[SIGCIS-Members] 2020-2021 CBI Tomash (Dissertation) Fellowship Announcement--Deadline for applications is January 15, 2020

[Jeffrey Yost]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the announcement for the 2020-2021 CBI Tomash Fellowship
competition.

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

The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 2020-2021
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 for students who have
completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and
writing of the dissertation. 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.

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 and HSTM grad.
students and faculty. Questions pertaining to collection content and access
can be directed to Amanda Wick, CBI Interim Archivist, at abwick at umn.edu.

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.
All materials must be received by CBI no later than January 15, 2020.

Application materials should be sent to cbi at umn.edu. A confirmation email
will be sent once your application has been received.

Alternatively, applications may be mailed to (and must have a postmark date
of Jan. 15, 2020 or earlier):
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
Director, yostx003 at umn.edu, 612.624.5050

Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.
Director, Charles Babbage Institute
Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine

222  21st Avenue South
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612 624 5050 Phone
612 625 8054 Fax
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