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| THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY NANCY L. ZINGRONE 
Since July 2000, Nancy L. Zingrone has been the Director of Publications and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology for the Parapsychology Foundation. She served as President of the Parapsychological Association (PA) in 1999-2001 and again in 2003-2004. Besides research specific to her doctoral dissertation (see below) her primary areas of study are the relationship of aspects of personality to such psychic experiences as aura vision, out-of body experiences (OBEs), and apparitions. Dr. Zingrone has been active in parapsychological research for three decades and she has held a myriad of positions in the field. She was a founding member of the Midwest Psi Research Institute in 1977 in Chicago, its Director of Education until 1980, and its Executive Director until 1982. From 1982 to 1993 she was first a Research Fellow and then a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina, now known as the Rhine Research Center. There she focused on experimental and historical research in parapsychology and directed the first Ganzfeld experiments conducted at that laboratory. She has also been an active member of the Parapsychological Association since 1980s, served several terms on its Board of Directors and was elected President twice. Dr. Zingrone was the Editor of the Association’s newsletter, PA News, from 1990 to 1999, and editor of one of its proceedings, Research in Parapsychology, 1993. Originally from the Chicago area, Dr. Zingrone obtained her BA in psychology from Mundelein College in Chicago (now subsumed under Loyola University) in 1974, and her MSEd in Community College Education with psychology as a teaching specialty from Northern Illinois University in 1977. She did graduate work in history of science at Duke University where she obtained doctoral candidacy before she withdrew in 1993 to return to psychology and parapsychology. She was awarded a PhD in psychology at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. Her dissertation research was funded by the Parapsychology Foundation (New York City), the Society for Psychical Research (London, England), the Perrott-Warrick Fund (Cambridge, England) and the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (Freiburg, Germany). Her doctoral thesis centered on the history and rhetoric of criticism and response in parapsychology. Since 2003, she has also held an Assistant Professorship of Research in Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. With Dr. Alvarado, she also manages the PF’s editorial office in charlottesville. ******** |
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