The Independent Scholar is the peer-reviewed open-access journal of NCIS, and you can now read, download, print Vol. 9 with critical essays, book reviews, the winning entries in the 2021 Eisenstein Essay Prize, and more! For details go to https://www.ncis.org/the-independent-scholar/tis.
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Helen Ross. "Educating Post COVID-19: Moving on From Pandemic Pedagogy." The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp. 5-22.
Mary Ellen Nourse. "Registered Apprenticeships and Youth Apprenticeships in Catholic Archdiocesan, Diocesan- and Parish-Affiliated High Schools in the United States: A Descriptive Snapshot." The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp. 23-39.
Valerie Abrahamsen. "St. Paul and Goddesses along the Via Egnatia: Paganism and the Early Jesus Movement in Ancient Macedonia." The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp. 40-55.
2021 EISENSTEIN ESSAY PRIZE:
Joint winners:
Janet Smith. "Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885." First published in Open Library of Humanities 6(2) (2020), 19. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.540. Reprinted with permission in The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp. 57-73.
Phillip Frank Reid. "Conveyance and Commodity: The Ordinary Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800." First published in Cultural Economies in the Atlantic World: Objects and Capital in the Transatlantic Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025436. Reprinted with permission in The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp.74-85.
Runner-up:
Evan Dutmer. "Teaching as Consolatio: Re-imagining the Teacher-Student Dynamic in Times of Emergency.” Teaching Classical Languages 11(2) (2020): 15-32. Reprinted with permission in The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 (December 2022), pp. 86-96.
BOOK REVIEWS
OBITUARIES