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New trilogy explores Mexico's turbulent history

NCIS member Phil Stover has a particular interest in Mexican history and religious conflict, and we are delighted to announce the publication of the first two books of his three-book series The Search for the Soul of Mexico, published by Rio Vista Press. This trilogy offers insight into...

Lilian Calles Barger reports on her NCIS-funded conference in Chicago

Thank you to the NCIS and its Grant Awards Committee for the grant to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History annual conference in Chicago, November 8-11, 2018.. It was important for me on several fronts. I was on the conference committee and involved in the planning and participated in...

A big NCIS welcome to eight new members

Elise Kammerer gained her Ph.D. from Cologne University (2016) with her thesis on “The Negotiation of Public and Private Space by the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society”. She taught several courses at Cologne (2012-16) and served as Editor of the Historical Social Research...

Report from NCIS grantee Dr Janet Smith

A generous bursary from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars enabled me to attend not one, but two conferences in September, to promote my research and the work of NCIS. I presented at both the Women’s History Network’s Annual Conference at Portsmouth University, England, 1-2 September...

NCIS welcomes seven new members from four countries

We extend a warm NCIS welcome to new members from the USA, France, Holland and Hungary. As well as their respective skills in anthropology, linguistics, recreation and tourism, religious studies, history and literary theory, between them they read, write and speak an impressive thirteen...

Conference Support Grant awarded

The Grant Awards Committee is pleased to announce that Lilian Calles Barger has been awarded a Conference Support Grant to support her paper "Finding Gender in 'Free-Range' American Thought", to be given in The Gender of Intellectual History Panel of the Society of 2018 U.S....

2018 Eisenstein Winners Announced

We are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2018 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize, which once again drew a strong field. The Review Committee,...

New NCIS Members Work around the World

A big welcome to our newest NCIS members! These highly accomplished scholars work in Canada, Denmark, France, and the United States in psychopathology, linguistics, contemporary Judaism, English literature and more.

Karima Amer is a psychopathology and psychoanalysis...

NCIS Welcomes 11 New Members!

Our newest NCIS members, who hail from or live in Argentina, Colombia, Germany, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, hold expertise in a broad range of scholarship. Their specialties include modeling and simulation of complex energy systems; race/ethnicity, gender and...

Winners Emerge from Strong Field: NCIS Spring Grant Awards

The Grant Awards Committee are pleased to announce that, from an impressively strong field, the following three members have been awarded Conference Support Grants in the Spring grant cycle. Congratulations to: Isabelle Flemming, representing NCIS on a panel exploring the...

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