December 20, 2017

New Benefit for NCIS Members:

30% Discount on Nota Bene Academic Software

NCIS has obtained a 30% member discount on Nota Bene referencing software which is designed for academic research and writing. Lingua, which adds Nota Bene’s support for Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA. can also be purchased at a 30...

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December 20, 2017

NCIS Conference Support Grants - Autumn 2016

The NCIS Grant Awards Committee is delighted to announce that NCIS Conference Travel Grants have been awarded to Tula Connell, for her paper entitled " 1950s Milwaukee: Race, Class and a City Divided,” to be presented at ‘The Working Urban' Urban History Association Conference,...

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December 20, 2017

Dorbrecht Grant awarded to British member Lucy Crisfield

British NCIS Member Lucy Crisfield has been awarded a Dorbrecht grant to begin research on her book, ‘Sanskrit for Yoga Students’, while concurrently studying the grammar of the Pāṇini’s Aṣṭhādhyāyī. The purpose of her book will be to examine the role of the Sanskrit language in the major...
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December 20, 2017

From the Winners of the Eisenstein Prize

Following the annoncement of the 2016 Eisenstein Prize, we'd like to share the following statement from Barbara Williams Ellertson​, who, with Janet Seiz, co-authored the winning essay.

"We are so honored to be chosen as the 2016 recipients of the NCIS’ Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize....

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December 20, 2017

Welcome to four scholars who recently joined NCIS

NCIS welcomes three new members and one associate member!
While building a career in business, Ken Gorfkle also earned a doctorate in Spanish literature, graduating from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2014. At UNC, he focused on semiotics, poetics, and...

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December 20, 2017

Winners of the 2016 Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize, named for Professor Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (1923-2016) in recognition of her long-standing support of NCIS, and co-funded by NCIS and Margaret DeLacy, daughter of Professor Eisenstein and a founding member of...

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December 20, 2017

NCIS Welcomes Recent New Members

Marilyn J. Andrews is an independent scholar who earned her doctorate in Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also holds master's degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Education. Her dissertation research examined how the Mapuche people of South America...

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December 20, 2017

Ph.D in Anthropology for NCIS member (Israel)

Anthropologist Efrat Sadras-Ron (Israel) has successfully defended her Ph.D. on "Secular Identification: The Case of BINA and its Secular Yeshiva," in which she explores the concepts of everyday secularity, and group identification. Using the ethnography of a secular yeshiva in...

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December 20, 2017

NCIS Welcomes 2 New Members

NCIS welcomes two new members, Jeffrey Scheuer and Dr. Joyce W. Morgan, who are among nearly one dozen scholars who have recently signed up with NCIS.
 

Jeffrey Scheuer is author of two books on media and politics, The Big Picture...

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December 20, 2017

Member Nhi Lieu: 'I Engaged with Scholars in My Field'

NCIS Board member Nhi T. Lieu, a scholar in American Ethnic and Culturla Studies and Gender and Women's Studeies, recently was awarded an NCIS conference grant...

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