Gain Research Experience through UCARE
The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) program at UNL is a paid opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty research advisor. UCARE is supported by generous gifts from the Pepsi Quasi Endowment and Union Bank & Trust.
Past Projects
Michaela Brown and Kaylen Michaelis
George Elliot Archive
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2019-2020
Simone Droge and Gayle Rocz
Encoding Prose: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
2019-2020
Rose Kottwitz and Tanima Shrivastava
Advancing the George Eliot Digital Archive
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2019-2020
Bianca Swift
Charles Chesnutt and the 21st Century American
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth M. Price
2019-2020
Rose Wehrman
Typology of Gaps in the Education System
2019-2020
Ellen Kratzer
Didaskalia
Faculty sponsor: Michael Lippman
2019-2020
Mackenzie Burch
The George Eliot Archive: Current Reception & Comparison of DH Projects 2020
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
Regan Chasek
Data Visualization for Reprints of Walt Whitman's Poems
Faculty sponsor: Matt Cohen
Simone Droge and Gayle Rocz
Encoding Prose: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Megan Ekstrom, Rachel Gordon, and Riley Jhi
Redefining Biography: The George Eliot Digital Archive Project
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
Bianca Swift
The Charles Chesnutt Archive: Charles Chesnutt and the Black Intelligentsia
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth M. Price
Julien Hoffman
Illustrations of Femininity, Power and Magic: A Study of the Representations of Women and Girls as Witches in Comics Throughout History
Ellen Kratzer
An Interactive, Multimedia eBook on Ancient Drama
Mallorie Sckerl
An Investigation into Origins of Sexual Assault in the Catholic Priesthood
Sarah Duke, Rachel Gordon, and Bailea Kerr
The George Eliot Digital Archive Project
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
Sarah Duke, Bailea Kerr, and Rosamond Thalken
Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Review Digitalization Project: Phase II
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2017-2018
Austin Buchanan
A Study through Fiction: East-Asian Influences upon American Life
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Schaffert
2016-2017
Sara Duke
The Whitman Archive: Archival Investigations of Walt Whitman’s Interviews and Reminiscences
Faculty sponsor: Brett Barney
2016-2017
Amzie Dunekacke
Dr. Livingstone's Last Journey: Why his African Attendants Served him so Well
Faculty sponsor: Adrian S. Wisnicki
2016-2017
Bailea Kerr and Jade Zuehlke
Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Review Digitalization Project
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2016-2017
Tina Le
Increasing Motivation in Secondary Students Through Public Writing Partnerships Between College and High School Students
Faculty sponsor: Rachael W. Shah
2016-2017
Ruobing Zhao
What American Educators Can Learn From Their Students From Asia, and How They Can Best Support Their Academic Success
Faculty sponsor: Rachel Azima
2016-2017
Isaac Coleman
Steelarm: An Independently-Produced Videogame about Privilege and Player Choice
Faculty sponsor: Tamy Burnett
2015-2016
Amzie Dunekacke
The Manuscripts of David Livingstone: Shaping and Reshaping Victorian Britain's Ideas about African, Araba and Indian Populations
Faculty sponsor: Adrian S. Wisnicki
2015-2016
Anthony Skaleski
Interpretations of Unconformities within the Phosphoria Rock Complex and their Implications Toward Climate Change: Bighorn Basin Wyoming
Faculty sponsor: Tracy Frank
2015-2016
Rosamond Thalken
Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Review Digitalization Project
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2015-2016
Brittany Bell
Defining Taboo: A Study of the Life and Work of the Brönte Sisters
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2015-2016
Amzie Dunekacke
Victorian Counter-Worlds and the Uncanny: The Fantasy Illustrations of Walter Crane and Arthur Rackham
Faculty sponsor: Laura White
2015-2016
Sara Duke
Digital Archives: Electronic Publishing in the 21st Century
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth M. Price
2015-2016
Ellie Feis
How Proto-Feminist Was George Eliot?
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2015-2016
Katherine Cooley
Musical Echoes of Modernism and Traditionalism in Joyce's Ulysses
Faculty sponsor: Roland Végső
2015-2016
Samantha Greenfield
Scholarly Editing of Willa Cather's Letters
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
2015-2016
Landon Sadler
Murder, Abuse, and Feminism: Contextualizing Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"
Faculty sponsor: Melissa Homestead
2015-2016
Jessica Vazquez
The Revolutionary Moment of 1968 and its Aftermath
Faculty sponsor: Marco Abel
2015-2016
Natalie Wiebelhaus
Literature Surrounding the Arab Uprisings
Faculty sponsor: Basuli Deb
2015-2016
Kirsten Clawson
The Walt Whitman Archive: A Case Study for Analyzing Digital Literary Archives, Electronic Publishing, and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-first Century
Faculty sponsor: Ken Price
2014-15
Katherine Cooley
Modernism in Literature and Music
Faculty sponsor: Roland Végső
2014-15
Marissa Curtiss
Legal Interactions and Access to Health Care for Transgender Individuals
Faculty sponsor: Beth Burkstrand-Reid
2014-15
Emily Grammes
Case Studies in Literature and Life: Depicting Domestic Violence
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2014-15
Samantha Greenfield
Scholarly Editing of Willa Cather's Letters
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
2014-15
Hailey Hemenway
Applying Theories of Literary Biography
Faculty sponsor: Beverley Rilett
2014-15
Alex Kinnaman
Studying Depiction of Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature for The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk
Faculty sponsor: Amanda Gailey
2014-15
Kourtney Klein
Influence of the Department of Classical Studies on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
2014-15
Dominic Lincoln, Daniel McEowen, and Jessica Vazquez
1968 & Its Aftermath in International Cinema
Faculty sponsor: Marco Abel
2014-15