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Two NCIS Conference Support Grants awarded

Congratulations to two long-standing NCIS members, Dr Susan Breitzer and Dr Valerie Abrahamsen, who have each been awarded an NCIS Conference Support Grant in the Spring grant cycle. These grants will enable them to attend the 2019 NCIS Conference "Making Connections, Meeting Challenges" at...

Facciola receives Karp funding through NCIS

Stephen Facciola has recently received another generous grant from the David Karp Philanthropic Foundation, administered through NCIS, which will enable Stephen to continue his research into edible plants. As he tells us: "I'm currently working on a multi-volume book on edible plants of the...

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

This month we are delighted to welcome five new scholars, some early career and others with a wealth of academic experience. Their research fields include literature, rhetoric, disability studies, American history, criminology, evolutionary psychology, education and computer science. Welcome one...

New trilogy explores Mexico's turbulent history

NCIS member Phil Stover has a particular interest in Mexican history and religious conflict, and we are delighted to announce the publication of the first two books of his three-book series The Search for the Soul of Mexico, published by Rio Vista Press. This trilogy offers insight into...

Lilian Calles Barger reports on her NCIS-funded conference in Chicago

Thank you to the NCIS and its Grant Awards Committee for the grant to attend the Society for U.S. Intellectual History annual conference in Chicago, November 8-11, 2018.. It was important for me on several fronts. I was on the conference committee and involved in the planning and participated in...

A big NCIS welcome to eight new members

Elise Kammerer gained her Ph.D. from Cologne University (2016) with her thesis on “The Negotiation of Public and Private Space by the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society”. She taught several courses at Cologne (2012-16) and served as Editor of the Historical Social Research...

Report from NCIS grantee Dr Janet Smith

A generous bursary from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars enabled me to attend not one, but two conferences in September, to promote my research and the work of NCIS. I presented at both the Women’s History Network’s Annual Conference at Portsmouth University, England, 1-2 September...

NCIS welcomes seven new members from four countries

We extend a warm NCIS welcome to new members from the USA, France, Holland and Hungary. As well as their respective skills in anthropology, linguistics, recreation and tourism, religious studies, history and literary theory, between them they read, write and speak an impressive thirteen...

Conference Support Grant awarded

The Grant Awards Committee is pleased to announce that Lilian Calles Barger has been awarded a Conference Support Grant to support her paper "Finding Gender in 'Free-Range' American Thought", to be given in The Gender of Intellectual History Panel of the Society of 2018 U.S....

2018 Eisenstein Winners Announced

We are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2018 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize, which once again drew a strong field. The Review Committee,...

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