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NCIS WEBINAR - Early Career Academia - Sat 17 June 2023

Sat 17 June Early Career Academia: An Insightful Overview with Kate Burrows. 12noon Pacific Time; 3pm Eastern Time; 8pm BST (UK); 9pm CET (Central Europe)
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NCIS WELCOMES 16 NEW MEMBERS

We are delighted to introduce you to no fewer than sixteen scholars recently admitted to membership of NCIS. They hail from the USA, Canada, England and Australia. Welcome all!
Dr. Kay Thwe Kyaw (USA) is a current doctoral student in Public Health at SUNY Downstate Health...

Commemorating NCIS founding mother Joanne Lafler

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....

Sun 23 April Applying for an NCIS Grant: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This free online workshop will explain the NCIS grant application and award process. It will describe the purposes of the 6 award types, how grant funds are disbursed to awardees, annual limits, and potential tax concerns. We will present a successful funding application and discuss the elements...

NCIS WEBINAR: JOURNEYS TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE

Our 2023 programme of free online events is kicking off with an interactive webinar on "Our Journeys towards Independence" hosted by NCIS Events Chair Helen Ross. You can book your free tickets at...

The Independent Scholar Vol. 9 is now live!

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 ...

NCIS grantee Phillip Reid reports on AHA conference

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...

Name check for NCIS in archeology publication

We were very pleased to receive news of a name check for NCIS in an article asking "How do volunteer archaeologists use their talents in the service of science?"
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New members recently admitted to NCIS

In October/November we were pleased to admit three new Full members and one new Associate member, whose fields span history, religious studies, military history and anthropology.

Mark Danley holds a doctorate in history from Kansas State University as well as a masters...

New publication by philosopher James Magrini

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...

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