We are delighted to publish the preprint of the first paper to be accepted for the next volume of our peer-reviewed open-access journal The Independent Scholar. Keenan Baca-Winters’ fascinating essay examining trauma and narrative in the work of Greek poet and historian Agathias can be downloaded and read here.
We were very sorry to hear of the sudden death of Joanne Lafler (1934-2023), one of the founding mothers of NCIS. She gained her doctorate in theater history from UC Berkeley in 1974 and became a renowned theater historian, later turning to California social and cultural history, 1900 to 1950. In 1998 she became an editor […]
Maritime historian Phillip Reid was granted an NCIS Conference Support Grant in 2022 to enable him to attend the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in Philadelphia (7-8 January 2023). He reports that all went well, and that “we had a lively, smooth-running session Sunday morning at AHA on “Maritime Microhistory and Public History: Global Perspectives.” Thanks to […]
Congratulations to NCIS member James Magrini who has just published a new philosophy book. Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2023) is a collection of seven speculative and critical essays that initiates a journey, inviting readers to abide, for a short time, with philosophical themes emerging from aesthetics, poetry, existentialism, ancient Greek philosophy, and education. […]
Hannah Pethen Barrett’s excellent hands-on workshop on “Building your website, establishing your research identity” is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K3-IFH40zs on our NCIS YouTube channel. You will also need to download the PDF document provided by Hannah.
NCIS member and grant award recipient Dr Doaa El Shereef has shared some news of her latest academic exploits. She writes:” I participated as an Independent Scholar and a member of NCIS in 6th International Conference on Culture and History (ICCH 2022) that was held in Paris, France during July 25-27, 2022 and the conference […]
Congratulations to military historian Neil Dukas, author of “A Military History of Sovereign Hawai‘i” and “The Battle of Nu‘uanu, 1795” whose new book “Sometime in Africa” has just been published.Sometime in Africa The year was 1983. Convinced his college education was incomplete, Neil Dukas, set out on an ill-considered 14,000-mile journey on the cheap across the […]
We’re proud to announce that no fewer than three British independent scholars, all Full members of NCIS and also of our Partner Group FIRE-UK, have had their contributions accepted for the #WIASN publication ResearcHER. They are Dr Linda Baines (business management), Dr Helen Ross (dyslexia speicalist) and Dr Jasmine Shadrack (sociomusicologist)This book features female researchers talking about “their journey into research and […]
Congratulations to NCIS Communications Officer Kathleen Stein-Smith, whose latest article, “The Independent Scholar as Change Agent: The Case of Foreign Language Advocacy,” has been accepted (with revisions, of course :)) for publication in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research in late summer. http://www.academypublication.com/jltr/
