<div dir="ltr"><div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4;font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.5px;color:rgb(47,47,54);margin:0px 0px 0.2em;padding:0px"><font size="2">Dear Colleagues,</font></h1><div>Please find below a brief statement with a link to the full one-page Call for our ACM History Committee History and Archiving Fellowship Program (The one-page call includes a description of the program, requirements, resources for applicants, and an email address if you have questions). </div><div><br></div><div>Full Call PDF is at this link (and also linked below) <a href="https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-final.pdf">ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-v2</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div>Member, ACM History Committee (HC)</div><div>Chair, ACM HC Fellowship Subcommittee</div><div><br></div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.4;font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.5px;color:rgb(47,47,54);margin:0px 0px 0.2em;padding:0px"><font size="4" style="">Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due 28th February 2026</font></h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Verdana;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.4"></p><h3 class="gmail-wp-block-heading" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(47,47,54);margin:0px 0px 0.7em;padding:0px"><font size="2">The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit">five research projects</span> with awards of up to <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit">$4,000</span> each. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. The current and past winners of the fellowship can be <a href="https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowships/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,90,131);background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit">found here</a><a href="https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowships/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,90,131);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit">.</a> The full call for projects is <a href="https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-final.pdf" class="gmail-mtli_attachment gmail-mtli_pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,90,131);background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;display:inline-block;height:auto;min-height:16px;background-position:100% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("../images/pdf-icon-16x16.png");padding-right:19px">here</a>.</font></h3></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">*   *   *   *   *   *</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>        </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>