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Welcome 4 Scholars Who Recently Joined NCIS

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...

NCIS Welcomes New Members

NCIS welcomes Marilyn J. Andrews and Chris Lezotte, among 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...

7 New NCIS Members Hail from 6 Countries

Seven independent scholars living in six countries recently joined NCIS, and their diverse expertise includes pharmacology, psychoanalytic literary criticism and Early Modern European History.

Pintu Das has taught English at university level for more than a decade in...

NCIS Welcomes Seven New Members

NCIS welcomes new members Amy Absher, Michel Accad, Lisa Cardyn, Elizabeth Everton, Thomas E. Kail, Angela Shaw-Thornburg, and Steven Williams.

Amy Absher is a historian, writer, and teacher specializing in the 20th century African American Experience.

Is ‘Independent Scholar’ What You Call Yourself?

NCIS is crossposting the following discussion from our Facebook page which reflects upon Julie Enzer’s article in Inside Higher Ed, “What Shall I Call Myself?”

As Enzer writes:...

Ancient Asia Accepting Submissions for 2016

Ancient Asia, the official continuous publication journal of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA), is now accepting submissions for publication for 2016. The journal primarily publishes research papers but also welcome book reviews ...

2016 Evental Aesthetics

Call for Papers

The Editors of Evental Aesthetics, a peer reviewed journal of philosophical perspectives on aesthetic practice and experience, are pleased to announce the following call for papers for...

Alexandra Wimberly Wins Dorbrecht Grant for Scientific Research

Alexandra Wimberly, NCIS member, was awarded $1,800 from the Dorbrecht Grant of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund for her research project, Yoga Intervention for Substance Use and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Community Reentry. The randomized controlled trial...

NCIS Member Was in Strong Running for Mary Zinn Prize

The Association of Women in Slavic Studies tells us that an NCIS member submitted a strong self-nomination for the Mary Zirin Prize in Slavic Studies, but was unfortunately unsuccessful due to "an unusually large pool of superb nominees." The Mary Zirin...

SPARC Advocates Open Access for Scholarly Resources

"SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs...

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