Teaches following Subjects/Exams
psychology (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English
Teaching Experience
Continuing Education Seminar Teacher
Asociación de Psicología de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
May 2008 - May 2008
Psychology, parapsychology
Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., one-day seminar: “Psicología y parasicología: Introducción, Historia e Investigación.” (In Spanish: “Psychology and parapsychology: Introduction, History and Research.”)
Lyceum Instructor
Parapsychology Foundation, United States
Jul 2000 - Feb 2003
parapsychology
Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., four one-day seminars: “Introduction to the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena”; “Ghosts and Hauntings”; “Beyond the Body – Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences”; and “Parapsychology’s Forgotten Phenomena.”
Seminar Co-Instructor
Carlos Albizu University, Puerto Rico
Aug 2000 - Aug 2000
psychology anomalous exeriences
Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., one-day seminar, “El Estudio Psicológico de los Fenómenos Parapsicológicos.” (In Spanish: “The Psychological Study of Parapsychological Phenomena”).
Summer Study Instructor
Rhine Research Center, United States
Jun 1983 - Jun 2000
parapychology, statistics, psychology anomalous experiences
(Formerly called the Institute for Parapsychology ) 1983-1993, and 2000: Lecturer in statistics, experimental methodology, history of parapsychology, and spontaneous case studies, Summer Study Program, 1985: Coordinator, Summer Study Program.
Instructor
Field Museum of Natural History, United States
Jan 1981 - May 1982
parapsychology
Part-time adult education instructor (Course titles: “Parapsychology: Science or Superstition?”; “Ghosts, Poltergeists and Hauntings: Fact or Fiction?”).
Instructor
Harold Washington College, United States
Sep 1981 - May 1982
parapsychology
Harold Washington College (formerly Loop College), Chicago, Illinois, USA. Part-time adult education instructor (Course titles: “Introduction to Parapsychology”; “Ghosts, Poltergeists & Hauntings”).
Instructor
Mundelein College, United States
Sep 1977 - Aug 1980
parapsychology
Part-time adult education instructor (Course Title: “Introduction to Parapsychology”)
Professional Experience
Co-founder
AZIRE, Virginia, United States
Aug 2009 - PresentThe Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education (AZIRE) founded to provide both education on the scientific study of seemingly psychic phenomena and resources for students and teachers looking for reliable information on the scientific side of parapsychology and the psychology of belief and experience. Located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and in the Education Village in the Chilbo Community in Second Life and on Reaction Grid. (The AZIRE is a project of Alvarado Consulting.)
Director of Publications
Parapsychology Foundation, New York, United States
Jul 2000 - PresentJanuary 2009 to Currently: 5-hour-a-week volunteer, website content development and maintenance, print process management and print page production and indexing. February 2003 through December 2008. Part-time Director of Publications on a contract basis through Alvarado Consulting. July 2000 to February 2003: Full-time on-site Director of Publications.
Assistant Professor of Research in Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
University of Virginia, Virginia, United States
Mar 2003 - Presentat the Division of Perceptual Studies in the Department of sychiatry; conducting grant-funded independent research into psychological correlates of claims of paranormal experiences
Reseacher & Administrator
Centro de Estudios Integrales de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Jul 1995 - Jun 2000Self-owned with Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado: Research into psychological correlates of claims of paranormal experiences. (no longer in operation)
Research Fellow / Visiting Scholar
Rhine Research Center, North Carolina, United States
Dec 1982 - Dec 19931986 to 1993: Visiting Scholar (volunteer position). 1983 to 1986: Full-time Research Fellow. Designed and implemented various experimental studies of ESP; conducted historical research into development of parapsychological terminology; conducted citation analysis study comparing male and female research output in two 10-year periods in the history of 20th-century parapsychology.
Education
Ph.D.
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 1994 - Oct 2006
focused on the history of controversy in parapsychology using the tools of history and rhetoric of science and text-based discourse analysis
Doctoral Candidacy
Duke University, North Carolina, United States
Sep 1986 - May 1993
focused on the histories of science, and medicine, and on American social history
M.S.Ed.
Northern Illinois University, Illinois, United States
Sep 1976 - Aug 1977
Focused on Community College education with a teaching specialty in psychology
B. A.
Mundelein College, Illinois, United States
Sep 1971 - Aug 1974
Honors in psychology with 15 undergraduate hours in scientific parapsychology
Associations & Membership
American Psychological Association
District of Columbia, United States
Sep 1983 - Present2006 to Currently: Full Member. 1983 to 2006: Associate Member. Member of Division 2, Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division 5, Evaluation, Measurement & Statistics, Division 8, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Division 26, Society for the History of Psychology, and Division 30, Society of Psychological Hypnosis.
Parapsychological Association
Ohio, United States
Aug 1981 - PresentParapsychological Association. 2003 to 2004, 2000 to 2001: President. 1997 to 2004: Member, Board of Directors. 1991 to 1999: Editor, of the association newsletter, PA News. 1993: Editor of the association proceedings, Research in Parapsychology.
International Society for Technology in Education
District of Columbia, United States
Jul 2009 - Present
Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies
Connecticut, United States
Jun 2009 - Present1983-1990, 2009 to Currently. Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc. (Formerly Academy of Religion and Psychical Research). 1985 to 1990: Member of the Board of Trustees.
Virginia Society for Technology in Education
Virginia, United States
Jun 2009 - Present
Fundação Bial
Portugal
Jan 2007 - PresentAwarded two multi-year research grants into the psychology of seemingly psychic phenomena, with co-investigator Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado in 2006 and 2008
Society for Psychical Research
United Kingdom
Jan 1994 - Presentawarded research grant in 2009 for study of the out of body experience with co-investigator Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado
Koestler Unit of Parapsychology, University of Edinburgh
Scotland
Jan 1999 - Aug 2003Awarded tuition support and research grants while completing doctoral research into the history of parapsychology
Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
Germany
Sep 1996 - Dec 1998research grant and tuition support for doctoral research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland
Parapsychology Foundation
New York, United States
Aug 1990 - Aug 1998Research grants in 1990 and 1994, recipient of the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship in 1998
Publications and Research
Pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences: Features, circumstances, and incidence.
Nancy L. Zingrone & Carlos S. Alvarado
C. S. Alvarado). Pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences: Zingrone, NL, & Alvarado, CS (2009). Features, circumstances, and incidence. In J. M. Holden, B. Greyson, & D. James (Eds.), The handbook of near-death experiences: Thirty years of investigation (pp. 17-40). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-Clio.
Ian Stevenson and the modern study of ESP experiences
CS Alvarado & NL Zingrone
Alvarado, CS & Zingrone, NL (2008). Ian Stevenson and the modern study of ESP experiences. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 44-53.
Out-of-body experiences and headaches: A research note.
Nancy L. Zingrone & Carlos S. Alvarado
Zingrone, NL, & Alvarado, CS. (2008). Out-of-body experiences and headaches: A research note. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 72, 107-110.