Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grant Recipients
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi and Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo were recently awarded Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grants of $750 apiece in support of research travel to the Charles Babbage Institute.
Dr. Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press 2005), will be conducting research for a book chapter, “Cognitive and Perceptual Training in the Cold War Man Machine System,” which is planned to appear in a forthcoming edited volume, Joel Isaac, ed. The Cold War Pieces (Cambridge University Press 2009). She will be conducting research using CBI’s System Development Corporation and National Bureau of Standards collections.
Dr. Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, who has published extensively on the history of the banking and finance industries, is researching a study entitled, “ATMs in America and Britain: A Comparative History of Globalization in Retail Financial Markets, 1967-2005.” He will be conducting research using CBI’s Burroughs Corporation records to gain insights into the history of their cash dispensing machine business. He is Senior Lecturer in Business and Accounting History at the University of Leicester.
CBI’s Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grants are made possible by generous donations from individuals recognized in last issue of the CBI Newsletter. The fund facilitates travel support for scholars to use CBI collections and is named in honor of CBI’s founding director.
Jeffrey R. Yost