August 4, 2018

New NCIS Members Work around the World

A big welcome to our newest NCIS members! These highly accomplished scholars work in Canada, Denmark, France, and the United States in psychopathology, linguistics, contemporary Judaism, English literature and more.

Karima Amer is a psychopathology and psychoanalysis...

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May 23, 2018

NCIS Welcomes 11 New Members!

Our newest NCIS members, who hail from or live in Argentina, Colombia, Germany, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, hold expertise in a broad range of scholarship. Their specialties include modeling and simulation of complex energy systems; race/ethnicity, gender and...

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May 10, 2018

Winners Emerge from Strong Field: NCIS Spring Grant Awards

The Grant Awards Committee are pleased to announce that, from an impressively strong field, the following three members have been awarded Conference Support Grants in the Spring grant cycle. Congratulations to: Isabelle Flemming, representing NCIS on a panel exploring the...

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April 15, 2018

Karp Grants Awarded to Range of Scholars

NCIS administers grants that fund individuals at the discretion of donors who wish to remain anonymous. Recipients must be members of NCIS at Full or Associate level, but can apply immediately after membership has been granted.

Among these grants is the David Karp grant. Most recently,...

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March 27, 2018

New NCIS Members Highlight Range of Scholarship

Our newest members highlight the wide range of scholarship NCIS members engage in, and include legal theory, electrical engineering, Theravada Buddhism, medical imaging and anthropology.

Corentin Briat received both his Engineer's degree and Master's degree in electrical...

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February 27, 2018

NCIS Welcomes New Members!

Welcome new members from Australia, Canada, Ghana and the United States!

After receiving his Ph.D. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Adam Lawrence taught at Cape Breton University (2010–2013) and Concordia University (2013–2014). Since 2014,...

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February 10, 2018

In Memoriam: Peter Abrahams

NCIS is sad to report that Peter K. ABRAHAMS of Portland, Oregon passed away unexpectedly on March 4th, 2018, aged 62, in Los Angeles. Peter was born March 19th, 1955, in Los Angeles, and graduated Reed College in 1977. An avid astronomer, woodworker, and independent scholar, Peter devoted much...

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January 27, 2018

Welcome 12 New NCIS Members!

NCIS welcomes 12 new members based in Thailand, Ireland and United States with disciplines that include community medicine, Arabic and Islamic studies, film, and human resource management.

Safa Abdalla Abdalla, a member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland...

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January 15, 2018

TIS Editorial Board Expands

Four new editors are joining the Editorial Board of TIS, your open-access peer-reviewed academic journal.

Following publication of the first three issues of TIS, the Editorial Board—Shelby Shapiro (General Editor), Amanda...

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January 10, 2018

Congratulations Eisenstein Prize Winners!

We at NCIS are delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2017 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize. This year's award drew a strong field: as Committee...

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