[SIGCIS-Members] Tomash Fellowship and Norberg (remote use) grants

[Jeffrey Yost]

Dear Colleagues,

CBI's Tomash Fellowship and Norberg grant announcements below... If you
have any questions, please let me know.

Best, Jeff


*The Charles Babbage Institute is now accepting applications for the
2021-2022 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Dissertation Fellowship. *The fellowship
will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in
the history of computing. We welcome applications from history/HST, and
from allied fields (including but not limited to STS, sociology,
anthropology, communication, geography, and media studies--dissertation
project must be historically focused).

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 plan to use CBI
materials (remotely if necessary) and willing to make a brief presentation
of their research findings to CBI staff and HSTM (by Zoom). 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, 2021.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/tfellowship.html

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

*Norberg Travel Grant Program* (This year, given the global pandemic, and
MN's situation being particularly dire right now, we will be offering more
and smaller scanning reimbursement grants for remote use of collections,
and no travel, the reading room is temporarily closed)

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. This coming year, given the global COVID-19 pandemic, we
will be awarding grants to use the collections remotely through placing
scanning orders based on applicants' surveying our finding aids/guides. We
will offer more awards than usual at a lesser amount. All awards will be
for reimbursement up to $400. These are reimbursement grants for scanning,
photo use fees, or other expenses to access CBI materials remotely.

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>.

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 relevant on-line finding guides to CBI’s
300-plus archival collections www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html.
Applications not indicating (likely) collections you are interested in for
your project will not be considered.

Scanning orders must be placed no later than Oct. 31, 2021.

Notification of awards will be made by mid-February and scanning orders can
commence directly thereafter. Questions pertaining to collection content
and access can be directed to Amanda Wick, CBI Interim Archivist, at
abwick at umn.edu. Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel
Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Director, yostx003 at umn.edu For additional
information, see www.cbi.umn.edu.
Materials must be received by CBI no later than January 15, 2021

Please direct questions about the Tomash Fellowship or Norberg grants to
Jeffrey Yost, CBI Director, yostx003 at umn.ed <yostx003 at umn.edu>u


*"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph
Ellison

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

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