski
Doing it the Hard Way: My Life as a Story of Hope, Joshua Adam Lovelace
50 things I learned as a designer without going to design school, Tara McCarty
For the students : the 1968 Florida teacher strike, Jody Noll
Availability of Resources to Special Education Teachers in Pinellas County High Schools: Separate, Equal, or Nonexistent, Gina M. Novakovich
Detection of Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Insects and Wild Vegetation, Marco Padilla Rodriguez
The campaign for fair food : reflective action to change the world, Amanda Sliby
Operational Aspects of the Performing Arts Business, Cory R. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Roots of Psychology in Early Philosophy, Elysse B. Arnold
A Closer Look at Risk Perception among Black Women at Increased Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Devon E. Bonner
Islamophobia in America, Diana Mae Cabili
Dances and Dreams: A Childhood of Training to Become a Ballerina, Damaris Escalera
The Tampa Bay Hotel - A Tale, Alesya V. Izoita
Financial Habits and Knowledge, Zachary S. Marks
Duality An Outlook of an Inward Gemini, Mary Singson
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Things We Never Talk About When a Girl Takes Off Her Clothes, Jason Cook
Modeling the Transport of Radium Isotopes Offshore Tampa Bay Through Submarine Groundwater Discharge, Alanna Lecher
The Nature and Intersection of Partisanship and Ideology, Charles Jolm Manter
Loss of the Monster: From Horror to Hedonism in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", Joy Larissa Scholing
Forging Twin Swords: An Exploration of Fantasy Literature, Heather K. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Nazis in America, Sean Amodeo
Ecotourism as an Alternative to Fishing in Yucatan, Mexico, Abigail E. Bennett
Connecting Creativity to the Curriculum, Lyndsey M. Crandall
09/11/01: Observations on How Journalism Differed on this Day, Gregory J. Lindberg
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot : A novel, Greg Mason
The Jeep: From Historic Roots to American Icon, Corbin Milligan
Creating National Identity: Art and Power in Ancient Rome and Washington D.C., Evelyn Peters
A Bare Bones History: Lynching in Manatee County, Hailey Erin Praught
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
From leaves to roots of frustration, Desiree Lobo Alves
A study of the Irish struggle against English oppression, Christopher Burke
From the hood to your neck of the woods, Carina E. Capella
Multimetric Bioassessment of Florida's Peace River: Exploring Abiotic and Biotic Relationships, Philipp J. Conner
Self-Talk Themes in Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors, Brian Constantine
China: Emerging as a Great Nation, Gabriela M. Gherghel
Whose Life is it Anyway ?, Matthew Ryan Giba
Using Fluorescence and Absorption Spectroscopy to Characterize High Performapce Liquid Chromatography Fractionated CDOM from West Florida Rivers, Roxanne H. Hastings
An Exploration of the Relationships among Depression, Anxiety, Crying and Post-Crying Mood Change, Anthony Hernandez
Writing Identity and the Writers' Workshop : Looking Back at My Second Grade Classroom, Jacquelyn R. Hicks
An Indistinct Earth: Stories, Stephen Janes
From Food to Fuel: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Corn Ethanol, Caitlin J. Kuleci
USP Water Filtration System: Designed for a Drug Manufacturing Process, Jessica Linville
Light through Darkness: The Journey to Recovery for Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Claire St. Jacques
Emotional expressiveness in families of toddler aged children: A descriptive and cluster analytic analysis, Meagan Taylor
Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina: After the fall of Communism, Jasmina Zajimovic
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
From Enron to WorldCom: The Nature and Consequences of Financial Statement Fraud, Brian Christian
The Effects of Repetition, Source Credibility, Valence, and Individual Differences on the Willingness to Act upon a Rumor, Eric M. Douthirt
Lookism: The Silent Discrimination, Allison T. Farrell
Par for the Course of Development: A Critique of Historical Development Theory and the Necessity of Participatory Action Research, Cherilyn Hansen
Lifting the Veil on Traditional White Weddings, Kelly Iceton
Maguire's Wicked Deconstruction of Gender Constructs, Crystal L. Kelly
The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma Speaks: A Critical Examination of Mahayana Buddhist Literature via the Eastern Lens, Erin Lyn Lauer
My Poetry, My Therapy : An explanation on the development of poetry throughout history and the use of poetry as an emotional release, Heather E. Linton
Measuring the Economic Value of Corporate Social Responsibility, Scott H. Peeples
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
An Inside View of an Alternative Model for Secondary Schools, Gerald Matthew Bacoats
The Ten-Year Hike to the Starting Line: One Writer's Journey from Bad to Competent, Darien Cavanaugh
