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In Memoriam: Peter Abrahams

NCIS is sad to report that Peter K. ABRAHAMS of Portland, Oregon passed away unexpectedly on March 4th, 2018, aged 62, in Los Angeles. Peter was born March 19th, 1955, in Los Angeles, and graduated Reed College in 1977. An avid astronomer, woodworker, and independent scholar, Peter devoted much...

Welcome 12 New NCIS Members!

NCIS welcomes 12 new members based in Thailand, Ireland and United States with disciplines that include community medicine, Arabic and Islamic studies, film, and human resource management.

Safa Abdalla Abdalla, a member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland...

TIS Editorial Board Expands

Four new editors are joining the Editorial Board of TIS, your open-access peer-reviewed academic journal.

Following publication of the first three issues of TIS, the Editorial Board—Shelby Shapiro (General Editor), Amanda...

Congratulations Eisenstein Prize Winners!

We at NCIS are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2017 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize. This year's award drew a strong field: as Committee...

Winners of NCIS Grant Awards Announced

The Grant Awards Committee is pleased to announce the results of the Fall cycle of NCIS grants. Two winners emerged from a strong field, with a Research Grant being awarded to Ilan Fuchs, to support a research trip to Israel for his book on Spiritual Socialism and Poalei...

Dorbrecht-funded Research Goes Viral!

British member Lucy Crisfield received a Dorbrecht Grant through NCIS to support her research on Sanskrit for yoga students, and reports on "some wonderful news" with regard to the most recent article she wrote as part of her time funded by Dorbrecht. Lucy published the article on the UK yoga...

Report of Berks Conference by NCIS-supported presenters

The 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities (Hofstra University,NY, June 1-4, 2017) was attended by Dr Yvonne Groseil and Dr Susan Breitzer, both of whom were supported by NCIS grants. The theme was “Difficult Conversations: Thinking and talking about Women,...

Board Agrees to Additional Grant Award Cycle

Following the generous gesture of The Center for Independent Study (CIS) in New Haven to disburse remaining CIS funds (about $3,000) to NCIS in support of members' conference attendance and library fees, in July the Board voted to add a third grant award cycle in the year, starting in 2018. This...

New Grant Funding, courtesy of CIS

The Center for Independent Study (CIS) in New Haven has decided to disband after 40 years' service to the IS community. As part of the dissolution process, the CIS board decided unanimously to disburse remaining CIS funds (about $3,000) to NCIS in support of members' conference travel,...

NCIS Grant Awards - Spring 2017

Congratulations to our latest grant recipients! In the Spring cycle of NCIS grant awards anthropologist Yvonne Groseil was awarded a Conference Support Grant for her forthcoming paper "Living History: The National Society of Colonial Dames", to be presented at the 17th Berkshire...

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