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In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson “demonstrates what can be done when something taken-for-granted is examined, and examined minutely, or to use Robertson’s phrase, with “granular certainty.” He places this piece of office furniture within the context of the growth of corporate capitalism in the United States.” Click here to read […]
Sociomusicologist Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, in her review of Music & Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism, describes this book as “an exceptional feat of research and ethnography”. Author Amanda J. Haste tackles topics from gender identity through the commodification of monastic music to the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon. To read the review of this fascinating book, go to https://www.ncis.org/book-reviewsthe-independent-scholar-tis. […]
It’s been two years in the making, but the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars is finally here! Edited by Amanda Haste & Linda Baines, and with contributions from authors in the USA, Great Britain, France and Australia, this 180-page volume was inspired by Ronald Gross’s seminal Independent Scholar’s Handbook (1982; 1993), and we are delighted and honoured that Ron has […]
We were delighted to learn of Janis Bell’s co-authored book Designed to Impress: Guido Mazenta’s Plans for the Entry of Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria into Milan (1597). This volume, by Janis Bell, Elisa Ruiz Garcia (University of Madrid, Spain), Silvio Leydi and Stefano Bruzzese, is “a clearly-structured and well-written account of the sources and context in which the […]
Many thanks to Dr. Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond, icono-archeologist at ArkéoTopia and associated researcher at the CNRS (Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique) in France for bringing to our attention a paper entitled “Independent Researchers: A Bibliometric Analysis.” The paper cites NCIS and describes our mission, and is also a good read. The paper is open access, […]
Congratulations to NCIS member Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. who has just published his latest book, Corruption, Sustainable Development and Security Challenges in Africa: Prospects and Policy Implications for Peace and Stability (Springer Nature, 2023). This book sheds light on Africa’s development performance and dynamics arising from the interface between corruption and sustainable development on the one hand […]
Congratulations to NCIS member Kate Burrows who has just published the last of 3 papers from her dissertation. This article, about the history of deaf technology advertising (including early hearing aid advertising and modern cochlear implant advertising) connects the advertising message with the “meaning of deafness” throughout the ages. It’s published in Advertising and Society Quarterly 24.2 […]
BOOK NOW for our next free on-line event!We welcome back archivist and academic librarian Joanna Baines, who will be talking about “Demystifying special collections and archives for independent scholars” on Sat. 2 September.9am Pacific Time; 12noon Eastern Time; 5pm BST (UK); 6pm CET (Central Europe). Access to special collections (rare-books, archives, records and manuscripts) provide […]
We are delighted to publish the preprint of the first paper to be accepted for the next volume of our peer-reviewed open-access journal The Independent Scholar. Keenan Baca-Winters’ fascinating essay examining trauma and narrative in the work of Greek poet and historian Agathias can be downloaded and read here.
We were very sorry to hear of the sudden death of Joanne Lafler (1934-2023), one of the founding mothers of NCIS. She gained her doctorate in theater history from UC Berkeley in 1974 and became a renowned theater historian, later turning to California social and cultural history, 1900 to 1950. In 1998 she became an editor […]
Maritime historian Phillip Reid was granted an NCIS Conference Support Grant in 2022 to enable him to attend the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in Philadelphia (7-8 January 2023). He reports that all went well, and that “we had a lively, smooth-running session Sunday morning at AHA on “Maritime Microhistory and Public History: Global Perspectives.” Thanks to […]
Congratulations to NCIS member James Magrini who has just published a new philosophy book. Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2023) is a collection of seven speculative and critical essays that initiates a journey, inviting readers to abide, for a short time, with philosophical themes emerging from aesthetics, poetry, existentialism, ancient Greek philosophy, and education. […]
