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Winners of the 2016 Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize, named for Professor Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (1923-2016) in recognition of her long-standing support of NCIS, and co-funded by NCIS and Margaret DeLacy, daughter of Professor Eisenstein and a founding member of...

NCIS Welcomes Recent New Members

Marilyn J. Andrews is an independent scholar who earned her doctorate in Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also holds master's degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Education. Her dissertation research examined how the Mapuche people of South America...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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