Past College of Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant Recipients

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Name Semester(s) Major Department research was conducted Mentor Research
Gabrielle Mellor Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Psychology & English Psychology Dr. Vanessa Burke You Work Like a Girl: Understanding the Regulation of Masculinity Violations in the Workplace
Amy Ruckman Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 English English Dr. Chris Barrett Because/In Spite of Blackness: Anti-Blackness, White Privilege, and Interracial Partnerships in Shakespeare
Cartie Whitelaw Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Sociology Sociology Dr. Frederick Weil Community Cooperation in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic 
Linley Kennedy Spring 2023 Biological Sciences Geography & Anthropology Dr. Teresa Wilson The Root of Enamel Defects: Understanding Dental Trauma in the Children of Amarna
Katherine Monroe Fall 2022 & Spring 2023 Sociology & Spanish Sociology Dr. Frederick Weil Life in the Age of the Coronavirus
Mina Sheikh Fall 2022 & Spring 2023 Biological Sciences Psychology Dr. Emily Elliott Childrens' Capacity for Working Memory: Analyzing Domain-Specific and Attentional Control Style Mechanisms for Memory Recall
Christopher Meyer Summer 2022 & Fall 2022 Mathematics Political Science Dr. Yann Kerevel LGBT Politicians & Candidates on Twitter: A Language Modeling Approach
Jordan Waldmann Summer 2022 Biochemistry Political Science Dr. Elizabeth Lane Judicial Ambition: An Examination of Opportunities for Women in the Legal Profession
Kennedy Butler Spring 2022 Biological Sciences Communication Sciences & Disorders Dr. Julie Schneider A Regional Specific Analysis of Brain Structure based on Food Deserts and Other Compounding Risk Factors Across Low SES Communities using sMRI
Kyleigh Jackson Fall 2021 Communication Disorders Communication Sciences & Disorders Dr. Hyunju Chung Analysis of acoustic and articulatory characteristics of English lateral /l/ produced by Korean-English Bilingual Children
Anna Stebbins Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 Anthropology Geography & Anthropology Dr. Kristine DeLong Barium/Calcium Ratios in Eastern Oysters (Crassostreagvirginica a Potential Environmental Proxy: Examining the Effects of Anthropogenic Freshwater Flooding on Development and Mortality of Oysters in the Pontchartrain Basin
Frankey Leggio Spring 2021 Anthropology Geography & Anthropology Dr. Teresa Wilson The Identification of Burned Human Teeth in Forensic Anthropology
Evan Leonhard Spring 2021 & Fall 2021 English and Philosophy Philosophy & Religious Studies Dr. Carmela Mattza Transcending the Artist: A Neo-Thomistic Inquiry into the Autonomy of Art
Amber Alford Fall 2020 & Spring 2021 Sociology Psychology Dr. Heather Lucas Learning Under Stress: The Effect of Acute Stress on Learners’ Use of Effective Study Strategies
Katherine Nugent Fall 2020 Sociology Sociology Dr. Matthew Valasik Demographics, Locations, and Behavior Featured in COPS
Marina Bianchi Summer 2020 & Spring 2021 Political Science Political Science Dr. Kim Jeong Masculine Gender Characteristic Effects on Political Efficacy
Kendall Brome Spring 2020 & Summer 2020 Coastal Environmental Science Geography & Anthropology Dr. Kristine DeLong Paleoclimatic reconstructions in the Gulf of Mexico using fossilized coral proxies (Siderastrea siderea)
Horatio Traylor Spring 2020 & Summer 2020 Psychology Psychology Dr. Rachel Williamson Smith Do Minority Women In Managerial Positions Experience A Greater Propulsion To Voluntary Turnover?
Kaela Powery Fall 2019 & Spring 2020 Communication Disorders Communication Sciences & Disorders Dr. Hyunju Chung English /l/ and /w/ Sound Development in Young Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders
Zachary Traylor Summer 2019 & Spring 2020 Psychology Psychology Dr. Steven Greening Cheap Thrills: An Affordable and Effective Fear Conditioning Device
Charles Desobry Fall 2019 Philosophy Philosophy & Religious Studies Dr. Jon Cogburn The Temporal Aspect of the Principle of Sufficient Reason from Leibniz to Schopenhauer
Dwayne Hinton Summer 2019 & Fall 2019 Anthropology Geography & Anthropology Dr. Heather McKillop The Role of Forest Management in the Classic Maya Collapse
Lauren Vidrine Spring 2019 English English Dr. Gregory Johnson A Syntactic Analysis of Cajun English Disjunctive Pronouns
Katherine Vukovics Summer 2018 & Spring 2019 Music Education Psychology Dr. Emily Elliott The relationship between aural skills experience and our measures of tonal working memory and musical sophistication as well as the relationship between aural skills proficiency and musical experience by means of genre preference
Madeline Meyer Fall 2017 & Spring 2018 Psychology   Jason Harman The Effect of Information Availability and Ownership on Group Creativity