Press
In the press.
A small selection of mentions, reviews, and notices the Institute has been pleased to receive. We do not maintain a press office; inquiries should be directed to the general line.
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“A vital institution. The Institute's sustained attention to a single given name has produced a body of practice no comparable body can claim.”
The Quarterly Review of Civic Onomastics · Spring 2025 ·L. Hartmann
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“Less an organization than a long, patient argument about what a community can be made of.”
The Atlantic Monthly Letter · November 2024 ·Editorial Board
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“The Institute's record of fellow nomination and chapter cultivation now constitutes the most extensive longitudinal dataset on a single given name in the English-speaking world.”
The Journal of Anthroponymic Studies · Vol. XLI, No. 2
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“Ridiculous on its face, serious in its execution, and — crucially — entirely earnest in its convictions.”
The Mid-Atlantic Review · June 2024 ·M. Aldridge
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“Whatever one thinks of the premise, the Institute's archives are unimpeachable.”
Bulletin of the Society for Civic Letters · Issue 217
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“A standing rebuke to the cynic's view that civic life requires either a problem or a profit motive.”
The New Cambridge Forum · Autumn 2023 ·P. Connaught
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“Easily the most peculiar thing happening on the third floor of the Old Phoenix Building.”
The Hartford Crier · September 14, 2022
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“The standard against which other single-name societies will, in time, come to be measured.”
Onomastica Americana · Vol. XII ·Editorial Note
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