About Me
Nancy L. Zingrone has a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Psychology (Mundelein College), a Master of Science in Education specializing in higher education with a teaching specialty in psychology (Northern Illinois University), was a doctoral candidate in History, with a focus on the histories of science and medicine (Duke University), and has a Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Edinburgh) where her dissertation utilized the methodologies of history and rhetoric of science, and discursive psychology to study debates over the legitimacy of parapsychological research.
She has conducted experimental ESP research, survey studies of psychic experiences, and examined texts in parapsychology from a science studies point of view.
While she has been an online part-time Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Psychology and Social Sciences at National University since the fall of 2019 (when Northcentral University, where she had been working since 2013, merged with National), teaching masters and doctoral-level foundation courses, research methods, basic statistics, the psychology of gender, personality theories, scholarly writing, positive psychology, multicultural psychology, socio-contextual psychology of gender, family processes and social context, lifespan dynamics, and grant writing.
She recently re-started her teaching after a 7-month leave due to the illness and passing of her colleague, best friend of 38 years, and husband of 31 years, Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado. Due to the present circumstances, she refocused on augmenting her knowledge of the current terrain in parapsychology and consciousness and planning the return of the virtual teaching project The AZIRE (Alvarado Zingrone Institute of Research) Education). In early 2022, she prepared Alvarado's papers for transfer to the University of West Georgia archive. She contributed to the planning and organizing of a special issue of the ZfA on women in parapsychology with Gerhard Mayer and Cedar Sarilo Leverett, published in December of 2022.
Zingrone was the Director of Publications at the Parapsychology Foundation and the Executive Editor of theInternational Journal of Parapsychology from 1999 through 2009 and an Assistant Professor of Research at the Division of Perceptual Studies in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia from 2003 to 2010. From 2010 through January 2013, she was the Director of Academic and Administrative Affairs at Atlantic University. From the spring of 2013 through the fall of 2014, she was an instructor at the Rhine Education Center. In 2015 she was named a Research Fellow at the Parapsychology, an honorary post.
From May of 2010 through March 2014, she served on the Board of Directors for the Rhine Research Center. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association from the mid-1990s through 2004 and was elected twice as President of the Parapsychological Association (in 2001-2002 and 2003-2004). She was the Vice President of the Academy of Consciousness and Spirituality Studies in 2016 and on the Board of Directors from June 2014 through 2016. She resigned from the Board of the ACSI in 2017 to become a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the School of Psychology at Northcentral University. She served on that council until the summer of 2020. Recently with the help of Bryan J. Williams (Psychical Research Foundation), Natasha Chisdes, and the support of the Parapsychology Foundation, she has brought back the annual Parapsychology Research and Education free online course (the ParaMOOC series) in March of 2023.
Over her fifty-year career in scientific parapsychology, she has published more than 30 papers alone and in collaboration with several colleagues in parapsychology and education. Her publications have appeared in the Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the European Journal of Parapsychology, Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, theJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease, theJournal of Parapsychology, theJournal of Scientific Exploration, and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, among other periodicals. In addition to co-authoring chapters in the (2015) Parapsychology: Handbook for the 21st Century (McFarland, 2015) as well as Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science (Praeger, 2015), she also wrote a chapter in Women and Parapsychology (Parapsychology Foundation, 1994) and was a co-author of a chapter in the Handbook of Near-Death Experiences (Praeger, 2009). She is one of the editors of Advances in Parapsychological Research 10 (McFarland, 2021). Currently, she is working on a compilation of Alvarado's articles and chapters for publication, as well as an anthology of his Spanish publications. In 2023, she received the D. Scott Rogo Award from the Parapsychology Foundation to support the completion of Alvarado's unfinished book, The Fragmented Mind.
In 2015 she was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Parapsychology Research and Education free online series (also known as ParaMOOC) from the Parapsychological Association, and in 2021 she was awarded the Outstanding Student Engagement Teaching Excellent Award (part-time faculty) from the School of Social and Behavior Sciences of Northcentral University.