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NCIS Research Grant awarded to Phillip Reid

In the summer cycle of NCIS Grant Awards, the committee has awarded a Research Grant to Phillip Reid, towards research expenses for his project "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America, 1768--1772". We wish Dr Reid 'God speed' with his research and...

URGENT! CALL FOR MODERATORS for H-Scholar and H-Net

URGENT CALL FOR MODERATORS - H-Scholar and H-Net
Margaret DeLacy has put out an urgent call for list-serv moderators for the Humanities Networks H-Scholar and H-Net. When these lists were established 25 years ago, NCIS was the source of list moderators, and the success of...

WELCOME TO TEN NEW MEMBERS ADMITTED IN JUNE

Our Membership Committee have had a particularly busy month, with many applications. Of these, six new Full Members (all from the USA) and four new Associate Members (from Britain and the USA) have been admitted to NCIS. They represent an impressive range of research interests, with half in STEM...

FIRE-UK HOLD THEIR FIRST VIRTUAL SEMINAR: PUBLISHING YOUR THESIS

Our new British-based Partner Group, the Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (FIRE-UK) has held several informal online meet-ups, and these exchanges have led to the group scheduling its first virtual seminar for UK-based indies. The theme is "How to publish your thesis" and the event will...

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

In May we welcomed another six new members to the NCIS fold. They hail from England and the USA and their disciplines include linguistics and translation, history, electrical and computer engineering, psychology, and international law.

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NCIS WELCOMES SIX NEW MEMBERS FROM THE UK, USA AND NIGERIA

FULL MEMBERS
Tom Barney (UK) earned his PhD in Poetry and Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, and his academic background also includes an MA in Linguistics. He has written on linguistics, stylistics, and the history of the county of Middlesex, is...

Lightning during Pandemic

Barbara Williams Ellertson reports on the creative solutions which rescued the "Image of the Book" sessions, whose original physical conference format was disrupted due to CV-19.
The coronavirus pandemic delayed but couldn't entirely stop our “Image of the Book” sessions...

BASIRA signs partnership with Penn Schoenberg Institute

Barbara Williams Ellertson, our indefatigable Partner Group Liaison Officer, is a founder of the BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) and we are delighted to announce that BASIRA has just signed a new partnership with the Penn Schoenberg Institute.
In alliance with the Schoenberg...

Kathleen Stein-Smith publishes on "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent"

Congratulations to NCIS Communications Officer Kathleen Stein-Smith, whose latest article, "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent: The Case of Foreign Language Advocacy," has been accepted (with revisions, of course :)) for publication in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research...

New contribution to horror (film) literature by NCIS member Matt Jones

Congratulations to Matthew Jones, whose essay "Reanimating Collective Ecological Nightmares in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" was recently included in Horror Homeroom's "Friday the 13th at 40" Special Issue alongside some other fairly prominent scholars of horror and film.
The...

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