If you are currently a UWM undergraduate and are interested in getting involved in a faculty-led research experience, you can start by looking through this database of over 600 projects that represent the kind of mentored work students are involved in all across campus. You can search research projects by school or college, major, or key word. You may add up to seven projects to your list and submit them with our simple form.
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The goal of this research project is to examine the illiquidity of OTC markets by using unique data on premiums and discounts paid from PIPEs (Private Investment in Public Equity). This project requires data from various sources that need to be collected and joined. For example, pricing data on OTC securities comes from OTC Markets and CRSP, Financial statement data on these firms comes from Compustat and CapitalIQ. Finally, the PIPEs data comes from Private Raise.
In 1965, the US Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling acknowledging, for the first time, a constitutionally implied right to privacy in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut. The word privacy does not exist in the US Constitution and therefore continues to be juridically invented through case law. Following more recent SCOTUS rulings, the importance of state constitutions have come into focus. “Supreme Privacy, no. 30” is developing a body of research linking legal and architectural notions of privacy within the state of Wisconsin to respond to questions of bodily autonomy and agency in the built environment. The goal of this research is to better understand the real, “private” spaces where the events at the core of important cases took place, using spatial forensic research techniques, and digital and physical 3d-modeling to explore the architecture where the right to privacy in Wisconsin has been tested over the past century.
Me and My Black Family: Photography, Memory, and Belonging is a book-length project that examines how ordinary African Americans used everyday photography to construct history and belonging from the Civil War through the 1990s. Centered on a curated archive of twenty-five photographs from my own family, the project treats snapshots, studio portraits, and yearbook photographs as primary sources organizing the narrative. My objective is to produce a series of essays that discuss within these images themes of leisure, military service, courtship, mobility, and racial identity. Methodologically, the project combines close visual analysis with contextual research. Each photograph is read for its staging, circulation, and material form, then situated within histories of consumer photography and the broader social worlds that produced them. Particular attention is given to interracial intimacy, including colorism, admixture, and adoption within African American families. Genealogical research provides the historical framework for each image, supplying contexts that undergird their interpretation. The project draws on models such as Maurice Berger’s Race Stories, Marianne Hirsch’s Family Frames, and bell hooks’s Art on My Mind to demonstrate how vernacular photography can function as a historical archive.