November 5, 2018

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...

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October 27, 2018

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...

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October 27, 2018

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....

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September 23, 2018

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,...

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August 4, 2018

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...

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May 23, 2018

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...

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May 10, 2018

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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April 15, 2018

Karp Grants Awarded to Range of Scholars

NCIS administers grants that fund individuals at the discretion of donors who wish to remain anonymous. Recipients must be members of NCIS at Full or Associate level, but can apply immediately after membership has been granted.

Among these grants is the David Karp grant. Most recently,...

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March 27, 2018

New NCIS Members Highlight Range of Scholarship

Our newest members highlight the wide range of scholarship NCIS members engage in, and include legal theory, electrical engineering, Theravada Buddhism, medical imaging and anthropology.

Corentin Briat received both his Engineer's degree and Master's degree in electrical...

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February 27, 2018

NCIS Welcomes New Members!

Welcome new members from Australia, Canada, Ghana and the United States!

After receiving his Ph.D. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Adam Lawrence taught at Cape Breton University (2010–2013) and Concordia University (2013–2014). Since 2014,...

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