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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,...

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...

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,...

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,...

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