[SIGCIS-Members] CBI Tomash Fellowship and Norberg Travel Grants

[Jeff Yost]

Dear SIGCIS members,

Please find below the 2010-2011 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellowship 
Announcement (for doctoral students only) and the Arthur L. Norberg 
Travel Fund Announcement (open to all researchers). If you have any 
questions on either, please contact me. The application deadline (for 
both the Tomash Fellowship and Norberg Travel Fund) is January 15, 2010.

Jeff

Jeffrey R. Yost
Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Editor in Chief, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

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    The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information
    Technology

The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 
2010-2011 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship 
will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research 
in the history of computing.

The fellowship may be held at the recipient's home academic institution, 
the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate 
research facilities. The stipend is $14,000. It is intended for students 
who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the 
research and writing of the dissertation.

Preference will be given to applicants indicating a need to use CBI 
materials, planning research in residence at CBI, and willing to make a 
brief presentation of their research findings to CBI staff. Questions 
pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to R. Arvid 
Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at nels0307 at umn.edu <mailto:nels0307 at umn.edu>.

Tomash Fellowship recipients must remain students in good standing 
throughout the term of their fellowship, but there is no restriction on 
holding other fellowships, scholarships, or awards concurrent to the 
Tomash Fellowship.

To Apply:

Applicants should send to CBI a curriculum vitae and a five-page 
(single-spaced) statement and justification of the research project 
including a discussion of methods, research materials, evidence of 
faculty support for the project, and bibliography (bibliography does not 
count toward page count).

Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference and 
certified copies of graduate school transcripts to be sent directly to CBI.


      Materials must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Charles Babbage Institute: Tomash Fellowship
211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Please direct questions about the Tomash Fellowship to Jeffrey Yost, CBI 
Associate Director, yostx003 at umn.edu <mailto:yostx003 at umn.edu>, 612.624.5050

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  Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund

The Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund provides short-term grants-in-aid to 
help scholars with travel expenses to use archival collections at the 
Charles Babbage Institute. Each year we plan to award two $750 grants.

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an internationally recognized 
research center and archives focused on the history of information 
technology. CBI conducts major research projects; publishes books and 
articles; and collects, processes, and provides open public access to 
the most diverse and extensive collection of archival materials on 
computing, software, and networking in the world. CBI collections 
include the records of corporations, technical and trade associations, 
personal papers, industry publications, oral histories, photographs, 
film/video, and an extensive reference library. The Norberg Travel Fund 
is named for CBI’s founding director, Arthur L. Norberg, and is funded 
by generous gifts from his friends and colleagues 
<http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/ntravelfundcontributors.html>.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project 
description that describes the overall research project, identifies the 
importance of specific CBI collections, and discusses the projected 
outcome (journal article, book chapter, museum exhibit, etc.). 
Applicants are strongly encouraged to examine the extensive on-line 
finding guides to CBI’s 200-plus archival collections at 
www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html 
<http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html>. Applicants should 
estimate how many days they plan to use CBI collections during their 
visit (travel should generally be in the calendar year of the award). To 
be eligible, scholars will reside outside the Twin Cities metropolitan 
region.

Notification of awards will be made within four weeks, and travel can 
commence directly thereafter. Questions pertaining to collection content 
and access can be directed to R. Arvid Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at 
nels0307 at umn.edu <mailto:nels0307 at umn.edu>. Please direct questions 
about the Arthur Norberg Travel Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate 
Director, yostx003 at umn.edu <mailto:yostx003 at umn.edu>, 612.624.5050. For 
additional information, see www.cbi.umn.edu <http://www.cbi.umn.edu>.


      Materials must be submitted by email to cbi at umn.edu
      <mailto:cbi at umn.edu> or postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Charles Babbage Institute: Norberg Travel Fund
211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455