Jasmine Hazel Shadrack‘s latest book (co-edited with Christine Welch) is Religion, Death and the Senses, to be published by Equinox on 1 August 2024. You are warmly invited to the online book launch on 12 September 2024. If you are interested in reviewing this book (and thus receiving a free copy!) please email our Book Review Editor […]
We have a new book review for you! Click here to read Shelby Shapiro’s review of Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer (eds.).
In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson “demonstrates what can be done when something taken-for-granted is examined, and examined minutely, or to use Robertson’s phrase, with “granular certainty.” He places this piece of office furniture within the context of the growth of corporate capitalism in the United States.” Click here to read […]
Sociomusicologist Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, in her review of Music & Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism, describes this book as “an exceptional feat of research and ethnography”. Author Amanda J. Haste tackles topics from gender identity through the commodification of monastic music to the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon. To read the review of this fascinating book, go to https://www.ncis.org/book-reviewsthe-independent-scholar-tis. […]
It’s been two years in the making, but the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars is finally here! Edited by Amanda Haste & Linda Baines, and with contributions from authors in the USA, Great Britain, France and Australia, this 180-page volume was inspired by Ronald Gross’s seminal Independent Scholar’s Handbook (1982; 1993), and we are delighted and honoured that Ron has […]
We were delighted to learn of Janis Bell’s co-authored book Designed to Impress: Guido Mazenta’s Plans for the Entry of Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria into Milan (1597). This volume, by Janis Bell, Elisa Ruiz Garcia (University of Madrid, Spain), Silvio Leydi and Stefano Bruzzese, is “a clearly-structured and well-written account of the sources and context in which the […]
Many thanks to Dr. Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond, icono-archeologist at ArkéoTopia and associated researcher at the CNRS (Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique) in France for bringing to our attention a paper entitled “Independent Researchers: A Bibliometric Analysis.” The paper cites NCIS and describes our mission, and is also a good read. The paper is open access, […]
Congratulations to NCIS member Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. who has just published his latest book, Corruption, Sustainable Development and Security Challenges in Africa: Prospects and Policy Implications for Peace and Stability (Springer Nature, 2023). This book sheds light on Africa’s development performance and dynamics arising from the interface between corruption and sustainable development on the one hand […]
Congratulations to NCIS member Kate Burrows who has just published the last of 3 papers from her dissertation. This article, about the history of deaf technology advertising (including early hearing aid advertising and modern cochlear implant advertising) connects the advertising message with the “meaning of deafness” throughout the ages. It’s published in Advertising and Society Quarterly 24.2 […]
BOOK NOW for our next free on-line event!We welcome back archivist and academic librarian Joanna Baines, who will be talking about “Demystifying special collections and archives for independent scholars” on Sat. 2 September.9am Pacific Time; 12noon Eastern Time; 5pm BST (UK); 6pm CET (Central Europe). Access to special collections (rare-books, archives, records and manuscripts) provide […]
