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@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@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@umn.edu. Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Director, yostx003@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@umn.ed <yostx003@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 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax