THE NATIONAL COALITION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS

NCIS welcomes three new members and one associate member!
While building a career in business, Ken Gorfkle also earned a doctorate in Spanish literature, graduating from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2014. At UNC, he focused on semiotics, poetics, and...

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...

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...

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...