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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December 20, 2017

NCIS Grant Recipient Describes Project on Leader in Underground Railroad

NCIS member Maximilian Longely, recent recipient of the NCIS Research Grant, sends the following summary of Joseph Williams Thorne (1816-1897), the subject of the book he is researching.

"Joseph Williams Thorne was a radical Quaker whose career spanned the latter half of the nineteenth...

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December 20, 2017

Karp Award Funds Full-Color Botanical Book Plates

NCIS member Joan Morgan, recipient of the NCIS-administered David A Karp Philanthropic Fund award, utilized the grant to help fund...

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December 20, 2017

NCIS Grant Awards - High-Quality Submissions Earn Extra Grant

Due to the high quality of submissions in this Spring 2016 grant cycle, the Review Committee has decided to award three NCIS grants in place of the usual two. Congratulations!

Nhi Lieu has been awarded a Conference Travel Grant for her panel presentation...

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December 20, 2017

NCIS Welcomes Three New Members

Freda Bradley (USA) changed careers entirely after spending 25 years in a medical laboratory. In 2012, she checked her Master of Arts in History off her bucket list and became adjunct faculty at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. Freda also runs a small research service...

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December 20, 2017

Three NCIS Members Among Authors of New Book on Identity

NCIS is proud to announce that three of the authors of Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization are members of NCIS:...

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December 20, 2017

Member's Book - New Publication

Congratulations to labor historian Tula Connell, whose book ...

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December 20, 2017

Award for NCIS Associate Member Dr Parashram Patil (India)

Congratulations to one of our members from Asia, Dr. Parashram Jakappa Patil, who has been awarded a Young Scientist Award by the Trans Asian /Indo-Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
 
Dr Patil is the son of...
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